Hacker News: fmueller

New comment by fmueller in "Tesla fires hundreds from headquarters, factory"

fmueller — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 09:47:05 +0000

Firing a person should not destroy their life. Something else is really wrong if this is the case.

New comment by fmueller in "How Fact-Free Parenting Policies Rob Kids' Independence"

fmueller — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 11:35:14 +0000

I walked to kindergarden at the age of 5. But that was in Switzeland.

New comment by fmueller in "HackerNews Grid"

fmueller — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:32:36 +0000

Couldn't he/she just write the text over the image?

New comment by fmueller in "Why We Terminated Daily Stormer"

fmueller — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:40:26 +0000

The problem is that real Nazis will not do anything of the above. What you describe is just the behavior of the plebs and not of the leaders.

New comment by fmueller in "Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family"

fmueller — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 09:54:13 +0000

I think he/she should leave the gender there but add an additional field "identified as gender" or something like this. I mean it should still be possible for me to categorize people by their physical gender/sex.

For example it can be important to know whether an individual can get pregnant or not.

New comment by fmueller in "Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Blocker Coming Next Year"

fmueller — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 10:52:18 +0000

I don't think this would will be the case as it will only make people who know how to install an ad-blocker move to firefox. I think they target the users not having an ad-blocker installed.

New comment by fmueller in "Drupal Confessions – An Open Letter"

fmueller — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:15:46 +0000

The code of conduct just applies to behavior inside the community. It has nothing to do with stuff happening outside of it.

The community would not tolerate discriminating behavior against members of the community or while doing work for the community. But what you do in your private life is non of it's business.

I hope you understand what I mean.

New comment by fmueller in "We’re dropping Google Ads"

fmueller — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 07:23:45 +0000

It's a good point but I think it does not apply to my example.

Because in my example I don't even have to modify the movie. I can apply the filter while it's playing.

And besides that your examples require the presence of a contract between me and the architect/painter where I resign from my rights to change the object. Copyright has nothing to do with it.

New comment by fmueller in "We’re dropping Google Ads"

fmueller — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 06:31:07 +0000

According to your logic you are obliged to watch the ads on TV. Because by watching a film you made an agreement that watching the film is only free because you watch the ads.

New comment by fmueller in "We’re dropping Google Ads"

fmueller — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 06:17:23 +0000

It's more like some percentage of people change channels, mute or fetch something to drink when ads are running on TV.

Just because you watched the film doesn't mean you are obliged to watch the ads.

New comment by fmueller in "We’re dropping Google Ads"

fmueller — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 06:11:32 +0000

What you are saying does never apply when using content for personal use. When I buy a DVD I am allowed to watch it with a filter or watch only every second frame. This would never violate your copyright.

New comment by fmueller in "We’re dropping Google Ads"

fmueller — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 05:49:58 +0000

The good thing about morale is that it doesn't have to be the same for different people. It's not an absolute value. You can live up to your high morale standards and watch ads (which sounds a bit odd). Other people think differently.

Other people like me think we are morally bound to ignore ads as much as possible because we think they destroy a healthy capitalism and are misused to track people and distribute malware. Therefore I use an ad-blocker.

But that's only a side note. In the internet your argument is invalid because I don't know in advance whether a website uses ads or not. To discover that I would have to visit that site without an ad-blocker and let them serve ads without warning. And that would be unacceptable.

The solution for that problem is the various websites either use paywalls or detect ad-blockers and don't provide content when one is in use. In this case we really have an agreement. If I turn off my ad-blocker I'm allowed to watch the content, otherwise I'm not.

But I never ever had the desire to see content which has been hidden behind an ad-blocker blocker.

New comment by fmueller in "What is this colored fiber in my chicken?"

fmueller — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 15:45:05 +0000

A small detail: While destroying more life this process is _creating_ more life at the same time... Not that is has to matter.

New comment by fmueller in "Dentsu CEO resigns after overworked employee commits suicide"

fmueller — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 21:41:30 +0000

People have no time to spend the money.

New comment by fmueller in "Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS"

fmueller — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:02:22 +0000

That's exactly the reason I wouldn't sign-up for something "free" when I was required to give away my credit card details.

New comment by fmueller in "SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed"

fmueller — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:20:56 +0000

Nothing a company builds is free. And I think it's better to pay with money than with data. Not saying you're not paying with both here.

New comment by fmueller in "Turning off syntax highlighting"

fmueller — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 07:06:21 +0000

When you talk about reading the code then you mean parsing? When you think you gain productivity by parsing the code in strings, variable assignments, function calls, numbers etc. then syntax highlighting is good for you. But I don't think a programmer gains anything from this.

New comment by fmueller in "Turning off syntax highlighting"

fmueller — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:33:34 +0000

The difference here is that on a traffic light the colors are important and inherent to the traffic light's functionality.

This is not true in source code. Syntax highlighting "helps" you to spot strings, numbers, keyword arguments etc. faster. But normally this is not what programming is about.

New comment by fmueller in "Turning off syntax highlighting"

fmueller — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:18:47 +0000

I turned off syntax highlighting several months ago and never wanted to turn it back on. Scanning the code is now as good as it was before. And understanding und structuring the code got better because I'm no longer distracted by unimportant parts of the code.

New comment by fmueller in "Nootropics"

fmueller — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:03:17 +0000

I wasn't able to sleep in the past. Now I can because of two simple tricks (may not work for everyone):

1) I lie on the side and cover both ears, one with the cushion and one with the blanket.

2) I imagine a story I made up once and go trough it in my mind. It's always the same story, only a little different each time.

Then I fall asleep.