Hacker News: badthingfactory

New comment by badthingfactory in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

badthingfactory — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:22:52 +0000

I appreciated the notification at the top of the screen because it prompted me to disable every single copilot feature I possibly could from my account. I also appreciated Microsoft for making Windows 11 horrible so I could fall back in love with Linux again.

New comment by badthingfactory in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

badthingfactory — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:48:56 +0000

You probably made the right decision. In my opinion, DHH is underselling how terrible the keyboard on the Dell XPS is. I bought the lunar lake XPS and I hate the keyboard so much, I turned it into an expensive Jellyfin server and bought a $275 thinkpad T14 on ebay to use instead. Maybe the keyboard on the panther lake version is better, but my fingers just get lost with the flat keys. In addition, they are super low-travel and mushy. I gave it a few months and just couldn't handle typing on it anymore.

New comment by badthingfactory in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

badthingfactory — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:34:17 +0000

StackOverflow answers are outdated. Every time I end up on that site these days, I find myself reading answers from 12 years ago that are no longer relevant.

New comment by badthingfactory in "Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux"

badthingfactory — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:58:44 +0000

I avoid Teams as much as possible, but when I have to join a Teams meeting the PWA works fine.

New comment by badthingfactory in "Tell HN: You can't hire because you don't post salary ranges"

badthingfactory — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:16:06 +0000

I would have no problem with a company saying "We really like you, but we found a better match for role x. If you're interested we think you'd be great in role y and here are the details." If I don't like the compensation of role y, I'll simply decline.

New comment by badthingfactory in "Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades"

badthingfactory — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:53:23 +0000

Any time a relative asks me which printer they should buy, I tell them to get the cheapest Brother laser printer they can find without wifi. I mostly do this to save myself support calls, but it's also the printer I use in my own house.

New comment by badthingfactory in "FormKit: Form building framework for Vue 3"

badthingfactory — Fri, 13 May 2022 17:10:55 +0000

I've written C# code that deadlocked a webserver, C++ code that crashed a computer lab, JavaScript code that made the browser unresponsive, a SQL migration that accidentally deleted too much data. I don't really know what point you're trying to make, but bad code typically behaves badly.

New comment by badthingfactory in "Ask HN: Where can we find the unsexy jobs?"

badthingfactory — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:23:05 +0000

The non-tech F500 I worked at several years ago is doing everything they can to abandon .NET/Java in favor of low-code tools. Their engineers are jumping ship and they're having a hard time finding replacements.

New comment by badthingfactory in "Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco"

badthingfactory — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:05:26 +0000

I-80 always comes to mind when these autonomous vehicle discussions occur. I'll believe in autonomous vehicles when I see them driving across Pennsylvania during a winter storm. There are days where I seriously doubt an autonomous vehicle would be able to navigate out of my driveway.

New comment by badthingfactory in "Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night"

badthingfactory — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 21:18:00 +0000

I want to have this comment tattooed on my forehead.

New comment by badthingfactory in "Pixel prevented me from calling 911"

badthingfactory — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 13:59:14 +0000

Teams is the absolute worst piece of software I have ever used. Simply logging in only works about 50% of the time. This wouldn't be a big deal if I wasn't randomly forced to the login screen every few days. I experience a different bug every other day. I can't be signed into multiple orgs at once (on desktop) meaning I have to fully sign out/sign in when I want to switch and it takes forever. Notifications are unreliable. I miss Slack so much.

New comment by badthingfactory in "Some notes on using esbuild"

badthingfactory — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 13:05:04 +0000

My primary frustration with frontend development is that I have gone to JS Build Tool University... Roughly 10 times now. I'm not sure I've ever set up two separate frontends the same way. Even when I avoid the shiny new tools and stick with crusty slow webpack, there's a new version that behaves entirely different than the previous version. I'm enjoying the speed and simplicity of ESBuild.

New comment by badthingfactory in "Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday"

badthingfactory — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:44:36 +0000

> That was in 2018... That's the _average_ person who is making a video game.

The average person who was making a video game was upset at themselves for putting non-conventionally attractive females in the games they were making?

New comment by badthingfactory in "I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time"

badthingfactory — Fri, 28 May 2021 18:27:15 +0000

I think this is where the ninety-ninety rule is typically invoked.

New comment by badthingfactory in "Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities"

badthingfactory — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 11:19:36 +0000

I had a choice when I was 16 years old. I could take a 45 minute bus ride to and from school every day for free; or I could get a job, purchase my own vehicle, pay for my own gasoline and insurance, and drive to school in 15 minutes. I did the second option and never regretted it.

New comment by badthingfactory in "What I learned from doing over 60 technical interviews in 30 days"

badthingfactory — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 16:44:09 +0000

I wish everyone viewed the process like this. I was job hunting a few years ago and increased my hits by roughly 50% by doing one thing: adding more color to the stupid resume.

New comment by badthingfactory in "Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible"

badthingfactory — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 20:08:06 +0000

My company created a web client for our chat software product around 5 years ago. The quality of our product has slowly deteriorated as browser vendors continually remove or restrict features that once worked fine. Just to name two examples: autoplay audio for chat notifications and tab throttling killing websocket connections and background timers. I understand bad actors are abusing these things, but they're breaking totally legitimate use cases.

We've been forced into an electron client and now urge our customers to ignore the web client. If we didn't have a small number of customers on Macs, we would abandon web tech altogether and build a native Windows client.

New comment by badthingfactory in "Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend"

badthingfactory — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:54:54 +0000

> The Fetch API works in every browser.

No it doesn't.

New comment by badthingfactory in "Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident"

badthingfactory — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 19:21:00 +0000

At least one study been done to see how responsive a passive "driver" of an autonomous vehicle can be. The study concluded a person that is required to intervene with an autonomous vehicle is no better than a drunk person.

It makes sense. If the car is able to get you from point A to point B 99.9% of the time without an issue, are you really going to be paying attention that one time when a person walks out in front of you and the car fails to respond appropriately? If the vehicle enables people to not pay attention, they aren't going to be attentive.

I'd be willing to bet almost every driver that gets to ride around in these test vehicles thinks the job is awesome because they get paid without having to really do anything.

New comment by badthingfactory in "Learning Go as a Node.js Developer"

badthingfactory — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:34:37 +0000

I think it would probably work out pretty well... for the candidate.