Hacker News: christopoulos

New comment by christopoulos in "How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book"

christopoulos — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 22:18:44 +0000

See, this is where you could go the extra mile and actually tell the author exactly what word it is. Do you do this at your work as well?

New comment by christopoulos in "Riot is now Element"

christopoulos — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:59:07 +0000

This is so true. I remember this when I had a conversation with a Spanish developer and he said Java mid-sentence...

New comment by christopoulos in "Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?"

christopoulos — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 16:26:31 +0000

I returned to creating music on an MPC after an 8 year hiatus. I’m loving being back at it again.

New comment by christopoulos in "The Day AppGet Died"

christopoulos — Thu, 28 May 2020 08:33:52 +0000

This is why I personally am very reluctant to the sharing of well founded ideas on platforms such as github, in hackathons, in competitions, in recorded speeches etc. How unlikely it may seem, this is a great example that ideas with traction do get picked up and copied, and the originator screwed over. I honestly sometimes feel as if the openness is pushed and saluted, but with the ulterior motive to skim for ideas.

Edit: corrected autocorrect

New comment by christopoulos in "Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public"

christopoulos — Tue, 26 May 2020 10:28:04 +0000

I’m curious on Meta, got a link?

New comment by christopoulos in "Designing the Perfect Date and Time Picker (2017)"

christopoulos — Wed, 20 May 2020 11:54:14 +0000

Yes, I agree, and everyone (devs) should think about who they’re really trying to make things easy for.

If you simply say follow the ISO standard you’re essentially making it easy for yourself and hard for the users. Sprinkle that with a drop down day picker as in the example, and you’re really in control of what the input will be. Not much chance of faulty input, right?

However, the ISO will not be relatable for many people and the drop down is a UI nightmare.

The user will be spending much more time with the form than devs (runtime), so this of thinking should definitely be avoided (during programming time).

New comment by christopoulos in "Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name"

christopoulos — Wed, 20 May 2020 00:24:28 +0000

Depends if you have the ISellOnions.com website...

New comment by christopoulos in "Ask HN: Has any progress been made on large format E-ink displays?"

christopoulos — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 00:59:11 +0000

Do you have an example of such OLED sheet that you can recommend?

New comment by christopoulos in "Jitsi Meet Security and Privacy"

christopoulos — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 21:28:15 +0000

I thought jitsi sent video from user to user, not via server? Or is that a configuration matter?

New comment by christopoulos in "Show HN: Zoom Redirector"

christopoulos — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 07:39:19 +0000

Solving Zoom’s Dark Pattern no 1... great work!

New comment by christopoulos in "Stripe can make automatic LLCs but a wire transfer from Citi nearly ended me"

christopoulos — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 03:17:53 +0000

As I’m not from the US, could you explain the differences or provide a resource?

New comment by christopoulos in "Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)"

christopoulos — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 22:59:14 +0000

I feel like it’s a behavior encouraged by Googles Material design or derived projects: slide details in and out of the screen (google maps pin details, for example), hide input boundaries (no border on search text input fields), tons of sporadically placed spinners.

I really dislike that tendency in design and behavior and find it counterproductive.

New comment by christopoulos in "Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense"

christopoulos — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 13:09:31 +0000

I find this interesting as I had a somewhat opposite experience when I tried a dark restaurant when visiting Berlin (eating in complete darkness). It was surprisingly rest to relocate utensils and my glass of beer, as I went back and forth between them, stopping and raining to eat.

Of course, the room wasn’t empty and void other sounds, which may have helped me build a general sense of direction and thereby helped me.

New comment by christopoulos in "Save .org"

christopoulos — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 09:47:52 +0000

Could we include .book while we’re at it? Seems like the handling of that TLD went really wrong...

New comment by christopoulos in "Adam Neumann planned for his children and grandchildren to control WeWork"

christopoulos — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 12:28:18 +0000

Thank you, what a story!

New comment by christopoulos in "Adam Neumann planned for his children and grandchildren to control WeWork"

christopoulos — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 12:04:20 +0000

Don’t know the pets.com story, care to tell more or link resource?

New comment by christopoulos in "New carbon nanotube-metal hierarchical material is 10x darker than Vantablack"

christopoulos — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 23:48:45 +0000

Maybe we now can get true black on an LCD screen?

New comment by christopoulos in "The Writer of the Future"

christopoulos — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 22:44:49 +0000

Isn’t the point here that it was the path the free information ideology inadvertently produced: (free) information served with ads (because everyone needs butter on the bread)? And because of that ingrained ideology, it’s still difficult to charge for the actual information product?

Edit: missing word

New comment by christopoulos in "DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer"

christopoulos — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 13:17:10 +0000

That’s why I always push the message that we choose the right amount of bureaucracy for the task at hand. Simple change / feature? No need to make a lot of documents for that? Fluffy idea that several people needs to work on? We need some mocks, diagrams and take requirements from client.

I think that’s a healthy way of doing it, but sadly many almost have to be pushed to do it, even with bigger things.

New comment by christopoulos in "DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer"

christopoulos — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 23:04:19 +0000

Yes, I understand. While I’ve never only attributed that to Agile alone, but also this sort of brogrammer-code-is-the-real-product, it sometimes feels like a maturing industry sort of rolled back into its teenage years. Diagrams? Solution models (up front thinking)? Document for future reference? Nah, we don’t want to do that.

It’s sad. Just recently had an experience like this with developers I manage. I do loathe the brogrammer culture more than anything...