Hacker News: barbarbar

New comment by barbarbar in "Show HN: I scraped 200M Shopify products to build a search engine"

barbarbar — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 06:06:30 +0000

It doesn't work. "Soap" returned 0 results.

New comment by barbarbar in "Learning needs to be effortful to be effective"

barbarbar — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 09:59:07 +0000

Such a good comment. Thank you for providing that.

New comment by barbarbar in "Functional Programming in Coq"

barbarbar — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:32:57 +0000

Yes - I can also imagine a female programmer not being comfortable when saying that.

New comment by barbarbar in "On Having Enough Socks (2019)"

barbarbar — Fri, 05 May 2023 13:02:10 +0000

I am in the same sock hell and have been for many years. I no longer believe that the sock pairing problem can be solved for me.

New comment by barbarbar in "Show HN: I collect domain names to help build them"

barbarbar — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 03:59:03 +0000

Maybe you can explain how you can help on these very very different topics/domains/names?

New comment by barbarbar in "My Failure Resume"

barbarbar — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:13:20 +0000

Holy sh*t. That list is outright insane. They should be allowed to retire and just drink cocktails or something. I would not be able to do a tenth of that even if would live 900 years. Amazing.

New comment by barbarbar in "Swedish pension giant loses $1.1B from US banks’ collapse"

barbarbar — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 19:51:50 +0000

Holy sh*t. That is just beyond horrible. But it also shows how difficult it is to evaluate a stock. If a pension fund can't - then how should the average amateur investor do it.

New comment by barbarbar in "SVB lobbied the government to relax some Dodd-Frank provisions"

barbarbar — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 06:09:26 +0000

What other banks have the same issue?

New comment by barbarbar in "Ask HN: How is the SVB situation affecting your startup?"

barbarbar — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 16:44:02 +0000

Wonder if anybody had seen it coming? And is about to do the next big short.

New comment by barbarbar in "How confusion spreads and becomes engrained (2017)"

barbarbar — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 04:18:38 +0000

The US mortgage market in 2005-2008. It was considered a good investment to buy these bonds. But eventually everything chrashed.

New comment by barbarbar in "Ask HN: What moonshots do you wish were being attempted?"

barbarbar — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 06:48:09 +0000

Fair tax. Today rich people/corps have many loop holes for avoiding tax. If that was fixed globally, individuals could pay less.

New comment by barbarbar in "Building Reliable Distributed Systems in Node.js"

barbarbar — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 14:38:34 +0000

Is this similar to apache camel or spring integration?

New comment by barbarbar in "T-Mobile says investigating data breach involving 37M accounts"

barbarbar — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 05:43:52 +0000

My bank has not leaked any of my private info. And it has not allowed other than me to use my account. I suppose their systems are subject to the same risks you listed. So it is possible - isn't it?

New comment by barbarbar in "There is no software maintenance"

barbarbar — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:09:44 +0000

Yes it probably can be compared to car repairs. But often the programmers will promise that it will be much better to introduce the new hunken dakser reactivity framework. And this will then continue in the infinite scrum project.

New comment by barbarbar in "VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux"

barbarbar — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 06:48:18 +0000

If this comment is the truth it is just extremely funny.

How naughty of you!

New comment by barbarbar in "Twitter employees are bringing their own toilet paper to work"

barbarbar — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:55:42 +0000

The good thing about such a decision is that it is obvious that the person behind it is insane. So then everyone can act accordingly.

New comment by barbarbar in "Ask HN: What's a build vs. buy decision that you got wrong?"

barbarbar — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 05:26:07 +0000

This comment is just too real and too precise.

New comment by barbarbar in "Show HN: Dog API"

barbarbar — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:31:09 +0000

I suppose the style sheet for the site could be named dog-style.css?

Wait - maybe not a good name after all.

New comment by barbarbar in "Ask HN: Resources for Building a Webserver in C?"

barbarbar — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 14:17:38 +0000

Maybe redbean made by jart?

New comment by barbarbar in "Tell HN: Google is correlating location data to your IP"

barbarbar — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 05:48:25 +0000

In my case the location it shows is in most cases very wrong and also sometimes places I have never visited. Sometimes it changes during some minutes to other places hundreds of kilometers away. So in my case it is completely nonsense what is going on.