Hacker News: megadopechos

New comment by megadopechos in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

megadopechos — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:44:46 +0000

What's happens when that third-party identification verifier has a data breach?

New comment by megadopechos in "Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise"

megadopechos — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:32:08 +0000

After reading the third "rounding error" phrase I quit.

New comment by megadopechos in "Should QA exist?"

megadopechos — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:33:01 +0000

Absolutely QA "should" exist. Our QAs are the most knowledgeable people on our product, often informing devs and product alike of requirements, missing requirements, weird configuration outliers, how to actually use the damned app, etc. Without QA we would be developing and testing for brittle requirements to get code into an MVP state, not a functional, user-friendly state.

New comment by megadopechos in "2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal?"

megadopechos — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:57:49 +0000

> Java cli is a solution looking for a problem

That's a great way of putting it. I'm a Java developer also; I'm most comfortable with Java and, dare I say, I like Java. But Java would be far down the list of tools I'd use to make a CL program.

New comment by megadopechos in "Tinnitus Neuromodulator"

megadopechos — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 13:24:26 +0000

Same. I got it when I was 19 from recording music and the audiologist said, "This is something only old people get, and even then very gradually. You will either go crazy or depressed." But I've gotten used to it and I wouldn't say it's been a huge detriment.

New comment by megadopechos in "Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan"

megadopechos — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 03:27:10 +0000

"Your data privacy is of the utmost importance to us."

No it ain't.

New comment by megadopechos in "Do you want to be doing this when you're 50? (2012)"

megadopechos — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:04:27 +0000

Yeah, I'll take it all day long. I'm not even done with my first year of my first software engineering job so perhaps I'm full of optimism and hope. But in a previous life I was cooking on a line and moving tons of gravel with a wheelbarrow with my brother. I much prefer my situation now.

New comment by megadopechos in "Software developer arrested in connection with murder of healthcare executive"

megadopechos — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 23:15:28 +0000

Aaaaand it's gone.

New comment by megadopechos in "Ask HN: Is GitHub down?"

megadopechos — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:03:08 +0000

That is funnily.

New comment by megadopechos in "Incident with Issues and Pull Requests"

megadopechos — Thu, 11 May 2023 13:48:16 +0000

Very helpful 500 page: "In the meantime, try refreshing."

New comment by megadopechos in "De-dollarization is happening at a ‘stunning’ pace"

megadopechos — Wed, 03 May 2023 12:22:47 +0000

Lots of people, perhaps. But not enough. Or not enough media coverage to reach enough people.

I was there marching in DC and even my close friends and family (in suburban DC) seemed to be unaware of the protests. I thought, surely, with 100,000 people protesting in the city, Black Bloc hanging from streetlights, speeches from celebrities, Jesse Jackson, a former Defense Secretary, etc., that it would pop up on the local news. I never heard about it.

New comment by megadopechos in "Oral Sex Stoking Throat Cancer ‘Epidemic’ in UK and US"

megadopechos — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 19:38:14 +0000

Almost 40 here and my doctor recommended I get it since my father died of throat cancer and I couldn't recall if I'd ever been vaccinated for HPV. Here's hoping!

New comment by megadopechos in "OldLinux: Ancient Linux Resources"

megadopechos — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 13:47:33 +0000

Same with my stack of 2600 Magazines from the late 90s. I'm never going to read them, nobody I know is interested in them, but I'm never going to throw them away.

New comment by megadopechos in "Instagram Threatened Removal of Verified Status for Posting Snapchat Content"

megadopechos — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:39:12 +0000

What is posting Snapchat?

New comment by megadopechos in "Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters for You"

megadopechos — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 15:20:27 +0000

Because the amenities and attractions and character of the city are being ruined by the flood of people moving here.