Hacker News: haggy102

New comment by haggy102 in "Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999)"

haggy102 — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 01:05:03 +0000

The problem is that it's often the only choice. ISPs often have a monopoly over their territory.

New comment by haggy102 in "A Modern C Development Environment"

haggy102 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 23:41:19 +0000

Why not advocate for better testing? What was preventing you from spending more time unit testing code running a billion dollar business?

New comment by haggy102 in "Crawling a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (2012)"

haggy102 — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 03:40:10 +0000

Wow crazy how time flies. I did not realize Go has been in production for over 10 years now.

New comment by haggy102 in "The growing pains of database architecture"

haggy102 — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 19:11:14 +0000

Nice spam/sales link

New comment by haggy102 in "New study puts a number on what 'Exxon knew' decades ago about climate science"

haggy102 — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 03:30:20 +0000

Where are you pulling that stat from?

New comment by haggy102 in "SQLite's Automatic Indexes"

haggy102 — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:17:53 +0000

I'm glad you said it because I was about to say the exact same thing.

New comment by haggy102 in "The $42B Question: Why Aren’t Americans Ditching Big Banks?"

haggy102 — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 17:21:07 +0000

For low-middle class, yes. For upper middle class+, it depends.

New comment by haggy102 in "Court Orders U.S. Navy to Pay $154,400 in Software Piracy Damages"

haggy102 — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 23:20:55 +0000

The first paragraph...

"The United States Navy must pay $154,400 in copyright infringement damages to German software company Bitmanagement. The U.S. Court of Federal Claims awarded the compensation after the Navy was shown to have copied and used software without permission. Whether Bitmanagement will celebrate this win is up for question as the damages are less than 0.1% of the $155 million it asked for."

New comment by haggy102 in "Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce"

haggy102 — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 20:15:42 +0000

I would yea, especially if the separation was handled well and I was still looking for consistent work.

New comment by haggy102 in "C Minus Minus"

haggy102 — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 21:40:23 +0000

Well not ALWAYS a more scalable DB ;)

New comment by haggy102 in "Ask HN: How did you stop drinking?"

haggy102 — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 08:53:01 +0000

> it's also very boring

I think SO many people overlook this very fact. Most people don't need alcohol to have a good time however it's called a "social lubricant" for a reason.

Sometimes people just need a tiny push to become less self conscious or less introverted. Life is short. You can spend years trying to be healthy and perfect but you need to ask yourself whether you're happy while doing that. If the answer is "Yes" then great. If it's "No" then you should reevaluate your path.

New comment by haggy102 in "Will young Americans want to work in semiconductor manufacturing? [video]"

haggy102 — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 05:48:29 +0000

I'm all for sarcasm but please show me a calculator that needs 16GB of RAM. Your input detracts from the original argument and doesn't progress the discussion at all.

New comment by haggy102 in "U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutive decline"

haggy102 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 01:55:58 +0000

Source?

New comment by haggy102 in "Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?"

haggy102 — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 01:31:12 +0000

This is the way

New comment by haggy102 in "Trust in newspapers and television news collapses to historic low"

haggy102 — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 01:28:19 +0000

CNN is credible? According to whom?

New comment by haggy102 in "Some online businesses thrived during lockdown – how are they doing now?"

haggy102 — Mon, 16 May 2022 23:38:38 +0000

That was always going to be a very temporary boom. The only reason there was an opportunity was because supply was suddenly and vastly dwarfed by demand for weeks. As soon as large mask manufacturers were able to ramp up production, the grannies were doomed.

New comment by haggy102 in "Illinois college, hit by ransomware attack, to shut down"

haggy102 — Mon, 09 May 2022 18:04:54 +0000

Greatly appreciate the context. Closures like this are rarely (if ever) as one dimensional as the public announcements make them appear to be.

New comment by haggy102 in "Netflix End of Series 1"

haggy102 — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 13:48:01 +0000

Ignore the troll and thank you for all your content Brendan!

New comment by haggy102 in "Curious lack of sprintf scaling"

haggy102 — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 00:02:23 +0000

Don't forget about "is-thirteen" and its inverse lol

https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-thirteen https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-not-thirteen

New comment by haggy102 in "A career ending mistake"

haggy102 — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 01:53:38 +0000

Assuming you don't live in a major US city? $5 latte's and $70+ just for Internet (forget cable) is pretty standard now.