Hacker News: bobanrocky

New comment by bobanrocky in "The real cost of owning a home"

bobanrocky — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:25:57 +0000

Wow, moving every 2-5 years? I suppose it works with no kids, or spouse ..

New comment by bobanrocky in "The worst job interview I ever had"

bobanrocky — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:19:23 +0000

Umm .. pretty standard & generally lame line of questioning at many companies/countries. Sounds like you were offended or surprised by it?

New comment by bobanrocky in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"

bobanrocky — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:49:24 +0000

What? Next an enterprise software company is one of the weirdest takes i’ve ever heard in my 3 decades in the industry. They were a workstation manufacturer with impressively cute UIs and an interesting software stack over MachOS

New comment by bobanrocky in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

bobanrocky — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:04:49 +0000

Agree. The only recent UI/safety advancents have been a good rear & side camera; and blind spot detection & warning system. The rest are for folks who should not be driving a vehicle at all.

Until reliable FSD becomes widespread, we ought to stop with these ‘incremental’ UI changes for the sake of it. Like the ridiculous ’take a coffee break’ indicator which is also incorrect mostly

New comment by bobanrocky in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

bobanrocky — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:37:32 +0000

That is an unfair insinuation - ‘that he sounds proud of it’. There are many reasons one stays quiet - like you are sole provider for a family, its beem going on for a while that you ignore/doubt its seriousness etc.

New comment by bobanrocky in "Using the internet like it's 1999"

bobanrocky — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:41:28 +0000

Your statement of ‘hardly anyone considered facebook part of the web’ is incorrect. Facebook became popular a bit after the Web had become quite mainstream. The idea of signing up for online services was not foreign to most of these folks. Now, AOL/Compuserve and such were more considered as non web.

New comment by bobanrocky in "A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)"

bobanrocky — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:30:39 +0000

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New comment by bobanrocky in "A perfectable programming language"

bobanrocky — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:12:41 +0000

YES, THIS (capitalized on purpose). Folks, please use reasonably correct writing syntax. You CAN do better .. At least think of the AIs consuming your writings.

New comment by bobanrocky in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

bobanrocky — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:01:54 +0000

In my experience (60 yrs, almost equally in India and the US) are that weddings are typically more suited as social occasions with fun, cheer, enjoyable music, food & drinks. Funerals also bring folks & families together, but its a sombre and more disciplined/rigid vibe. I know which one I prefer ..

New comment by bobanrocky in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

bobanrocky — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:46:06 +0000

Ok, so better to be poor and backward, eh ?

New comment by bobanrocky in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

bobanrocky — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:43:25 +0000

Ha, have you been to an indian wedding in India? Now that’s big big money. And the societal pressures to make it so are huge .. American weddings are so tame and sensible by comparison.

Far better to spend those $$ on weddings rather than funerals though !

New comment by bobanrocky in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

bobanrocky — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:39:31 +0000

Lots of buzzwords in your comment, but pointless. This is a complete waste of money, and a burden on the living to ‘show off’ their status. The ancient egyptian kings at least had the resources, power and wealth to build their pyramids..

New comment by bobanrocky in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

bobanrocky — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:45:09 +0000

Well .. you probably thought the same when John was unmasking Theranos

New comment by bobanrocky in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

bobanrocky — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:40:21 +0000

You do realize the author is the one that exposed the Theranos fraud ?

New comment by bobanrocky in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

bobanrocky — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:57:01 +0000

Big stick?! More like whacking himself with a big stick.

Read up on his ‘playbook’ with russia, north korea, china etc ..

New comment by bobanrocky in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

bobanrocky — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:06:48 +0000

If you are claiming that Caltrain is part of the grand high speed rail system, you are literally being taken for a ride

New comment by bobanrocky in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

bobanrocky — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:05:29 +0000

This is a joke, right?

New comment by bobanrocky in "Learning Creative Coding"

bobanrocky — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:16:01 +0000

Another one trying to make some hay .. oh well

New comment by bobanrocky in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

bobanrocky — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:06:31 +0000

Compiler theory and implementation is based on mathematical and logic principles. And hence much more provable and trustworthy than a LLM thats stitching together pieces of text based on ‘training’

New comment by bobanrocky in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

bobanrocky — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:02:09 +0000

Nope, the number of remote roles are drastically reducing. If your are a sw dev/mgr, you’ll need to be at least hybrid to your company’s ‘tech center’