Hacker News: jkells

New comment by jkells in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

jkells — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:55:03 +0000

But of course, wholesale surveillance on the rest of the world is fine.

I guess our democracies don't count and we don't have any rights.

New comment by jkells in "Using an 8K TV as a Monitor"

jkells — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:59:37 +0000

Source?

New comment by jkells in "Parsing the Cohost Export with DuckDB"

jkells — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 07:51:34 +0000

Basically coding in SQL, very cool.

Parsing the Cohost Export with DuckDB

jkells — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 07:51:34 +0000

Article URL: https://james-forbes.com/posts/cohost-export

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41980516

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by jkells in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

jkells — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:58:13 +0000

Maybe they do perform canary deployments and Australia was the canary?

Certainly feels like it's disproportionately affecting us down under.

New comment by jkells in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

jkells — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:03:54 +0000

I don't understand why this outage and the Azure outage earlier don't make it to the front page.

I'm getting more up to date technical details from the regular media.

This outage looks to be huge.

New comment by jkells in "Azure US Central is down"

jkells — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 03:10:50 +0000

Surprised this isn't on the front page, The whole region is down.

* Azure Devops is down globally * Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) is down globally * Multi-Factor Authentication is down globally

New comment by jkells in "The Rule Says: “No vehicles in the park”. Do you issue a ticket?"

jkells — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:06:40 +0000

This game is a reply to last weeks thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36453856 with a different perspective.

The Rule Says: “No vehicles in the park”. Do you issue a ticket?

jkells — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:06:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ticketvehiclesinthepark.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36532885

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by jkells in "Reddit.com appears to be having an outage"

jkells — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:00:16 +0000

The scale on those graphs is wildly different.

Office have 120 down reports per period. Reddit has 40,000.

New comment by jkells in "Development improvements in almost a decade on Android"

jkells — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:45:48 +0000

This week I re-created my passion project from 9 years ago.

I've done very little Android development since then so it gave me a good opportunity to reflect on what's changed.

Development improvements in almost a decade on Android

jkells — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:45:48 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.vadarocks.com/posts/decade/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34671722

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

The day “Operation Persephone” came to my home

jkells — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 21:59:09 +0000

Article URL: https://typeshare.co/philmorle/posts/the-day-operation-persephone-came-to-my-home

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30316948

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jkells in "225k Investment in the Framework Laptop from YouTuber Linus Tech Tips – 14m Subs"

jkells — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 02:59:20 +0000

Seems like a win / win to me. An investor like Linus would bring a lot to the table.

225k Investment in the Framework Laptop from YouTuber Linus Tech Tips – 14m Subs

jkells — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 02:00:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSxbc1IN9Gg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28560348

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by jkells in "Mistakes to Avoid If You Work with Scala Futures"

jkells — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 08:15:46 +0000

For other JS developers the stuff about await isn't relevant. It's not the same as a JS async/await

In JS an await is just syntactic sugar around a then() on a promise. The Await in the article is a method to block the thread until a promise resolves, there is no equivalent in JS.

.NET has a similar mechanism with Task.Result with similar pitfalls

New comment by jkells in "How did people use ed?"

jkells — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 09:49:42 +0000

I've recently been doing some hobby coding on a Commodore 128 and I'm getting the hang of editing basic programs without being able to edit inline very well.

I use the list command to dump out sections of the program until I find where I want to edit and then add / edit lines whilst I can still see the listing at the top of the screen.

JavaScript dev reverse engineering a heat pump

jkells — Tue, 12 May 2020 11:34:13 +0000

Article URL: https://dev.to/jkells/js-dev-reverse-engineers-a-heat-pump-33h9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23152858

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by jkells in "Terminating Service for 8Chan"

jkells — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 02:12:26 +0000

Good reasoning in the article. Acknowledges that refusing them service won't take the site offline but makes a good argument for doing so.

"They are no longer Cloudflare's problem, but they remain the Internet's problem."

These sites are breeding grounds for extremism, more and more I feel this free for all on the internet probably hasn't been a net positive.

New comment by jkells in "Duolingo achieved a 50% female ratio of new engineering college graduate hires"

jkells — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 10:42:14 +0000

Put another way if you spend 20k hiring and you get a 9/10 male developer you could spend $30k increase the size of the funnel and get a diverse hire of the same quality.