Hacker News: mrbanks

New comment by mrbanks in "Why Google+ Failed"

mrbanks — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 13:47:08 +0000

Totally missing from that blog post: People won't want to use something if Google tries to cram it down their neck. I lost count of the various dirty tactics they used to try force me onto it.

That is the number 1 reason why it failed.

New comment by mrbanks in "China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars"

mrbanks — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:13:05 +0000

Good

New comment by mrbanks in "CQRS and Event Sourcing Intro for Developers"

mrbanks — Wed, 22 May 2019 10:46:33 +0000

This should not be used on 99.999% of real applications. You just end up with a shit show.

New comment by mrbanks in "Google .dev domain early access"

mrbanks — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 17:54:00 +0000

Is everyone at Google fucking bored of the free massages so just makes stupid shit like this?

New comment by mrbanks in "Uber services suspended in Barcelona"

mrbanks — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 10:17:04 +0000

I recently worked in a smaller German city without Uber. It was like stepping back into the stone age.

'MyTaxi' app would only produce an available driver 1 in 20 times I tried.

The only way to get a taxi is to walk out into the freezing street and wait like a penguin, or find one of those random locations Taxis like to park at.

Sucks for the customer. I hope Uber takes over the planet.

New comment by mrbanks in "Automating Datacenter Operations at Dropbox"

mrbanks — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:37:28 +0000

Developers at these big companies get bored & assume they know better than a mature open source solution so like to reinvent a perfectly good wheel basically.

New comment by mrbanks in "Monorepos: Please don’t"

mrbanks — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 08:04:39 +0000

Overly opinionated garbage, imagine having to work with this guy.