Hacker News: h4l0

New comment by h4l0 in "Raspberry Pi 5 now supports Valve's Steam Link"

h4l0 — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 22:00:36 +0000

This is my current setup as well. While on the subject of Raspberry Pi 5, if you are using RPi5 with Raspbian as a Moonlight client and want to capture window manager shortcuts like `alt+tab` but unable to do so, Wayland is the problem. I'm trying to put this knowledge out their in the hopes of a search engine indexing it.

New comment by h4l0 in "Losing my son"

h4l0 — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 10:42:38 +0000

I read it all through. Yes, there are no words. But seeing "Sign up for more like this." form at the end was so confusing.

New comment by h4l0 in "YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution"

h4l0 — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 11:26:59 +0000

Demo page also returns an error from Heroku.

New comment by h4l0 in "Show HN: A color picker for named web colors"

h4l0 — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:29:54 +0000

Funny to me that how #FF0000 is named Red, #0000FF is named Blue, but #00FF00 is Lime. Maybe it was supposed to be RLB. Although Green is the canonical name for that color range, what we actually refer as Green in daily life is close to #008000.

New comment by h4l0 in "Twitter informs staff layoffs are set to begin"

h4l0 — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 02:35:08 +0000

My timeline has been full of cryptic messages from Twitter employees for the last hour. It doesn't look good. These people are some of the best engineers I've gotten to know.

New comment by h4l0 in "Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer"

h4l0 — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:48:43 +0000

Disclaimer; I work at Atlassian as a Software Engineer.

First of all, he has this weird take at the very beginning

> Interesting fact 1: Atlassian is the only company that has words "sh*" and "f*" in their core values.

Those values are "Don't f* the customer" and "Open company no bulls**" (oh the irony). This 'take' immediately threw me off. Why would you even mention something this trivial? I'll give it a pass as his emotions were probably elevated.

> After being in the company for more than a year I had found that folks with children are less likely to get a promotion. I had no evidence, it was a feeling.

Most of the folks I've seen got promoted had children. Having no evidence to support your claim in an article like this (with a banger title) is a red flag to me.

PTO is unfortunately something that I'm unfamiliar with. The country that I live in prohibits unlimited PTO by law, so I've never had that experience. Although, using the PTO that I acquire is still subject to approval of my manager. That part of the story is what the author should have really focused on. Going after the whole company in such a vicious manner is not a good look in my opinion.

I agree with most of the top comments here. Stay low, get a lawyer, deal with this silently. Hope his wife has a fast and easy recovery. Tough times, tough challenges for the author personally. No matter how hard I try, I certainly wouldn't be able to fully empathize with him.

New comment by h4l0 in "Fake animal rescue videos have become a new frontier for animal abuse"

h4l0 — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 21:27:24 +0000

I agree with you. Most of their stories usually span a year or two, meaning that they cannot be fabricated. The Dodo is way more legitimate than anything discussed in the article.

New comment by h4l0 in "Fake animal rescue videos have become a new frontier for animal abuse"

h4l0 — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 21:23:06 +0000

PaymoneyWubby made a video about this like 2 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mvVQCl8fIg . Nothing has changed since then. People will keep buying into this until platforms intervene.

New comment by h4l0 in "Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React"

h4l0 — Sat, 08 May 2021 12:16:34 +0000

I didn't experience a recursion limit when I just tried it. Maybe the site was updated after your comment? I'm using Firefox.

New comment by h4l0 in "Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications"

h4l0 — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:11:13 +0000

I wasn't aware that my Samsung Smart TV had been logging almost my every action on the TV until I set up a PiHole server. Also, my respect for Apple grew by the fact that only device that wasn't doing loads of telemetry turned out to be my Macbook in the whole household.

New comment by h4l0 in "Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?"

h4l0 — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:14:32 +0000

Let me introduce you to a site called Reddit.

Zynga to buy Peak Games for $1.8B

h4l0 — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:15:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/zynga-acquires-peak-gaming-1-8-billion-2020-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23377645

Points: 27

# Comments: 18

New comment by h4l0 in "A complete 4-year course plan for an AI undergraduate degree"

h4l0 — Wed, 27 May 2020 11:24:26 +0000

Yes, maybe my approach and perspective are skewed by traditional thinking. Unfortunately, I'm still failing to see a need for AI split in CS. An AI student might not need to learn basics of programming languages, operating systems, OOP, DB management, and many other core topics for CS but what else remains to be honest? If we were to simply convert elective AI courses to "must", then are we going to offer classic CS courses as "elective"?

New comment by h4l0 in "A complete 4-year course plan for an AI undergraduate degree"

h4l0 — Wed, 27 May 2020 11:03:02 +0000

We have never considered splitting medical school into subdomains at undergraduate level. Why are we trying to do this now for Computer Science?

New comment by h4l0 in "James Damore and three others end Google suit"

h4l0 — Sat, 09 May 2020 12:03:01 +0000

> in the view of that reader, was to insinuate that women can't be engineers

Although his intentions were unclear by his vague approach to the subject, I believe he didn't mean to say women can't be engineers.

Most of the time he gave population-based examples of how women decided not to be engineers. His thesis was to show that forcing women in STEM fields is not a fair practice to both women and men who want to be STEM professionals.

Up-to-date global phylogenetic tree of SARS-CoV-2

h4l0 — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:00:10 +0000

Article URL: https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22864203

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by h4l0 in "Firefox 74"

h4l0 — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 12:57:29 +0000

> Facebook Container prevents Facebook...

Considering that Mozilla is already protecting their users from specific target sites, it is only logical to assume that they are also improving user experience for a website which has 1B+ users.

Edit: I still cannot overcome the fact that both products are owned by the same company.

Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse

h4l0 — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 07:34:04 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/19/online-learning-marketplace-udemy-raises-50m-at-a-2b-valuation-from-japanese-publisher-benesse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22373380

Points: 121

# Comments: 124

New comment by h4l0 in "Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students"

h4l0 — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:11:34 +0000

and think that they actually didn't get a job at teaching programming but they involved in politics and appointed as "Minister of Technology" for their "loyalty" to the Head of State. That's what Turkey is dealing with right now.

5 or 6 years ago, our ex-minister, claimed that it is dangerous to work with computers since they can be challenging for the mind in a conference about cloud computing. Let that sink in.

New comment by h4l0 in "Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students"

h4l0 — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:04:49 +0000

I really don't want to sound cynical about this great initiative(!) but it saddens me that among many open modern languages and tools, they instead opted for Delphi.

I cannot think of a single positive reason behind this decision in 2020. All I can think of is that the people that came to this conclusion are the ones who graduated from Computer Science related studies in ~1998-2004~ and immediately got themselves in politics. I lost count of how many times have I heard that if you pay for it, it's just better...

Finally, I admit that I'm definitely highly biassed when it comes to Turkish Politics.