Hacker News: dougfelt

New comment by dougfelt in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

dougfelt — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:36:54 +0000

Yet China is 3 times as big and you are quite comfortable treating it this way

New comment by dougfelt in "Road signs to help people limit radiation exposure in contaminated areas"

dougfelt — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:42:12 +0000

No, most are descended from Taiwanese who were there before the mainlanders arrived.

New comment by dougfelt in "Requirements for Japanese Text Layout"

dougfelt — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 03:29:26 +0000

Good luck finding a 'plain and simple' implementation that is as feature complete as either of those. International text layout is complex.

New comment by dougfelt in "Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead"

dougfelt — Mon, 01 May 2023 23:42:37 +0000

It appears to me that it is you who is misunderstanding the comment you quoted. Here is the context:

>> Dr. Hinton, often called “the Godfather of A.I.,” did not sign either of those letters and said he did not want to publicly criticize Google or other companies until he had quit his job.

> As Hinton says in his tweet, this clearly implies that he left to be free to criticize Google.

The comment is saying that Hinton, in his tweet, is saying that the article's statement "he did not want to publicly criticize Google... until" is misleading, and he did not leave in order to criticize Google. This is in fact what he said, and this is what cbolton is saying that he said.

New comment by dougfelt in "Bing Chat now has ads"

dougfelt — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 04:16:52 +0000

Oh man so much this.

We have a brief window where ChatGPT will be clean and useful, before it gets loaded down with ads and bloat. Might as well use it while we can.

New comment by dougfelt in "The Flickr Foundation"

dougfelt — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 02:42:11 +0000

I'd drifted away and went back a year ago and all of my information was gone-- photos, groups, everything. Nothing of mine is there any more. No reason to go back.

New comment by dougfelt in "CBS “60 Minutes” piece on Google’s abuse of dominance"

dougfelt — Mon, 21 May 2018 15:00:22 +0000

And the point of this reference to MS and Explorer is...? I don't see how it relates to Google and search at all.

New comment by dougfelt in "Found in translation: More accurate, fluent sentences in Google Translate"

dougfelt — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 06:40:12 +0000

"...as caused it."

New comment by dougfelt in "A Confession of Liberal Intolerance"

dougfelt — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 05:12:18 +0000

"it is now no longer palatable to question whether it is happening"

So, back this up. Who are the people with the careful theories, the detailed data, the ironclad arguments, who aren't being heard because of intolerance for their 'conservative' views?

New comment by dougfelt in "Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts"

dougfelt — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:29:36 +0000

Joint proposal developed by Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Adobe with contributions from font tool makers.

Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts

dougfelt — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:16:11 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@tiro/https-medium-com-tiro-introducing-opentype-variable-fonts-12ba6cd2369#.q01n35hmn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12499745

Points: 1

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New comment by dougfelt in "I've failed to pass the Google phone screen three times.Could I get blacklisted?"

dougfelt — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 06:38:33 +0000

I've never heard of this happening.