<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: balladeer</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=balladeer</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:25:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=balladeer" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balladeer in "Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You mean "legal" system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2020 03:12:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24096972</link><dc:creator>balladeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24096972</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24096972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balladeer in "Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Then that's rather pretty shitty of rest of us. The rest of us should just have someone's "No" and bugger off.</p>
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<p>I think I am coming from the perspective that incessant trolling forced them to issue an official response and that's  "snap enough" for me.<p>You seem to be coming from the point of view (that's my assumption based on our short comments; it maybe something else) that it doesn't meet the literal dictionary meaning so it's not a snap - which I disagree with.<p>I think that's all to it.</p>
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<p>So an admin at a university (probably a person who should be sensitive to PR) should have said "You #$&*^$ #^#%&%$#$@, stop doing this already!" to make it look like a true "snap"?</p>
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<p>To phase out TikTok usernames/handles and force users to move to Live/Outlook emails e.g tiktok-user@outlook.com. Then sit back and gleefully marvel at their own accomplishment.</p>
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<p>Since you mentioned Sweden<p>Sweden's Lund University admin snaps after being trolled by Indians on Facebook - <a href="https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/swedens-lund-university-admin-snaps-after-being-trolled-by-indians-on-facebook" rel="nofollow">https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/swedens-lund-universit...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2020 01:34:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24016498</link><dc:creator>balladeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24016498</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24016498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balladeer in "A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is that intelligence you’ve mentioned?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2020 15:55:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24009953</link><dc:creator>balladeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24009953</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24009953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balladeer in "Ancient trash heaps reveal the Plague of Justinian’s economic toll"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You meant to say dealing with<p>- indirect consequences such as a very late recovery of economy, social habits changed for ever,<p>- or literally keep dealing with this pandemic (resurfacing again and again),<p>- or direct consequences such has ravaging other parts of body in an unseen manner which would become seen later?<p>Of course there could be and would be all of these but anything that would be very pronounced kind of a single major consequence?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2020 07:22:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24006485</link><dc:creator>balladeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24006485</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24006485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balladeer in "Facebook sues EU antitrust regulator for excessive data requests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is it always com.au and not co.au, or just .au in Australia?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2020 01:12:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23971264</link><dc:creator>balladeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23971264</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23971264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balladeer in "Remote work is not necessarily a good thing for the worker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love that there’s no open office anymore which I hated. It had nothing good to offer other than saving rent for my employer.<p>I hate that meetings have already started to spill into Saturdays, Sundays, and beyond 6pm and attendance in those meetings are now being subtly demanded which began as requests because someone’s calendar would be  “full”.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2020 01:23:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23961501</link><dc:creator>balladeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23961501</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23961501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balladeer in "How to survive a ransomware attack without paying the ransom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are there there similar but open and private solutions to Garmin/etc for h/w and Strava/RunKeeper/etc for software?<p>Some solution where I can track my runs, swims, cyclings, treks just like Strava (et al) does does but I can choose to keep the data wherever I wish - local, or sync to an app on computer or to a self hosted server.<p>Maybe not Garmin but I would love to use such an iOS Strava alternative with similar accuracy and detail.</p>
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<p>10 hours ago they linked a ridiculous and ridiculously short FAQ in this tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/GarminFitness/status/1287101514750754816" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/GarminFitness/status/1287101514750754816</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2020 05:54:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23954759</link><dc:creator>balladeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23954759</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23954759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balladeer in "Ask HN: Are there any software jobs in nature/animal conservation?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many would just need, at least me, a decent salary for sustaining comfortably (in my case that would be fine in just 50% of my CTC or even less) but a stellar medical insurance (yeah, I want that covered!) and work-life balance which also includes being treated and respected as a human being.</p>
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<p>A friend who has always worked in NGOs/charitable trusts shared an interesting observation about all this.<p>She said that people in the top at these NGOs and trusts are usually get paid filthy rich like a CEO/Director would get paid but it pretty much ends there. Everybody else down the line are expected to expect and accept pittance. She said a salary negotiation among rank and file is frowned upon, especially by the people who are high up on the ladder and they are the same people who crib about not attracting top talent.<p>Wish passion alone could fill the belly and pay medical bills.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-hires-economists-to-help-argue-its-app-store-commissions-arent-anti-competitive">https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-hires-economists-to-help-argue-its-app-store-commissions-arent-anti-competitive</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23923547">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23923547</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:16:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-hires-economists-to-help-argue-its-app-store-commissions-arent-anti-competitive</link><dc:creator>balladeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23923547</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23923547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balladeer in "macOS 11 Virtualization Framework to Run Linux in a VM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most of the times when I face a problem on my Mac or iPhone I am surprised to find an official support article by Apple for that problem. But the answer is almost never in that article and then I have to anyway hunt for the answer on the Internet.</p>
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<p>> I am sure they're at par if not better than their Googleplex counterparts<p>I have heard it's not.<p>PS. Amazon's work-life balance is is non-existent in most teams.</p>
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<p>> One way is heard immunity<p>Without a vaccine - wouldn't herd immunity just be letting the virus spread and then let Darwin take over, more or less?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2020 01:44:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23903646</link><dc:creator>balladeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23903646</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23903646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balladeer in "Tired of note-taking apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FSNotes isn't subscription based. I am not yet paying or Bear and I don't think I'd go for it either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2020 01:34:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893914</link><dc:creator>balladeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893914</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balladeer in "Tired of note-taking apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Other than a combination of fiddling inside ~/Library and some more SQLite circus there's really no way to make Apple Notes notes portable (across platforms) and even such circuitous hacks might break in any update or upgrade. That's a big enough no for me.<p>This is one of those instances when the <i>perceived</i> Apple's walled garden convenience just falls flat. I personally prefer FSNotes (it has a long way to go but it's FOSS) and Bear. I am moving from Simplenote.</p>
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