Hacker News: kreitje

New comment by kreitje in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

kreitje — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:14:47 +0000

Reading your responses it seems like your angle is to fake looking like a human by using the blue bubble. Are you worried your users will ruin the trust of the blue bubble thus killing your product with your product?

New comment by kreitje in "WordPress Plugin Repository Inaccessible to WP Engine Hosted Sites"

kreitje — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:00:01 +0000

Confirmed by Wordpress: https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-banned/

New comment by kreitje in "Apple plans a slow, appointment-only rollout of Vision Pro"

kreitje — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 19:51:26 +0000

A few years back I bought a MBP online with the pickup option. I picked it up, declined their assistance setting it up and went about my day.

I get home later that day, start to set it up and it’s locked to employees of a bank in Canada. Live support is no help so I take it back, only to find out the serial number did not match that on the box. They had their security guard quietly come stand near me until they figured out what they wanted to do.

The sales guy told me since they can’t prove I stole it they were giving me a different one. I think they knew it was previously returned and realized they got scammed by someone else the first time around.

This time I made sure I could login before I left.

Within the return window the new 16” came out at the same price so I took it in and swapped it for the 16”. They just took it, handed me the new laptop, transferred Apple Care and sent me on my way. It made sense as they didn’t bother to verify the box/device serial number with me. They took my word and processed everything in a matter of minutes.

New comment by kreitje in "As Carvana crashes, used car dealers, not buyers, stand to win big"

kreitje — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 02:15:21 +0000

I bought one from them about 3 months ago and it was excellent.

I couldn’t get a local dealership to give me the sticker price of a car on their website without showing up in person. I expected all the extra fees they throw in to be hidden but all they would post was MSRP and to call for the price. I call and they pretend to not know the car I am talking about and need to go there to see the specific car. This was multiple dealers.

Carvana though showed me the price, shipping if any, taxes, tag, title before I even tried to buy it.

New comment by kreitje in "AWS down again?"

kreitje — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 14:23:32 +0000

I get the "We're sorry!" page on this link, but when I go to console.aws.amazon.com it works.

New comment by kreitje in "Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked"

kreitje — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 19:06:41 +0000

They check the referrer, see it's from HN and redirect to an image instead.

So by copy + paste into a new tab, it will lose the HN referrer.

New comment by kreitje in "Facebook, Ray-Ban debut picture-taking smart glasses"

kreitje — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 19:14:06 +0000

I've been in a hand full of k-12 schools where there are no stall doors. You can walk in the bathroom and make eye contact with someone who has their pants around their ankles.

New comment by kreitje in "Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model"

kreitje — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 11:28:50 +0000

FL Rep Randy Fine filed a report with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement that the sheriff was going to plant CSAM on his computer and arrest him for it.

They are even in the same political party.

https://www.reddit.com/r/321/comments/jt32rs/fdle_report_bet...

New comment by kreitje in ".NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI"

kreitje — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 22:09:07 +0000

It will be out with dotnet 6 later this year.

New comment by kreitje in "Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in"

kreitje — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:26:24 +0000

Ha! I worked at a place where every Monday I had to count the number of commits each team member made and put them on a weekly report.

Once the company got bought, my new boss in charge of all developers across all divisions asked me to not mention that again so he doesn't have to do that. Once I moved on, it sounds like ParentCo took a more active role in the development and hopefully they stopped that.

New comment by kreitje in "Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned"

kreitje — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 20:03:12 +0000

I used that for some mortgage documents (pre-closing) that they could email me, but needed a 'wet' signature. I happened to be out of town so accessing a printer and scanner wasn't easy.

I used Preview for the longest time before they questioned 1 of the documents.

New comment by kreitje in "Gainesville, Florida, put its internal emails online with few limits"

kreitje — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 18:12:34 +0000

Yes and no. I have received a handful of requests from lawyers to remove their clients charges from a news aggregator I ran. All of them had their charges dropped but when potential employers were searching them online they would come across the booking information.

New comment by kreitje in "Police turn to private doorbell cameras to help catch criminals"

kreitje — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 15:02:38 +0000

Our sheriff department has come by asking people on our street if we have footage of a car they were looking for. The driver was going door to door checking door handles and took off when confronted by someone at home.

New comment by kreitje in "F-35: What The Pilots Say"

kreitje — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:44:50 +0000

They have their demo team debut this weekend in FL.

https://airandspaceshow.com/f-35-demo/

New comment by kreitje in "Comcast modem activation bug potentially exposed customers’ private data (2018)"

kreitje — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 13:06:59 +0000

In my case, it was the HD receiver. The Comcast guy was surprised I asked for a receipt, and was shocked when I checked the serial number on the modem vs what was on the receipt. They matched, as they should.

Then they still tried to ding me for an unreturned equipment and when I called they said 'it takes 2 - 3 months for it to come off your account'. It eventually did fall off, but was insane for hand delivering it to Comcast/Xfinity.

New comment by kreitje in "NetBeans 10.0"

kreitje — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 21:20:20 +0000

PHPStorm is what I use and hear a lot of. After Zend Studio switched over to Eclipse, I moved to Sublime Text, then PHPStorm/JetBrains

I haven't heard of people using Netbeans for PHP in ages. I don't know if PHPStorm still has their Early Access program, but it basically gave you a free 30 day build of their beta version. Within 30 days there was a new build and the ticker started over again.

New comment by kreitje in "GitHub and Jira Software Integration"

kreitje — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 11:18:23 +0000

YouTrack - https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/?fromMenu

It's pretty extensible and I find it easier to use than Jira.

My complaints aren't necessarily against Jira the software, but the way it got setup at my org. It seemed more for stat building for the PMs to show during their annual review.

New comment by kreitje in "Ask HN: What made your favorite manager/supervisor/CEO so great?"

kreitje — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 19:35:20 +0000

Saw we were generally unhappy working with our biggest client. When the client called for a pricing review with us, and other agencies for their "go to" team, my boss decided to not participate and part ways with the client. Thy were shocked to say the least.

New comment by kreitje in "How Reddit plans to make money through advertising"

kreitje — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:29:01 +0000

Thanks! I never even noticed you could do that when they switched to the new design.

New comment by kreitje in "jQuery CDN having SSL issues"

kreitje — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 20:39:17 +0000

Looks like it's working again.