Hacker News: consultSKI

New comment by consultSKI in "400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure"

consultSKI — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 13:36:51 +0000

I only needed one: It is a Microsoft offering.

Never used it, never will.

New comment by consultSKI in "MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia"

consultSKI — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:27:53 +0000

Priceless! Well done Jan. Thank you for sharing this amazing project.

New comment by consultSKI in "QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image"

consultSKI — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 18:37:12 +0000

>> BlackBerry reserves the right to change, modify, discontinue, or cancel any offer or program or any part thereof at any time and in its sole discretion, without notice to you. <<

Oh. Never mind. I thought you guys were serious this time.

"As I once told a QNX sales rep, your problem isn't that you're being pirated. It's that you're being ignored." — https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Animats

New comment by consultSKI in "QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image"

consultSKI — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 18:31:33 +0000

Awesome! I signed up for the BlackBerry PlayBook dev initiative at SXSW in 2012 and found the device and QNX to be amazing. It supported a bluetooth mouse YEARS before the iPad! But BB failed to capitalize and yet another great product failed to make it into the mainstream.

Looking forward to it! Espcially now that you guys are "inside" several EVs if the rumors are true. Sign me up!

New comment by consultSKI in "Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?"

consultSKI — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:27:07 +0000

Yep. Equifax got hacked a few years ago and the Government let them use ITS credit monitoring tool for those affected instead of reaching into its own pockets to pay for a third-party solution.

#sad #speakingOfMonopolies

New comment by consultSKI in "CSS @property and the new style"

consultSKI — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 11:18:04 +0000

Great feedback IMNSHO. But the key is CSS (cascading STYLE sheets)...

You and I are NOT designers if I may be so bold. In 1996 I was one of about 100 people on new and MAJOR website/application build. From scratch. My role: Billing Lead. As a "full stack dev" only my eCommerce insights were needed from me. It is called FOCUS.

As a StartupBus alumnus of three treks the model was brilliant: Build teams from three skill sets: Devs, Designers, and BizDevs. Focus.

I love that the examples will not be gibberish to the designers of our day.

New comment by consultSKI in "Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate"

consultSKI — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:37:04 +0000

Term Limits. No real math is required.

Senate: 1 Term. 6 years. Not able to then serve in the House. House: 2 Terms. 4 years. Not able to then serve in the Senate. 1 Term House + 1 Term Senate. 8 years total.

Elect any LEGAL Citizen regardless of age.

New comment by consultSKI in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

consultSKI — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:34:38 +0000

Maybe this will get Tim Cook's attention?

P.S. Tim, you have gone to far. Even if you win the case. #justSayin

New comment by consultSKI in "IDEs we had 30 years ago"

consultSKI — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:56:10 +0000

>> but the IDE was the best way to make GUIs that ever existed

It was Lifted in spirit from NeXTstep's Interface Builder, so it was okay. But still a pale comparison.

P.S. If you are old enough, you will remember when $MSFT tried to steal Quicktime so its video products didn't suck. They got caught because they copied the machine code. Byte by byte. #howSad

New comment by consultSKI in "HTML First"

consultSKI — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 11:57:17 +0000

Yeah, I agree with others, not good. Recommending inline CSS is just wrong.

New comment by consultSKI in "I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars"

consultSKI — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:49:45 +0000

"We have always done it this way" comes to mind.

New comment by consultSKI in "Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it"

consultSKI — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 13:48:05 +0000

#sad

New comment by consultSKI in "We raised a bunch of money"

consultSKI — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 07:24:54 +0000

Okay, help me here... with Dockers why would I want to go back to VMs?

New comment by consultSKI in "Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps"

consultSKI — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 13:54:06 +0000

Interesting insights... it is going to take me a couple of reads to comprehend all the value here. Thx JDAW

P.S. Thx for the PDF version

New comment by consultSKI in "My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do"

consultSKI — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:17:19 +0000

My 10 year old BlackBerry Playbook was light years ahead of the iPad in functionality with standard features like mouse support (which iPad only received a few years ago). The QNX-based OS v2.x was amazing. In fact, QNX is now used on over 200 million automobiles.

https://blackberry.qnx.com/

New comment by consultSKI in "Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development"

consultSKI — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:01:45 +0000

Wrong. Never used them, probably never will.

>> The programming use case died because, according to Hillell Wayne, “even most proponents of UML considered it a terrible idea.”

When Ivar Jacobson's Use Cases were added to UML it was a day to celebrate for me and many others. I still create them 30 years later with other methodologies, even ones with no direct tie to software development like Dr. Eli Goldratt's TOC (Theory of Constraints).

New comment by consultSKI in "Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore"

consultSKI — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 15:38:06 +0000

Does anyone besides FAAM-sized entities care what Google thinks or does?

There is a very real reason disruption matters. Can Google be disrupted? Absolutely. However, will they? I believe so. But not by playing by the same rules.

New comment by consultSKI in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

consultSKI — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 20:05:26 +0000

Not happening. Where is my new iPhone like the AR units used in "The Expanse?"

Oh yea, the great SciFy series about the future of outer space is on Amazon Prime.

Tim Cook: Stop by and I will show what you should have released. #justSayin

New comment by consultSKI in "Cigna saves millions by having its doctors reject claims without reading them"

consultSKI — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 17:02:44 +0000

#sad

New comment by consultSKI in "The FTC wants to ban tough-to-cancel subscriptions"

consultSKI — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:40:54 +0000

About time.