Hacker News: georgel

New comment by georgel in "Ask HN: Are Tech Meetups Dead?"

georgel — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:59:40 +0000

The coworking space I was at back in 2013 held regular weekly meetups in the common space. Sometimes cool tech was shown off, but a ton of promo talks was common. I won't say no to free pizza though.

New comment by georgel in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

georgel — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:30:39 +0000

It was such a nice feature too, but very easily and quickly abused.

New comment by georgel in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

georgel — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:57:58 +0000

The circle is complete: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

New comment by georgel in "Ferrari Luce"

georgel — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:12:16 +0000

Some of us care. Standing up and saying the product is crap leads to being asked to leave (fired). Or ends up on deaf ears, and the product is hated by people. Been in both situations, it doesn't seem there is a winning position.

New comment by georgel in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

georgel — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:42:00 +0000

It's been around and available as an API to devs since at least 2021 in iOS. The problem was even on the best iPhone at that time, I could never get it past ~0.8x speed and after 15-20 minutes the device would heat up so much the display dimmed.

For context, I was working on a podcast app with on-device transcription, had to park that idea for years before it got to today's performance.

New comment by georgel in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

georgel — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:10:56 +0000

I'll agree they were all great, but I liked the change to force-touch more.

The uni-body pre force-touch trackpads clicked on a hinge from the top and you would need to press much harder in that area.

New comment by georgel in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain"

georgel — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:37:07 +0000

St. Louis is like this as well.

New comment by georgel in "GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes"

georgel — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:53:57 +0000

The irony of Reddit's early days was that it was bootstrapped with fake accounts run by the founder.

New comment by georgel in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics"

georgel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:25:22 +0000

This gave me flashbacks to LonCapa in college when I was in calculus classes circa 2011. A correct answer was marked incorrect automatically because of floating point issues.

New comment by georgel in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

georgel — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:16:21 +0000

They were called "Tech Bro Podcast Network" but rebranded at some point.

New comment by georgel in "GitHub is once again down"

georgel — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:15:25 +0000

I remember it going down semi-regularly in the 2013+ era, and seeing HN posts about it. Especially if you were using a package manager reliant on GitHub like Cocoapods. It seems to me it is more "impactful" on the dev community now that they have gone past just being a centralized Git server for the team, to being the thing that does deploys and all sorts of other things.

New comment by georgel in "Ask HN: Books to Learn Ruby/Rails?"

georgel — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:48:46 +0000

My manager recommended Agile Web Rails 8. Will spend the weekend diving into that.

Ask HN: Books to Learn Ruby/Rails?

georgel — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:36:08 +0000

I started a new job where I need to get up to speed with RoR. I've dabbled with it a decade ago, and understand the scaffolding/generators/etc but still feel very out of place on actual fundamentals.

I have been doing lots of iOS, Python, React/Angular and Node.js/Express work for the last 10+ years so I am not looking for "how to learn to program" type books, more so understanding the patterns of Ruby/Rails.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641033

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New comment by georgel in "Apple M5 chip"

georgel — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:48:08 +0000

This feels more like a repeat of iOS7 to me.

New comment by georgel in "Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement"

georgel — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:59:43 +0000

There are tons of tools that collect stuff like this, hotjar.com has been a thing for over a decade.

New comment by georgel in "Ask HN: Went to prison for 18 months, lost access to my GitHub. What can I do?"

georgel — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:59:06 +0000

Far too many of the critical services (banks) still only offer SMS 2FA.

New comment by georgel in "When did AI take over Hacker News?"

georgel — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:00:14 +0000

Don't forget the barrage of JS frameworks that were talked about daily.

New comment by georgel in "Tell HN: Anthropic expires paid credits after a year"

georgel — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 03:15:21 +0000

I lost my free credits they were giving away a couple years back, but when you pay they make it fairly clear they will expire. I see no issues here from any provider doing this, as long as it is made clear.

New comment by georgel in "Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers"

georgel — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:12:34 +0000

Back in 2018 Bullhorn ATS tried this on me, and even asked me to retake it because the recruiter said “you didn’t score high enough” despite passing the actual interview.

New comment by georgel in "Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone"

georgel — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:09:13 +0000

Very awesome! Have you tried to see how much payload it could hold in addition to the drone's own weight?