Hacker News: andreaja

New comment by andreaja in "So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂"

andreaja — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:42:23 +0000

It's going to be ok.

New comment by andreaja in "I asked four former friends why we stopped speaking (2023)"

andreaja — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:22:09 +0000

For a lot of articles like these, looking at the answers to see if they're interesting is futile. The real insight is in the questions. In this case, you can reflect on your own friendships, and how the other side of them might see them differently.

New comment by andreaja in "Bus Bunching"

andreaja — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 08:50:59 +0000

Anecdotally, I'm pretty sure this phenomenon occurs even with bus lanes.

New comment by andreaja in "Thank You, Airbnb"

andreaja — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 10:30:13 +0000

>“In this case, the guest booked on the evening of Jan. 7, after the wildfires had started,” a company spokeswoman told The Post.

>However, she added that the company has “contacted the guest to issue a full refund as a goodwill gesture” due to the “fast-moving situation.”

https://nypost.com/2025/01/08/lifestyle/airbnb-user-fumes-af...

New comment by andreaja in "EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links"

andreaja — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 09:28:52 +0000

That depends on what you mean by deregulate. There's a lot of simplification through the single market and free movement of labor.

New comment by andreaja in "Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’"

andreaja — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:34:24 +0000

This is completely incomprehensible and very funny. It's also amusing how different this is to what Twitter has done. It seems incredibly unlikely that any consultants (overpriced or otherwise) were involved in Twitter's rebranding, whereas the Pepsi document seems like outsiders trying very earnestly to deliver to an executive they don't understand.

New comment by andreaja in "Medium is Winning"

andreaja — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:55:49 +0000

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

Not everyone writes with you in mind as their ideal reader. Some people write for themselves and publish to keep themselves honest, though I don't presume to know what OP's motives and goals are in this case.

New comment by andreaja in "Medium is Winning"

andreaja — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:51:30 +0000

"So it's ironic that, despite all these established old-media recommendation engines, there was nothing for one of my favourite media - online articles."

Prismatic[0] comes to mind.

[0]: http://getprismatic.com

New comment by andreaja in "Amusing ourselves to death"

andreaja — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:33:52 +0000

And if you're interested in Adam Curtis, I recommend this parody/critique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg

Not saying that Curtis's documentaries are without merit, just lending a little context.

Clj-refactor.el - A few Clojure refactorings for Emacs

andreaja — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 16:17:02 +0000

Article URL: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/wKLsZVHsyjE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6985161

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by andreaja in "Why we removed bosses at Treehouse"

andreaja — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:07:31 +0000

It's feels great to be able to blame managers when something goes wrong, but that's the only real difference between having or not having your 'accountability chain'. And if your company is structured to have someone to blame when things go wrong, you're not really building for success.

I get that everyone is afraid of prioritization going out the window without managers, but in my experience (and ymmv), managers are no better than productives at prioritizing. Grown-ups are used to taking responsibility.

New comment by andreaja in "Every odd number greater than five is the sum of three primes"

andreaja — Tue, 14 May 2013 09:49:07 +0000

Because it's there :)

New comment by andreaja in "Metasploit Rails 3 Remote Code Execution Hours Away"

andreaja — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:27:35 +0000

That doesn't seem quite correct: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rails/+bug/1097643

New comment by andreaja in "Is Cold Fusion Finally Being Accepted by Scientists?"

andreaja — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:04:06 +0000

As per Betteridge's Law of Headlines[1], "No" is indeed the correct tl;dr for this article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines

New comment by andreaja in "Github Raises $100 Million"

andreaja — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:44:22 +0000

You can add collaborators to private repos (ie people with push rights). You can have organizations with private repos and use the collaboration tools within the organization.

For me, the private repos are more about having them where I have my other code.

New comment by andreaja in "UC Berkeley chooses Google apps over office 365 based on this analysis"

andreaja — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:42:28 +0000

Isn't this a red herring? They stated they were evaluating Email/Calendering solutions.

New comment by andreaja in "John Mayer: "Manage the Temptation to Publish Yourself""

andreaja — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:20:49 +0000

Not once does he say anything about independence or labels. He just says that the focus needs to be on shipping, everything else is secondary.

There's nothing "out of touch" about that. It's completely, and trivially, true. If you want to ship, ship. Don't tweet that you're half-finished writing a lyric for a song you have the opening riff to. Ship it.

Worship me, for I am a xoogler

andreaja — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:49:05 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bileblog.org/2011/07/worship-me-for-i-am-a-xoogler/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2761791

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by andreaja in "How language shapes thought"

andreaja — Sat, 28 May 2011 22:25:44 +0000

Bilingual here (so this is anecdotal). When I'm immersed in the different lingual environments I notice fairly substantive differences in my identity. It's not stuff that's necessarily very apparent to bystanders (as far as I can tell).

The differences aren't necessarily as sweeping as 'world view'. I don't change political preferences by changing language.

New comment by andreaja in "Linux: The Source of All Desktop Innovation"

andreaja — Thu, 26 May 2011 09:28:19 +0000

I liked the Looking Glass demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMWd1FOgr18