Hacker News: dmqctx

New comment by dmqctx in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

dmqctx — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:16:18 +0000

Recently needed to start tracking expenses for a new business I started. Sole prop, no payroll to fuss with.

I literally reached for the oldest version of QB I had available. 2014! Greatest experience of my life. Brought back memories of when Intuit didn't suck. I despise what they've done to QB Desktop over the years...they have been torpedoing it for a while so people are left to move to Online. I like QB Online. But their Fast, old versions of QB Desktop are pure bliss.

New comment by dmqctx in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

dmqctx — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 07:56:59 +0000

"people in charge are literally profiting"

This raises some interesting questions. Would you expect to see people in charge of this org, performing the day-to-day jobs, to work without receiving any pay? When you say the people are profiting, do you mean the organization is receiving more money each year than they are spending? That is certainly the goal of all orgs, businesses, churches, soup kitchens, and government NGO's.

It's an interesting question. I suppose they could take on jobs elsewhere in the private sector, and then perform these jobs for Hack Club at zero cost to the company. I would say it comes down to time spent. How big is Hack Club? If it can be managed for 10 minutes worth of work a day, then perhaps that should be donated time. If it requires more than 8+ hours a day. And if the work is specialized then it def needs the right person there, WITH the expertise to run this company --- then they should receive pay for his/her work.

New comment by dmqctx in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

dmqctx — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:53:53 +0000

Welp -- this explains why Slack's sales teams is going scorched earth after them. If Hack Foundation is the same as Hack Club their revenue has skyrocketed in recent years, and they're showing consistent growth. So do sales people at big tech companies keep tabs on non-profits financials and decide when to pounce on them for money based on growth like this? something tells me probably.

New comment by dmqctx in "Ask HN: Has anyone started over outside of tech?"

dmqctx — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 12:51:22 +0000

Went to work for our family farm after 20 years in various IT roles. Health problems with myself and my family who managed the farm were influencers for me to switch. I really enjoy the new balance of my work day. More or less is 50% spent on desk work (farm record keeping, paying bills, payroll, and of course small software dev projects). The other 50% is in the field planting, spraying, harvesting, etc.

New comment by dmqctx in "AI in agtech is drawing much investment"

dmqctx — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 04:24:28 +0000

"Due to the irregularities of climate change". I can't help but ask why the sentence couldn't have been worded -- "Due to the irregularities of weather". Climate has ALWAYS been irregular and will always be going forward. I mean was there once upon a time a generation of people who thrived year after year with constant and predictable weather. My reading of history says that climate catastrophes have struck since the beginning of time, virtually across the globe. Climate is generally predictable but never constant. I wish we could be honest about that. And from that place of honesty I'd be much more willing to discuss modern climate issues, and what if any effect we can have on it.

New comment by dmqctx in "“Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers"

dmqctx — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 05:32:18 +0000

Correct. Rubber meeting the road comment here. This is the reality of most farms in America. Possibilities are not "endless" for revolutionizing farm practices, they must be profitable and margins are tight.

New comment by dmqctx in "The fertilizer shortage will persist in 2023"

dmqctx — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 21:04:38 +0000

Why did they try continuous corn? Seed technologies became available that allow it.

New comment by dmqctx in "The fertilizer shortage will persist in 2023"

dmqctx — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 06:26:05 +0000

My family's been farming corn on corn for 20+ years. Started strip-tilling in the 80's High residue fields help trap as much moisture as we can with limited irrigation capacity. Farmers have no choice but to take care of their soils to remain viable. And more than viable, be profitable as there are many people who depend on them both for their livelihoods as well as an ever demanding population with mouths to feed.

New comment by dmqctx in "The Aral Sea has shrunk because of the re-routing of its source rivers (2022)"

dmqctx — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 16:38:50 +0000

Can you phrase it another way beginning at "what about the feedback". I'm curious about your comment, especially your point on evapotranspiration.

New comment by dmqctx in "Why is the OpenBSD documentation so good?"

dmqctx — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 02:42:47 +0000

My thoughts exactly! I'm sick of Linux's disjointedness and impossible to follow OS. I'll see you guys on Windows 11. Peace.

New comment by dmqctx in "Show HN: I made Devzat – It's like Discord but in the terminal, over SSH"

dmqctx — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:46:50 +0000

ASCII Enemas should be a last resort. When all else fails.

New comment by dmqctx in "Ask HN: Best hosted alternative to Google Workspace for email?"

dmqctx — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 06:50:42 +0000

Similar experience. I moved a domain of mine to O365 from GSuite (Google Workspace) about 2 years ago. I am currently in the process of migrating BACK to Google Workspace.

Generally unhappy with O365 email over the last 2 years. Few of my complaints are: Subpar experience on Outlook for Android. (Gmail is so darn good). Just ready for my Gmail experience again. Overall site management using Microsoft's web dashboard for domain, permissions, spam, 2FA, is %×•@#$ NOT GOOD! I have read so many outdated, no-longer-valid support docs that I'm simply done. "Cloud" products like this have a hell of a time keeping their docs up to date and relevant. Google isn't immune here. But for whatever reason I have far less problems with several other domains I manage that are pure Google Workspace, er.... GSuite....er Gotigle Apps. Y'all get my drift.

New comment by dmqctx in "How We Ended Up with the Pregnant Man Emoji"

dmqctx — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 05:39:17 +0000

I sincerely tried to understand that article. Nearly tapped out a few times from brain bleeds but I managed to reach the end. Guess I'll have to take his word for it why this emoji has arrived.

New comment by dmqctx in "Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface"

dmqctx — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 03:20:21 +0000

Same. There are enough annoyances with UI gear to keep us all here griping for days. But when you try to find an alternative company for your Wireless needs you realize quick that you're perfectly willing to put up with UI's stupid annoyances. Granted a few glitches have wasted days of my life trying to correct. But I'll be sticking with them for the foreseeable future. Over the years I've had satisfactory uptime and performance.

New comment by dmqctx in "We may soon have city-spanning 900 MHz mesh networks"

dmqctx — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 19:35:49 +0000

"One must also assume that Amazon will do its best to encrypt its network traffic and make its devices as hard to hack as possible."

Somebody feel free to disuade my fears, but all I'm able to think about this weekend is the Microsoft Exchange hack that just ravaged "30,000" organizations we're told. And here Amazon is building a publically usable network based on our Ring doorbells and "Hey Alexa devices". What could possibly go wrong?

New comment by dmqctx in "Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup"

dmqctx — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 04:42:05 +0000

I'm unable to disagree with most of your points, but "I can barely run Windows for a day or two without rebooting." is hyperbole. If this is actually true, there is something seriously wrong with your install. Apart from that, Win10 pisses me off daily. It's insane that I harken back to the Win7 days as often as I do.

New comment by dmqctx in "Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow"

dmqctx — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 05:23:15 +0000

Not a fan of pedantry. Would like to see less of it in the world.

New comment by dmqctx in "There's another right to repair fight brewing in Massachusetts"

dmqctx — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 05:48:59 +0000

I don't give two flying farts how you chose to punctuate or emphasize your comment. I fully appreciated it and agree with it a lot. Unsure why downvoted as well. (Also new here, so will make note of rules).

New comment by dmqctx in "FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service"

dmqctx — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 05:37:13 +0000

It's actually not that difficult. Our business had a massive illegal purchase attempted by a shady character. Googled FBI location closest to me. Actually got a human to answer and discussed how we should proceed. Surprised me much.

New comment by dmqctx in "There's another right to repair fight brewing in Massachusetts"

dmqctx — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:21:40 +0000

What use is location based information to a repair shop? Is it simply that opening up this dealer-only content to 3rd parties will in turn share the location data? I can't see any benefit in sharing location specific info to a shop. Why not have the bill insulate that type of data...walled off, for dealer and owner only to access.