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New comment by beardedman in "Police raid Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi"

beardedman — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 19:49:11 +0000

Yea, it was a rhetorical question.

New comment by beardedman in "Police raid Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi"

beardedman — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:43:42 +0000

> the global south

Care to elaborate what you mean by "the global south"?

EDIT: Downvoted for asking a question? Did all the StackOverflow mods come to HN?

New comment by beardedman in "Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10"

beardedman — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 18:25:01 +0000

So glad we're condensing entire tech stacks down to a language now.

New comment by beardedman in "Beautifying our UI: Giving Gitlab build features a fresh look"

beardedman — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 20:47:51 +0000

Appreciate the comment, but just genuinely curious. You guys seem to be clamping down on freemium, but not really landing any valuable "hooks" (product-wise). Would something like a better overall project management experience not be more urgent than a command pallete? Not to be nitpicky, but GH now has a scheduler component on top of custom fields - not amazing, but adds a ton of flexibility.

New comment by beardedman in "Beautifying our UI: Giving Gitlab build features a fresh look"

beardedman — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 20:29:20 +0000

I would love to know how dev resources are being spent there. Feels like every blog article these days is touting some small enhancement as some big feature. Meanwhile GitHub is pushing out actual new features.

New comment by beardedman in "Iceland long term visa for remote workers"

beardedman — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:41:49 +0000

...long term visa for high earning remote workers...

New comment by beardedman in "The End of Front-End Development"

beardedman — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:08:11 +0000

ChatGPT has way more of a probability to hit the singularity first, thus rendering all coding efforts futile & useless, whilst it ushers in the machine apocalypse. So write that FE framework before you get taken away and used as a bio-battery for the great machine king.

New comment by beardedman in "South Korea has the lowest fertility rate, which has lessons for us all"

beardedman — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:04:20 +0000

Pretty good point actually.

New comment by beardedman in "South Korea has the lowest fertility rate, which has lessons for us all"

beardedman — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:23:11 +0000

To have more sex?

EDIT: My god, it was a joke.

New comment by beardedman in "Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site"

beardedman — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 18:53:55 +0000

The guy sure knows how to toot his own horn.

New comment by beardedman in "For longevity, muscle strength may be as important as aerobic exercise"

beardedman — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 18:35:49 +0000

I guess my question here is: what exercise/s are you referring to with "majority of our aerobic exercise"?

New comment by beardedman in "Best and worst decisions I’ve made"

beardedman — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 18:07:29 +0000

Sadly I fall in the "scientific experiments" group! :) I don't think my wife even needs to floss.

New comment by beardedman in "Best and worst decisions I’ve made"

beardedman — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 05:20:56 +0000

FWIW, many years ago I used to have a real problem with bleeding gums whenever I brushed my teeth (mainly around my molars). Flossing daily solved that completely.

New comment by beardedman in "IBM to cut about 3,900 workers while still hiring in ‘higher growth’ areas"

beardedman — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 17:05:51 +0000

Sure we're going to have a "CEO should take responsibility" comment pretty soon.

New comment by beardedman in "Prisma laying off 28% staff"

beardedman — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 10:08:09 +0000

> In some ways we’re all consultants

Surprisingly true!

New comment by beardedman in "Prisma laying off 28% staff"

beardedman — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 14:37:04 +0000

I haven't made any comment on the manner, nor assumed that those "HN'ers" were the ones layed off (which I think is a bit of a stretch anyways). I'm only commenting that whenever one of these "x company lays off x people" posts get made, you have this pitchfork-party effect happening.

EDIT: added missing words

New comment by beardedman in "Prisma laying off 28% staff"

beardedman — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 14:25:48 +0000

I'd be interested to know the age (or any other) demographic of HN'ers commenting on posts like these. Lot of people sounding very personally slighted by companies trying to remain profitable (or just in business).

New comment by beardedman in "Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity?"

beardedman — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:12:14 +0000

The lack of objectivity around this is absolutely astonishing from a community such as this.

It exploded with complexity because frontend complexity exploded. Simple. Absolutely no people expected an "API call" from a frontend application 20 years ago, now people expect loading indicators on buttons (that make API calls) after pressing them.

Just have a look at the comments on the recent Standard Notes / React Native post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34197613

New comment by beardedman in "Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed"

beardedman — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 18:45:18 +0000

Read my original post.

> copying actual IP.

This is exactly the problem they're facing.

PS; labels & text are part of the UI.

New comment by beardedman in "Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed"

beardedman — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 18:43:53 +0000

It's really not.