Hacker News: dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dolessdrugsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:42:04 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "Lawmakers ask US intelligence chief to investigate TikTok"]]>TikTok is the first app where AI is the product. https://a16z.com/2018/12/03/when-ai-is-the-product-the-rise-...

]]>Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:50:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21354430dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21354430https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21354430<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-Ons Support"]]>why would you visit Reddit from a mobile browser? can I tell you about these things called "apps"?

]]>Thu, 24 Oct 2019 21:32:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21349421dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21349421https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21349421<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits"]]>nope I took US history multiple times after that, still thought the bill of rights had 10 amendments

]]>Thu, 24 Oct 2019 04:10:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21341572dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21341572https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21341572<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "Ask HN: If your job was remote, which city would you choose to live in?"]]>12 different ones, then choose based on my mood.

]]>Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:20:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20573380dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20573380https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20573380<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "Steve Jobs on why Xerox failed"]]>Nope, just one luxury brand

]]>Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:09:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18846316dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18846316https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18846316<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "Steve Jobs on why Xerox failed"]]>"It's not our niche technology, it's the damn developers not supporting it!"

]]>Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:07:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18846305dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18846305https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18846305<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "Ask HN: How old were the most talented software engineers you've met?"]]>Thanks Dad

]]>Thu, 03 Jan 2019 18:42:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18817808dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18817808https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18817808<![CDATA[An Open Letter to Girl Develop It Board]]>Article URL: http://an-open-letter-to-gdi-board.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18655368

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]]>Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:11:11 +0000http://an-open-letter-to-gdi-board.com/dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18655368https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18655368<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline"]]>Everyone has a different level of "acceptable, manageable biases"

]]>Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:28:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18649495dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18649495https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18649495<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "How to permanently leave Facebook"]]>"because that's what literally everybody uses." This exact same statement could be said about TheFacebook.com. How is using WhatsApp any different, if the goal is to disrupt Zuck's data collection?

]]>Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:00:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18328021dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18328021https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18328021<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "Ask HN: Best alternate client to web-based Gmail? Now that it sucks"]]>So Slow. It'll take seconds to open an email or label sometimes.

]]>Fri, 26 Oct 2018 16:26:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310725dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310725https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310725<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software developer?"]]>In a non-technical environment, it is very easy for a junior developer to end up the smartest person in the room as far as tech is concerned. Think meetings with SMEs, PMs, or Sales.

]]>Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:46:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18130698dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18130698https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18130698<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "Ask HN: Better tools for the software requirements / scoping phase?"]]>It's a question of support though, in a non-software-selling org, as a dev, you are a cost center, not a profit center, so getting the tools or other things you need is not a business priority; in fact, any additional costs in the cost centers are only losses on the balance sheet. In a company that sells software (primarily), you are the profit center, so anything that can be done to facilitate your work is supported, as it drives the bottom line.

footnote: just because they produce lots of software doesn't mean they've ever learned how to do it right. Ford is still a car company, Chase is still a financial company, Schlumberger is still an oilfield service company, despite all of them producing more software than some Software Companies.

]]>Wed, 26 Sep 2018 18:12:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078699dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078699https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078699<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "Ask HN: Who here has built a profitable startup while keeping their day job?"]]>Windows, Desktop, Firefox : no issues

Windows, Desktop, Chrome: Clicking the scroll bar works; mouse wheel, arrows, page up/page down do not.

]]>Wed, 26 Sep 2018 18:04:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078641dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078641https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078641<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?"]]>Where are you getting that?

]]>Wed, 26 Sep 2018 13:51:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075887dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075887https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075887<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "Ask HN: What sucks about where you live?"]]>It's definitely a non-New Yorker perspective though.

]]>Tue, 25 Sep 2018 18:19:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18068987dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18068987https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18068987<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "Ask HN: What sucks about where you live?"]]>The other humans in this city are awful

philly

]]>Tue, 25 Sep 2018 18:18:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18068977dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18068977https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18068977<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "Ask HN: Better tools for the software requirements / scoping phase?"]]>"nobody out in the real world believes in pure waterfall anymore"

I'd allow that this might be true within large software organizations, this is definitely not the case where most software is written: in non-software organizations.

]]>Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:43:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18067958dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18067958https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18067958<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node"]]>me too thanks

]]>Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:55:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17876706dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17876706https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17876706<![CDATA[New comment by dolessdrugs in "Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node"]]>It's almost like a programming language is a language...

]]>Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:53:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17876684dolessdrugshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17876684https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17876684