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New comment by kintamanimatt in "MacBook Air with M5"

kintamanimatt — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:06:23 +0000

How did it fail?

New comment by kintamanimatt in "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)"

kintamanimatt — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:49:56 +0000

Yeah, but while they might not be convinced, some stranger that needs this information may stumble across it -- and it may do them good to read it. ADHD is no joke and stimulant medications are vitally important, as one component, in the treatment of ADHD.

New comment by kintamanimatt in "Google Drops Plan to Offer Bank Accounts"

kintamanimatt — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 17:38:04 +0000

With their track record of discontinuing products I wouldn’t dream of signing up, even if it were offered and amazing. Who knows when the rug would be pulled out from under my fiscal feet?

New comment by kintamanimatt in "Show HN: DotComAgain – Find free dropped .com domains"

kintamanimatt — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:50:17 +0000

How does one even get a list of dropped domains to populate this database? This is something I really have no knowledge about.

New comment by kintamanimatt in "Covid-19 down in 24 counties with mask mandates, up in 81 counties without"

kintamanimatt — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 07:39:32 +0000

Many counties in Western Kansas, are, apparently COVID hot spots, at least that’s according to this article: https://www.hutchnews.com/news/20201101/western-kansas-riddl...

New comment by kintamanimatt in "Some airlines and regulators ground 737 Max in wake of Ethiopian Airlines crash"

kintamanimatt — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:09:27 +0000

As per your link and also Wikipedia, Ryanair doesn’t operate any 737 MAX yet, but have placed orders for them.

Linux (Ubuntu) Benchmarks for Server Side Swift vs. Node.js

kintamanimatt — Sat, 05 May 2018 08:54:34 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@rymcol/linux-ubuntu-benchmarks-for-server-side-swift-vs-node-js-db52b9f8270b?source=linkShare-8924fec9bfdc-1525509833

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17000975

Points: 2

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New comment by kintamanimatt in "Why Bitcoin will fail"

kintamanimatt — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 03:11:50 +0000

Debt collectors calling and having your credit score dinged isn’t the definition of violence.

New comment by kintamanimatt in "Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp"

kintamanimatt — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 07:41:40 +0000

Particularly for those living in Europe, or those that have a lot of international friends - all with phone numbers from different countries - it's a godsend. My phone bill would be ridiculous if I were texting my friends in Sweden or Brazil from my Dutch SIM. iMessage for similar reasons.

Also the group messages are great. My housemates and I all talk via a WhatsApp group. It makes it far easier to hold a coherent group conversation when some of us aren't at home. SMS would be a ballache.

Oh and GIFs, voice messages, and videos can be sent in messages. Free calling too. I can call my friends in Australia for nothing, and it's not a bullshit experience like Skype.

I almost never send true blue SMS any longer.

New comment by kintamanimatt in "Watch All the Apple TV Aerial Video Screensavers (2015)"

kintamanimatt — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 15:24:04 +0000

I've tried it out and it appears to stream them, however, there's an option to cache the videos locally.

New comment by kintamanimatt in "Watch All the Apple TV Aerial Video Screensavers (2015)"

kintamanimatt — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 10:35:09 +0000

For those that are wondering: this installs these screensavers on MacOS. https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial

New comment by kintamanimatt in "Apple starts cutting the bloat from iTunes by removing iOS App Store"

kintamanimatt — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:17:38 +0000

Plug the phone in with a cable, and drag them into te Tunes folder on the device. There doesn't seem to be any way to delete them now though!

New comment by kintamanimatt in "Snapchat pulled off the only good April Fools’ Day prank this year"

kintamanimatt — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 07:41:34 +0000

Instagram has a long history of copying Snapchat, so Snapchat copied Instagram's interface/features as a joke for April Fool's Day.

New comment by kintamanimatt in "Germany Tries to Catch Up with Startup World"

kintamanimatt — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:34:36 +0000

If you were to do it again in a different country, where would you choose?

New comment by kintamanimatt in "Germany Tries to Catch Up with Startup World"

kintamanimatt — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:32:22 +0000

Cultural issues aside, Germany needs to make it easy and inexpensive to start, run, and close a business if it wants to compete. At the moment it seems to be a bureaucratic burden. Unfortunately Germany isn't an anomaly in this regard in Europe.

New comment by kintamanimatt in "Germany Tries to Catch Up with Startup World"

kintamanimatt — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:18:05 +0000

I'm not sure how tolerance for risk and failure breeds either a Calvinistic work ethic or rugged individualism. These things likely developed in tandem because of America's history, but I'd assert that one can exist without the other. I'd love to be shown why I'm wrong though, if that's the case.

New comment by kintamanimatt in "Germany Tries to Catch Up with Startup World"

kintamanimatt — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:08:46 +0000

Historically yes, but the fallout from Brexit may make London a vastly less attractive option, causing it to lose its spot in the years to come. I honestly can't imagine starting something new in London now -- it's very expensive and it has some big political and economic uncertainties hanging over its head at the moment.

New comment by kintamanimatt in "Germany Tries to Catch Up with Startup World"

kintamanimatt — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:06:51 +0000

xDSL is still used in most places. It generally works well and the infrastructure has been in place for a long time, which is the reason broadband has become so accessible. Fiber is gradually replacing it, but it's a major investment to lay fiber. So xDSL is going to be around for a long time, especially to deliver broadband to customers for whom fiber doesn't make economic sense.

New comment by kintamanimatt in "Germany Tries to Catch Up with Startup World"

kintamanimatt — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:57:21 +0000

They're not suggesting Germans adopt an American-style work culture, but an American-style tolerance for risk and failure.

I'm not sure failure should be praised, but it should be accepted without judgment, and entrepreneurs that haven't succeeded should be lauded for trying. Failure is a necessary part of success. It's cliché, but people really do fail their way to success. So why stigmatize it if it'll discourage entrepreneurs from trying a sufficient number of times in order to be successful?

New comment by kintamanimatt in "The new £1 Coin"

kintamanimatt — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:13:40 +0000

That could have been a mistake. Some coins from New Zealand, for example, look a lot like British currency.