Hacker News: joshbert

New comment by joshbert in "Closure, from why the lucky stiff (2013)"

joshbert — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:39:47 +0000

> As for _why, there is nothing special about him

That sounds patently false to me considering we're still talking about him almost 20 years after his flagship work was published.

Minimizing _why because of a tired, narrow-minded focus on identity politics seems disingenuous and like a missed opportunity to learn

New comment by joshbert in "Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky"

joshbert — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 06:28:36 +0000

Only issue with that thesis is that HN hates 100% of the things that it comes across.

New comment by joshbert in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

joshbert — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 22:25:27 +0000

It was part of the keynote how it can integrate with Magic Mouse/Keyboard and presumably other bluetooth accessories

New comment by joshbert in "A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call"

joshbert — Mon, 08 May 2023 21:36:43 +0000

That's a great approach and I'd also be curious to know if somebody has paid you, my immediate guess would be "no" - but you never know

New comment by joshbert in "Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”"

joshbert — Thu, 04 May 2023 20:18:29 +0000

I don't feel sorry for Google, nor the big amounts of PR nonsense they're putting out there in order to try to spin their being too slow to move LLM tech to the side of the consumer. Get better or get out.

New comment by joshbert in "Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate"

joshbert — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 00:42:45 +0000

Australia's always been a bit icky when it comes to digital rights and censorship, but this just takes it over the top.

New comment by joshbert in "Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”"

joshbert — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:31:40 +0000

You clearly have no point to make.

New comment by joshbert in "Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system"

joshbert — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:14:51 +0000

What a horrible, horrible take.

New comment by joshbert in "GitHub Copilot"

joshbert — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 16:03:49 +0000

There's that insecurity thing he was talking about.

New comment by joshbert in "No evidence that chance meetings in office boosts innovation"

joshbert — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:27:12 +0000

You admitted previously that there's companies with remote cultures that are tremendously successful. By definition of their very existence, they have replaced "face time with online" - which you claim can't happen.

New comment by joshbert in "A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities"

joshbert — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 04:26:19 +0000

I disagree, those labels have many aims, none of which are good and most of which seem to be a form of ending conversations before any meaningful conclusion is reached.

New comment by joshbert in "A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities"

joshbert — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 02:28:24 +0000

That was my perception of that person's posts as well.

New comment by joshbert in "How a fake story about Angela Merkel led to a far-right cluster on Reddit"

joshbert — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 17:08:42 +0000

This is my exact experience when asking questions about a broad subject that has to do with politics. You get downvoted, therefore information doesn't flow properly your way, which leaves people just as ignorant as they come in and resentful that they get punished for asking serious questions in a respectful tone.

New comment by joshbert in "Trump Is Right: Silicon Valley Using H-1B Visas to Pay Low Wages to Immigrants"

joshbert — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 17:59:38 +0000

There's an arrow next to the username that will help you express this sentiment without the need to comment.

New comment by joshbert in "Not Everyone in Tech Cheers the H-1B Visa Program"

joshbert — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 14:53:19 +0000

The point being, it needs to be updated.

New comment by joshbert in "Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign"

joshbert — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:26:10 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly, but I think this phenomenon is to be expected.

I don't know any more about the founder of Whole Foods than I do about the founder of Target, nor is it really relevant to me as a consumer. All the vast majority of people have to form an opinion on their image is the companies themselves and their experiences with them. So, we do.

New comment by joshbert in "Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign"

joshbert — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:20:09 +0000

Hear, hear.

New comment by joshbert in "Trump Fires Acting Attorney General"

joshbert — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:15:47 +0000

Truly a riveting read. I had no idea Bush was like that behind closed doors.

New comment by joshbert in "Dropbox Paper"

joshbert — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:13:02 +0000

My immediate thought was "another Dropbox project that'll be sunset in a year's time, huh?"

New comment by joshbert in "Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M"

joshbert — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 17:40:27 +0000

Trello is such a fantastic tool, I use it every single day. It has stood the test of time for me, unlike Evernote, Clipboard and many others. This is fantastic news, kudos to the Trello team.