Hacker News: comtn

New comment by comtn in "If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right"

comtn — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:02:34 +0000

Does it look sleek? Shut up and take my money.

New comment by comtn in "Show HN: Booste – a cloud-hosted desktop for developers"

comtn — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 15:32:04 +0000

I assume he means https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-googl...

but there are a plethora of online IDE's that can integrate well with GCP.

I miss Bespin, it later became skywriter, and was eventually integrated into the ACE online editor. For the few times I needed to edit something on the go, and didn't have my laptop, it worked wonderfully. I was not a big fan of the direction it took, moving away from what I would consider a fully opensource platform, to a paid one, but it does its job, and it does it well.

GCP cloud editor uses Eclipse Orion. I am excited to see the expansion of the project, and the direction it takes. Cloud IDE's have always been badass.

New comment by comtn in "A large number of Stack Exchange mods resigning over new policies"

comtn — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:19:47 +0000

That is a poor example. Rust and Python are vastly dissimilar, and one could easily be recommended over the other for various reasons. Python for portability, Rust for system oriented programming. To say you don't use rust because you don't know it is an excuse, and a terrible one at that. i would say the learning curve of Python is similar to Rust, why not learn?

New comment by comtn in "Show HN: Pi4 dual display/4K and HEVC/H265 support"

comtn — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 12:12:26 +0000

Same for in the US (atleast in Colorado). beamer.

New comment by comtn in "Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup"

comtn — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 20:14:24 +0000

Celestial Seasons uses high quality ingredients, offering tours for anyone in the Boulder, Colorado area. They also use a patented pillow bag according to their FAQ:

unique pillow-style tea bag that doesn't need a string, tag, staple or individual wrapper—and as a result, we save 3.5 million pounds of waste from entering landfills every year.

New comment by comtn in "PureBoot, the High Security Boot Process"

comtn — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 03:20:03 +0000

Thinkpad

New comment by comtn in "Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings"

comtn — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 19:10:54 +0000

It could be said that because they have to physically go and find the document, and hand it over for you to take a photo of is the reason for the costs.

New comment by comtn in "Host Your Blog on DigitalOcean with Docker, Nginx and Let’s Encrypt"

comtn — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 22:54:47 +0000

OpenBSD with HTTPD or Hiawatha is SMALL.

New comment by comtn in "Host Your Blog on DigitalOcean with Docker, Nginx and Let’s Encrypt"

comtn — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 22:53:42 +0000

SFTP?

New comment by comtn in "Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node"

comtn — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 04:56:13 +0000

I am 24, and was programming when I was 12. I remember spending days trying to get Visual Studio to download. I began working with Visual Basic Macros in Word. Although it wasn't very well understood in the schools around me, I found the comfort of those online willing to teach, and help others like it seems he is being shown here.

The mentality of those taking boot camps, and the mentality I had when I started coding are vastly different, but I can see the use.

New comment by comtn in "My dad’s resume and skills from 1980"

comtn — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 08:22:53 +0000

forked.