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Show HN: Suggest a Feature for Any App

buboard — Mon, 09 May 2022 10:43:34 +0000

Article URL: https://featureadd.com/?r=chris

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31312559

Points: 3

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Show HN: Suggest features for your favorite apps

buboard — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 07:39:31 +0000

Article URL: https://featureadd.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31214142

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by buboard in "The Internet Is Broken, We Need a New One"

buboard — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 09:20:51 +0000

a terse comment isn't necessarily unsubstantive. the obvious subtext is that they are proposing authoritarianism

goodbye

New comment by buboard in "The Internet Is Broken, We Need a New One"

buboard — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 22:38:36 +0000

Jawohl, mein Kommandant

New comment by buboard in "[dead]"

buboard — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 12:11:14 +0000

You clicked

New comment by buboard in "Researchers create air filter that can kill the coronavirus"

buboard — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 09:47:32 +0000

neither are processes

New comment by buboard in "If It’s Not “Cancel Culture,” What Kind of Culture Is It?"

buboard — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 21:40:55 +0000

It's been cancelled

New comment by buboard in "If It’s Not “Cancel Culture,” What Kind of Culture Is It?"

buboard — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 21:12:42 +0000

I wish Freud was alive today. I can't help but think that the hysterics manifested in mainstream or social media are not actually real, that people wouldn't make such illogical steps if they were alone in an island. Instead they seem to be reactions , rooted in something deeper somewhere that's causing mass hysterias and delusions. It does manifest in the shifting ways of life too, the lack of sex, the lack of humor and the limited ambition shown by the 1-2 latest generations.

I do love Taibbi's writing, even though i think he spends too much time criticising things that soon won't matter

New comment by buboard in "John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwellian Nightmare (2016)"

buboard — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 15:20:05 +0000

Looks like he is consistent

Hagia Sophia: Turkey turns iconic Istanbul museum into mosque

buboard — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 15:14:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53366307

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23792322

Points: 2

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PC market bounces back in Q2, Gartner and IDC report

buboard — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 11:25:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zdnet.com/article/pc-market-bounces-back-in-q2-gartner-and-idc-report/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23790383

Points: 1

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New comment by buboard in "Google Women's Accelerator"

buboard — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 22:37:19 +0000

Sure , anyone can be a woman

New comment by buboard in "Seeking Truth in a Time of Misinformation"

buboard — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 15:11:49 +0000

Social media, if anything, played a positive role and showed its strengths. Thanks to early warners, some people managed to keep their sanity, some others found flaws in studies, some others were warning people while the media was being partisan, some others taught people how to behave while government and the media were delirious about going/not going to protests/rallies etc. The "media of record" will never admit it, but the internet/social media proved that "access to multifaceted information" dominates over "parroting the elites". People are learning to distrust the mainstream elites, and that's a good thing.

New comment by buboard in "Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much Power in Private App"

buboard — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 17:08:01 +0000

too long to read ;

balaji has a beef with mainstream journalists since many months ago, and probably rightly so. I can't help but feel however that this whole outrage is covert advertising for Clubhouse which (even though i am not famous enough to use) seems basically a repackaging of the decades-old concept of phone hotlines.

That said, balaji is right, the media overplayed their role as arbiters of truth and are now losing. I d trust my twitter feed better than any paper.

New comment by buboard in "Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites"

buboard — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 16:42:05 +0000

brave's biggest innovation is the introduction of direct payments. i hope that catches on, even if brave fails, because it will truly transform the economics of the internet.

New comment by buboard in "Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan"

buboard — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 16:38:41 +0000

people dont want to pay 2 rents for no reason though, unless the rents are very cheap, so they won't be able to price these things high anymore. probably

New comment by buboard in "Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan"

buboard — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 16:27:55 +0000

There is no middle ground -- WFH is self-reinforcing trend, because offices are much less useful when they are half-empty and all processes have go online. As soon as some coworkers move, others follow. If people start working 2-3 days at home ... they start to think about moving somewhere better. I wonder what is the endgame of this rearrangement? Perhaps nomadism will become common? But in that case, cities will lose even more cohesion than they ve lost so far. If we take away the work factor, the question "where do i/my family live" becomes much more open-ended. Obvious choice #1 is near extended family. What else motivates people to move?

Ask HN: Will good tech times come again?

buboard — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 22:22:44 +0000

It seems like 2005 is 1000 years away. There 's no way today you can launch a silly idea like twitter or groupon and expect it to go anywhere. It won't , there is no money to make through advertising, acquiring users means paying levies to google, users' attention is oversaturated and impossible to attract, the tech press is too busy cancelling people small or big, users can't handle an interface that requires more than scrolling, techies care more about the language you use rather than if your product works etc etc. Walls, walls, paywalls, concentration, iron grips is all that's in the horizon. It seems like, out of a million different ideas, well-funded tech has decided to reinvent computers as televisions. Will computer tech become fun again, or one is better seeking greener paths elsewhere?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23742625

Points: 12

# Comments: 2

New comment by buboard in "The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design"

buboard — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 14:24:46 +0000

The web already had solved that problem, even with bootstrap version 2. Surely apple provides primitives such as border-radius and gradients, which are enough to create an eye-catching button?

New comment by buboard in "The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design"

buboard — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 14:18:08 +0000

Design is not an optimization procedure like chip design. It's dominated by trends, like fashion. There is a small subset of people who care about optimal design, which measures things like perceptual reaction time etc. That's the military