Hacker News: kdamken

New comment by kdamken in "Show HN: Escape Team"

kdamken — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 01:20:21 +0000

This is cool. Just a tip, your mobile site’s overflow is messed up, so you can scroll way off site to the right.

New comment by kdamken in "Is going to the office a broken way of working?"

kdamken — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:32:23 +0000

I find it interesting that people have this issue. Unless you’re actually on call, can’t you just snooze slack and emails until the next day?

New comment by kdamken in "Apple TV 4K Gets A12 Bionic"

kdamken — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 19:55:26 +0000

For scrubbing though if you put your finger on the left or right side of the touchpad you will see a little arrow circle on the progress bar. You can then push the pad to scrub.

New comment by kdamken in "A new take on remote/hybrid standups"

kdamken — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:07:00 +0000

This sounds like such a nightmare. Why would anyone subject their team to this?

“You know how stand ups can feel like a waste of time? What if we made them waste even more time? Managers will love it.”

New comment by kdamken in "Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters"

kdamken — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:33:56 +0000

This looks cool, but the pricing is absolutely insane. I saw $10-30 per session. Dming is a lot of work, sure, but that is a steep price. I don’t know many people who would pay $120 a month to play DND.

New comment by kdamken in "Switch from Chrome to Firefox"

kdamken — Fri, 31 May 2019 04:48:33 +0000

Sure, as soon as its dev tools aren’t complete garbage.

New comment by kdamken in "Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter"

kdamken — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:29:36 +0000

That is an interesting point I had never considered.

New comment by kdamken in "The Growth of Reddit"

kdamken — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 02:37:39 +0000

You can also just change that in your account settings to use the old design.

New comment by kdamken in "The Growth of Reddit"

kdamken — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 02:35:49 +0000

If you hit the hamburger icon you can turn off the constant asking you to open the app pop ups.

New comment by kdamken in "“It’s Easier To Ask Forgiveness Than To Get Permission”"

kdamken — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 04:27:44 +0000

I realize I’m missing the point here, but this quote has always struck me as something a rapist would say.

New comment by kdamken in "Android P"

kdamken — Wed, 09 May 2018 14:46:13 +0000

Yeah - buy a stock Android phone from Google, like their Pixel flagship.

New comment by kdamken in "Android P"

kdamken — Wed, 09 May 2018 14:45:27 +0000

...Really?

Lots of people spend way too much time on their phones and want to use it less. That info could help you see what apps you're spending/wasting the most time on and help you decide to cut back on. Seeing that you spent a whole hour on instagram is a helpful wake up call.

Seeing which apps are sending more notifications could help you see which ones are taking up too much of your attention and help you decide whether to turn them off for them.

New comment by kdamken in "Dumber phone"

kdamken — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:50:36 +0000

If you have an iPhone you can set it to be an accessibility shortcut and turn it on/off by pressing the home button three times.

New comment by kdamken in "'The Gig Economy' Is the New Term for Serfdom"

kdamken — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:20:30 +0000

Yeah, so maybe then the writer of the article shouldn't have used that as the title for it.

New comment by kdamken in "The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees"

kdamken — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:54:21 +0000

Base your entire company culture around 40 hour work weeks. If you find people are needing to work more than that to get things done in time, it’s a planning/work load problem, and you need to hire more people.

New comment by kdamken in "Spotify Form F-1"

kdamken — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 03:49:43 +0000

You know you don’t have to tell them you live at different addresses right?

New comment by kdamken in "Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market"

kdamken — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 20:39:52 +0000

So then who pays for the money that was already borrowed?

New comment by kdamken in "Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market"

kdamken — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 20:32:12 +0000

It does when it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.

New comment by kdamken in "Please take care of my plant"

kdamken — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 01:58:01 +0000

There already a bunch of sites out there like that.

New comment by kdamken in "Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1976)"

kdamken — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:10:12 +0000

I don't have a good solution. I just know I don't like how the article defines stupid/intelligent, and that "stupid/smart" have a lot more (often hurtful) connotations than what they really mean.

But then you have the problem of going down the PC rabbit hole where you can't say anything about whether someone is smart or not, and have to live in a pretend world where everyone is the same intelligence even though they're not. So that's no good either.