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New comment by bobwall in "Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims"

bobwall — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:35:10 +0000

To be fair, the Trump team targeted the electoral college win. If they had targeted the popular vote, i.e. campaigning in states that they wouldn't win outright, but could garner votes, they most likely would have won the popular vote. Meaning they could have won that game if they had tried.

New comment by bobwall in "What Working At Stripe Has Been Like"

bobwall — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:42:13 +0000

Yea, when companies really want to lower the cost, they implement directly with the bank, like say JP Morgan. That makes authorize.net even seem good. Stripe is really a pleasure to work with as a developer.

New comment by bobwall in "Facebook widens ban on political ads as alarm rises over election"

bobwall — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:42:00 +0000

I'd love to have the world experiment with no Facebook for 6 months and see what emerges in its place.

New Athena SQL IDE in Commandeer Version 1.4 Release

bobwall — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 13:43:31 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.getcommandeer.com/releases/latest/version-1.4.0-10-6-2020.html#athena

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24708074

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New comment by bobwall in "Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities"

bobwall — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:41:22 +0000

Haha. Pre-kids I was right there with you.

New comment by bobwall in "Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities"

bobwall — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:13:59 +0000

Yup, just did this. Got an extra master suite, and 1.75 more bathrooms with much bigger yard and garage for $1100 less. And neighbors that actually talk to you. Not to mention half the price for gas and food. Oh, and the swings aren't chained up. Good-bye LA, I will not miss you one bit.

New comment by bobwall in "Ask HN: Essential skill needed to be a programmer?"

bobwall — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 14:54:48 +0000

Learning what questions to ask into Google is a critical aspect. Most of the time, coding is the process of writing some code, and then debugging it. Knowing to ask, my graphql endpoint is failing with a status of 500, vs. my graphql doesn't work. The first will help you narrow down the issue, the second is far too generic. I have been coding for over 20 years now, and I feel it is rinse and repeat in terms of hitting a roadblock, and finding the answer. Also, a lottttttt of patience. You might take two hours to figure out something that ends up being really trivial, and then you have that moment of feeling good that you solved it, and then you are right back into the next hurdle.

New comment by bobwall in "Police are requesting data from smart speakers"

bobwall — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 01:57:48 +0000

Could be the problem in America is the drug problem, the glorification of the drug culture, the glorification of gangsters, the glorification of violence in sports and video games. I wouldn't put these issues squarely on the police officers in our country. When the number one hit record in your country is WAP (I'll let you look up that one), maybe the policing isn't your biggest problem.

New comment by bobwall in "Police are requesting data from smart speakers"

bobwall — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 01:51:00 +0000

Not to mention the better sound quality.

New comment by bobwall in "Police are requesting data from smart speakers"

bobwall — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 01:44:07 +0000

This was one of my tops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fucxG-he2qU Keith Hernandez, Emmitt Smith, and Walt Frazier. There were older commercials for this, but Emmitt was just soo funny in it. "Ohhh it's bad"

New comment by bobwall in "McAfee Arrested in Spain, DOJ Indictment for Tax Evasion Using Cryptocurrencies"

bobwall — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 01:30:42 +0000

Was the part where they said he probably paid to have his neighbor murdered true? Because that was not a very good look for him.

New comment by bobwall in "California Is Built to Burn"

bobwall — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 01:18:12 +0000

Yes, the 'global warming' piece is almost comical in that almost every person in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles, year in year out buy the latest iPhone and every tech gadget imaginable. The carbon footprints of these are huge. To then have the argument that we need to do something about climate change is so hypocritical. Just do proper forest management and keep the climate change for a different topic is my opinion on it. Because, if people really cared about global warming by lowering their usage of things, this is the wrong state to ever even come close to doing it.

New comment by bobwall in "On Being Bipolar"

bobwall — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 20:49:56 +0000

Does anyone who is bi-polar feel that they are able to navigate their down time well enough that it is not crippling? For myself, I believe it was more inline with seasonal depression, and after 30+ years of living in the northeast, where winters are longgggg and exgtremely cold, I moved to a place that this wasn't the case. I don't know if I have it, but when I am feeling down, I tend to read more, and just try to focus on the fact that I will come out of it and feel better shortly.

New comment by bobwall in "Ask HN: Do you have inspiring spontaneous conversations while remote working?"

bobwall — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 20:37:31 +0000

That is sad to hear. By any chance do you live with others. I thankfully have my wife and two kids which helped, though I just moved from LA to SC, because it was so draconian. We have already talked to more neighbors in 5 days living here than we did in years living in LA. Point being the isolation is much less here because people all walk in the neighborhood and actually say hello and mean it. They don't in LA. But, I too am missing interactions at work terribly.

New comment by bobwall in "Ask HN: Do you have inspiring spontaneous conversations while remote working?"

bobwall — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 20:34:28 +0000

Of course not. Let's get back to work.

New comment by bobwall in "Time to Pardon Edward Snowden?"

bobwall — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 18:44:46 +0000

He sort of has his freedom, if you consider life within Putin's Russia containing freedom.

New comment by bobwall in "Sonos is spying on me (and you)"

bobwall — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 18:38:23 +0000

I recently got the outdoor Polk audio speakers. And have them hard-wired to a fairly high-end receiver. The sound quality is so much better. I listen to a lot of vinyl, so that makes it an easier choice too. We use the smaller WonderBoom speaker when we do need it for the beach or something, but when at home, I will always chose to get the hard-wired path. Regardless how quickly the Sonos speakers connect to your source, hard-wired is better quality and is always connected.

New comment by bobwall in "Social Cooling (2017)"

bobwall — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 03:03:23 +0000

I would say you are wrong, definitively, https://www.history.com/news/vietnam-war-veterans-treatment . How is it fabricated how soldiers were treated by all the "peace lovers" when they returned from doing their duty.

New comment by bobwall in "Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Francisco"

bobwall — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 02:10:54 +0000

I was paying $70-80 to fill my tank of gas in CA, and now am paying $35 in SC. I took my son for sushi the other night, and we feasted and I had two glasses of wine, and the bill was $50 instead of at least $100 in LA, so yea, everything is way cheaper when you aren't paying to live in the "dream" world of LA.

New comment by bobwall in "Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Francisco"

bobwall — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 02:08:24 +0000

Ben Shapiro, Elon Musk, and Joe Rogan all are on the high end, and all have headed out. I also headed out, but I am only on the high end in terms of total world population, but they are real high enders fleeing the myriad of issues coming to a head in good ole CA in 2020.