Hacker News: fffernan

New comment by fffernan in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

fffernan — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:19:16 +0000

Can't imagine Boston or New York doing this. In Boston the'd end up giving the fan lifetime Dunkin Donuts or something on TV and just let him walk into the park since all of the ushers probably know him already. Dodgers are really missing the point here.

New comment by fffernan in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

fffernan — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:37:17 +0000

Seems like a pretty good investment. Leading EV company and 1tn +. Lots of white collar jobs.

New comment by fffernan in "Claude is the drug, Cursor is the dealer"

fffernan — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 19:44:45 +0000

Don't worry they will offer you Rivermind Plus soon to solve all the problems

New comment by fffernan in "OpenAI Says It's "Over" If It Can't Steal All Your Copyrighted Work"

fffernan — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:56:40 +0000

Last I checked Google is not buying or pirating books for Google Search they just grab free data that has been provided.

New comment by fffernan in "The First Suburb"

fffernan — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 22:14:59 +0000

In China they went and built a ton of housing, but then people don't want to live in those cities and their population has peaked up. So forcing housing solutions doesn't necessarily end well either.

New comment by fffernan in "Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine"

fffernan — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 07:34:59 +0000

Even better is to wear a mask (not to prevent virus from coming in that's silly air gets around it) but to keep your nasal passages moist during a high altitude flight. Japanese have known this for years and why they wear masks so much.

New comment by fffernan in "Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing with SLIM spacecraft [video]"

fffernan — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:18:01 +0000

Happens to me all the time in Kerbal

New comment by fffernan in "Volvo Cars Adopts Tesla's NACS Port in the United States, Canada and Mexico"

fffernan — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 16:44:27 +0000

They should have responded 10 years ago and built a reliable charging network across the globe.

New comment by fffernan in "Intuit pouring money into lobbying amid push for free government-run tax filing"

fffernan — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 21:58:00 +0000

Considering Inflation its actually a reduction in spending.

New comment by fffernan in "OneWeb will resume satellite launches with SpaceX as the launch provider"

fffernan — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:38:07 +0000

not to mention you can use that as a way to spy and choke your competition out when they rely on you

New comment by fffernan in "Headphones are collecting too much personal data (2019)"

fffernan — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 20:19:14 +0000

I'm wondering if someone could file HIPAA complaint at them and get these things classified as Medical Devices and shut this sharing of bio data down. A simple opt-out doesn't fly with HIPAA. It requires a signature that you will allow another person to access your medical records.

New comment by fffernan in "Microservices Considered Harmful (2019)"

fffernan — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 19:33:33 +0000

For the most part this level of microservice solves the problem of: New engineering leader comes in. New engineering Leader wants to rewrite the entire thing cause "it sucks". Business doesn't have resources to rewrite (for the nth time). New leader and business compromise to create a microservice. Rinse and repeat. Cloud/container/VM tech as really allowed this pattern to work. The art of taking over an existing codebase, keeping it going at low cost, low overhead is gone. Nobody's promo packet is fulled with sustainment work. One microservice per promotion. Etc etc.

New comment by fffernan in "The care and feeding of software engineers, or why engineers are grumpy (2012)"

fffernan — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 18:47:49 +0000

I never dictate process to my teams, but then when i see them floundering around. "Maybe you should have a daily?" Then 2 weeks later "We had this great idea! We are going to meet daily!". If a manager is involved in Scrum its not really scrum...

New comment by fffernan in "Strengthening Congressional Independence from Corporate Lobbyists"

fffernan — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 14:52:14 +0000

Why Nerds? Let's hire people who are technically capable to do the job.

The future is here. The minimum level of knowledge to be functional in society has increased. Lazy folks who don't pick up a book or take a course like to label the capable people as nerds.

New comment by fffernan in "The Death of Social Reciprocity in the Era of Digital Distraction"

fffernan — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:57:11 +0000

Disagree. Plenty of perverts in many countries. Do some googling about the guys in trench coats on trains in Japan.

New comment by fffernan in "2020 Honda E Has 148 HP and More Than 221 LB-FT"

fffernan — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 17:44:34 +0000

It's even better you can get 200mi of range in 35 minutes now with a model 3. Soon 300 miles in 15 minutes will be possible...

New comment by fffernan in "Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums"

fffernan — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 04:43:33 +0000

I call it "early adopters". This proposition basically secures guaranteed profits over 5 years. Once I saw this I did whatever I could do to buy California property. It's like a pyramid scheme, as long as people keep hitting big on those startups :-).

New comment by fffernan in "Apple was overtaken by Huawei in global smartphone sales"

fffernan — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:55:03 +0000

Strange like the government in China is subsidizing it?

New comment by fffernan in "Average annual hours worked per country"

fffernan — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 22:15:31 +0000

You would also have to factor the amount of time spent socializing at work versus actually doing work. In Japan most of your friends are at work, and relationships are in work. Lots of coffee breaks, chatting about non work related matters,etc,etc. 8 hours spent at the office in US is much more work being done than 12 hours of busy Asian country. That being said there certainly was a good amount of people actually working themselves to death for 15hours day actually working while their bosses did not much work. Source: Worked at a Japanese company for almost a decade.

New comment by fffernan in "Beset by Homelessness, Rising Rents, SF Cracks Down on Dockless Scooters"

fffernan — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 23:35:20 +0000

Can we add "roads worse than 3rd world countries" to the list?