Hacker News: edoggie

New comment by edoggie in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

edoggie — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:59:06 +0000

Why are they laying off anyone when you got 500 million plus in pure profit. The tax system needs to be reworked to not incentivize layoffs. Major taxes should happen to support the well fair system in order to support people laid off. This is a stupid system we live in.

New comment by edoggie in "US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]"

edoggie — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:37:20 +0000

I will send every company I use a service my own TOS via email, they then consulted, if they break my TOS I can then take them to court. Problem solved.

New comment by edoggie in "Tesla loses bid to overturn $243M Autopilot verdict"

edoggie — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:37:12 +0000

Good.

New comment by edoggie in "Husband 'made millions' by eavesdropping on BP wife"

edoggie — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 17:06:05 +0000

Not even sure why they prosecute this stuff while hundreds of Senators, House members do this shit all the time. It's a total racket.

New comment by edoggie in "US Air Force wants $6B to build 2k AI-powered drones"

edoggie — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 17:57:15 +0000

Let them use the damn money they already have, over bloated budgets already. They don't need 6 billion for a drone. Come on that's ridiculous.

New comment by edoggie in "US Supreme Court rules website designer can refuse to serve same-sex couples"

edoggie — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:37:45 +0000

I think if they are going to allow discrimination for "religious" reasons, then I think then the whole issue is gone to dust. I should be able to discriminate against your religion then as well, because I am not religious.

New comment by edoggie in "Google Announces Intentions to Limit TLS Certificates to 90 Days"

edoggie — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:19:58 +0000

No, absolutely no, people should stop using Chrome if this is the case. Certificate management is challenging, not everyone has budgets like Google to automate this stuff. Just no.

New comment by edoggie in "Uncle Sam to block Adobe absorption of Figma over monopoly fears"

edoggie — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:32:45 +0000

Yet they couldn't be bothered to stop the merger of every major media company down to a total of basically three businesses.

New comment by edoggie in "Biden to Announce Decision on Student Loan Debt, Affecting Millions of Borrowers"

edoggie — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 23:19:47 +0000

New comment by edoggie in "Biden to Announce Decision on Student Loan Debt, Affecting Millions of Borrowers"

edoggie — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 22:32:47 +0000

Love how people complain about helping out to citizens, but when it's the money for the military industrial complex, no amount is too much.

New comment by edoggie in "Ask HN: Fastest money you've made with software development?"

edoggie — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 22:49:48 +0000

Unfortunately I don't think nothing is more quick then developer time for money. Small projects can yield okay results but can also end up being time consuming.

New comment by edoggie in "How to make your blog feature-rich with Next.js, Tailwind CSS and Vercel"

edoggie — Fri, 20 May 2022 01:02:34 +0000

It's a blog, talk about over engineering. I liked the web better when it was HTML, CSS, maybe a hint of JS.

Javascript shouldn't be a requirement to read web pages. Just sayin.

New comment by edoggie in "Boring Company Raises $675M"

edoggie — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 20:58:13 +0000

This is one of the dumbest ideas ever. If you want good public transportation invest in high-speed rail, monorails, pretty much anything other then tunnels for cars.

New comment by edoggie in "Ask HN: Should I give up and get a job?"

edoggie — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 23:47:02 +0000

This doesn't sounds like it has a product-market fit. I see myself doing the same thing, building products that might not have an audience. How many people came to you saying they wanted this, what problems does it solve. Why do you only support one database platform.

I would look for a product-market fit before building anything substantial, build a prototype, get feedback, get your first paying customer with a half-assed version, before you go all in.

In the meantime, get a job, maybe pivot your idea to something more valuable, get your website and marketing together on your idea and determine if there is a market before you build it out. Right now RiverDB only has 15 stars. I would say if it had 2000+ or more stars on Github you might have a winner. But unless you really get more traction, this might not be a good business idea.

I hope you can do both and find a business that fits you but in the meantime, getting a job isn't a loss, might bring needed stability to you and your fam.

New comment by edoggie in "Ask HN: Anyone else constantly forget which SSO service they signed up with?"

edoggie — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 21:35:56 +0000

I try not to use SSO accounts as much as possible, especially Facebook, since I have no idea what those accounts are sharing with the vendor. But I do find my self wishing for solution to remember which provide I used when I originally signed up if I did sign up with SSO.

New comment by edoggie in "What I really need is a .DS_Store in every directory on my Mac"

edoggie — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:49:42 +0000

I agree, lots of stupid things they never seem to fix on Mac OS, and every version of the system adds more useless cruft. Long for the days with a no-new-features release where they actually go and make things good.

New comment by edoggie in "The return of the 10-minute eviction"

edoggie — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 19:42:46 +0000

One of the most depressing stories. Like this is why America could use a social safety net. Like for people actively working, and not making ends meet, something should be done. Not saying I feel bad though for the deadbeats and people just abusing the system.

New comment by edoggie in "iOS Engine Choice in Depth"

edoggie — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:52:59 +0000

I always hated that I can't put Firefox (engine) on the iOS, I bet a real Chrome or Firefox would easily outperform Safari. I don't even know anyone with a Mac that uses Safari because it is not as good as other browsers.

New comment by edoggie in "Technical Test Should Take No More Than 2 Hours"

edoggie — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 19:32:30 +0000

The testing and the amount of loops you have to go through to get a tech job has gotten to the point of lunacy. It seems to me the only point of these things is to weed out people, as none of these things will determine the effectiveness and ability to do ones job in the end.

New comment by edoggie in "Hypothesis: Bipolar disorder is an Epstein–Barr virus‐driven disease"

edoggie — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 22:16:52 +0000

Wow, if this is true, could provide amazing new insights on many brain related ailments.