Hacker News: fogetti

New comment by fogetti in "How to Work Hard"

fogetti — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 23:58:42 +0000

Because most VC founded companies are not about results. They are about virtue signaling to attract even more capital. Profitability has been thrown out of the window long time ago. Success is measured in the stupidest KPIs you can imagine. That's why 9 out of 10 VC founded companies fail. So you need to indoctrinate your minions to make them act accordingly.

New comment by fogetti in "New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed"

fogetti — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 13:10:38 +0000

Well I can see your point, but this is not exactly the same.

As a thought experiment imagine that someone now builds a website called Linkedout and they post your profile with a layover animation resembling a big red stamp which reads 'Slacker'. I guess you are not OK with THAT information about you.

New comment by fogetti in "Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention to fire Flex workers"

fogetti — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 00:52:46 +0000

I would say you are probably talking to the wrong audience here. Apparently those flex drivers were OK with it, for unknown reasons.

New comment by fogetti in "Whatever Happened to UI Affordances?"

fogetti — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 14:37:45 +0000

I upvoted your comment because the blog author even references that book, and the book goes into great length to make this distinction between the two. So I think it's only fair to point it out.

New comment by fogetti in "How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (2014)"

fogetti — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 12:49:09 +0000

On Android you can use a private DNS service, for example nextdns.io which will block all advertisement on the page for you. I wouldn't be surprised if iOS would have the same option.

New comment by fogetti in "Morning diurnal preference is associated with reduced risk of depression: study"

fogetti — Sun, 30 May 2021 01:24:18 +0000

Exactly. I feel for you. I am in the same boat. With young kids around I was forced to wake up 2 hours earlier than my circadian rhytm would dictate and it's been a nightmare so far.

I need to compensate each day with even more coffee than normally and my head's just spinning by the end of the day because I am too exhausted.

Since my rhytm cannot be forced to the early waking, on average I only sleep 5 hours each night.

It's a constant torture.

New comment by fogetti in "Has UML died without anyone noticing?"

fogetti — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 01:52:23 +0000

Google/Amazon

New comment by fogetti in "I want a computer that I own"

fogetti — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 01:25:24 +0000

I find it ironic that the author points out in the first part of the post that companies are the real culprit but later puts the blame on governments. I wouldn't do such differentiation. They are equally wrong. Regarding free speech too. Case in point are the recent de-platformings.

New comment by fogetti in "Kubernetes Failure Stories"

fogetti — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 05:45:37 +0000

I don't know which industry you worked in, but outages in the telecom industry was strictly forbidden and came with severe financial penalties even 10 years ago. And those companies managed to adhere to really strict uptime SLAs even then.

It might take less resource today though to achieve the same, I agree with that.

New comment by fogetti in "Fueling Reddit’s Future"

fogetti — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 01:59:08 +0000

The real question is: what was wrong with the website in the first place?

New comment by fogetti in "Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020"

fogetti — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:07:53 +0000

This claim is completely false. As others pointed out the EU applies stricter and stricter emission regulations each year forcing all manufacturers to comply.

New comment by fogetti in "Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia"

fogetti — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 03:37:10 +0000

Or conversely having a public domain does not give the right to any private enterprise to do business in a sovereign country. I guess that's a pretty solid argument and that's what most people argue for.

New comment by fogetti in "Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia"

fogetti — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 02:07:44 +0000

This is counterproductive in an English speaking country. There is a few similarly good alternative like Bing for example. In non-English speaking countries though this strategy might work.

New comment by fogetti in "EU Commission: ‘No longer acceptable’ for platforms to take key decisions alone"

fogetti — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 06:30:22 +0000

Where did you read that? The article doesn't mention it.

New comment by fogetti in "The Abolition of Work (2002)"

fogetti — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 06:35:26 +0000

TLDR You basically described what I wrote but in long format instead

New comment by fogetti in "The Abolition of Work (2002)"

fogetti — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 01:24:59 +0000

I think that's a very strange way of looking at the real estate industry. They don't determine who gets to live where at all. They simply gather and withhold information that they then offer for a fee.

In most situations the same information can (or at least could) be gathered in different ways also, leaving out real estate industry from the loop.

Also just to clarify what I mean: real estate owners =/= real estate industry. They are just part of a bigger picture.

New comment by fogetti in "Follow Your Curiosity. Read Your Ass Off"

fogetti — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 07:17:47 +0000

And stackoverflow and hacker news...

New comment by fogetti in "14 nations commit to protect oceans"

fogetti — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 03:11:59 +0000

You mean the cynicism that the nations producing the most waste (UK, US, etc) are not part of the effort? Yes, that's very cynical of those nations indeed.

New comment by fogetti in "A Modern JavaScript Tutorial"

fogetti — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 02:45:42 +0000

In our case: 1) slow and long transpilation times, 2) although not that common these days but missing typings used to cause some head scratch 3) overly permissive/overly restrictive type definitions 4) wrongly configured sourcemaps 5) unreadable type definitions/declarations... The list is long but these are off the top of my head

New comment by fogetti in "A Modern JavaScript Tutorial"

fogetti — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 02:29:15 +0000

What are you talking about? Did you even take a look at the table of contents?