Hacker News: gressquel

New comment by gressquel in "Ask HN: Does anyone know if Apple plans to address the MacBook keyboard issue?"

gressquel — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:29:52 +0000

let me piggy-back, is Apple going to have proper HDMI ports in future? Im going surface book the moment my current macbook stops working.

New comment by gressquel in "The Decline of the MacBook Pro"

gressquel — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 17:03:35 +0000

Karma, should never have removed HDMI ports.

New comment by gressquel in "What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub"

gressquel — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 09:08:42 +0000

I myself am optimistic but some few questrions popped up:

Microsoft is very proactive removing things from azure and shutting down sites as soon as they receive DMCA complaint or abuse complaint.

Are they going to remove important github repos like these if they get DMCA or other complaints?

https://github.com/Roy47Zhang/CSGO-Aimbot-Project (cheat for Counter strike)

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl (download from video streamers)

https://github.com/kurtcoke/DemonHunter_Exploitkit (exploit kit)

https://github.com/lontivero/vinchuca (p2p botnet)

the second I hear any repos being removed by Microsoft, I i will dump my private repos and leave.

New comment by gressquel in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

gressquel — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 20:28:37 +0000

what did they do with LinkedIn?? I havent noticed any change.

as for Skype, its completely ruined. I have it installed but I am scared to open it. Horrible GUI. Constant updates and generally just useless now.

New comment by gressquel in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

gressquel — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 20:23:56 +0000

I am gonna wait and see. I know they messed up Skype really bad, but LinkedIN for example they havent touched and destroyed. I will wait and see..

New comment by gressquel in "[dead]"

gressquel — Thu, 31 May 2018 15:46:23 +0000

The price of btc is not 9300 as article says but 7400 $.

Article date is 5/7/18 AT 11:53 AM ?

New comment by gressquel in "China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments decline 21% in Q1 2018"

gressquel — Fri, 04 May 2018 15:05:03 +0000

Peter Navarros Death by China is a good read too

New comment by gressquel in "Apple Reports Q2 2018 Results"

gressquel — Tue, 01 May 2018 20:59:08 +0000

2. No, iOS people are not switching. They are staying but not buying newer models due to lack of innovation. Personally I would never switch to the cesspool named Android. Laggy, malware infested garbage

Ask HN: Why not decrease the 30% AppStore fee for small companies?

gressquel — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 19:14:38 +0000

Its annoying to hell out of me. My sponsorship with Microsoft is running out, meaning I have to pay for the VM that my iOS app is running on.

If I subtract my server cost + 33% AppStore fee, there is not much profit left.

Why cant Apple give some slack to indie developers with low app income? 30% fee is way too much.

This duopoly in the smartphone market is very, very bad!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16906481

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New comment by gressquel in "Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages"

gressquel — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 21:41:20 +0000

yet Zuckerberg is testifying as I write, denying, dodging the responsibility and questions. I can't believe it, instead of laying down and confessing, he is trying to justify and blame everyone but Facebook.

New comment by gressquel in "Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live"

gressquel — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:42:49 +0000

The senators asking the questions are completely clueless. EU/GDPR will properly deal with FB.

New comment by gressquel in "Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live"

gressquel — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:41:53 +0000

please dont link to facebook.com. its on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ValJMOpt7s

New comment by gressquel in "Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming it’s journalistic"

gressquel — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 18:39:58 +0000

I am usually a advocate for privacy and right to be forgotten but in this case I am with Google. The criminals can easily erase their conviction and start 'scamming' victims again. Remember a time when I was looking for apartment and I Googled the name of the owner only to find news articles about how he had built 2 apartments inside one, even though they had no fire escape.

New comment by gressquel in "Facebook will add “unsend” feature after secretly deleting Zuckerberg’s messages"

gressquel — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 18:04:15 +0000

I don't really know, but as facebook usage declines they will become more and more desperate to make up for the loss of revenue. One of these days when most people have moved over to another platform there will news in the media "Facebook sold users private chatlogs".

New comment by gressquel in "Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network"

gressquel — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 19:09:26 +0000

I have a feeling none of these "decentralized" social networks are going to succeed in capturing the users, but I believe one of these will attract the users for something else than the feature "decentralized". When it happens, whoever owns the site will then move away from the initial concept and build the site around the side-effect feature that attracted the users and then capture the entire audience and thus kill facebook once and for all-.

New comment by gressquel in "Large collection of Nazi artifacts discovered in Argentina (2017)"

gressquel — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 23:47:57 +0000

is it weird to find them fascinating? I am a millenial and WW2 and its horror is something that I have learnt, but to meet survivors (of holocaust) and surviving items is very exciting.

New comment by gressquel in "Mark Zuckerberg apologizes in full-page newspaper ads"

gressquel — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 21:55:28 +0000

I will repeat my previous post:

I expected a non-conditional apology but there he is blaming on a single app being able to extract data. We dont want apology for the breach, we want apology for collecting all the data for so many years. We want to FB to delete the data they have collected even if it means a massive reduction in advertisement revenues. But I guess none of his algorithms can foresee the end of FB.com in the western part of the world.

Good night sweet prince.

New comment by gressquel in "Zuckerberg Takes Out Full Page Ads to Say “Sorry” for “Breach of Trust”"

gressquel — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 17:19:22 +0000

I expected a non-conditional apology but there he is blaming on a single app being able to extract data.

We dont want apology for the breach, we want apology for collecting all the data for so many years. We want to FB to delete the data they have collected even if it means a massive reduction in advertisement revenues. But I guess none of his algorithms can foresee the end of FB.com in the western part of the world.

Good night sweet prince.

New comment by gressquel in "Tim Cook wants ‘well-crafted’ privacy regulations after latest Facebook scandal"

gressquel — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 18:49:26 +0000

Comes from a guy bending over for communist regimes to protect the revenue. I have 0 respect for people who sell their core principles for money.

New comment by gressquel in "Show HN: Where is Sci-Hub now?"

gressquel — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:13:27 +0000

Don't wanna sound like a party pooper. But isnt this the same as what movie streaming sites are shut down for, linking to sites with copyrighted material?

For information: I love to download or stream movies and tv-series.