Hacker News: couchridr

New comment by couchridr in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

couchridr — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 07:06:46 +0000

Of the US stock market half is owned by 1%.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBST01122

New comment by couchridr in "An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations"

couchridr — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:10:01 +0000

Probably the huntress user agreed to hundreds of conditions when he clicked “I agree to the terms of service.”

New comment by couchridr in "The hit film about overworked nurses that's causing alarm across Europe"

couchridr — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:38:49 +0000

Sure but at least radiologists do something. What do hospital administrators do? Like a university a hospital has bureaucracy that grows.

New comment by couchridr in "Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API?"

couchridr — Sat, 31 May 2025 18:46:05 +0000

What do your eyes tell you? https://youtu.be/P7KBcsdPhxA?si=RNDXSwiHqCKDLv0i&t=107

New comment by couchridr in "Ask HN: Why does Google rank the real Python documentation below content farms?"

couchridr — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 19:31:41 +0000

Humans are much better at inferring rules from examples than at deducing an example from a concisely stated rule. The official python docs are the latter.

New comment by couchridr in "SMS phishing is way too easy"

couchridr — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 05:41:34 +0000

Kinda sounds like you are him. Is this forum better or worse with your product placement tricks?

New comment by couchridr in "Preview, the Mac app people forget about"

couchridr — Sun, 22 May 2022 23:20:00 +0000

Unfortunately although Preview is good for these tricks, such as editing a PDF or creating a PDF from multiple inputs, I often find that the official acrobat reader from Adobe will refuse to display the resulting file. That may be Adobe trying old Microsoft “you can’t keep up with my definition of a legal file format” tricks. Nevertheless what you produce cannot be viewed with a significant fraction of PDF readers.

New comment by couchridr in "Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit"

couchridr — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 09:20:56 +0000

You probably mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29984016

New comment by couchridr in "Let's Settle This"

couchridr — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:08:38 +0000

But Baby Yoda!

New comment by couchridr in "Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case"

couchridr — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 04:59:32 +0000

Let me guess. A Tribune paper.

New comment by couchridr in "Rejected internal job applicants are twice as likely to quit"

couchridr — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 23:00:48 +0000

That’s a great point. I have seen secretaries take training after hours to get certificates and degrees. When finished they apply locally and perform well, since they already had an idea what the job is. Some employees who have known the person in the old role find it hard to treat the colleague equitably. In that situation sometimes the best way forward is to take the new credential to a place where no one knew you before you got it.

New comment by couchridr in "Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust"

couchridr — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 04:02:37 +0000

I might add, Apple could kill the market for stolen iPhones (by preventing a phone from working when they get a bona ride police report) but they don’t.

New comment by couchridr in "Self hosting is important"

couchridr — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 04:27:56 +0000

This one. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nextdoor-local-neighborhood/id...

New comment by couchridr in "Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated by the museum's guards"

couchridr — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 04:24:15 +0000

New idea for a t-shirt. “Baltimore: Trump hates it.”

New comment by couchridr in "Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated by the museum's guards"

couchridr — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 04:16:13 +0000

I would add that there are financial technical jobs at T Rowe Price, Legg Mason, Morgan Stanley etc. Not to mention that there are computer security jobs at those places where the stakes are high.

New comment by couchridr in "Why we should end the data economy"

couchridr — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 02:55:22 +0000

The basic problem is that people undervalue data about themselves. They don’t imagine the kinds of conclusions that can be made, or the consequences.

It’s been more than a decade, but I was impressed by this research from Allessandro Acquisti that suggested people valued their data only in the pennies.

When 25 Cents is too much: An Experiment on Willingness-To-Sell and Willingness-To-Protect Personal Information, Jens Grossklags, Alessandro Acquisti, Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2007

New comment by couchridr in "Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to"

couchridr — Mon, 10 May 2021 01:25:28 +0000

It comes from the brass buttons on some officers’ uniforms

New comment by couchridr in "Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow"

couchridr — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 19:28:15 +0000

I have never enjoyed python’s official documentation. It isn’t easy to find answers. Sometimes the value of an SO answer is that you are sent to exactly the right part of the python docs.

New comment by couchridr in "Firefox Was Always Enough"

couchridr — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 02:42:05 +0000

Firefox won’t display iCloud.com for me. Of course safari will.

I couldn’t determine why; I have customized perhaps a dozen variables within Firefox so it is hard to know wether iCloud depends on any of them.

New comment by couchridr in "Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org"

couchridr — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 20:24:57 +0000

An alternative to the total transparency you call for might be that an auditor examines everyone’s compensation, and provides statistics for each job role. Lots of employees prefer not to have their exact compensation revealed. Sometimes you may work well with someone (a lawyer, say) and think him a good team player, until you realize he is making tons more than you and envy becomes a factor. Your attitude might go from positive to negative. Would salary transparency be good in that case?