Hacker News: codinger

New comment by codinger in "Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority"

codinger — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:32:35 +0000

Sounds like a whole new market opened up for the EU.

New comment by codinger in "Grad school is worse for public health than STDs (2019)"

codinger — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 11:33:39 +0000

I feel the opposite as a software engineer. The only appointments I have are stand-ups. I can work whenever and wherever I like. I never want to go back to the stress of University now.

New comment by codinger in "On iPhone sideloading: it’s ok, I’m changing my mind"

codinger — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 11:23:29 +0000

It has been a common thing on Android and I don't really see Android users having a worse experience. The average user is conditioned to using the app/play store.

New comment by codinger in "American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other"

codinger — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 20:14:12 +0000

Nah, the video game industry has micro-transactions down to a science.

New comment by codinger in "Typometer: A tool to measure and analyze the visual latency of text editors"

codinger — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 06:34:30 +0000

It's funny you mention this, because I like to use vscode over ssh. I believe the editor updates the screen before the change is ever made on the server, so it feels nice and responsive like you're coding on your home machine.

New comment by codinger in "A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past"

codinger — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 03:39:19 +0000

Expat is a word to distinguish white immigrants from the rest of the immigrants. White Americans living abroad are called expats as well.

New comment by codinger in "Facebook forcing moderators to log every second of day"

codinger — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:57:29 +0000

:Cough: selenium :cough: scheduled cronjob

New comment by codinger in "Facebook forcing moderators to log every second of day"

codinger — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:52:59 +0000

Sorry, I'll take wage slavery over the gig-economy. I'm lucky and don't have to choose between the two right now with my flexible schedule at my current job.

New comment by codinger in "Black boys don’t need more discipline, they need mentors (2018)"

codinger — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:50:09 +0000

>they talk openly about being scared of black people because they're all criminals.

You don't think there isn't anything racist about that? You have a strange definition of racism.

New comment by codinger in "Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut"

codinger — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 06:06:39 +0000

As a consumer, it isn't bad.

New comment by codinger in "Show HN: A time tracker that asks you every 10 min what you're doing"

codinger — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 21:03:30 +0000

Half tenths for a mechanic.

New comment by codinger in "Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut"

codinger — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:41:57 +0000

The problem with using another form of payment is I won't purchase from a small business online without PayPal. PayPal offers consumer protection so I can take a risk with a company I don't trust yet. if it goes bad I can file a complaint and it will almost always get resolved.

New comment by codinger in "AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network"

codinger — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 19:56:11 +0000

What contract? Most of these contracts have terms for canceling early. Like a fee to cover the remaining cost of the phone. After that point, it's their phone and I don't see a problem with someone using their property on another network.

New comment by codinger in "Ford to eliminate 7k jobs, or 10% of workforce"

codinger — Mon, 20 May 2019 18:27:15 +0000

Definitely, I saw this from working on hybrids when I was a mechanic. The transmissions were simpler, the engine rarely needed any work since they ran less than a gas only car. They barely needed any brake work since the electric motor does most of the stopping.

A full electric pretty much eliminates all the work besides replacing tires and replacing the brakes maybe once in the car's lifetime.

Some customers with older evs will need new batteries but the price of a battery is so expensive that dealers won't have a lot of room for markup and it only takes a few hours to replace one.

New comment by codinger in "Meal Kits Have a Smaller Carbon Footprint Than Grocery Shopping, Study Says"

codinger — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 02:54:00 +0000

Who funded the study?

New comment by codinger in "IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery"

codinger — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 20:26:47 +0000

ummm https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6238309/Sc...

New comment by codinger in "Ask HN: Why does Paypal still exist?"

codinger — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 22:11:28 +0000

It's a trusted name and the user doesn't see any of the fees.

New comment by codinger in "PureOS is convergent"

codinger — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 19:09:52 +0000

I want my desktop OS to act like a proper desktop workstation and my phone to act like a typical smartphone. Don't force Windows 8 like experience onto me.

New comment by codinger in "Why 80s BASIC still matters"

codinger — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 05:16:41 +0000

I like the Arduino for this reason. It was a lot more interesting than printing hello world to a screen. I would find little things I could do with the Arduino for random little things that I couldn't easily do with a pre-existing app on the phone or computer.

Also, before I started studying computer science, I liked the Unity Game engine as it was quick to implement something interesting and it was easy to find lessons and instructions online to develop in C# and the Unity engine.

New comment by codinger in "My Twitch Live Coding Setup"

codinger — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 23:47:53 +0000

I'm jealous of the aesthetic. It's really nice looking.