Hacker News: moogleii

New comment by moogleii in "Transparent leadership beats servant leadership"

moogleii — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:30:58 +0000

It isn't the best written piece, but your snippet feels taken grossly out of context. The rest of it:

"A common response is to invent new work, ask for status reports, and add bureaucracy. A better response is to go back to working on technical problems. This keeps the manager’s skills fresh and gets them more respect from their reports. The manager should turn into a high-powered spare worker, rather than a papersshuffler."

While being an IC and a manager is quite challenging, I think it's worth discussing the various permutations of it (only one of which is what the author has written about). It can lead to all sorts of systems (round robin leadership within a team being probably one of the most experimental). But for a more conservative, traditional system, there are many examples, e.g. Apple leadership coming out of former ICs.

New comment by moogleii in "Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub"

moogleii — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:59:40 +0000

New comment by moogleii in "AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why"

moogleii — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:14:59 +0000

That would be an aside, or a comment, not the point of the article.

New comment by moogleii in "Defiant loyalists paid dearly for choosing wrong side in the American Revolution"

moogleii — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:25:58 +0000

Recently learned that one of Ben Franklin's sons was a loyalist. He fled to England after the war.

New comment by moogleii in "Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes"

moogleii — Wed, 14 May 2025 18:27:25 +0000

I didn't get the impression this was totally replacing static routes. Seemed to be augmenting it. But also, while your concerns are valid, I don't think they are large enough to not try these things.

New comment by moogleii in "All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding"

moogleii — Thu, 01 May 2025 20:08:18 +0000

Fairly misleading wording with such lines like "Most of the funding for all of the major browsers is going away"... it makes it sound like it goes directly towards the individual browser budgets. That might be true of Mozilla since they don't make that many products tbh, but with Apple and Microsoft, there's no evidence Google's payments don't just go straight into a general fund.

New comment by moogleii in "Better typography with text-wrap pretty"

moogleii — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:59:21 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43630964

New comment by moogleii in "Better typography with text-wrap pretty"

moogleii — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:58:17 +0000

Dig deeper. Use a shovel instead of a spade.

New comment by moogleii in "PostgreSQL Full-Text Search: Fast When Done Right (Debunking the Slow Myth)"

moogleii — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:54:53 +0000

There is an art to communicating that I think people learn around their college years...

New comment by moogleii in "I set my phone to 'do not disturb' three years ago – and have never looked back"

moogleii — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:44:27 +0000

On iOS, you can break through dnd with repeated calls (unless you turn that off, too).

New comment by moogleii in "New Google Sheet on half of 13.6" MacBook Air screen is fully covered by popups"

moogleii — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 04:43:58 +0000

That's still awful. We've all become complicit of sites spamming popups after first load. It's so annoying.

New comment by moogleii in "Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time"

moogleii — Fri, 31 May 2024 15:26:38 +0000

A VPN should help with that. E.g. for the Mac folks, Private Relay on vs off was a delta of about 100 city blocks for me.

New comment by moogleii in "How we turned the tide in the roach wars"

moogleii — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:02:24 +0000

Agree there was a lot of filler, but to be fair, your odd out-of-place zinger is just as annoying as the podcast. Fairly unattractive. And the cycle continues.

New comment by moogleii in "A guide to home row mods"

moogleii — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 20:08:13 +0000

I tried them for awhile, but there was always just enough false positives to make it too intrusive for normal work flow, especially if you're normally a fast typer. In the end, it was better to either just add more thumb keys in a custom layout, or eschew such clever shortcuts altogether when using a normal keyboard.

New comment by moogleii in "The audacity of Apple Podcasts"

moogleii — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:54:40 +0000

I'm a bit out of the loop but wouldn't hosts have the original source material that they uploaded? Similar to how users have the source images/videos to whatever they upload to TikTok and Instagram? I suspect neither offer an export either.

Additionally, the author complains that an Apple Podcast user has to go through the app (and all its restrictions), but again, not that different from Instagram posts. As a user, you must go through Instagram to see photos. These users aren't there just for generic hosting, but also for the network effects. For those that want generic hosting, there are other more appropriate services, like google photos or maybe Flickr (or self hosting).

I'm not arguing the Podcasts/Instagram model is better, just that there is fairly old precedent, so the purported shock value seems pretty low.

New comment by moogleii in "Moonwalkers: Shoes that make you walk faster (pre-order)"

moogleii — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 19:56:21 +0000

The child in me is excited, but the adult in me is skeptical of the stairs mode. Unless there's some very obvious physical signal that the skates are in stairs mode, I can see some people injuring themselves trying to mimic the stairs demo because the skates weren't actually in stairs mode.

New comment by moogleii in "An account of travel to the five Indian kingdoms – 723 CE"

moogleii — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 12:37:24 +0000

Maybe it was capped in gold or something

New comment by moogleii in "RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD"

moogleii — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:49:14 +0000

Unlike Windows, there's a separation of concepts between "application" and "windows" on Mac. Closing all the windows of an app doesn't imply closing the app. I actually think the Windows way is sloppy (and I came from Windows). I want that kind of granular control. So many times back in the day, I'd accidentally close all my Internet Explorer windows, and have to pay the time-cost of reopening the app from scratch. It's less annoying now with SSDs, but reopening an app is still more expensive than opening a new window for an already running process.

If I want the app closed, cmd+q / alt+f4. Repeated cmd+w / ctrl+w shouldn't also close the app (IMO).

New comment by moogleii in "Google IoT Core will be discontinued on Aug. 16, 2023"

moogleii — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 23:31:48 +0000

I think he's saying sane businesses will stay away from GCP, leaving the hobbyists, and there aren't enough of them to sustain GCP.

New comment by moogleii in "5G is a joke and the iPhone is the well-timed punchline"

moogleii — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 22:52:39 +0000

I do get excited when I happen to find a mmWave hotspot and can pull 2 gigabit on my phone (for what purpose, I don't know), but after that, life proceeds as normal.