Hacker News: bloodyplonker22

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "Ti-84 Evo"

bloodyplonker22 — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:31:17 +0000

The biggest ripoffs were the textbooks. Especially the textbooks written by the teachers, themselves, who forced you to buy them.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "San Francisco, AI capital of the world, is an economic laggard"

bloodyplonker22 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:34:55 +0000

Please read the actual article instead of blindly responding to the title.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "Show HN: 30u30.fyi – Is your startup founder on Forbes' most fraudulent list?"

bloodyplonker22 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:11:05 +0000

Yeah, and the reason 30 under 30 is a warning sign is because the founders that apply to and agree to do Forbes to do "30 under 30" are much more concerned with marketing than actually building a legitimate product. Legitimate under 30 founders are spending their time actually building instead.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

bloodyplonker22 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:28:58 +0000

If you are a veteran of software in a big company, we all know there will be weekly or bi-weekly meetings that some PM will set up. All the PM will do is go over the JIRA tickets and be like "is this still happening". Default answer is "no", as in "I didn't even try to reproduce it, do you think I have time to even do it?". Default answer by spineless QA person is also "didn't try it again yet". Then, the PM closes the ticket. It is much easier for QA person to say "Yes I verified it" if you are remote and developer cannot see the lies on your bad poker face.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs"

bloodyplonker22 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:21:42 +0000

I once told a female coworker she used my style of syntactic sugar. Later that week, I received a stern email from HR.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

bloodyplonker22 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:36:59 +0000

The most unethical people I know have taken ethics classes and signal that they did it.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

bloodyplonker22 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:13:33 +0000

To be honest, it may help for the modern Ferrari driver. It doesn't help for those who appreciate the Ferraris from the '90s and before.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "The realities of being a pop star"

bloodyplonker22 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 06:28:56 +0000

It is ironic that she talks about "the patriarchy" brainwashing people. I have serious doubts that she came up with the thought to blame it on the "patriarchy" herself.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware"

bloodyplonker22 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:20:52 +0000

Don't even mention Ecobee. They've done the exact same thing as Google Nest by bricking their older hardware.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "Validating your ideas on strangers (2017)"

bloodyplonker22 — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:29:50 +0000

One guy at our company once had this brilliant idea as well. Go to a bar and validate the idea with strangers. After all, our business idea was related to sports and they would surely be interested. I thought this was a great idea. All three of us agreed it was. Later that night, in high spirits, we went to the bar to execute our plan. We sat at the bar for two hours and talked to a grand total of zero people because we were all afraid to approach anyone and bother him or her about our frivolous, idiotic idea.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "The deadline isn't when AI outsmarts us – it's when we stop using our own minds"

bloodyplonker22 — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:23:22 +0000

I have a friend who I suspect has resorted to answering me with AI when I ask him a question via text message that he may not know the answer to. Many people do not want to appear to not know things, so they resort to this tactic. I personally find it to be a terrible trend.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "California governor signs AI transparency bill into law"

bloodyplonker22 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:37:33 +0000

It solves a very real real world problem: putting more money into the hands of government officials.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "A recent chess controversy"

bloodyplonker22 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:19:38 +0000

Anyone who does competitive gaming or sports knows that the greatest compliment is to be called a hacker or cheater when not actually cheating.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "Cognitive decline can be slowed down with lifestyle changes"

bloodyplonker22 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:14:38 +0000

I don't mean to be negative, but things become boring fast when you have no hobbies and interests outside of work. You were likely programmed to do work -- so much that it became your only hobby.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages"

bloodyplonker22 — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 22:45:29 +0000

I agree on all points. However, if he already had several millions like Mira and Ilya, his choice to work for Zuckerberg would likely be different. Where is the glory in bending the knee to Meta and Zuckerbeg?

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "Atlassian terminates 150 staff"

bloodyplonker22 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:54:31 +0000

A JIRA ticket with hundreds of legal dependencies.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth"

bloodyplonker22 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 07:54:54 +0000

"Founder" and "founding engineer" are two entirely different things. One of those phrases is a glorified substitute for "early engineer". Kind of like when you buy a "founders edition" Nvidia GPU. You are certainly not a founder of anything.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "Building my own solar power system"

bloodyplonker22 — Wed, 21 May 2025 08:22:24 +0000

Guy claims he's tired of paying for electricity because of the "ludacris" (sic) costs so he's going to "DIY". Yet, first thing he does is pay a guy to do it.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "I was a Theranos whistleblower. Here's what I think Elizabeth Holmes is up to"

bloodyplonker22 — Fri, 16 May 2025 04:36:19 +0000

Comparing Holmes to Neumann is a terrible parallel for obvious reasons to those that understand these matters. You should have used someone like Jeffrey Skilling instead.

New comment by bloodyplonker22 in "Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire"

bloodyplonker22 — Sun, 04 May 2025 17:35:38 +0000

Charlie would scorn this "real talk."