Hacker News: bryne

New comment by bryne in "Vungle CEO charged with attempted murder, sexual abuse"

bryne — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 07:13:58 +0000

I guess it should be "sexual abuse of two children under three years old" now?

New comment by bryne in "Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber"

bryne — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 01:20:36 +0000

I believe they're referring to the fact that Uber took specific action to promote itself by canceling surge pricing at JFK during the strike, not that it did anything passively through inaction.

Lyft did not negate surge pricing that day, AFAIK.

New comment by bryne in "Target removes CEO in wake of cyber attack"

bryne — Mon, 05 May 2014 20:34:12 +0000

Prepare to go through this discussion again in two years after chip-and-pin's expensive rollout doesn't prevent or deter online CC theft, despite everyone having to get fancy new cards from their banks.

New comment by bryne in "What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies "

bryne — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 04:06:25 +0000

I couldn't help but read this in the voice of Ed Norton's character from Fight Club.

New comment by bryne in "Lab Mice Are Being Kept Too Cold, Apparently"

bryne — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 21:54:26 +0000

Apparently not.

New comment by bryne in "Once-great SSD manufacturer OCZ filing for bankruptcy"

bryne — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:46:08 +0000

Everyone on HN is glad you're happy, but your single data point does fly in the face of statistically significant reliability problems with OCZ drives (ie, the only real way to evaluate storage manufacturers).

New comment by bryne in "Dear Spike Lee"

bryne — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 22:12:58 +0000

I think it's prudent given that while the agency apparently lowballed him, it's not clear whether the agency or Spike Lee's production company (40 Acres And A Mule Filmworks, appearing on the posters in question on his Facebook page) are the party actually responsible for the theft/misappropriation.

New comment by bryne in "Could we kill the icon?"

bryne — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 22:58:12 +0000

Could I kill that icon in cornflower blue?

This misses the point in favor of some misguided idealism, I think. It's hard enough to cram a functional, usable interface into the space provided often enough without worrying about throwing a hard-won language of visual metaphors straight into the trash before you start.

New comment by bryne in "Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S"

bryne — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 20:09:31 +0000

Elementary data collection?

New comment by bryne in "Kickstart the first tailor-fit, American-made henleys and hoodies"

bryne — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 21:05:27 +0000

I think there is a demand for t-shirts and henleys that a certain online-savvy, fit-conscious consumer demographic perceives to be customized.

New comment by bryne in "Revising MailChimp's logo"

bryne — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 06:06:50 +0000

It's unimportant.

New comment by bryne in "A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game"

bryne — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 02:54:37 +0000

Can I just downvote you for whining and confusing anecdotes for data?

New comment by bryne in "A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game"

bryne — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 02:52:20 +0000

HN comment trolls are probably not a representative selection of your future audience.

New comment by bryne in "Indie developers cannot self-publish on Xbox One"

bryne — Thu, 23 May 2013 05:01:30 +0000

Microsoft isn't betting on missing out on the next Minecraft. They're betting on being able to bring it to the platform once it's a confirmed hit.

Compared to the consumer-facing mess that's XBLIG, it's hard to fault them.

New comment by bryne in "Xbox One: Microsoft's All-In-One Home Entertainment System"

bryne — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:45:27 +0000

We haven't seen pricing information. Rumors surrounding a subsidized model (as some versions of the Xbox 360 were sold) have been thick.

New comment by bryne in "Xbox One Revealed"

bryne — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:34:06 +0000

I'd posit that the very existence of exclusives is one of the things that defines this as a gaming console through and through, if no longer first and foremost.

New comment by bryne in "Xbox One Revealed"

bryne — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:31:07 +0000

It seems pretty obvious that they want to replace your Roku (easy - nobody owns Roku content) and your AppleTV (harder, iTunes lock in) and everything else in the ecosystem.

The desire to be the "one" box people have in their living room is pretty clear. I'm not sure how this will interop with common devices like AV receivers (HDMI issues?) but it will obviously need to play nice to capture the mid-to-high-end of the market.

New comment by bryne in "Xbox One Revealed"

bryne — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:24:26 +0000

You're getting a gaming console, with the addition of a host of other features that ensure the console platform can reach market stability through sales and continue to provide content - including the games you want to play - over the multi-year span that a major investment in hardware requires of a company.

On the other hand - what's preventing you from GAMING on your PC?

New comment by bryne in "Xbox, A New Generation Revealed (livesteam)"

bryne — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:20:42 +0000

They chose this angle because the number of people watching who care about the ethics of biometric data capture are basically a rounding error on a marketing spreadsheet.

New comment by bryne in "Xbox, A New Generation Revealed (livesteam)"

bryne — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:05:06 +0000

You still think this is still primarily a game console?

Microsoft is putting all its chips down on the battle for your living room, which is a major front. The fight to be the all-in-one device people buy that replaces their cable box, game console, and media server (and the data being positioned as the provider of that device brings with it) is not a small one.

Self-identified "gamers" like yourself, who will probably turn out to be the minority purchasing audience for this generation of consoles-cum-entertainment boxes, already have a venue for game porn - it's called E3 - and Microsoft knows it's coming up in a few weeks.