Hacker News: hellogoodbye

New comment by hellogoodbye in "Scrabble and the Nature of Expertise (2015)"

hellogoodbye — Mon, 20 May 2024 20:17:21 +0000

Memorizing the words is one thing, but as the article mentions it's a lot more strategy involved. Rack management, memorizing the right hooks, knowing when to use the right hooks, closing up the board for your opponent etc.

New comment by hellogoodbye in "YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end "$600 less than cable" ads"

hellogoodbye — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:59:00 +0000

To watch your EPL team you need Youtube TV, Peacock Premium, Paramount Plus (UCL/UEL) and ESPN plus (domestic cups) :/

Youtube TV is the most expensive of the bunch, going to see if there are any other options like IPTV

New comment by hellogoodbye in "Amazon Pip Horror Story"

hellogoodbye — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 18:05:25 +0000

By Cyberstalk I think he means... "Follow him on Linkedin"?

New comment by hellogoodbye in "Amazon Pip Horror Story"

hellogoodbye — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 18:04:27 +0000

I think he took down the post on blind

Berkshire Hathaway's Stock Price Is Too Much for Computers

hellogoodbye — Wed, 05 May 2021 16:21:46 +0000

Article URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/05/05/1454246/berkshire-hathaways-stock-price-is-too-much-for-computers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27051922

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hellogoodbye in "Goldman Sachs Working Conditions Survey"

hellogoodbye — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:16:59 +0000

read Matt Levine's take on this https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-18/goldma...

most interesting bit:

> What I said then is that what is bad for junior-employee lifestyle is generally good for the firm; the fact that everyone is working too hard means that there’s a lot of lucrative work to do:

> “We recognize that our people are very busy, because business is strong and volumes are at historic levels,” said Nicole Sharp, a spokeswoman for Goldman Sachs. “A year into Covid, people are understandably quite stretched, and that’s why we are listening to their concerns and taking multiple steps to address them.”

New comment by hellogoodbye in "Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned"

hellogoodbye — Wed, 27 May 2020 16:17:28 +0000

Meanwhile SpaceX is launching a manned flight today

Testing SmileDirectClub: Hidden camera investigation

hellogoodbye — Thu, 14 May 2020 16:00:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcMI3aT8jLs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23181107

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by hellogoodbye in "The AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 CPU Review: A Budget Gaming Bonanza"

hellogoodbye — Thu, 07 May 2020 15:16:52 +0000

Intel can't match this performance to price ratio

New comment by hellogoodbye in "Away’s Former CEO Is Returning as Co-Chief"

hellogoodbye — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:20:31 +0000

What a shitshow

New comment by hellogoodbye in "A fitness watch that measures blood pressure"

hellogoodbye — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:03:01 +0000

My Garmin forerunner 245 does the job really well.

New comment by hellogoodbye in "Google Calendar Event Injection with MailSniper (2017)"

hellogoodbye — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:56:09 +0000

exactly, why on earth is there no "Report Spam" button on mobile?!

Tech’s Other Diversity Problem

hellogoodbye — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 19:58:06 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/the-ascent/techs-other-diversity-problem-ef45b9dd23b8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20423918

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by hellogoodbye in "Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019"

hellogoodbye — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 18:16:53 +0000

Incredibly well written, thank you.