Hacker News: brodock

New comment by brodock in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

brodock — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:21:53 +0000

Governament contracts are very restricted behind layers of certifications and authorizations.

For example, you can't freely produce missiles and have it in wallmart where "the governament" purchase at shelf price.

New comment by brodock in "Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive"

brodock — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 09:49:07 +0000

A 18 Tb NAS harddrive is about 320 USD. A 2 bay unifi unas2 199. It pays off in one year. Restoring data from it is free.

New comment by brodock in "Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client"

brodock — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:54:09 +0000

Why would Valve help Apple get marketshare (in the gaming category), when they can put the same effort into getting the games published to Linux (and the Steam Deck).

New comment by brodock in "Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions"

brodock — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:26:10 +0000

They don't have a separate addon marketplace. The browser may still support the API but distributing the addon will be a problem.

We need an altstore

New comment by brodock in "PWAs wont replace native iOS apps"

brodock — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 23:35:08 +0000

No one wants to invest time and effort to develop for a platform that has a horrible review process. You have to invest multiple people's months worth of work without knowing if that particular snapshot of your app will offend the reviwer.

The lack of native apps is the App Store reviews process fault.

What it was like working for Gitlab

brodock — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 15:48:40 +0000

Article URL: https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/what-it-was-like-working-for-gitlab/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39303323

Points: 18

# Comments: 4

New comment by brodock in "Music streaming service SoundCloud tunes up for sale"

brodock — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 16:01:20 +0000

It's amazing how SoundCloud had "everything" and they threw away. They had the unique Indy artists, they had the DJs and music producers, and they opted to move to compete with Spotify on a money loosing bet, without putting the effort to build the Player in at least every single platform supported.

They did even more harm to themselves by blocking open source players that were doing "their work for free".

If there is one big mistake they did early on was to block API access. The other one was to bet on "record labels contract" rather then becoming the source for Originals.

New comment by brodock in "OpenBao – FOSS Fork of HashiCorp Vault"

brodock — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 14:25:02 +0000

Outcompete them. Do more, do better, do faster

New comment by brodock in "Arch Linux bugtracker migration to Gitlab completed"

brodock — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 02:35:51 +0000

https://about.gitlab.com/install/#official-linux-package

In this section there is an explanation and a link to the package server. Pick the CE and follow the install documentation

Migrating from ClickHouse to Apache Doris: What Happened?

brodock — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 04:58:00 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@ApacheDoris/migrating-from-clickhouse-to-apache-doris-what-happened-5c1b479458c9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37896068

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by brodock in "Some problems with 'first name' and 'last name' fields in data"

brodock — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 22:22:03 +0000

Last names are also not limited to ASCII. There all sorts of special caracters depending on the language like üáàãéèç-' (the single quote is specially important because its normally blocked due to SQL injection, but its a common character in italian/french/spanish names).

Preventing people from writing their own names because you decide to use a regexp from stackoverflow is also bad.

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

brodock — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 03:52:25 +0000

That looks awesome. You could try https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli, not near as good, but allow you to avoid the web UI for most things.

New comment by brodock in "Why are there no startups in the real estate construction sector?"

brodock — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 18:17:41 +0000

The scope is mutable. What was asked in the quote, is different from what it became when planing started and is different from what it endup 6 months down the road.

New comment by brodock in "Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off"

brodock — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 15:03:25 +0000

I've migrated away from Evernote when they converted their MacOS and iOS apps from native to "Electron based". Simple things you expect from a "note taking app" to handle, like, search through text files, or "selecting multiple notes" were severely limited due to the technology limitations.

You could only select 50 items per time in the new "javascript" based desktop version, because that was too much state for react to handle.

The other thing that they broke was the apple pencil support. Using it would result in several seconds of latency.

I was a paying customer at this time, I've canceled my subscription entirely. I checked the app a few times after that to see if they managed to improve anything, the didn't. It only got worst.

So, if you have a native app, you have a moat with it, don't ruin your only opportunity to stand out.

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

brodock — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 14:32:51 +0000

Have you considered sending a MR for the "very small" things that bugs you? GitLab team member here... I have a personal list of things I wish will be prioritized, but there is only much you can do with the scope the application has and the amount of coworkers. So when things really piss me off, I reserve some time and send a MR to fix that.

That's what I've done before joining the company, so it works ;)

New comment by brodock in "Visa to acquire Brazilian startup Pismo for $1B"

brodock — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 02:53:06 +0000

Brazil unbanked population in 2011 was ~41%. Having a bank account was not a straightforward process and included higher costs for the vast majority of the population.

Having a bank account would normally means you get a card that could only withdraw money from an ATM. If you wanted a "debit" card that would cost more.

Credit card were something out of reach for many. Low income folks alternative for credit were to rely on general stores own credit bureau.

With the liberalization in the banking system and the many fintechs that disrupted the market, the unbanked number droped to a single digit in 2021, and with pix, many just skipped the debit card all together.

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1370626/access-to-financ...

New comment by brodock in "Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know"

brodock — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 13:38:09 +0000

I wonder if they would have a much smaller bill if they were running on physical hardware instead of renting infrastructure from AWS.

This is really not much different from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35133510 case.

New comment by brodock in "NordVPN library and client code open-sourced"

brodock — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:53:23 +0000

Don't forget all the youtubers a VPN has to pay and all the 75% off deals with the promocode ILOVEMYYOUTUBER.

New comment by brodock in "Singapore software vendor says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud"

brodock — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 11:10:24 +0000

don't forget the "cloud cost engineer", just to figure out how much it will cost to run the 20 services that should have been part of your app with random ways of billing the usage of it

New comment by brodock in "GitHub Is Down"

brodock — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 04:39:06 +0000

There is a lot more to fail before the web worker that can be scaled indefinitely by putting more machines to respond behind a reverse proxy server.

Things like the database or random microservices that implement the death star architecture.