Hacker News: holydude

New comment by holydude in "Ask HN: What cities are set to become the next global startup Hubs?"

holydude — Fri, 11 May 2018 16:25:04 +0000

Jobs for devs are everywhere that's not what makes a city "startup hub imho.

The only "real" startup hubs are the ones where venture capital is available and these would traditionally be the cities in North America, China, Singapore etc.

New comment by holydude in "Young Chinese are sick of working long hours"

holydude — Thu, 10 May 2018 14:08:16 +0000

Same in Korea and Singapore and I doubt it's any different in China. You work for the sake of working not because you have something that urgently needs to be taken care of.

New comment by holydude in "Young Chinese are sick of working long hours"

holydude — Thu, 10 May 2018 14:01:51 +0000

It's ineffective. Lots of asian nations that work overtime are doing it pointlessly because they are already exhausted and do not really contribute that much.

New comment by holydude in "Why I Left the U.S. 20 Years Ago and Why I Won't Be Coming Back"

holydude — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 15:20:15 +0000

That is very much a false dichotomy. Your german products are of good quality but largely overvalued and this shows when Trump threatens with tariffs ;). There is actually very little that makes as much money for the germans and is not directly connected to a field where german companies have a specific monopoly. I hope you are joking right now and know how borrowing public and private money works.

New comment by holydude in "Why I Left the U.S. 20 Years Ago and Why I Won't Be Coming Back"

holydude — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 15:16:14 +0000

Your inability to understand the subject is astounding.

Funny how you demand from me to show you numbers when you are not doing so yourself .. but what can i expect from a german right ? ;)

My point was never about commies mooching off the great capitalists so again you missed this one as well. The point was that the european economies gained its wealth and glory by employing capitalist practiced in the countries of 2nd and 3rd world while pretending moral superiority and bad mouthing countries like the US or China.

New comment by holydude in "Why I Left the U.S. 20 Years Ago and Why I Won't Be Coming Back"

holydude — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 13:05:48 +0000

I did in Norway :-).

Seriously picking a car industry which is and always had been different in the US than in Eu is a shitty example to prove a point. If it would not be for your liberal americans throwing billions at your german cars they would be nothing compared to what they are now. Ever been to SK ? How many non korean cars have you seen ?

The entire IT industry dwarfs everything Europe has or will have in the next decades and still it is just a fraction of the US of A produces or trades with the world.

Besides Germany is your China of europe dumping shit to weaker markets en masse. Just looking at the list of largest german companies gives you a hint of how Germany really operates.

New comment by holydude in "Why I Left the U.S. 20 Years Ago and Why I Won't Be Coming Back"

holydude — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 12:41:33 +0000

Where and how are the german companies beating the US ?

US wealth is borrowed wealth ? From whom did they borrow it then ?

New comment by holydude in "Why I Left the U.S. 20 Years Ago and Why I Won't Be Coming Back"

holydude — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 08:45:53 +0000

I have just sold my 1m$ property to move from Europe to the US. Seriously Europe is a fucked up place and I aint coming back.

New comment by holydude in "GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere"

holydude — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:42:06 +0000

That sounds promising. I think it's important to keep community in loop and make sure people are aware of limitations and what's already possible and supported.

New comment by holydude in "GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere"

holydude — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 07:49:05 +0000

I know that you are using Rails as a reference point so is there any ETA when will be most of the features usable ? (openssl,activerecord,nokogiri..etc) ?

New comment by holydude in "GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere"

holydude — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 19:04:27 +0000

This is seriously huge. I wonder if it actually gets popular.

Can anyone comment on TruffleRuby ? What remains to be done for it to be production ready ? GraalVM page still mentions it's experimental.

New comment by holydude in "Open racism and slurs are fine to post on Reddit, says CEO"

holydude — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 15:02:49 +0000

Thank god americans respect free speech.

New comment by holydude in "You have options – Why we left the U.S. and moved back to Europe"

holydude — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 21:25:23 +0000

The grass is always greener on the other side. Being born in Europe and living here is suffocating me.

New comment by holydude in "Swift 4.1 Released"

holydude — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 07:18:35 +0000

Apple to me is not a software / services company. They failed to make Swift popular and imho it will just artificially keep Swift alive while everyone else will be using RN,Xamarin and similar.

New comment by holydude in "Cluster and app management services in Docker Cloud are shutting down on May 21"

holydude — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 07:39:18 +0000

I always chuckle when people put so much trust in "startup" companies. It's the same like believing in IBM not trying to screw you over.

There's a reason why people and businesses hate vendor lock ins. There's a reason why we do not want AWS to reign supreme for long.

New comment by holydude in "Bitcoin will become the world’s single currency, Jack Dorsey says"

holydude — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:19:01 +0000

Gold is valuable because of its chemical properties and as long as there is a demand for high tech electronics and jewellery it will continue to be so.

New comment by holydude in "Building a fast Electron app with Rust"

holydude — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 09:27:37 +0000

The other problem is that most electron apps are incredibly big. I do not want to download 150mb single purpose apps. The memory hog is not the only it's also the battery drain most electron apps suffer from.

If you compare Finda to something like voidtool's Everything it's night and day.

New comment by holydude in "Ask HN: Where do you deploy to in 2018 and how?"

holydude — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:45:55 +0000

vmware guests with powershell and jenkins

New comment by holydude in "Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+"

holydude — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 19:23:21 +0000

My current phone is iphone 7+ and ios feels like getting slower and worse every update. I am really keen on trying out galaxy s9

New comment by holydude in "YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get back to baby pictures'"

holydude — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:17:05 +0000

I do not think gmail is an excellent product. For me it's backed by a giant that guarantees its availability and functionality almost anywhere in the world (looking at you China). I would use something else in a blink of an eye.