Hacker News: ambirex

New comment by ambirex in "Ask HN: Do you maintain a list of RSS links of GOAT blogs?"

ambirex — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 16:38:36 +0000

About five years ago, I took my kids to a petting zoo with baby animals. I was so struck by how cute baby goats were. I couldn't shake the feeling that I had made fundamentally wrong choices in my life because I didn't have more time with baby goats.

This is my current daydream to own goats (because that's probably the best way to get consistent access to baby goats). I was specifically looking at the breed of Nigerian dwarf goats. There would be cheesemaking, vegetation clearing, and current dreams also include an apiary.

Ahhhh.... goats.

New comment by ambirex in "The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason (2017)"

ambirex — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 20:21:04 +0000

in all fairness, at that point, he has usually written quite a bit. ;)

New comment by ambirex in "Affinity 1.10"

ambirex — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 17:03:25 +0000

Totally, I too am not in a pro vfx type person. But I have been slowly learning Da Vinci Resolve (which is really nice). I'm just a real fan of Serif, which as been producing solid apps for a reasonable price.

New comment by ambirex in "Affinity 1.10"

ambirex — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 15:39:10 +0000

What strikes me with the performance is the potential to use the engine for a motion graphics app. Think somewhere in-between After Effects and Apple Motion. This might be wishful thinking, but I would love to see it and would purchase it in a second.

New comment by ambirex in "Goose flying upside down is simply showing off, say experts"

ambirex — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 19:31:42 +0000

say experts who are flightless and honestly a little jealous ;)

New comment by ambirex in "Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever"

ambirex — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 21:17:21 +0000

Except the NYT and Wapo have a much better history of correcting mistakes. Comparing Daily Mail and NY Post to other serious news organizations is really an apple to oranges comparison.

New comment by ambirex in "Neal Stephenson – Announcing Termination Shock"

ambirex — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 19:50:28 +0000

Throughout the pandemic I have re-read Anathem several times. The thought of a cloistered community in pursuit of knowledge (mathic society) ends up being my happy place.

New comment by ambirex in "RIP Google Reader"

ambirex — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:42:43 +0000

The last interaction/version of Bloglines was really quite good, but at that point the user base has switched to Reader.

New comment by ambirex in "RIP Google Reader"

ambirex — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:39:52 +0000

The real missed opportunity for Google was expanding reader's social/collaboration features into a more robust social network.It would have saved them from trying to ham fist Google+ for everyone. It could have been a home for Wave and Buzz type of tech. Instead they threw out the baby, be damn the bathwater.

That being said, I have a found NewsBlur a great replacement.

New comment by ambirex in "My prof gave me zero because ProctorU Review+ said that I was talking"

ambirex — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:30:05 +0000

I believe pain is relative and she is obviously under a lot of stress. I have decided that I am not in a position to judge what others are going through. I hope others would extend me the same courtesy.

New comment by ambirex in "Apple has stolen the wearables crown from Fitbit thanks to the Apple Watch"

ambirex — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 14:47:29 +0000

Antidotally, I was a fan of Fitbit's focused model and owned several of their middle range devices. I ended up buying an Apple Watch for two reasons (one in FitBit's control and the other not).

1. Connectivity with my iPhone was spotty. I mostly blame the iOS ecosystem for this; long-running apps will sometimes lose connectivity to BLE devices. This would happen even when they are in the background, probably how apps are suspended and resumed.

2. Band quality, at the one year mark they the band would start to fall apart. Fitbit support, for their part, was always easy to get a replacement (usually free). But after the 3rd time, I kinda of felt that I shouldn't have to deal with that every year.

So when Apple announced the waterproof Series 2, it was right around the time my Fitbit was falling apart again. The Apple Watch (expensively) solved my two issue.

New comment by ambirex in "Apple previews iOS 11.3"

ambirex — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:21:11 +0000

I'm not sure that being adult excludes me from having fun with the single most used device I own. I occasionally send Animoji to my family to say something whimsical.

New comment by ambirex in "N.Y. Times Scales Back Free Articles to Get More Subscribers"

ambirex — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 04:32:49 +0000

Don't subscribe from their website, but from their app. You can cancel on your phone without having to call them.

New comment by ambirex in "Node.js 8.0.0 has been delayed and will ship on or around May 30th"

ambirex — Wed, 17 May 2017 02:12:51 +0000

To someone not familiar with the internals of V8 and its roadmap, this seems like a sound (albeit unfortunately timed) decision.

New comment by ambirex in "Drupal Confessions – An Open Letter"

ambirex — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 12:17:37 +0000

I don't think wanting to work on open technologies and other political activities is a binary position.

Open software is built by groups of people and one part of building a community it deciding what sort of people you want to work with.

New comment by ambirex in "RethinkDB Postmortem"

ambirex — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 03:04:55 +0000

If you are a developer and build a product using react. When do you ask the business to buy support?

While you're building you assume you'll have to gain your own level of proficiency. So you don't know at what point you'll need support.

Having to go back and ask for an increased budget after it has shipped is a harder internal sale.

As much as I appreciate rethink's approach, I can see it as a challenging business to be in

An algorithm (computer vision) watching a movie trailer

ambirex — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 22:32:14 +0000

Article URL: http://stoj.io/projects/an-algorithm-watching-a-movie-trailer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413625

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

“Lixie”, an LED Alternative to the Nixie Tube

ambirex — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 22:22:52 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.io/project/18633-lixie-an-led-alternative-to-the-nixie-tube

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413557

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

New comment by ambirex in "I've removed all ad network code from my blog"

ambirex — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 13:31:50 +0000

Except that he is still using Disqus, which is free to use because they have moved to ad supported model (for the most part).

Even if he isn't running the ads, they are using the script to track users across sites and then feeding that into ad networks.

New comment by ambirex in "U.S. judge rejects World Chess bid to block websites from airing moves"

ambirex — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 23:21:46 +0000

I can claim anything I want, it doesn't make it legally enforceable