Hacker News: nickonline

New comment by nickonline in "Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?"

nickonline — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:18:47 +0000

From the list of businesses in this thread this was the one that caught my eye. However, I am Australian and a lot of the time businesses don't ship here. Like you say, it's a physical business, you need to move physical products.

I opened your website and immediately looked for shipping, 'countries you ship to' is nowhere to be found until checkout, where there is a dropdown with no options other than the USA.

New comment by nickonline in "Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client"

nickonline — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:00:32 +0000

I doubt it will be most new devices that actually use data are now being shipped with it, even my drone came with usb-c

Soon enough there will be a major shift

New comment by nickonline in "Google suspends some business with Huawei"

nickonline — Mon, 20 May 2019 04:06:13 +0000

They use massive mega apps e.g. WeChat

New comment by nickonline in "Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output"

nickonline — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 01:04:54 +0000

You're probably requesting with a degree of sense.

If you requested your 5.6 weeks off all at once and over an go-live date that you were 100% responsible for, you might receive a request to see if you could move those holidays a bit later

New comment by nickonline in "The Path Amazon Rejected"

nickonline — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 03:43:40 +0000

They offered Amazon $3B tax breaks, while the city would have profited $27B. The city would have a net gain of $24B.

Now the city doesn't gain anything.

New comment by nickonline in "Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR"

nickonline — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 04:54:50 +0000

I'm not sure VR headsets are the future of gaming either.

I had one of the PSVR headsets and it makes gaming even more isolationist.

Playing a console (where I believe the majority of gamers come from) is quite casual, you sit on the couch quite a distance from the screen with a basic controller.

Playing on the PC is more serious endeavour, often with headphones and sitting quite close to the screen.

VR is even more serious than playing on the PC, you need a dedicated space (to run around), you're completely cut off from the outside world.

VR means you really want to set yourself up for a long gaming session, due to the headset it is always going to be quite isolationist in ways other avenues are not.

New comment by nickonline in "Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset (2017)"

nickonline — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 13:27:36 +0000

I was on that project as a grad.

They spent a billion dollars, over 5 years, with a staff of 1,000 strong to replace old software.

I would be surprised if even 20 of the 1,000 were touching COBOL.

New comment by nickonline in "Dugout Loop"

nickonline — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 04:35:54 +0000

> besides getting a few folks home faster.

How is that not solving a problem? Isn't this the purpose of undergrounds/metros?

New comment by nickonline in "North American vs. Japanese zoning"

nickonline — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 13:49:06 +0000

8 inches of weeds is a pretty solid amount of weeds

New comment by nickonline in "British geologist Herbert Henry Thomas’ seminal study on Stonehenge was wrong"

nickonline — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 14:06:44 +0000

YBB YBP?

This is some pretty incredible jargon is this widely used, I've never seen it before and needed to look it up.

Is it really that hard to say 2,500 years ago?

New comment by nickonline in "D3.js 5.0 is out"

nickonline — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:05:45 +0000

You could change that.

I loved using D3 directly and found it amazing.

New comment by nickonline in "The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data"

nickonline — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:17:53 +0000

If it's really needed, why the aren't tax dollars enough?

New comment by nickonline in "Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bayshore project (2017)"

nickonline — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 09:54:55 +0000

Is the condominium not a part of a larger building?

New comment by nickonline in "Digital upstarts taking on Britain's dominant few banks"

nickonline — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 23:52:01 +0000

Digital servicing and apps, no need to head into a branch, ever.

New comment by nickonline in "Australia’s new real-time banking payments platform"

nickonline — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:05:08 +0000

The banks spent $1B dollars,

What are you saying they've not adopted.

New comment by nickonline in "Australia’s new real-time banking payments platform"

nickonline — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:01:15 +0000

neither of these are acceptable government business reasons to keep cash

New comment by nickonline in "Australia’s new real-time banking payments platform"

nickonline — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 11:58:12 +0000

It's SWIFT based.

New comment by nickonline in "Europe’s new data protection rules export privacy standards worldwide"

nickonline — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 22:26:25 +0000

They didn't do much about equifax so I'd be very suspicious of such statements about American data protection standards.

New comment by nickonline in "Apple Developer Program Membership Fee Waivers Now Available"

nickonline — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 22:20:03 +0000

Side note, just was delivered a Shield.

They are horrible. - Constantly hijacking HDMI from other sources - Remote has a sticky down button - Voice turns on and off for no reason and starts operating.

New comment by nickonline in "Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret"

nickonline — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 06:36:33 +0000

None of the banks really wanted instant transactions, it's expensive, the RBA essentially forced them to.