Hacker News: degobah

New comment by degobah in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

degobah — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:00:55 +0000

SWE with 15 years of experience

  Location: San Francisco
  Remote: Open to it
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Full-stack web apps, React, Typescript, .NET/C#, ASP.NET, Electron, Bash, Python, Database design, SQL Server/Postgres, AWS/GCP
  Résumé/CV: https://gist.github.com/tomvonclef/a0bbff6e222416a81380d324c0282a76
  Email: tvcsf@proton.me

New comment by degobah in "There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)"

degobah — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:13:24 +0000

But POTUS 5 months ago:

"If you look back years ago in the 1920s and the 1930s, they said global cooling will kill the world. We have to do something. Then they said global warming will kill the world, but then it started getting cooler. So now they just call it climate change because that way they can't miss. Climate change because if it goes higher or lower, whatever the hell happens, there's climate change. It's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion. Climate change, no matter what happens, you're involved in that. No more global warming, no more global cooling. All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their country's fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success."

https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-...

New comment by degobah in "StyleTTS2 – open-source Eleven-Labs-quality Text To Speech"

degobah — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 05:26:47 +0000

Very helpful, thanks!

New comment by degobah in "The Twitter Files"

degobah — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 17:48:02 +0000

For political reasons he needs it to be more than a very popular private service. He needs it to be an essential public utility.

New comment by degobah in "The Twitter Files"

degobah — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 06:11:54 +0000

You are more scandalized about the campaign of a private citizen emailing Twitter to ask that dick pics of his son remove, than about the White House emailing Twitter to have tweets removed?

New comment by degobah in "The Twitter Files"

degobah — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 06:02:30 +0000

I know the Trump White House made requests for stuff to be taken down via email, (instead of the Report Tweet button), but I didn't see that President Trump requesting a ToS review for some tweets was this kind of corruption.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828932395978752

New comment by degobah in "The Twitter Files"

degobah — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 05:57:44 +0000

What did the Biden campaign do that the Trump White House did not?

"In 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored."

The difference is that the Trump White House was the executive office of the federal govt making requests, while Biden was a private citizen.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828932395978752

New comment by degobah in "The Twitter Files"

degobah — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 05:53:22 +0000

What did we learn today about Democrats and Twitter?

New comment by degobah in "U.S. job openings post biggest drop in more than four years"

degobah — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 17:11:14 +0000

So what you're saying is that when a reporter noticed that the monthly job openings number hit a 4 year low, the Reuters service should not have released a short article stating that fact, otherwise they're "salivating over finding something they can spin as negative about the current economy."

Sounds like you're biased in your media assessment.

New comment by degobah in "Why I'm still using jQuery"

degobah — Mon, 27 May 2019 18:40:04 +0000

Thanks for your work. OP maybe didn't read the first two paragraphs of YMNNJ, which clearly states:

> jQuery and its cousins are great, and by all means use them if it makes it easier to develop your application.

> If you're developing a library on the other hand, please take a moment to consider if you actually need jQuery as a dependency.

New comment by degobah in "Why I'm still using jQuery"

degobah — Mon, 27 May 2019 18:30:50 +0000

> Pages like "You might not need jQuery" try to sell the idea that it’s easy to ditch jQuery. ... good reasons to not use jQuery: if you’re writing code that you want to be re-used by others...

Literally the first thing youmightnotneedjquery.com says is:

> jQuery and its cousins are great, and by all means use them if it makes it easier to develop your application.

> If you're developing a library on the other hand, please take a moment to consider if you actually need jQuery as a dependency.

New comment by degobah in "We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible"

degobah — Wed, 08 May 2019 20:01:15 +0000

We also need to donate more to FOSS. And find more ways to monetize FOSS. It's tough for many FOSS projects to succeed on a volunteer basis.

New comment by degobah in "In California, giant Stratolaunch jet flies for first time"

degobah — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 14:32:01 +0000

Since its purpose is to launch rockets, I assume it lands where it takes off, and might never stray far away.

New comment by degobah in "Man plans to sue parents for giving birth to him without his consent"

degobah — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:05:18 +0000

No one has accepted anything. "Man plans to sue his parents". Plans.

New comment by degobah in "Why I use Object Pascal"

degobah — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:02:50 +0000

Maybe this answers your question:

> But beside this historical excursion, what are the reasons that I use Free Pascal in my personal projects?

New comment by degobah in "Stali: A new static Linux distribution"

degobah — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:52:56 +0000

It's hard to take them seriously when they include statements like this on their FAQ: "Of course Ulrich Drepper thinks that dynamic linking is great, but clearly that’s because of his lack of experience and his delusions of grandeur."

New comment by degobah in "Node.js in Flame Graphs"

degobah — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:34:31 +0000

tl;dr:

* Netflix had a bug in their code.

* But Express.js should throw an error when multiple route handlers are given identical paths.

* Also, Express.js should use a different data structure to store route handlers. EDIT: HN commentors disagree.

* node.js CPU Flame Graphs (http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-09-17/node-flame-graph...) are awesome!

New comment by degobah in " Netflix performance on Verizon and Comcast has been dropping for months"

degobah — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 03:52:58 +0000

I cancelled Netflix as a Charter customer because performance was terrible, while Amazon Prime works fine.

New comment by degobah in "Why Nobody Should Use Rails"

degobah — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 20:31:54 +0000

Basically the post just says:

1. Rails is slow

2. Dynamic languages are bad

New comment by degobah in "The Fallacy of Success"

degobah — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:29:59 +0000

A witty essay from 1908 observes that "success" is a ridiculously vague idea and that "success" books/articles of the day are vague useless drivel. Also, people should stop worshiping rich guys and mainly just try to be good at what they do.