Hacker News: melvinram

New comment by melvinram in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

melvinram — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:59:07 +0000

This service is provided "as is" without warranty. MalusCorp is not responsible for any legal consequences, moral implications, or late-night guilt spirals resulting from use of our services.

New comment by melvinram in "Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs"

melvinram — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 22:48:58 +0000

Jack Ryan and Reacher are pretty good.

New comment by melvinram in "Ask HN: WWYD? Built a company valued at $1B and may walk away with nothing"

melvinram — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 08:52:37 +0000

Would you still need more financing if you cut costs enough? Are you able to cut costs enough to become profitable, cashflow positive and still grow revenues?

New comment by melvinram in "Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite network capacity"

melvinram — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 22:18:11 +0000

It wasn't omitted. It was covered in the keynote. It's also on their website:

  Let friends know how remote you go.
  
  If you’re on an adventure without cell service, 
  you can now use Find My to share your location 
  via satellite so friends and family know where you are.

New comment by melvinram in "Yahoo admits mangling e-mail (2002)"

melvinram — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 18:33:46 +0000

When they don't charge money for it and you're not using it (so no views for ads), they aren't getting paid and it's costing them storage money. How is it hard to see that they are giving it away for free?

New comment by melvinram in "Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer"

melvinram — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:48:02 +0000

> Apple with settings ads

Say more?

New comment by melvinram in "Voltswagen of America"

melvinram — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:23:30 +0000

Imagine telling someone in 2003 that this was going to happen. It would have been seen as a joke (as some are seeing it today) or something that absolutely wouldn't happen.

If this is not a joke, this seems like the best indicator that Tesla is meeting it's mission to "accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy."

Tip of the hat to Elon.

New comment by melvinram in "When Jewish wives beefed with butchers and changed the world"

melvinram — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:09:19 +0000

Why is this on "Hacker News"?

New comment by melvinram in "Tobias Lutke still writes code for Shopify"

melvinram — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:09:29 +0000

There are numerous comments that essentially are saying "he shouldn't be doing this." That's shortsighted. You don't have insights into how this is working in practice for them. He, together with the other people at the company, have built an offering that is serving and satisfying millions of people. If there are problems with it, they are his problems to deal with. Why are you so hot and bothered about it? Focus on building your own cool shit. Be productive.

New comment by melvinram in "Snowden: Tech Workers Are Complicit in How Their Companies Hurt Society"

melvinram — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 07:20:41 +0000

> Of course we are ... more involved in ad tech

Not all tech is ad tech. Please don't lump all tech into your statement of "get paid to sell out those beneath us for a dollar".

New comment by melvinram in "Grubhub stock halted after report Uber is eyeing a takeover"

melvinram — Tue, 12 May 2020 15:46:55 +0000

To be fair, it's not just for delivery. It's for bringing the restaurant customers/revenue.

New comment by melvinram in "Shirt Without Stripes"

melvinram — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:27:50 +0000

`shirt -stripes` gives the type of results one would expect. I guess we haven't reached that level of natural language processing yet.

New comment by melvinram in "IBM to face trial for lowering sales commissions after deals are closed"

melvinram — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 11:56:26 +0000

Without "sales leeches", many very successful companies would not be able to employ the large amounts of engineers they employ.

Not all sales professionals are used-car slime-balls. I've known many sales pros that really get to understand the needs and problems of a potential customer and aim to truly help them solve their problems. That's the only way lasting relationships get built and repeat business is earned. It's hard work, requires talent and is filled with constant disappointment. I can appreciate someone who is able to be successful in that type of world.

And no, I'm not a salesperson. I'm an engineer.

New comment by melvinram in "UK government to pay up to 80% of wages for employees not working"

melvinram — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:38:21 +0000

Yes, but the goal should not be to treat everyone fairly. The goal should be to help people get through this crisis.

New comment by melvinram in "Ask HN: What is your learning plan for 2020?"

melvinram — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 19:50:03 +0000

> anyone on here has good recommendations for this area

Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi

New comment by melvinram in "Jack Welch has died"

melvinram — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 15:49:47 +0000

Pardon my ignorance on the topic, but why would moving a business into new areas be considered lucky?

I wouldn't consider Apple moving into phones as lucky. Would you?

New comment by melvinram in "Show HN: Kareer Day – Learn About Jobs by People Who've Done Them"

melvinram — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 23:13:37 +0000

New comment by melvinram in "Brave launches 1.0"

melvinram — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 21:25:24 +0000

Give me an ad-free option. I'd rather pay a monthly fee to fund the BAT that gets distributed to content creators than to view ads.

New comment by melvinram in "Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads"

melvinram — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 17:20:32 +0000

It says that right on the page:

> Keep in mind, keyword searches return only ads related to politics or issues of importance. You can try your search again and select from the Page results.

New comment by melvinram in "Engineer.ai raises $29.5M Series A for its AI+Humans software building platform"

melvinram — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 15:11:46 +0000

> AI+Humans

Sounds like just marketing bull. It sounds like they have libraries and they are using them to spin up apps faster. That might have value if the libraries are good but that's clearly not AI.