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New comment by galphanet in "The 49MB web page"

galphanet — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:46:37 +0000

This is just the top of the iceberg. Don't get me started on airlines websites (looking at you Air Canada), where the product owner, designers, developers are not able to get a simple workflow straight without loading Mb of useless javascript and interrupt the user journey multiple times. Give me back the command line terminal like Amadeus, that would be perfect.

How can we go back to a Web where websites are designed to be used by the user and not for the shareholders?

New comment by galphanet in "Cloudflare Email Service: private beta"

galphanet — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:46:51 +0000

You forgot about Broadcom !

New comment by galphanet in "Costa Rica signs law to attract digital nomads"

galphanet — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 16:29:32 +0000

You've greatly summed up the tax law, well done.

New comment by galphanet in "IPv4 pricing"

galphanet — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:38:26 +0000

I agree, it s one of the cheapest, they deliver and have custom solutions on request. The cheapest is monzoon which offer dsl and ftth without contract (month-by-month basis)

New comment by galphanet in "Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?"

galphanet — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 15:48:29 +0000

Thanks for writting this. This is how I feel for two years and having a random stranger on Internet being able to describe it and says `The world can be a great place with the right view` is reconforting.

New comment by galphanet in "Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]"

galphanet — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 16:16:03 +0000

Ho you mean Amazon AWS?

New comment by galphanet in "How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981)"

galphanet — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 14:46:58 +0000

When you fill in an.airplane, you need to ground it with a special cable that comes with the pump.

New comment by galphanet in "Reddit's Stock Threads Become a Must-Read on Wall Street"

galphanet — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:52:15 +0000

Try saying/doing that in the airplane industry. Pilots are trained to use the checklist in all operations.

New comment by galphanet in "Living without a SIM card"

galphanet — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 12:53:01 +0000

In Switzerland we have MobileID which is basically the same thing as Norway's Bank If : using a sim card as a smart card.

New comment by galphanet in "Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?"

galphanet — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 14:01:55 +0000

Hey, I also take the 55 but I never saw the screen!

New comment by galphanet in "Ask HN: How did people bake before thermometers?"

galphanet — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 07:06:28 +0000

I heard that the acadians people where praying in front of the over. If they can stay there until the end of the pray, the oven is ready to bake the bread. Otherwise, they had to wait a few more minutes. I think it was this way because they didn't learn how to count.