Hacker News: dbz

New comment by dbz in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

dbz — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:34:31 +0000

I'm building a platform for businesses to get more reviews and deflect negative reviews:

https://GetSetReply.com/

I am hoping to launch in about a week, so I would love any user feedback! (email in profile)

New comment by dbz in "I'll pay you to read my book (2013)"

dbz — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 02:51:22 +0000

I aim to read 30+ books a year. Do you have a list of recommendations (for any reason) or favorites?

New comment by dbz in "iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2"

dbz — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 19:45:02 +0000

Is there somewhere we can view the feature roadmap for this? Will iTerm2 support ligatures at some point in the future? I'm also interested in future performance enhancements, and a comparison to terminal.

New comment by dbz in "Ask HN: Engineering team consists of all friends"

dbz — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 18:01:39 +0000

It looks like you are getting downvoted, but there is a lot of truth in what you are saying. I have lots of anecdotal evidence of my peers leaving their jobs for new ones that pay a lot more. The very senior/principal engineers have even been offered large amounts of money/stock to stay, but by that point it's too late. The best path to getting raises starting from a junior engineer is to leave for a new company. There are many benefits I can list to stay at one company (network, growth as an engineer, etc.), but promotions and pay raises aren't part of that list with few exceptions.

New comment by dbz in "Dev Bootcamp is shutting down"

dbz — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 10:23:32 +0000

Former A/a grad here. The average graduating salary in SF for App Academy is 105k [1]. They charge around 20% which is 21k. They also have other revenue streams, so on average they likely make more per student on average than that.

[1] https://www.appacademy.io/

New comment by dbz in "Show HN: Tesoro – Personal internet archive"

dbz — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:50:17 +0000

This is pretty cool. I have a chrome extension that let's you view the cached version of a web page [1]. Would I be able to use this through an API? I currently support Google Cache, WayBack Machine, and CoralCDN, but Coral doesn't work well and I'd like to replace it with something else.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cmmlgikpahieigpccl...

New comment by dbz in "Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]"

dbz — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 01:27:15 +0000

C02 is one of the worst 'dirty' emissions (methane is worse), and C02 is the most important gas for controlling the earth's temperature - http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/CarbonCycle/page5....

"The current episode of global warming is attributed to increasing emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases into Earth's atmosphere. " - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_at...

Also in the first few lines of wikipedia you will see that C02 is only 0.04% of the atmosphere. This small percentage has huge effects.

Show HN: Rails event-based JavaScript is easy with Rails Events

dbz — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 17:57:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Dbz/rails_events

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10440201

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dbz in "Ask HN: Does anyone actually hire from 'developer bootcamps'?"

dbz — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:00:00 +0000

Yes they do. I'm a recent App Academy graduate and everyone gets a job. There are a lot of benefits to doing a program like this versus a classical CS education. I've been programming since 8th grade, and I was a computer science major before I dropped out of college. I remember having CS professors that couldn't code themselves out of a box, but they "taught" the material they were supposed to teach. App Academy and other bootcamps prepare you for real world jobs by teaching you how to code. They also teach you data structures and algorithms- not as much as a computer science degree might, but by learning how to code, you learn how to look things up and apply them. If you're wondering if you should do it or not, it's definitely a yes. If you have any questions I would love to answer them.

New comment by dbz in "Ask HN: Does anyone actually hire from 'developer bootcamps'?"

dbz — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:53:36 +0000

I'm an App Academy graduate, and I've also been programming since 8th grade. App Academy targets the shortcomings of a CS degree by teaching people HOW to code. Students are supposed to come out of App Academy with 1000 hours of coding or 1/10 of mastery. App Academy has lectures on algorithms and data structures that aren't equivalent to a CS degree, but graduates can code, and many if not most CS students can not. These programs are very rigorous, and I can tell you without a doubt they are only growing, and certainly aren't going anywhere. If the market correct's itself, it is going to be on the "School" side, because CS degree education is broken.

New comment by dbz in "China Just Blocked Thousands of Websites"

dbz — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 06:52:05 +0000

Does anyone know if Cache Databases are blocked? I made a chrome extension called WebCache that views the cached version of a webpage which would be helpful if Google Cache, Wayback Machine, or Coral CDN isn't blocked. Here is the source: https://github.com/Dbz/WebCache

New comment by dbz in "Poll: What level of math is programming roughly analogous to?"

dbz — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 04:47:51 +0000

I have a slight problem with the question. Math is used when programming or creating models, but both are tools. I find it hard to compare the two in the way you're asking, so I think this poll is bogus. Programming requires abstract thinking as does math at the algebra level and beyond (more so at the calculus level and beyond). Other than asking what level of math is required to program X, it's hard to ask what cognitive level quantified by mathematical ability is required because cognitive levels both aren't easily quantifiable and also don't directly correlate with mathematical ability. There are lots of ways to do the same thing.

As for me, I have taken math to the level of Differential Equations and Linear Algebra.

Show HN: My Chrome Extension to view cached webpages

dbz — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:08:40 +0000

Hello everyone, I shared this little extension once in a comment and several people found it useful. It's a chrome extension that lets you view the cache version of a web page with Google Cache, Wayback Machine, or CoralCDN.

The link to the source: https://github.com/dbz/webcache

The link to the chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webcache/cmmlgikpahieigpcclckfmhnchdlfnjd

If anyone has any feedback, I'd love to hear it. I'm a 20 y/o computer science student currently attending foothill college in Los Altos, CA and I'm a part-time pizza delivery driver! If anyone has any questions, feel free to contact me or post here. I'm on my phone about to board a flight so I may not answer right away, but thanks so much checking out my extension!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6327644

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dbz in "The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between?"

dbz — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 04:55:39 +0000

I'd love to see some stats on how others have done. Also, it would be nice if you didn't have to press back fifty times (or long click select) to go back to the last site you were on.

New comment by dbz in "How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions"

dbz — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 19:17:46 +0000

Cool! I'd like to share my little extension! It let's you view the cached version of a webpage with Google Cache, Coral CDN, or Wayback Machine with a click of a button.

https://github.com/Dbz/WebCache

P.S. if anyone knows how I could add more cache databases like bing cache or yahoo cache, please tell me because I couldn't figure it out.

EDIT: If anyone is willing to test the Coral CDN, I'd greatly appreciate it. For some reason Coral CDN doesn't work on my browser, so I've never tested it =`[

New comment by dbz in "Show HN: Napster.fm, Napster reimagined for the modern Web"

dbz — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:05:48 +0000

I don't see how this is reimagined. It offers nothing that spotify or soundcloud doesn't. It's also slower, but you're on the front page of HN, so that's forgivable, but I wouldn't wait 10 seconds for something to load if I wanted to use it regularly and there were great alternatives (check out soundcloud). There are much much more important features in a music player than real-time syncing.

Russia admits no new life form found in Antarctic lake

dbz — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:35:10 +0000

Article URL: http://phys.org/news/2013-03-russia-life-antarctic-lake.html#jCp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5354078

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dbz in "There’s no money in 3D printing"

dbz — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:12:52 +0000

I simply left the webpage after scrolling up and down a few times in confusion with my arrow keys. I don't believe I've ever missed important content after leaving from a webpage that can't give me a proper user experience.

MIT creates a quantum spin liquid

dbz — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:38:50 +0000

Article URL: http://phys.org/news/2012-12-newly-quantum-liquid-beauty-simplicity.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4950494

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dbz in "No one-click unsubscribe? It's spam."

dbz — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:45:43 +0000

Tangentially related: you can create a filter to search for emails with the word "unsubscribe" in them. Generally speaking I don't want to read anything with "unsubscribe" in it, and when I do, I have a nice folder for it.