Hacker News: cabinguy

New comment by cabinguy in "Prohibition and ice cream in the US Navy"

cabinguy — Wed, 28 May 2025 20:31:12 +0000

I had that happen once in my three years in the fleet and they didn’t open them for us (long time ago). We did have kegs & BBQ on the pier in GITMO once, too (“pigs on the pier”). I was in when they were just starting a/the tobacco ban on the ship. You could smoke them, but you couldn’t buy them . It created an excellent black market opportunity for entrepreneurs onboard. Last fun fact - my ship was catered by Krispy Kreme donuts every morning when we were in port - long, long before they were a nationwide brand.

New comment by cabinguy in "Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today"

cabinguy — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:04:09 +0000

What a great story & ending. I’m very happy for you - congratulations!

New comment by cabinguy in "Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle"

cabinguy — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:33:55 +0000

Do you think a sales person or a technical person dreamt up those changes you believe broke sonos?

New comment by cabinguy in "The Unisys Icon: One Canadian Xennial's Memories of Ontario's Obscure Computer"

cabinguy — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 16:11:05 +0000

Ah, Unisys. I used to buy/sell refurbished laptops and stumbled upon a couple thousand Unisys laptops, one time. Pentium 133’s & 166’s. I wasn’t very familiar with them, but luckily they were all in “like new” condition when I got them. At that time I was probably paying sub $1/Mhz and selling them for $3-4-5/Mhz…so I have very fond memories of Unisys as well. The good old days.

New comment by cabinguy in "U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules"

cabinguy — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 01:49:37 +0000

Most interesting part of this post (to me) is to see how far the perceived importance of net neutrality has fallen on HN. 96 points in 5 hours as of this comment.

Old posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=net+neutrality

New comment by cabinguy in "Show HN: I am Building a Producthunt alternative"

cabinguy — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 23:18:00 +0000

Confirmed. I immediately read “hunt lie.”

New comment by cabinguy in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

cabinguy — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 23:58:57 +0000

I assume you know the answer to your questions is: of course they do. However, I’m in the same boat as you. The joke’s on us, I guess.

New comment by cabinguy in "Show HN: A minimalist (brutalist?) website for sharing all your links"

cabinguy — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 19:42:08 +0000

I know I said I was done, but, let me get this straight. If I sign up for a website that was created for people to sign up to save links, and in doing so it requires you to submit a URL and a title for the link - and I use the page title as the title for the link: 1) I’m not entitled to do that and 2) It means my website is similar to a geocities page?

Interesting.

New comment by cabinguy in "Show HN: A minimalist (brutalist?) website for sharing all your links"

cabinguy — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:43:25 +0000

[edit] @wizzwizz4 Is it crass to edit your comment multiple times (with no declaration) to address a reply to your comment?

Lol. Thats how the site works. It asks you for a URL and a title for the link. It’s my page, my account, so I linked to my site when trying it out. C’mon. I’m not going to argue about it anymore. Y’all can keep downvoting me if you want to.

New comment by cabinguy in "Show HN: A minimalist (brutalist?) website for sharing all your links"

cabinguy — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 17:59:08 +0000

2 birds. Seriously though. Adding links to a website for sharing links is now spam? Ok.

New comment by cabinguy in "Show HN: A minimalist (brutalist?) website for sharing all your links"

cabinguy — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 17:48:50 +0000

I created a page. If you want to look without signing up, here you go: https://lynx.boo/dg

New comment by cabinguy in "Frank Lloyd Wright's Only Skyscraper Is Heading to Auction"

cabinguy — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 22:17:15 +0000

One of the treats of driving to northern MN from the Twin Cities is driving by the only FLW gas station. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/frank-lloyd-wright-gas-s...

New comment by cabinguy in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

cabinguy — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:39:45 +0000

I know my project is unworthy of upvotes from HN, but I’ve been working (hard) on a simple real estate site https://davegooden.com. No big deal. No real tech. Just lots of work and lots of potential upside.

New comment by cabinguy in "Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?"

cabinguy — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 19:59:15 +0000

I absolutely love this idea.

Most high-level sales people rely on role play partners but that requires a pretty a big commitment. This would make a great product, imo.

Also (tip): Study, memorize and internalize a sales script for your product/service...along with the objection handlers and closing questions. Practice every single day. You'll gain massive confidence because you know exactly what you are going to say, every time.

New comment by cabinguy in "Instagram's Algorithm Delivers Toxic Video Mix to Adults Who Follow Children"

cabinguy — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 02:16:10 +0000

I use instagram to look at vintage motorcycles and buy vintage motorcycle parts. Thats all. I follow motorcycle accounts only. But when I hit the search icon - the splash screen shows me, almost exclusively, 1/2 naked women.

New comment by cabinguy in "Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’"

cabinguy — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:09:36 +0000

Everyone should move to digg.

New comment by cabinguy in "Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4"

cabinguy — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 11:53:33 +0000

…today.

New comment by cabinguy in "A16Z is the “worst and largest” scammer of all, says CEO of Swan Bitcoin (2022)"

cabinguy — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:05:31 +0000

HN buried this story. Should be #1 on homepage. That’s bullshit and puts HN in the scammy category as well, IMO.

New comment by cabinguy in "FTC takes action to stop Opendoor from cheating potential sellers"

cabinguy — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 02:34:42 +0000

opendoor is a licensed brokerage and a member of the National Association of Realtors. They partnered with realtor.com in 2020.

https://www.opendoor.com/w/blog/realtor-dot-com-partnership

That Time I Needed Money...

cabinguy — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 16:04:54 +0000

Article URL: https://davegooden.com/2020/09/that-time-i-needed-money/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24422438

Points: 1

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