Hacker News: doubleplusgood

New comment by doubleplusgood in "To help model financial systems, some economists are turning to biology"

doubleplusgood — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:16:13 +0000

His Laundry Files are excellent as well.

New comment by doubleplusgood in "You Will Not Understand This"

doubleplusgood — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 09:14:46 +0000

Sure, but money talks louder.

New comment by doubleplusgood in "Postage – A fast replacement for pgAdmin"

doubleplusgood — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 10:48:08 +0000

Could work around it with stunnel until it's resolved

New comment by doubleplusgood in "Wasabi – Simple storage solution"

doubleplusgood — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 06:27:04 +0000

It would map better to a Django app rather than Flask

New comment by doubleplusgood in "Show HN: Sukhoi – A flexible and extensible Webcrawler in Python"

doubleplusgood — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 08:10:42 +0000

Also it literally means "dry".

New comment by doubleplusgood in "Show HN: A virtual machine made with Google Sheets formulas (no script)"

doubleplusgood — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 05:44:57 +0000

Interesting. I'm familiar with Israeli tech companies and it's odd they wouldn't buy in.

בהצלחה!

New comment by doubleplusgood in "Show HN: A virtual machine made with Google Sheets formulas (no script)"

doubleplusgood — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 05:35:08 +0000

Oh, that's pretty clever. Thanks for the explanation!

New comment by doubleplusgood in "4MB Laptop How-To: How to put a “grown-up” Linux on a small-spec laptop (2000)"

doubleplusgood — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 16:13:47 +0000

I still have fond memories of building a kernel in winter on a P4. No heater needed. Make menuconfig, because the TCL part was too heavy...

New comment by doubleplusgood in "Ask HN: How to get a job when you suck at coding?"

doubleplusgood — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 07:24:45 +0000

As originally built by him, it was indeed just a php website.

New comment by doubleplusgood in "The nihilist and optimist programmers (2015)"

doubleplusgood — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 14:44:47 +0000

In many, many circumstances, code that "does the thing [well enough]" is more than enough. Not everyone works on avionics or pacemakers.

New comment by doubleplusgood in "Facebook is an attack on the open web"

doubleplusgood — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 05:52:49 +0000

I run Disa as a Messenger replacement

New comment by doubleplusgood in "Ask HN: How would you take this business to the next level?"

doubleplusgood — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 07:15:32 +0000

It streamlined the process significantly, lowering the total "handling time" from a couple of hours to ~10-15m in total, which freed up time to tend to custom commissions from clients.

I don't have serious hard numbers before that, as the CRM saw its first commit around sale #6.

New comment by doubleplusgood in "Ask HN: How would you take this business to the next level?"

doubleplusgood — Wed, 31 May 2017 06:09:49 +0000

My wife has a small business similar to yours, and I ended up building a micro CRM for her, complete with scraping (some of our vendors don't offer an Api), reports, invoicing etc.

New comment by doubleplusgood in "Why Did a Chinese Peroxide Company Pay $1B for a Talking Cat?"

doubleplusgood — Wed, 24 May 2017 12:18:09 +0000

0: http://www.onomastikon.ru/proishogdenie-familii-login.htm (source in Russian)

New comment by doubleplusgood in "UK survey of 14-24-year-olds indicates social networks harm mental health"

doubleplusgood — Tue, 23 May 2017 16:11:42 +0000

Absolutely agree with this, I've come to realize I was addicted to the feed. It took, and still does, a significant effort to control the effect (mostly by regulating access on a scheduled basis).

New comment by doubleplusgood in "Breaking a large AWS spend into understandable pieces"

doubleplusgood — Fri, 19 May 2017 12:29:59 +0000

A couple of PB per week, I'd guess

New comment by doubleplusgood in "Show HN: Howmanypeoplearearound – Use wifi to calculate number of people around"

doubleplusgood — Sun, 14 May 2017 11:48:32 +0000

I never turn off BT on my phone, since I don't want to tinker around with it when I get into the car or turn on a wireless BT headset.

New comment by doubleplusgood in "Turris Omnia"

doubleplusgood — Thu, 11 May 2017 13:58:17 +0000

I'd definitely get one just for the WiFi boost and the ability to turn it into a caching accelerator proxy for my guest/honeypot VLANs.

New comment by doubleplusgood in "YouTube Stars Feel an Advertising Pinch"

doubleplusgood — Tue, 09 May 2017 07:45:59 +0000

If you're logged in, you can blacklist specific topics on Google's Ad Settings page[0] quite easily (you can also turn off tailored ads completely).

https://www.google.com/settings/ads/

New comment by doubleplusgood in "The Horror in the Standard Library"

doubleplusgood — Mon, 08 May 2017 07:59:48 +0000

I'm usually well into #3 before I realize I'm in too deep