Hacker News: mehhh

New comment by mehhh in "After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife"

mehhh — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 06:33:20 +0000

Since the McDonalds app was downloaded between 10 to 50 million times, its suddenly "the basic way 100 of millions order their food?”?

Where are the extra 50+ million users you claim coming from? Am I to believe McDonalds has a 100% retention rate after app installation?

New comment by mehhh in "Show HN: How we reduced our Twilio costs 80% by switching to iMessage"

mehhh — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 21:20:03 +0000

Have you run into any rate limiting on iMessage? We usually see bulk messaging (eg: appointment reminders) getting silently dropped by carriers if over 100 messages are sent from that number in a day.

Additionally, what stops Apple from breaking your service, like so many other unofficial chat APIs?

New comment by mehhh in "Californians may have developed herd immunity to coronavirus last year"

mehhh — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 02:03:58 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20200410202251/https://abc7news....

New comment by mehhh in "Amazon to suspend delivery service that competes with UPS, FedEx"

mehhh — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 02:19:16 +0000

Artisinal, drone replicated items you say?

New comment by mehhh in "Amazon to suspend delivery service that competes with UPS, FedEx"

mehhh — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 02:18:25 +0000

Moreso like UPS or Fedex than Instacart, as the Amazon employees aren't picking up unpackaged, unlabeled its.

New comment by mehhh in "Ask HN: What have you built with no-code tools?"

mehhh — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 21:47:56 +0000

We've rebuilt our internal business processes using erxes.io, having one place for email, live chat, Twitter DMs, Facebook & more has been quite handy.

Still working on deeper integrations with our other systems, its API is GraphQL which I'm not super familiar with.

New comment by mehhh in "The internet should be a public utility"

mehhh — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 18:31:36 +0000

All of those providers share the same non-redundant transport provider out of Chelan County FYI. City of Tacoma also has a similar setup, but they moved too early and are stuck with a cable network.

New comment by mehhh in "The internet should be a public utility"

mehhh — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 18:26:32 +0000

Those same DSL techs often know exactly what needs to be done to save the telecom company they work for, deploy GPON.

Verizon broke new ground and did it in the early 2000s, and its the only reason they still have as many customers as they do. The assets they sold to Frontier were partially upgraded, and have taken a beating due to Frontier's internal incompetence and poor service. Reactivating service to an existing ONT should not take more than a few minutes, yet it takes 24+hrs with Frontier.

The cable companies are willing to do what is neccesary to get customers up and running, which is how they have hollowed out the incumbent telecom's business.

New comment by mehhh in "Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote"

mehhh — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 17:11:59 +0000

Sounds like we need to mandate vote by mail as an option for voting nationwide.

New comment by mehhh in "Ask HN: How to get an iOS app for a web SaaS product approved?"

mehhh — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 18:41:05 +0000

Offer a (very restricted) free tier, basically a preview mode.

New comment by mehhh in "Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years"

mehhh — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 00:01:11 +0000

InstaVPN, it mines your traffuc and gives you ICO tokens as a reward!

New comment by mehhh in "What if half of Switzerland's rooftops produced electricity?"

mehhh — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 07:39:59 +0000

This kind of "free market" for electricity tends to drive up infrastructure costs needlessly (see Australia), while incentivizing bad behaviour by generation suppliers in the market (see Enron).

Public utilities generally provide a higher caliber of service at a lower price, with less administrative bloat.

New comment by mehhh in "Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment"

mehhh — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:02:34 +0000

If anything, P2P high bandwidth connections are often more reliable as your traffic likely stays on your ISPs network rather than needlessly hairpinning through a central server outside their network.

Hence why VoIP like WebRTC encourages direct media rather than wasting a trip to a server, the server's peering can often be much worse than a path between two users on residential ISPs.

New comment by mehhh in "AMD reckons it can win the high-end GPU battle"

mehhh — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 07:19:24 +0000

Switch to Wayland, your issue is that Xorg is not tear free by default and Ubuntu has chosen to stick with this legacy stack in 18.04: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/xorg-will-default-displa...

New comment by mehhh in "How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?"

mehhh — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 04:59:51 +0000

Sounds like they did not make a modicum of effort to support any platform.

iTunes was multiplatform (Windows & OS X), if Apple wanted they could invest the resources to do so for Apple Music. Apparently it is not a priority tho

New comment by mehhh in "Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team"

mehhh — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 22:52:27 +0000

I would avoid binning people into builders or maintainers, there are many more issues that could prompt one to leave Tesla and Google, eg: Work environment or ethical issues.

New comment by mehhh in "Linus: Don't Use ZFS"

mehhh — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 04:12:13 +0000

Kroger (and their subsidiaries like QFC, Fred Meyer, Fry's Marketplace, etc), Walmart, Safeway (and Albertsons/Randalls) all use Suse with BTRFS for their point of sale systems.

New comment by mehhh in "Bay Area Regional GTFS Feed: 31 transit agency feeds together in one API"

mehhh — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 03:37:09 +0000

Think of all the people who live closer to the urban core in Boston now, due to this decision not making long distance commuting easier.

Portland started ripping out freeways after I-205 destroyed multiple neighborhoods, and Seattlites organized to stop the central district freeway after watching I-5 vivisect the city, paving parks and neighborhoods.

New comment by mehhh in "Bay Area Regional GTFS Feed: 31 transit agency feeds together in one API"

mehhh — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 03:32:59 +0000

Representation by industry has worked really poorly for Hong Kong, its a key part of why they have the majority of thr population protesting and demanding real democracy, not the corporate controlled legislature that currently presides over HK.

New comment by mehhh in "IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax"

mehhh — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 19:23:19 +0000

Great, sounds like TurboTax will still be able to compete if the IRS gives people tax filings precalculated, as TurboTax can say "We can save you $XXX!"