Hacker News: grundoon

New comment by grundoon in "Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game"

grundoon — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:21:01 +0000

Your game just told me "Ponzi" isn't a word. I feel like Wordle wouldn't have done that, and anyway at least it has the courtesy to say "not in word list" which is very different from the outright lie that your game just told me.

New comment by grundoon in "The Odin – DIY genetic engineering"

grundoon — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 16:13:43 +0000

Am I the only one who looked at the site & thought "this can't be for real"?

New comment by grundoon in "Ask HN: LinkedIn sent me a cease and desist for my Chrome extension. Help?"

grundoon — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 02:15:13 +0000

"I'd be fine with removing all the LinkedIn examples from the website, but I'd like to continue building Browserflow..." -- my advice is to do just that. IANAL but you will be in the right (not always the same as being on the right side of the law, but more important imo).

New comment by grundoon in "Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?"

grundoon — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:47:00 +0000

You're not off base. Paul Ehrlich was right, the population bomb has exploded, the Earth's resources are stretched and breaking. That's the trouble at the root.

New comment by grundoon in "Most young men live in quiet desperation, is it possible to resolve this?"

grundoon — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 20:16:16 +0000

You are begging the question.[1] The question wasn't "what is the cause?" but rather "what is the solution?" which you fail to answer, as in: how can we prevent "the media" from pushing faux moral intellectualism? Note, I'm not addressing the question of whether that's the true cause or not. But, assuming it is -- what can be done about it? Is calling out "the media" on HN enough?

[1] in the older sense of the phrase; nowadays most people use it differently, but it originally meant ~"answering without really answering".

New comment by grundoon in "Anomaly 6: Private spying firm targets global population with illegal spyware"

grundoon — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 23:52:39 +0000

thegrayzone.com seems like it could be a front for Russian agitprop

New comment by grundoon in "Telling people you're a self taught developer in YouTube is a big business now"

grundoon — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 18:40:16 +0000

If you can't remain patient for 40 hours to learn HTML, I recommend NOT trying to become a developer. Patience is necessary for a developer, imo.

New comment by grundoon in "Ask HN: As a dev, what made (or almost) you quit from a job?"

grundoon — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 03:17:17 +0000

I worked with two other devs, they both seemed nice at first. But the one who was nicer left, and the other one turned out to be an alcoholic, with accompanying mood swings.

New comment by grundoon in "Ask HN: What technologies have made your life worse?"

grundoon — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 17:31:19 +0000

burning fossil fuels for energy, leaded gasoline, Facebook

New comment by grundoon in "Ask HN: I love programming but hate the industry. Can anyone relate?"

grundoon — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 13:46:27 +0000

I can relate. My strategy for work/life balance has been 1. get hired; 2. work hard while learning new stuff; 3. slack off; 4. get fired (layed off); 5. goto 1

Not that I recommend it, just fwiw. Contract work with time between gigs might help, if you can afford the medical premiums (in the U.S.).

Also fwiw: s/bare/bear/ s/literally// s/over night/overnight/

New comment by grundoon in "Ask HN: Thoughts on being “boring”"

grundoon — Wed, 18 May 2022 22:16:15 +0000

"It seems like this forum is full of people who have traveled a similar path: starting with big ideas and hopes for their future, sometimes being able to achieve those but through a tremendous amount of time and effort. Or, have realized that a certain amount of money, free time and family is all they really need." -- I think you could replace "this forum" with "this world" and it would still be true. At this point in my life I don't mind admitting: I'm in the latter group.

New comment by grundoon in "Am I the only person who can’t get a job?"

grundoon — Mon, 02 May 2022 18:59:28 +0000

no.

New comment by grundoon in "Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?"

grundoon — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 21:24:42 +0000

...Twitter ... a place for public discourse..." lol

New comment by grundoon in "Ask HN: What Happened to Borland?"

grundoon — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:26:25 +0000

The story I heard (I worked at Borland briefly in 1999): Microsoft would send a limo to the Borland HQ to pick up engineers for interviews on their lunch breaks. Borland sued, Microsoft settled for many millions, but basically instead of buying their rival outright (for assimilation into the Borg, lol), they just bought the talent. Last I knew Borland had changed names at least twice (Inprise, Embarcadero) and still existed, in some remnant form.

New comment by grundoon in "Ask HN: Why are we expected to train Google's NN for free through captchas?"

grundoon — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 21:18:17 +0000

"computers are already better at identifying traffic lights from street view images than you are" -- I'm still better than they are at identifying traffic lights IRL though :-)

New comment by grundoon in "Ask HN: Why are we expected to train Google's NN for free through captchas?"

grundoon — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 21:15:54 +0000

The thing that really ticks me off about those captchas -- besides that it seems I'm more likely to have them forced on me when I'm on a VPN, so presenting an AWS IP to their server -- is that sometimes they think I'm wrong about, e.g., which square has an image with a bicycle. No! It's YOU, captcha algo, that are incorrect! Your images are wrongly labeled! Grrr, so annoying :-(

New comment by grundoon in "Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to join Facebook as engineer?"

grundoon — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 01:05:41 +0000

you mean morale