Hacker News: avens19

New comment by avens19 in "I manage teams without a single call"

avens19 — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:50:40 +0000

English is vague, even when accounting for that fact. It's much more difficult to detect or correct misunderstandings over text.

My biggest issue with this concept is time. You write your wall of text, I see that you've failed to account for some factor, so I write my wall of text. You don't completely understand my wall of text and ask for clarification. Back and forth, asynchronously. In a call this can be resolved in minutes. Over text this could take days

New comment by avens19 in "Why I don’t vibe code"

avens19 — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:53:08 +0000

I don't agree with the overall conclusion of avoiding AI tooling but this was really wonderfully written

New comment by avens19 in "United Arab Emirates is using cloud seeding tech to make it rain"

avens19 — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:04:10 +0000

Here in Calgary we use cloud seeding to reduce the impact of hail storms. If meteorologists predict a hail storm, they will seed the clouds outside of urban territory to reduce the property damage caused by the hail

New comment by avens19 in "Returning to the office is costing you untapped talent"

avens19 — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 17:04:57 +0000

I recently moved jobs so I could be in-person again after 2+ years remote. Whiteboarding and micro-interactions (bouncing ideas, quick clarifications, brainstorming) are very difficult to duplicate remotely and I felt the lack of these were having a significant negative impact on my work. This is a way bigger deal to me than any of the negatives that come with coming in

New comment by avens19 in "Why is front-end development so unstable? (2018)"

avens19 — Mon, 30 May 2022 21:00:02 +0000

Was going to reply with WPF. The best I've used for UX dev

New comment by avens19 in "Clearview AI challenges B.C. privacy watchdog order"

avens19 — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 18:42:29 +0000

This is my guess. They're worried about precedent. If this is allowed to stand it gives other jurisdictions a roadmap for how to shut this down

New comment by avens19 in "Microsoft Excel’s 35th birthday"

avens19 — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:39:12 +0000

I've always thought that Excel is the greatest piece of software ever written. The ease of entry, the extensibility, the impressive collection of built-in tools/formulas/charts. It gave regular people the ability to do data analysis and in so doing became perhaps the most ubiquitous business tool in the world aside from email. Happy birthday, Excel.

New comment by avens19 in "The Cost of JavaScript Frameworks"

avens19 — Fri, 08 May 2020 18:02:55 +0000

They said parse which is true regardless of caching

New comment by avens19 in "Ken Thompson's Unix Password"

avens19 — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:41:57 +0000

Our high school's local admin password on every machine was the name of the school district. Used it to install P2P software and emulators on lots of the machines throughout my time there. On grad day I was setting up a slideshow with my CS teacher and the domain login wasn't working. I said "just log in with local admin". He said "I don't know the password". I did it in front of him. His words: "I don't want to know what you've done with this"

New comment by avens19 in "Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abuse complaint"

avens19 — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 19:04:32 +0000

I assume the registrar was also the nameserver in this case

New comment by avens19 in "Why 3D doesn't work and never will (2011)"

avens19 — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 22:27:03 +0000

I think one of the main issues with 3D is that you are forced to focus on what the director intended you to focus on. This is not true in 2D, you can focus your eyes on a blurry area over the characters shoulder without a problem. It will be blurry but your eyes can focus on it. In 3D, your eyes try to bring that unfocused bit into focus like they can in regular 3D space and that's what causes the headaches/vertigo/eye strain.

New comment by avens19 in "How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Amazon"

avens19 — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:52:22 +0000

Use Authy instead of Google Authenticator. It allows multiple devices and backups

New comment by avens19 in "Patronizing Passwords"

avens19 — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:12:19 +0000

This exactly is why I use LastPass

New comment by avens19 in "The Decay of Twitter"

avens19 — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 17:54:39 +0000

This article was trash. If the author thinks that Twitter's main function is finding out what your friends ate for dinner then he's an idiot and doesn't use Twitter. Twitter's problem is exactly this. The general Internet population thinks it's like Facebook but less useful and with a character limit. They have a branding problem

New comment by avens19 in "The Decay of Twitter"

avens19 — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 17:48:23 +0000

I've used Twitter to meet like minded people, however, I think the main distinction is that I don't use Twitter (in general) for interactions with people I met outside of the Twitterverse

New comment by avens19 in "Why your self-driving car won’t have a steering wheel"

avens19 — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:39:19 +0000

Planes run on similar tech, why haven't they been hacked? The odds on this seem long indeed, especially considering how dangerous driving is already

New comment by avens19 in "Telegram Bot Platform"

avens19 — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 19:12:36 +0000

This is great, nice work guys

New comment by avens19 in "The Failure of Agile"

avens19 — Wed, 13 May 2015 14:23:45 +0000

"Software is hard, people are hard"

^ this. Agile is only a set of principles set out to help write flexible software. It in no way made the actual writing of software, the gathering of requirements, the effort of design, easier; it simply gave us a process to follow that could potentially help avoid tedious re-writes. At the end of the day it's up to the people to put in the effort to make good software

New comment by avens19 in "Understanding .NET 2015"

avens19 — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 18:54:03 +0000

This. The amount of new Thread(new Runnable(){...}).start() I have in my Android code is awful. And then inside the Thread you have to use runOnUiThread() to change UI stuff. Given how common it is for an app to hit the network, this should be much much easier. Looking at your example it might be slightly easier but it also isn't inlineable. C# solves both of these problems

New comment by avens19 in "iMac with Retina 5K display"

avens19 — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:50:23 +0000

That is insane bandwidth