Hacker News: jamesdelaneyie

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "SecurityBaseline.eu"

jamesdelaneyie — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:07:04 +0000

Could be that you have four councils: Dublin City Council, Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown, South Dublin, and Fingal

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter"

jamesdelaneyie — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:43:45 +0000

In the EU and had to switch from Stripe to Mollie due to Stripe thinking the client was a cruise company because they rent 'cruiser' boats for river leisure. Mollie was super easy to implement for them, and fees much better

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video"

jamesdelaneyie — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:57:29 +0000

I didn't know /imagine could be followed by a prompt, but similarly I asked the avatar about it's appearance and stated it had none. Should probably give it the context of what it's appearance is like, same thing happened for questions like where are you? What are you holding? Who's that behind you? etc etc

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "Intelligent people take longer to solve hard problems: study"

jamesdelaneyie — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 18:50:48 +0000

Your goal during the ideation phase of those workshops should be to output as many post its as possible in the given time. Output the bad ideas quickly and you'll move along to better ideas much faster when you're not humming and hawing over one post it. You have to be ok with looking slightly crazy however and not mind being linked to your poor ideas.

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its human opponent"

jamesdelaneyie — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 12:17:29 +0000

You mean this case? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...

Where a 79 year old woman suffered 3rd degree burns to her pelvic region after spilling coffee in her lap?

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "Web fonts, boy, I don't know"

jamesdelaneyie — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 23:52:00 +0000

This is true, they don't understand how 5+ fonts make it hard to load and render. But they do care about bandied about stats like 83% of people will leave a site if it doesn't load in -0.3 milliseconds.

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "Web fonts, boy, I don't know"

jamesdelaneyie — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 23:45:36 +0000

>I absolutely do not understand the need for 'web fonts'. Just specify a normal font that most users already have installed in CSS, with some fallbacks.

I suppose some people are happy with color: red, while others like a bit more variety and opt for color: #a82a33.

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "Most Germans don’t buy their homes, they rent"

jamesdelaneyie — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:51:00 +0000

Rent increases can only be performed every two years in Ireland from Dec 2015. And you must have 90 days notice of a rent increase. More info on this link:

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/housing/renting_a_home/...

The landlord's relatives issue is however the easiest way to get someone out of a property and increase rent.

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "Ask HN: Where is the intersection between Art and Logic?"

jamesdelaneyie — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 17:57:43 +0000

Low effort comment, but simply put: Design.

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "Creativity is a great motivator"

jamesdelaneyie — Tue, 10 May 2016 12:49:31 +0000

>I wasn't in trouble and I knew it.

A great feeling to have. I remember a similar teacher who could probably account for the death of ten trees every class with the reams of worksheets she'd hand out. Asked to speak to her before class to see if I could be moved as our 'teaching/learning' styles didn't link up. She refused to speak in private and insisted I spoke in front of another teacher she was chatting with at the time. Thanks, you've just given me an audience I thought. Was cheeky in the way I spoke, was sent to principal who was very straightforward in saying that this teacher was on her way out and his hands are tied to do anything about her. Asked me to apologize for the cheekiness (insincere apologies from teenagers? par for the course really) and then was happily moved to another class. But anyways, enjoyed that feeling of 'I know I'm not in trouble here'.

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "What Happened to Google Maps?"

jamesdelaneyie — Sun, 01 May 2016 18:15:31 +0000

Google maps also changes the zoom level to the nearest integer. You can't do 12.5 for example. When I change the 10 on the google maps link in your comment to 10.5, it rounds it back down to 10 and rewrites the URL. Have ran into the issue before doing custom maps for sites where 14.5 would be the perfect zoom level, but can only pick 14 or 15 :(

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "Future Screens Are Mostly Blue"

jamesdelaneyie — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 17:43:34 +0000

He recently spoke at OFFSET in Dublin and went through about 900 slides in 30 mins. Mad man. His early flash work was very cool to see as well.

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "You Could Do Almost Anything Part 1"

jamesdelaneyie — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:46:50 +0000

Interesting video. You might find this account of a debate (that happened the same year as that BBC doc) interesting as well. Roger participated in it. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/mar/22/national...

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "Ask HN: Should engineering jobs have a nap time?"

jamesdelaneyie — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:07:40 +0000

I'd be looking at your diet and eating times if you're getting the '3 o'clock slump' and need a snooze during the day.

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "Ask HN: What's going on at IBM?"

jamesdelaneyie — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 09:27:54 +0000

Something not mentioned here is their 'big push' into Design Thinking. IBM have snapped up ~14+ of the graduates from my college course (Visual Communications, IADT, Dublin) flown them out to Austin for a 3 month starter course and now have quiet a substantial design department here in Ireland.

More info: https://www.ibm.com/design/studio.shtml

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "What are your problems or need in your life"

jamesdelaneyie — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 16:19:41 +0000

Someone keep this cat off my desk and lap somehow. Actually just desk. Lap is ok.

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "Ask HN: Novelty addiction is ruining my life and career. What should I do?"

jamesdelaneyie — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 21:21:31 +0000

>It worked best by "switching off the screen", i.e. typing without seeing what you type (either by literally switching off the screen, or by putting the font to same color as background

That's really interesting. Have written to get stuff out before but there is always the reading, writing, rereading, editing flow that kind of makes it a pain. Going to try 'switching off the screen' next time.

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "Ask HN: Web development business workflow?"

jamesdelaneyie — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 20:08:43 +0000

I invoice that as 'tech management' and charge an hourly rate for it. I would not put it in my portfolio but if the jobs goes well I would get a testimonial from the client.

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "Ask HN: Web development business workflow?"

jamesdelaneyie — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 18:59:48 +0000

1. Take who the client is, think about how much I like the job, how technically hard it is, how long I'd be at it and the deadline they want and a few other variables then pick a figure from the air that seems good.

2. Word of mouth or chatting to people in person.

3. Fuck no. Faster for me to build a custom site than to wrangle with someone's theme that's been built for the lowest common denominator.

4. A good SEO setup is included in the cost, but I don't write the headlines, meta desc, etc. If I am, that's extra.

Agency for 2 years, Freelance for about 5 in total.

New comment by jamesdelaneyie in "Ask HN: Free/Open-Source Invoicing Software?"

jamesdelaneyie — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 12:41:17 +0000

definitely recommend waveapps.com in that case. Free plan and no limit on number of customers or invoices, does receipts and links to your bank account, pretty much everything you need as a sole trader it seems!