Hacker News: jccalhoun

New comment by jccalhoun in "Trade (and Tariffs)"

jccalhoun — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:12:44 +0000

I don't really have any idea if tariffs are good or bad. What I do know is that just announcing that they will go into effect with very little notice and then they won't go into effect and then they do but then they are decalared illegal because they weren't passed through the official methods isn't good.

New comment by jccalhoun in "HTML Can Do That"

jccalhoun — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:23:41 +0000

i'm right there with you!

New comment by jccalhoun in "Banksy works cost public almost £150k"

jccalhoun — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:10:22 +0000

Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy said: ""Our courts are a national symbol of justice and the rule of law."

It seems like someone doesn't get the symbolism of the Banksy piece.

New comment by jccalhoun in "John C. Dvorak has died"

jccalhoun — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:57:13 +0000

Sadly, that is true. I went through Dvorak's twitter feed and didn't even get to July 1st before I was exhausted by how much racist stuff he was retweeting.

New comment by jccalhoun in "John C. Dvorak has died"

jccalhoun — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:32:05 +0000

Over the years I heard so many people online mentioning how they liked No Agenda that I tried it 3-4 times and every single time they were talking about some racist or conspiracy theory garbage. Maybe I just happened to randomly pick the only 3-4 times they did that but that was enough for me.

New comment by jccalhoun in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

jccalhoun — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:44:38 +0000

My girlfriend has XM in her car so on road trips we listen to that. I'm always amazed at how terrible the djs on there are. Many of them are older musicians that I would imagine record all their segments for the week (or even month) in one day. I really don't know why they even bother paying for djs at all.

New comment by jccalhoun in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

jccalhoun — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:40:17 +0000

Small world. I'm sitting here in Terre Haute as I write this. I moved here about a decade ago so radio was already well on its way to the lowest common denominator before I got here. All I know about WBOW is that they turn into all Christmas music after Thanksgiving.

New comment by jccalhoun in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

jccalhoun — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:12:19 +0000

early idtech engines were used in lots of games. Since Bethesda bought them they stopped licensing the engine to outside companies. However, Bethesda games could and did still use idtech.

New comment by jccalhoun in "Free the Icons"

jccalhoun — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:27:27 +0000

What happened to being able to use themes and skins? Is it just corporate control? Why can't Windows or Mac has a CSS-style system where users can use custom style sheets? It doesn't have to go as far as classic Winamp but just going back to what we had in Win85 would be nice. (and I know there are things like Stardock's Windowblinds but why isn't it built in?)

New comment by jccalhoun in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

jccalhoun — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:01:50 +0000

This is microtransactions in real life. The upsell on these will be crazy.

New comment by jccalhoun in "Prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike"

jccalhoun — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:23:53 +0000

It has been a few times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_forks_of_Wikip...

New comment by jccalhoun in "Prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike"

jccalhoun — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:22:46 +0000

Maybe I'm misunderstanding but I thought the Wiki Workers United were made up of employees not volunteer editors? Their website says, "We are Wiki Workers United, a global union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation. We are the people who do the work to provide a platform, services, and funds to support the Wikimedia movement." https://www.wikiworkersunited.org/

New comment by jccalhoun in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

jccalhoun — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:50:10 +0000

a lawyer

New comment by jccalhoun in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

jccalhoun — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:53:12 +0000

It seems like the guy who put them on consignment is getting screwed but it doesn't seem like this Reckless Ben is helping things by doing weird stunts https://kotaku.com/youtuber-starts-a-cult-and-is-raided-by-p...

New comment by jccalhoun in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

jccalhoun — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:45:05 +0000

I have heard my friends here in the USA say it about someone locally who is known to cause trouble with businesses. I had never heard it said that way until they said it that way.

New comment by jccalhoun in "A new book on Steve Jobs at NeXT"

jccalhoun — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:16:46 +0000

Maybe my memory is wrong. I haven't read it in years but I don't remember it being a hit piece. I remember liking it quite a bit and thinking it was a really interesting look at NeXT. It is an interesting artifact because it came out in 1993 and the author couldn't have predicted what would happen to NeXT or Jobs.

New comment by jccalhoun in "Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers"

jccalhoun — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:56:28 +0000

I think Instructure has made themselves a target. I'm a professor at a college that uses Canvas and I'm going to be making sure I download the gradebook for my classes more often from now on.

New comment by jccalhoun in "I want to live like Costco people"

jccalhoun — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:47:31 +0000

I've never been to Costco but there is a Sam's Club here. People talk about Costco hot dogs but Sam's Club hot dogs are pretty awesome.

New comment by jccalhoun in "iNaturalist"

jccalhoun — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:23:15 +0000

I didn't know they had a map feature. I zoomed in on my neighborhood and... all the pins are mine :-P

New comment by jccalhoun in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

jccalhoun — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:47:03 +0000

I'm kind of a misnthrope. I don't know my neighbors and I don't want to. I bought my current house in part because it has a fence around it. I wear earbuds in the store so random people don't try to talk to me (I'm also tall so I get people asking me to get things down for them somewhat often). I teach college so I guess I get enough interaction with strangers from having new students every semester.