Hacker News: middus

New comment by middus in "The economics of dollar stores"

middus — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 11:50:14 +0000

I think that's what was meant with crap

New comment by middus in "How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer"

middus — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 16:51:18 +0000

Maybe ecosia?

New comment by middus in "Berlin’s Popular Shopping Streets Will Go Car-Free"

middus — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 06:24:34 +0000

S-Bahn means Schnellbahn, not Straßenbahn - so it's probably not ironic.

New comment by middus in "CamelCamelCamel: $44.6k disk failure, down until Feb 3"

middus — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 07:13:29 +0000

If the only backups they have are so old that they are deemed obsolete, that's essentially having no backups at all.

New comment by middus in "Britain's 'concentration camp' in Russia"

middus — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 22:37:56 +0000

How do the Dutch come into play here? I am confused.

New comment by middus in "Libor: the bankers who fixed the world’s most important number"

middus — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 07:08:19 +0000

So what? This is not the US where people are sentenced to multiple life sentences. It's the UK, which has a different view on crime and punishment.

New comment by middus in "Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform"

middus — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 11:11:57 +0000

I think he is saying that it works for people who are either "at work" or "at home". Once you want to have your work notifactions during your leisure time, it gets complicated.

New comment by middus in "Failing the startup game at Unbabel"

middus — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:43:40 +0000

Maybe he has to support a family or relatives - who are you to judge how he spends his hard earned money?

New comment by middus in "Why a Six-Figure Salary No Longer Means You’re Rich"

middus — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:13:23 +0000

Just because your job is in Manhattan, does not necessarily mean that you need to live in Manhattan (especially not in that $15k/month penthouse).

New comment by middus in "UK government's password checker sends plaintext password in the URL over HTTP"

middus — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 15:09:25 +0000

XKCDs correct horse battery staple earns merely 40% ("Warning: Your passwords are weak and your digital life is at risk!")

http://www.getsafeonline.org/themes/passwrdcheck/results.htm...

New comment by middus in "Auto-expiring TODO notes in Ruby"

middus — Sat, 17 May 2014 14:58:13 +0000

Alternatively, you could continue using your editor of choice for editing and use grep to identify TODOs in your code.

New comment by middus in "Target removes CEO in wake of cyber attack"

middus — Mon, 05 May 2014 17:12:06 +0000

Don't know. Are they behind a paywall?

New comment by middus in " Amazon Sales Take a Hit in States With Online Tax "

middus — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:39:55 +0000

I concur. But from what I've read online, you'd be the only person that "suits up" to go shopping at Walmart. (Do not live in America, though.)

New comment by middus in "Earth to Mozilla: Come back home"

middus — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 08:11:09 +0000

Ordinary users do not want to disable JavaScript. Hell, they don't even know what it is. Advanced users like you can still use NoScript or about:config.