Hacker News: kyle_t

New comment by kyle_t in "Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company"

kyle_t — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:45:11 +0000

Google Fiber has been aggressively upselling us to a higher plan the last 6-12 months, prior to that in my 6 years with them I don't remember a single upsell. Guess I know why now, trying to grease the numbers for the highest possible sale price.

I'll be sure to take this as a warning sign in the future with other services if aggressive upselling starts happening unexpectedly.

New comment by kyle_t in "Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Just 10 Days"

kyle_t — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:15:47 +0000

Fruit does not have added sugar and the fiber in fruit helps slow the digestion of the fructose greatly dampening the negative effects of the sugar. Plus fruit is loaded with naturally occurring vitamins essential to the human body.

New comment by kyle_t in "Show HN: Feature voting for GitHub"

kyle_t — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:50:07 +0000

I've been looking for something like this for a while now but honestly if you run a non-technical service requiring your users to sign up for a github account (just to vote on features) is a pretty big ask. Integration with other AUTH services like Facebook/Google would be very beneficial.

New comment by kyle_t in "Understand contracts before you sign them"

kyle_t — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 13:13:17 +0000

I think there are two things at play here.

1. People perceive they don't have a choice. For example when you visit the doctor and you have to sign 12 different form/contracts. Most people believe they either sign them or don't get treated.

2. Fear of not understanding. They think they wouldn't understand they legalese even if they tried, so why even bother? Personally I don't blame them. I've read contracts that were so wordy and had so much legalese in them you'd be convinced the lawyers wrote them that way just so everyone involved would need to hire as many lawyers as possible simply to understand the darn thing.

New comment by kyle_t in "Yii Framework 2.0.0 GA"

kyle_t — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 02:28:47 +0000

Agreed. They are both solid frameworks and I've used both fairly heavily. I personally find Laravel more 'natural'. I have to refer back to the documentation in Yii far more often.

New comment by kyle_t in "What I Learned After I Published My Twitter Password"

kyle_t — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:46:51 +0000

I was completely shocked when I read this yesterday morning while drinking my morning coffee. The best outcome that could arise from the author disclosing his password is him receiving hundreds of texts that day. I understand the point he is making, but still a very risky move.

New comment by kyle_t in "Moniker.com's new and revamped interface is a disaster"

kyle_t — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:23:37 +0000

^ This. Ever since Namecheap went through their 'rebranding' the site has been slow and at times completely unusable. I consistently get timeouts when performing basic tasks. The old site was ugly but it worked. The new site is slightly less ugly and it barely works. They had a lot of goodwill built up which they are slowly chipping away at.

New comment by kyle_t in "Chris Lattner on Swift"

kyle_t — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:55:46 +0000

Site seems to be buckling under load. Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

New comment by kyle_t in "OS X Yosemite"

kyle_t — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:38:06 +0000

This. People sing to the heavens of how stable OSX is and how it just works. I've had as many if not more issues than with my Windows 7 Samsung laptop.

Wifi constantly needs manually disabling/enabling, Bluetooth Audio crashes are common, I average one full system crash per month, display settings reset themselves magically and Finder is infuriating. I should be keeping a log of all the issues I have.

This is on a 2014 Macbook Pro.

New comment by kyle_t in "Sergey Brin's Home Page"

kyle_t — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:30:45 +0000

No kidding. I was bummed to find most of the links broken.

Reset the Net

kyle_t — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 21:35:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.resetthenet.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7395257

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kyle_t in "2048"

kyle_t — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 01:05:38 +0000

I was surprised at how well that worked. I was basically blindly cycling between left,down,right (with one accidental up) and got to 1024 on my first try.

New comment by kyle_t in "The 10x Engineer and Delegated Responsibility"

kyle_t — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:59:40 +0000

I disagree. I think its important to take 'ownership' of your work. Its the best way to obtain visibility in your organization and (for me at least) creates a sense of satisfaction and pride.

If I was just a cog in the machine of the corporate wheel churning through small tasks on a daily basis it would be hard to keep motivated. In fact a lack of ownership for work is what allows large companies to carry so much dead weight for so long. Employees stagnate and start coasting.

I do however take your point to heart and realize taking ownership does not mean I am up til 2am frequently trying to meet unrealistic deadlines.

New comment by kyle_t in "Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit"

kyle_t — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:46:24 +0000

I am curious what Bill Gates (or anyone who doesn't necessarily have an immediate profit making venture to promote i.e an actor) hopes to achieve with an AMA?

I can't imagine they are very much fun after the first dozen questions. Promoting philanthropy to a wider audience? Bringing the spotlight on a specific cause?

Its awesome that someone as busy and important as Bill Gates is willing to take the time to do this whatever his reasons, I'm just wondering the reason why?

I Spent Two Hours Talking With the NSA’s Bigwigs. Here’s What Has Them Mad

kyle_t — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 05:25:19 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/nsa-surveillance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7182054

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by kyle_t in "Take Buffett's Billion"

kyle_t — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 01:55:17 +0000

Did anyone else's email address get auto submitted without having to hit submit?

New comment by kyle_t in "Google Video Quality Report"

kyle_t — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:37:26 +0000

^this. Same with Netflix though for me. Where are you based? I'm in Austin, Tx.

Any of the speed tests online will report 30mbps/5mbps, but I'm unable to stream HD on Youtube or Netflix during peak times.

New comment by kyle_t in "Korean carriers to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps network this year"

kyle_t — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 04:04:16 +0000

After travelling/living in Southeast Asia for 8 months and paying between $5-10/month for LTE speeds that are consistently more reliable and quicker than in the USA it makes me shudder when I get my bill every month for $100+ for two lines. Granted there are differences i.e labor costs and total land area coverage, but on the whole the price difference doesn't make up for it.

New comment by kyle_t in ""It's the (Backblaze) restores that fail.""

kyle_t — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 03:57:14 +0000

I had the exact same situation three years ago with Carbonite. Had 80GB of data that I was never able to be restore. Their only means of amending the situation was offering a year for free. Never again. I had a local backup but it was unfortunately 3+ months out of date. Now I keep everything locally backed up with a NAS and a mix of dropbox/google drive.

New comment by kyle_t in "Tesla Motors’ Over-the-Air Repairs"

kyle_t — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:25:34 +0000

Its only a matter of time before over the air car hijacking becomes a real problem. I think I prefer my car not be wirelessly susceptible.