Hacker News: ggg9990

New comment by ggg9990 in "YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January 15, 2019"

ggg9990 — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 20:42:15 +0000

Elon Musk tweets: “Check out this guy’s video of a Tesla he saw at the racetrack.” GM pays the guy $100K to update the video to a GM ad.

New comment by ggg9990 in "I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back"

ggg9990 — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 08:40:17 +0000

I like my headphone jack but I’d rather have none than one of those janky condoms.

New comment by ggg9990 in "YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January 15, 2019"

ggg9990 — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 08:32:59 +0000

Your non-lousy product stewardship would let me replace the video file of a John Carmack tech talk with an Amway recruiting video?

New comment by ggg9990 in "I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back"

ggg9990 — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 04:42:20 +0000

Unsolicited tip: cultivate some misanthropy so that you can relish downvotes.

New comment by ggg9990 in "I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back"

ggg9990 — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 04:02:42 +0000

Just bought an iPhone 6S four days ago because of this and the physical home button. $140 brand new.

New comment by ggg9990 in "Researcher at center of epic fraud remains an enigma to those who exposed him"

ggg9990 — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 03:27:34 +0000

Then surely a generic CEO can be referred to as “him” since 29/30 of Fortune 500 CEOs are men.

New comment by ggg9990 in "I don't trust Signal"

ggg9990 — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 18:56:00 +0000

It’s not surprising. The people most interested in encryption want to trust nobody. That’s the goal of strong encryption, but as Ken Thompson says it’s not possible. Between the US Government and Moxie I’d trust Moxie but I’d rather trust neither.

New comment by ggg9990 in "Upwork Freelancers Who Want Guaranteed Pay Have to Opt in to Tracking Software"

ggg9990 — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 23:42:38 +0000

Yes but Upwork wants a metric that doesn’t need a software engineer to adjudicate. If you say “this XHMTL validator works as specified because RFC 1913 was never formally accepted” it takes someone with a clue to figure out what you mean. Upwork would rather say “you types all day, you get paid.”

New comment by ggg9990 in "How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions"

ggg9990 — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 03:28:04 +0000

Between those companies developers have checked in tens or hundreds of thousands of exploitable bugs. It's not far-fetched to think that at least one of them might have been intentional.

New comment by ggg9990 in "Should computer science researchers disclose negative social consequences?"

ggg9990 — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 18:01:58 +0000

The fact that the article says that “oil and tobacco” are the Bad Industries (that CS shouldn’t become like) says everything you need to know. There is no CS without oil.

New comment by ggg9990 in "Periodic fasting starves cisplatin‐resistant cancers to death"

ggg9990 — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 13:44:25 +0000

But there are many absurdly wealthy Muslim countries.

New comment by ggg9990 in "Removing Bad Actors on Facebook"

ggg9990 — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 18:39:55 +0000

Not necessarily. Zuckerberg is basically accountable to no one as CEO. He can’t be fired even by the board. So Facebook’s motivations are whatever his own personal motivations are.

New comment by ggg9990 in "Intermediated of the world, unite"

ggg9990 — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 16:20:53 +0000

Email is effectively closed these days. You can’t really send email from your own server and expect it to be read.

New comment by ggg9990 in "Evolving Floorplans"

ggg9990 — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 15:38:01 +0000

How many elementary school children have perished in school fires in the last 25 years?

New comment by ggg9990 in "Evolving Floorplans"

ggg9990 — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 15:07:24 +0000

Why is it considered good to minimize walking time and hallway time in schools?

New comment by ggg9990 in "If you put chalk under a powerful microscope"

ggg9990 — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 03:26:59 +0000

Twitter doesn’t understand what makes it successful so it is loath to change anything.

New comment by ggg9990 in "Show HN: Kontext – Learn new words by watching movies in a foreign language"

ggg9990 — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:41:53 +0000

I find it hilarious to put on a cheesy American comedy that I’ve seen before on the TV in a foreign language. I wouldn’t watch it actively but it’s something nice to have on while I clean up or do dishes.

New comment by ggg9990 in "Ask HN: How to raise a seed round for people with no elite connections?"

ggg9990 — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 07:43:56 +0000

The answer is: make elite connections. It’s entirely possible for someone with something real to offer but no other connections.

It’s a bit like saying, “How do I become a basketball player?” Answer: get a ball and start practicing. Sure, it’s easier if you’re 7 feet tall, and raising a seed riju is easier if your last name is Rockefeller. But you can get a long way on your own.

New comment by ggg9990 in "Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies"

ggg9990 — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 07:40:19 +0000

The GGRA includes nearly every significant restaurant in the Bay Area. Hope you like cooking.

Your position is something like, “Man this Donald Trump guy is f’in horrible. Give me a list of all Americans so I can remember to never talk to them again.”

New comment by ggg9990 in "A Drop of 4 Degrees Made a Big Difference for a Garment Maker's Bottom Line"

ggg9990 — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 07:37:19 +0000

That’s a great analogy. Almost all machines have consumable parts to save the rest of the parts from wear (in a car, it’s things like brake pads and motor oil). In companies, the workers are the consumable parts that are chewed up so that the executives and shareholders can thrive.