Hacker News: chaosprophet

New comment by chaosprophet in "Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals"

chaosprophet — Sat, 13 Jul 2019 23:46:11 +0000

This could be an extremely interesting legal argument, but I suppose the language used requires a request in 'writing' of some sort, which I suppose HTTP requests would fail.

New comment by chaosprophet in "Statement Regarding FedEx’s Relationship with Amazon"

chaosprophet — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 20:51:47 +0000

They already do this for a large portion of Prime deliveries in India. Don't see why they wouldn't expand it to other countries.

New comment by chaosprophet in "Show HN: Razorpay Payment Pages"

chaosprophet — Fri, 03 May 2019 13:20:17 +0000

Razorpay has been such a terrible experience for me as a consumer, that I'd actively avoid using it as my payment processor.

I know at least 3 scam operations having their payments processed through razorpay, and these are proper scams selling non existent products. So far all my complaint emails to razorpay have gone unanswered.

New comment by chaosprophet in "“Problems” with git format-patch"

chaosprophet — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 09:15:42 +0000

Have the entire world change their implementation rather than the one company which is doing it wrong?

This is not how RFCs work. There's a reason RFCs came about, and it was to prevent this exact type of situation. Just because a company has a large market share, doesn't mean RFCs should be changed to suit it.

New comment by chaosprophet in "Lack of redundancies on Boeing 737 MAX baffles some involved in developing it"

chaosprophet — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:46:45 +0000

Because if they didn't pretend that it was the same to fly a 737 and a 737 max, then they would be required to have pilots get a separate type certification for the max, which is costly for airlines and makes the airlines very reluctant to order the max.

New comment by chaosprophet in "Ask HN: YouTube Unusable on Firefox?"

chaosprophet — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:29:50 +0000

Try loading it with Firefox in extensions disabled mode. The last time I had an issue with Firefox and YouTube, it was due to an extension.

New comment by chaosprophet in "Show HN: ApproveAPI – Real-Time user approvals via email, SMS, and push"

chaosprophet — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:10:15 +0000

Wow, $1 for 100 emails is very very very very expensive. So expensive that I'd opt to build this in house rather and take on the costs associated with it and still come out saving money.

It's a pretty solid idea otherwise.

New comment by chaosprophet in "YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”"

chaosprophet — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 05:20:51 +0000

Could YC pro-actively get in touch with the folks already working on the project? Sounds like they would be your best bet at success.

New comment by chaosprophet in "800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verification Service"

chaosprophet — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 05:10:54 +0000

Actually a lot of email addresses cannot be validated this way since most ESPs including gmail have adopted an 'accept-all' approach to incoming email. So getting the email accepted by the server is no indication that the address exists, or that the email will actually be delivered to that address even if it exists.

New comment by chaosprophet in "Show HN: Socket Wrench – Insomnia/Postman for Websocket Testing"

chaosprophet — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 04:11:44 +0000

I've created a new issue (https://github.com/asleepysamurai/socketwrench/issues/2) to track this. If it get's enough votes from other users, I'll add it.

New comment by chaosprophet in "Show HN: A Simple Imgur Alternative"

chaosprophet — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:26:35 +0000

I'm only getting the Apache Test page.

New comment by chaosprophet in "Show HN: Socket Wrench – Insomnia/Postman for Websocket Testing"

chaosprophet — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:21:52 +0000

One of the suggestions that came up more often from people who tried out Socket Wrench was the ability to connect to Socketio servers. However supporting socketio namespaces complicated the UX, so I decided to wait till I got a lot more people asking for SocketIO support to implement it.

New comment by chaosprophet in "Show HN: Socket Wrench – Insomnia/Postman for Websocket Testing"

chaosprophet — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:19:19 +0000

It's not open source. I want to keep any possibility of future monetization open for now.

Show HN: Socket Wrench – Insomnia/Postman for Websocket Testing

chaosprophet — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 14:13:50 +0000

Article URL: https://asleepysamurai.com/articles/socketwrench?show=hn1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19301347

Points: 23

# Comments: 8

New comment by chaosprophet in "Electron v5.0 Timeline"

chaosprophet — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 07:32:14 +0000

Do PWAs allow you to do things like modify application menus, access the file system etc?

New comment by chaosprophet in "Show HN: Git Admin. A CLI for Remotely Managing GitHub Repositories (Beta)"

chaosprophet — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:11:21 +0000

> git-admin repo create awesome-new-project

This is pretty much the only reason, apart from issues, that I actually open Github in the browser for. Now I can do even that from the terminal. Yes! Thank you!

Ask HN: Would you be interested in a Voting-Ring-Detection-As-A-Service

chaosprophet — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:03:23 +0000

I've been thinking up a lot of ideas of late, which involve some sort of community voting. As always, the problem with voting is voting rings.

I had the thought that if I could come up with so many ideas which would require a voting ring detector, maybe others would as well, and that got me thinking of building one out as a service.

This post is targeted at people who would need something like that, as well as people who manage any community of any sort. Do you think this is something that would be useful, and would you pay for it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18845112

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Ask HN: Help with Interviewing for Software Development Manager Roles

chaosprophet — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 07:10:16 +0000

Hi HN, Here's the background. I've been working in software in India for the past 8+ years. About 2 years ago, I got promoted to a Software Dev Manager role, and I have been performing it quite successfully.

However, I am now looking out for opportunities in other companies for a similar role. I have had about 4 interviews till now, and it's not progressed to offers. I think the issue is that whenever I am asked how I would solve any people problem, my solution for that (for almost any scenario) is something along the lines of 'talk to the people involved, figure out the root cause and try to address it'.

I am not exactly sure what else I am expected to say, because that is literally exactly how I have been resolving these issues for the past 2 years. Is there something I'm missing completely?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18206830

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Super fast, tracking free, static page, (yet another) comments plugin

chaosprophet — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 18:03:45 +0000

Article URL: https://kisscomments.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078624

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by chaosprophet in "OctoCrate – Email service designed explicitly for app testing"

chaosprophet — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 08:41:57 +0000

The automatic report generation from templates is nice. But the killer feature for me would be the programmable actions. No more clicking and confirming and verifying while creating new testing accounts sounds like heaven, especially if you're working in a studio developing a new app every month like me.