Hacker News: justaguy88

New comment by justaguy88 in "The Winners of Remote Work"

justaguy88 — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 19:36:48 +0000

You could set up a US Law school in another country

New comment by justaguy88 in "The Winners of Remote Work"

justaguy88 — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 19:35:51 +0000

Time zone 'compatibility' is extremely important

Happily hire north/south, but too many hours east/west and people have to give up off-time just to have regular meetings

New comment by justaguy88 in "The Winners of Remote Work"

justaguy88 — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 19:28:58 +0000

If they can put them in US-compatible timezone, sure.

But coordinating teams across anything more than a 4-ish hour difference is a total pain

New comment by justaguy88 in "If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job?"

justaguy88 — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 17:15:34 +0000

Those who want someone removed are usually not the people empowered to remove someone. Even complaining to their manager (which is often a bad move) usually wont result in the removal of that person

New comment by justaguy88 in "Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government"

justaguy88 — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 19:56:13 +0000

> Which UX problem do you think it fixed?

You can join a call without signing up

New comment by justaguy88 in "Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Sues NASA for a Moon Lander Contract"

justaguy88 — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 17:45:05 +0000

JB is surely wearing out his welcome at nasa with this

New comment by justaguy88 in "How green is blue hydrogen?"

justaguy88 — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 21:25:22 +0000

Hopefully wind/solar electric

New comment by justaguy88 in "The death of the ‘Millionaire Next Door’ dream"

justaguy88 — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 20:44:42 +0000

How does that work out, mechanically, does the military provide a pension at 40? Is it just that you have very little costs when living on-base?

New comment by justaguy88 in "Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”"

justaguy88 — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 21:31:10 +0000

and facebook could perhaps become highly regulated in the same way depending on how politics goes

New comment by justaguy88 in "Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client"

justaguy88 — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 22:47:03 +0000

I always prefer the native (so long as it's really native, not just electron)

I'm usually lost in a sea of browser tabs

New comment by justaguy88 in "Astronomers push for global debate on giant satellite swarms"

justaguy88 — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 23:46:10 +0000

> reflected in strawman project sketches

Do you have a link to some of them?

New comment by justaguy88 in "China unveils 600 kph maglev train"

justaguy88 — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 15:58:50 +0000

I'm now imagining higher power Renault Twizys everywhere

New comment by justaguy88 in "China unveils 600 kph maglev train"

justaguy88 — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 15:54:29 +0000

That would imply that the US can't pay it's debts, but it can by printing more money

New comment by justaguy88 in "Tesla’s new patent involves using table salt to mine lithium"

justaguy88 — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 15:47:14 +0000

To be fair, even doing that is a lot compared to some news sources

New comment by justaguy88 in "Apple employees say the company is cracking down on remote work"

justaguy88 — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:21:30 +0000

Which ones specifically?

New comment by justaguy88 in "Josh: Get the advantages of a monorepo with multirepo setups"

justaguy88 — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:48:30 +0000

Git submodules have an annoying attribute: double commit

First you commit/push to one repository

Then you update the submodule pointer in the parent repository

New comment by justaguy88 in "Electric aircraft set to take flight by 2026 under new agreements"

justaguy88 — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 21:29:56 +0000

I've always wondered about this, do electric cars charge each cell in parallel? or are there some series connections?

New comment by justaguy88 in "Electric aircraft set to take flight by 2026 under new agreements"

justaguy88 — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 21:27:37 +0000

Applying for a US work visa or residency involves writing down so much about yourself (inc. getting fingerprints), that pre-check afterwards feels like just re-providing a subset of the same paperwork

New comment by justaguy88 in "Business should be booming, if only there were enough workers for the job"

justaguy88 — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 22:26:06 +0000

Raise wages

New comment by justaguy88 in "We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments"

justaguy88 — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 16:10:34 +0000

The landlord can decide if it's worth paying them then