Hacker News: dmalik

New comment by dmalik in "Fire TV: Amazon to block piracy apps in the future"

dmalik — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:44:13 +0000

The ads and recommendations on Firetv sticks has been getting worse and worse. I tried modifying it to use a custom launcher but they keep breaking it.

I think I'm going to just trash it and get a Onn. 4k Pro and install projectivy on it.

New comment by dmalik in "People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads"

dmalik — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:04:04 +0000

No need to connect or use any smart tv feature.

How much is your time worth? Apple TV is the best experience (not even close to FireTV) for the cost of it. There are ways to get completely ad free if you have time. I've been using a HTPC for close to 20 years for example.

New comment by dmalik in "Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine"

dmalik — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:20:51 +0000

Staying out does both, is also the easiest and costs less.

New comment by dmalik in "A Typology of Canadianisms"

dmalik — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 07:38:16 +0000

In Ontario "two-six" is called a twixer

New comment by dmalik in "OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules"

dmalik — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:04:36 +0000

> I've heard so many ridiculous stories about 'AI' that I'm at the point where I initially took this to mean the LLM and not the company had made the request.

Only through its human bots

> I expect that interpretation won't seem outlandish in the future.

AI human manipulation could be a thing to watch out for.

New comment by dmalik in "Best Buy and Target CEOs say prices are about to go up because of tariffs"

dmalik — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:10:13 +0000

> I’m sure I’m way over simplifying this, to the point of stupidity, but tariffs raise prices on foreign goods to encourage the sale and/or development of local goods, don’t they?

What about all the businesses that export products or the ones that rely on imports. Businesses go bankrupt, prices go up for everyone and less people have jobs.

New comment by dmalik in "How Flash games shaped the video game industry (2020)"

dmalik — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 02:17:03 +0000

I guess I should have prefaced that if it was made with responsiveness in mind and you took from factor into consideration. Anything can suck. Responsiveness was a huge issue back then not just for Flash.

New comment by dmalik in "How Flash games shaped the video game industry (2020)"

dmalik — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 01:53:27 +0000

It didn't suck. BlackBerry had native API support for Air. You could easily port a Flash game using Air and integrate any native APIs you needed. We gave phones and tablets away to any developer who did this. It worked in the browser natively too without the need to install an extension.

But fuck Adobe because they didn't give BlackBerry the latest runtime.

Adobe killed Flash when they bought Macromedia.

New comment by dmalik in "Google gifts a Free AI Coding Assistant to the developer community"

dmalik — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:03:31 +0000

When is the last time you tried Cursor? It definitely doesn't import libraries. It can if you prompt it to but you have control.

I find it works great it you prompt it one step at a time. It's still can be iterative but it allows you to tighten up the code as you go.

Yes you can still go yolo mode and get some interesting prototypes if you just need to show someone something fast but if you know what you're doing it just saves time.

New comment by dmalik in "Automattic Hit with Class Action over WP Engine Dispute"

dmalik — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:36:45 +0000

Not the only WordPress host and they have no obligation to anything for an open source project.

This story isn't about them it's about their customers who chose to use their service and how Matt chose to make them collateral damage. That choice has consequences which is what this is.

New comment by dmalik in "Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s"

dmalik — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 09:02:21 +0000

The internet still exists outside of social media sites designed to keep you there. I hope kids under 16 get addicted to anything else and don't turn to social media when they're old enough.

New comment by dmalik in "Google reacts angrily to report it will have to sell Chrome"

dmalik — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 06:00:05 +0000

Elon likes to buy things.

New comment by dmalik in "Rim/Blackberry tales – reply all"

dmalik — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:48:22 +0000

Ya this definitely happened a few times.

New comment by dmalik in "Rim/Blackberry tales – reply all"

dmalik — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:17:22 +0000

Haha I was working there at the time. I don't remember how many emails came in but well over 100.

Emails were so abused there though. I would get over 100 a day that were work related. Think Slack over email.

New comment by dmalik in "Sanding UI"

dmalik — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 03:01:43 +0000

This is what design systems are for. You only sand UI when you're initially creating the component. Sometimes you combine components in different ways or need to make a one off. It honestly doesn't take all that long if you know what you're doing. A good design engineer is a specialist for this type of role.

New comment by dmalik in "Bill limits smartphone use in California schools"

dmalik — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 02:53:35 +0000

I thought the role of school was for teaching kids how to think.

Doesn't take much imagination to think how a viral Chase money "glitch" can get past common sense when kids ignore the lesson and doom scroll tiktok.

New comment by dmalik in "Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?"

dmalik — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 00:37:08 +0000

In Canada we've had email money transfer since 2003. It used to cost $1 if you had a different bank then the person you were sending to but now it's free. Generally only good for friends and marketplace items though. Can't use it for ecommerce.

New comment by dmalik in "A Rant about Front-end Development"

dmalik — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 05:50:48 +0000

Ya. This is why React is popular. It's just a bunch of decently good front end best practices. Popular, not the best X for Y but with easy replacements.

New comment by dmalik in "A Rant about Front-end Development"

dmalik — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 05:45:41 +0000

Well said. Also been doing this since the 90s. I still like discovering new sites, blogs and creative things people make. HN is one of the better sites for that.

New comment by dmalik in "A Rant about Front-end Development"

dmalik — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 05:23:27 +0000

I agree with some of what the author is saying but add about 10 years of experience. Been coding sites since I was a kid in the mid 90s (I was a web master). I have 10 years working on brochure sites but have spent the last 10 working on major SaaS.

Few things I disagree with:

- The content rant was weird. I've always worked with content designers, instructional designers, or good marketing copy people. Was that about semantics? Sure ya, SEO and a11y.

- Cascading CSS is great until you write a million+ line SaaS app and have 1000 devs working on the code. Then you need scope. The rant is specific to brochure sites.

- SSR. Weird. Do devs really think that? I guess I'm out of touch or my colleagues are better than most.

- A lot of rants seem to be ripping of jr devs. Show them the way! Very yells at cloud.

- CSS nesting I really like. Example of nesting elements inside a class is a hack that should not be done. Nesting is easier to read if done properly.