Hacker News: andresp

New comment by andresp in "Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users"

andresp — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 09:17:35 +0000

Most people here seem to forget that ads is what pays for the free internet services. The main issue with them is not making the consent more explicit to the user. I think the business model: you either get this for free with ads and targeting, or otherwise you have to pay X, should be more common. I bet most people would pick the free option with ads and targeting.

New comment by andresp in "Squeeze the hell out of the system you have"

andresp — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 08:46:16 +0000

I got to understand from personal experience that the anti-SOA people are usually the ones who stayed at the same company their entire carers, never saw any model other than the monolithic one, see SOA as a threat to their domain knowledge within the company and simply are not able to see its downsides (because they have adapted their ways of work around it and never experienced anything better).

New comment by andresp in "Elon Musk's Jet"

andresp — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:20:30 +0000

Hmm https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603190155107794944 hardly "nothing"

New comment by andresp in "Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private"

andresp — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 06:17:09 +0000

Seems like a reasonable decision to me. Moderators are not owners.

New comment by andresp in "Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover"

andresp — Wed, 17 May 2023 11:28:45 +0000

The quality of the answers is often too poor to be used as reference.

New comment by andresp in "Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency"

andresp — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 08:01:41 +0000

C# GC, MS and external libraries, build, docs, tools support (especially for Linux) are all worse than Java.

New comment by andresp in "Ask HN: Why do I struggle to follow corporate meetings?"

andresp — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 19:41:11 +0000

You are not promoted to manager. It is a different career choice, but the fact that you see it that way explains a lot about your position.

New comment by andresp in "Don't be that open-source user, don't be me"

andresp — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 10:07:52 +0000

For better or worse, open source software is competing with paid software, so expectations for basic support and maintenance need to exist. If there is not enough capacity for this, the maintainers should make it clear upfront in very visible ways so people can use that information when deciding what to use.

New comment by andresp in "Show HN: 1,900 remote company profiles with tech stacks and employee benefits"

andresp — Wed, 11 May 2022 06:28:11 +0000

It would be extremely useful to be able to filter per country, as not all remote opportunities are available in all countries, but I guess a feature like this would have to involve data submission from the companies themselves.

New comment by andresp in "Twitter takeover battle: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey turn up pressure on board"

andresp — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 08:32:22 +0000

Sure. As long as they become legally co-responsible for the speech they are choosing to amplify, i.e. as long as they accept they are no longer just a platform.

New comment by andresp in "Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite to power market"

andresp — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 01:24:50 +0000

Nuclear is really the only solution at the moment. It is a shame it took a war for people to start realising this. At least we can all learn with Germany's mistakes now.

New comment by andresp in "How to get the most out of your 1:1s"

andresp — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 11:19:38 +0000

Yet another manager not knowing what being a manager is. It is your responsibility to know what your reports are doing and making sure their efforts are recognised and their flaws corrected (or ultimately fired). If you don't remember unless someone keeps sending you self promotional messages, you are the problem, not your reports.

New comment by andresp in "Ten years against division of labor in software"

andresp — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 23:46:06 +0000

Exactly. Division of labor is essential for any complex project. Whoever says the opposite has probably only worked in simple/small systems.

New comment by andresp in "Tell HN: Salary data is for sale"

andresp — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 08:44:59 +0000

People who bash capitalism after the last century of expansion should just be considered negationists at this point.

Sure it is not perfect but it's infinitely better than any other economic model available.

New comment by andresp in "A Guide to Twitter"

andresp — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:39:31 +0000

It seems like someone made a huge personal investment on twitter and is now trying to convince others to do the same in order to increase the value of whatever they achieved there. Maybe Twitter is amazing for you, that's great. You can keep it.

New comment by andresp in "Mind-expanding books"

andresp — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 10:13:53 +0000

There are many miscategorizations like that. It is also clearly written by an American leftist, with, for example, Michelle Obama's biography as "mind expanding books everyone should read". I am sure they are completely oblivious to their political and geographical/cultural bias though, as typically happens.

New comment by andresp in "Twitter’s heads of engineering and design will leave in a company shake-up"

andresp — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:09:34 +0000

Indeed, Twitter is for angry people to vent and for social validation. Ticket closed with "As intended". Thanks for your suggestion.

New comment by andresp in "Swedish study finds discrimination against men in female-dominated occupations"

andresp — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:06:03 +0000

That position seems to discriminate against gender-fluid people.

New comment by andresp in "DJI Mavic 3 Drone"

andresp — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 14:41:43 +0000

We can speculate all we want, but there was no official communication from DJI to their customers, which shows their disregard for their clients.

New comment by andresp in "Portugal bans bosses texting staff after-hours"

andresp — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 10:13:34 +0000

They should have have started by reducing taxes. Portugal has some of the highest tax rates. One of the main reasons why people (especially in highly valued sectors) continue to leave the country.