Hacker News: elfrinjo

New comment by elfrinjo in "Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file"

elfrinjo — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:48:28 +0000

Trailbase won my heart by not leaving out curl-commands in their examples :)

New comment by elfrinjo in "The scientific “unit” we call the decibel"

elfrinjo — Thu, 22 May 2025 16:38:31 +0000

oh sorry; thats the comments

New comment by elfrinjo in "The scientific “unit” we call the decibel"

elfrinjo — Thu, 22 May 2025 12:57:16 +0000

I'll summarize: It's annoying that dB is often used as a physical unit without the necessary suffix. It's annoying that the suffix seems quite random for most units It's annoying that the factor for power differs from the factor for voltage, etc. It's slightly annoying that it's usually decibel instead of Bel.

However, we all agree that dBs are really useful.

New comment by elfrinjo in "Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?"

elfrinjo — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:30:51 +0000

Probably a Cisco engineer who built that

New comment by elfrinjo in "My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes"

elfrinjo — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 18:48:18 +0000

And they (well, one of them) are still active https://www.youtube.com/@computerclubzwei

New comment by elfrinjo in "Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law"

elfrinjo — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:27:42 +0000

In this logic it is totally unfair that I am not allowed sell drugs while I could make a lot of revenue from it.

New comment by elfrinjo in "Five tube stations now have new circular tube maps"

elfrinjo — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 09:08:33 +0000

Already hate it.

New comment by elfrinjo in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

elfrinjo — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 20:33:22 +0000

Well, we have seen something like this failing about six years ago. Let's see whether - there is a new killer-use-case or - technology has advanced enough to make it less cumbersome or - Apple can generate enough hype around it to make it work on its own.

New comment by elfrinjo in "Writing one sentence per line"

elfrinjo — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:51:14 +0000

Looks good - but I do not agree with

> 3. A semantic line break SHOULD NOT alter the intended meaning of the text.

That should be #1 MUST NOT

New comment by elfrinjo in "Writing one sentence per line"

elfrinjo — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:47:33 +0000

I completely agree. Using one line per sentence (and soemtime more lines when the sentence is longer) makes it way easier to structure the text. Markdown and are perfectly able to fit the text to the device you are reading on. It also makes version control and diffs more usable.

However, I can also agree that this style might be not suitable for non-technical writing.

New comment by elfrinjo in "Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people (2019)"

elfrinjo — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 17:19:58 +0000

If you are impressed by this, wait until you see Colin Powell's Iraq slides

New comment by elfrinjo in "Operations is not Developer IT"

elfrinjo — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 12:19:05 +0000

I sent a link to that post to a senior developer with similar habits. He answered: "didn't read, don't understand english."

New comment by elfrinjo in "Nordigen: API aggregator to European banks"

elfrinjo — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 12:49:02 +0000

Oh, I totally agree (started my carreer in a company that still used VSE/ESA and CICS and sometimes dream about ASRAs). However, they had to implement modern api-stuff with PSD2 and then they made it strictly b2b-only :-(

New comment by elfrinjo in "Nordigen: API aggregator to European banks"

elfrinjo — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 12:17:55 +0000

It is rally terrible that such a service is actually necessary... PSD2 was a chance to create a standard api for everyone including customers. I still cannot understand how they managed to f it up by limiting access to "trusted companies"