Hacker News: george0812

New comment by george0812 in "Show HN: I spent a year building a desktop environment that runs in the browser"

george0812 — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 17:38:38 +0000

So sorry, I'm working on touch support right now.

Show HN: I spent a year building a desktop environment that runs in the browser

george0812 — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 17:14:01 +0000

Article URL: https://puter.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31611016

Points: 17

# Comments: 9

Puter: Desktop Environment with a Cloud Filesystem

george0812 — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:13:57 +0000

Article URL: https://puter.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31602989

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: How can I learn more about practical management? Not high-level advice

george0812 — Tue, 31 May 2022 17:28:06 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31572291

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Ask HN: What's been your experience hiring bootcamp graduates?

george0812 — Thu, 19 May 2022 17:57:20 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31437967

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

Puter: A real, fully-featured operating system in the browser

george0812 — Wed, 18 May 2022 17:02:48 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.puter.com/posts/private-beta-release

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31425094

Points: 17

# Comments: 4

Earth and Sun

george0812 — Tue, 17 May 2022 21:46:19 +0000

Article URL: https://ciechanow.ski/earth-and-sun/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31416662

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

The Valuation Trap (2014)

george0812 — Tue, 17 May 2022 16:53:23 +0000

Article URL: https://avc.com/2014/05/the-valuation-trap/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31413383

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Revealed: Intel's plan to sell software simplifying computer vision training

george0812 — Sun, 08 May 2022 17:41:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/06/intel_computer_vision/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31306241

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: How would you explain API to a non-technical person?

george0812 — Sat, 07 May 2022 20:41:24 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31298375

Points: 2

# Comments: 6

Teradata to take $60m hit for withdrawal from Russia

george0812 — Fri, 06 May 2022 20:04:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/06/teradata_takes_60m_hit_withdrawing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31289137

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Nvidia starts laying groundwork for future open and parallel code

george0812 — Mon, 02 May 2022 21:24:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/02/nvidia_open_standards/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31241146

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by george0812 in "Netflix loses subscribers for first time in 10 years"

george0812 — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 01:33:55 +0000

I understand the global economic climate and competition hasn't been great but I also feel like Netflix's original programming quality has dropped significantly too. Remember early seasons of Narcos, House of Cards,...? compared to the later seasons of the same shows or even new shows? I remember reading somewhere that the average IMDB scores of Netflix's original stuff have dropped too.

New comment by george0812 in "uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox"

george0812 — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 16:03:52 +0000

If major browsers were 100% user-centric they would've built ad-blocking into the browser. Maybe make it opt-in, but it should be there as a built-in feature.

New comment by george0812 in "Facebook, Instagram to allow calls for violence against Russians temporarily"

george0812 — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 02:36:58 +0000

Well for all practical purposes, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Twitter basically control what can or can not be said at this point. This is unlikely to end well.

New comment by george0812 in "A Voracious Reader: Stalin through his books"

george0812 — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 01:50:30 +0000

Stephen Kotkin (briefly referenced in the article) is a history professor at Princeton University and known as the leading Stalin scholar. He's written amazing books and has long interviews on the subject on youtube. One thing that stood out from his talks/books is that he proposes that Stalin was no a psychopathic killer (unlike many other biographers/scholars) but a person who genuinely and deeply believed in communism and was willing to sacrifice anything and everything for it. He also describes Stalin as a super hard-working and pretty smart person.

Disclaimer: Kotkin is absolutely NOT a fan of Stalin, just trying to be thorough and impartial.

New comment by george0812 in "We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA"

george0812 — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 22:52:23 +0000

What were some of the surprising technical challenges you faced developing the app?

New comment by george0812 in "Last Day of IKEA in Moscow"

george0812 — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 06:30:30 +0000

Unfortunately (and I mean it) there is barely any precedent for a regime like this turning around and the economy improving. In terms of economy, it's probably going to be downhill from here, companies will enter survival mode and innovation will be minimized. I really hope I'm wrong though :(

examples: Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, ...

New comment by george0812 in "Google Ads suspended me and turned a deaf ear"

george0812 — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 02:28:05 +0000

I'd like to think that the need for advertising is just a bug in capitalism and eventually it'll go away.

New comment by george0812 in "Google Ads suspended me and turned a deaf ear"

george0812 — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 22:59:51 +0000

I have never worked with a company as evil as Google. What adds insult to injury is the fact their mantra used to be: Don't be evil!