Hacker News: blah314

New comment by blah314 in "The worst year of my life"

blah314 — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:17:13 +0000

You know, you're absolutely right - she /is/ a better person than you.

New comment by blah314 in "Project Ara – Google's modular phone project"

blah314 — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 12:15:14 +0000

If all my module slots can go to batteries, I'll be tempted.

New comment by blah314 in "Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer"

blah314 — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:52:19 +0000

s/everyone/a critical mass/

New comment by blah314 in "Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer"

blah314 — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:09:55 +0000

You know, you're making a good case for techies publishing their current salary/day rate. In a sellers' market disclosure should drive prices up.

New comment by blah314 in "Choosing Go to implement the new GOV.UK router"

blah314 — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:07:22 +0000

Try doing something with it (eg apply for a tax disk). At that point it always hands back control to the old site(s) it "replaced".

New comment by blah314 in "Choosing Go to implement the new GOV.UK router"

blah314 — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 14:57:17 +0000

In this case NIH resulted in a space-optimized algorithm, rather than a time-optimized one. So well done there, kids.

New comment by blah314 in "Vermeer’s Secret Tool: Testing Whether The Artist Used Mirrors and Lenses"

blah314 — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 03:16:42 +0000

Thanks, in four paragraphs you gave me a whole new perspective on Hockney's book on this.

New comment by blah314 in "LG Smart TVs log USB filenames and viewing info to LG servers"

blah314 — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:59:58 +0000

I just bought a TV. I bought a 720 'cos it was cheaper (because, really, who cares about "picture quality" except nerds?), and I was really impressed with the software - it can do DLNA streaming, Youtube pairing, and Netflix and none of that was even mentioned on the box! Means I don't even need to bother gluing a Raspberry Pi to the back like I planned. Awesome! And so cheap!

(In case it wasn't clear... you are not the only market segment. Neither am I.)

New comment by blah314 in "Petition against forced Google+ integration on YouTube hits 112,000"

blah314 — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:50:57 +0000

There seem to have been half-a-dozen negative personal experience stories about G+ turn up this weekend. And now this. Is nobody else sensing organization behind this?

(Not that I'm defending Google's "just the wrong side of creepy" approach, but if I was in competition with them I'd want to make sure everyone knew just how creepy they are).

New comment by blah314 in "It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it?"

blah314 — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:16:49 +0000

As a "foreigner", I don't really have a problem with that. Covertly gaining advantage for their own team is what spies are supposed to do.

The rest of the world needs to encrypt and, where possible, route around the damaged areas.

New comment by blah314 in "Docker: Git for deployment"

blah314 — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:41:01 +0000

Thanks. I was starting to think I was the only one. Nice to get some confirmation I'm not crazy.