Hacker News: nogabebop23

New comment by nogabebop23 in "Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing"

nogabebop23 — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:54:52 +0000

... says the person hiding behind a throw-away account

New comment by nogabebop23 in "HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service”"

nogabebop23 — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 20:14:15 +0000

>> or the amount because of which it ends.

a buck to print 15 pages a month on the customer's printer is a sweet deal for HP. It's pure profit and likely adds up. 6 months from now they'll bump it to $1.29 and some executive will get a multi-million dollar bonus.

New comment by nogabebop23 in "HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service”"

nogabebop23 — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 20:12:08 +0000

well they were securing their future revenue streams, so accurate just not the reasonable interpretation.

New comment by nogabebop23 in "HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service”"

nogabebop23 — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 20:10:33 +0000

toner cartridges last forever. I've only used 3-4 over the past 20 years, including the replacement stored for years after I bought it my printer because I assume they would pull that intro-cartridge horseshit but they didn't - they still won!

New comment by nogabebop23 in "San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses"

nogabebop23 — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 03:22:18 +0000

>> makes enough to afford renting a 1bed apartment in a good area

In most cities in the US this is not the definition of wealthy or even well off. living with roommates to save 10K a year does sound like one step above poverty.

New comment by nogabebop23 in "San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses"

nogabebop23 — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 03:20:04 +0000

"dismisses fears that the surcharge will drive companies out of the city, saying the tax is modest in comparison to the cost of moving a business."

...until it's not. Amazon has shown us there are lots of attractive jurisdictions ready to shower companies with tax incentives to relocate; SF feels like a city that's enjoyed the benefits of many factors not directly of their making and they could be in for a strict reckoning. We will see...

New comment by nogabebop23 in "Tobias Lutke still writes code for Shopify"

nogabebop23 — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 03:15:11 +0000

He's not exactly an engineering manager, but he's definitely part of that 1% who don't meet your rule, so it actually fits within the standard perspective.

New comment by nogabebop23 in "Why do printers still suck?"

nogabebop23 — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 05:12:30 +0000

I fear I will jinx my 20-yr-old hp 1200 laser jet that's on maybe it's 4(?) toner and hooked up to our home network via a parallel port to usb adapter. It's yellower than an 8-bit computer but still prints great and fast. One of my best tech purchases ever; I'm glad I resisted the lure of color inkjet and spent 3x much for a b&w laser.

New comment by nogabebop23 in "Winamp for Windows 10"

nogabebop23 — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 23:17:15 +0000

I just want a simple player as well, so I've been using foobar2000: https://www.foobar2000.org/

It doesn't get much more basic...

New comment by nogabebop23 in "Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time"

nogabebop23 — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 14:26:59 +0000

Do you think agriculture hasn't moved into a post-industrial age? Modern farms are tightly integrated into a global supply chain from imputs to product and definitely need to work on the same standardized schedule as the rest of the world.

New comment by nogabebop23 in "Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time"

nogabebop23 — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 14:23:30 +0000

>> Only ~2% of the population are farmers, so even if they did all object the 98% wouldn't care and move forward anyway.

In Canada I think it's about 3% but they are a Very vocal political group and punch beyond their absolute numbers.

New comment by nogabebop23 in "From McDonald's to Google"

nogabebop23 — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 13:26:02 +0000

I think part of it may be that, if he's the (good kind of) hustler his friends state he is, he probably did a million things over that decade period which is really hard to translate into a narrative acceptable for an article like this. I'm in no way equating our situations other than I have ~10 year "consulting" period on my resume that includes probably 20-30 contracts, projects, a few jobs, etc. and it's really hard to break it down into a simple timeline to answer "what did you do from ...". That's my take.

New comment by nogabebop23 in "Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong high-score case will move forward to trial"

nogabebop23 — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:48:12 +0000

This happens all the time in real sports. If you get caught cheating you often forfeit your legacy because everything you've done professionally is suspect, especially if you show a longer-running history of cheating or are caught multiple times.

I'm not sure how you can differentiate the punative nature of banning someone from all future tries because they had cheated indeterminately in the past, but not invalidating all their historical record outside of individiaul cases...

New comment by nogabebop23 in "Mall real estate company collected 5M images of shoppers"

nogabebop23 — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 21:10:49 +0000

You'd think as a former opiate addict you might have a little more understanding and less emotionally negative response to something as mundane as shopping. If you feel this way about people who got to malls, how should I feel about junkies shooting up in my alley?

New comment by nogabebop23 in "Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings"

nogabebop23 — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 21:01:40 +0000

Google will need to learn what customer service is to get any traction in corporate land. I can get decent support from an actual person with a single MS subscription. With google for business we can't even get an email address.

New comment by nogabebop23 in "What Was Remote YC Like?"

nogabebop23 — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 16:29:12 +0000

This sounds a lot like remote-school vs. attending uni in-person. There's still value but you definitely question if the cost justifies what you're receiving. If YC is still getting post-program funding at comparable levels as the in-person batches then I'd guess it is worth it; is this the case?

New comment by nogabebop23 in "Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission"

nogabebop23 — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 16:24:11 +0000

>> class actual settlements are Usually underwhelming

not for the firms that bring them: millions in fees & billing, ranging from the upfront certification efforts (riskier) to the payment & settlement (at this stage, risk-free and very lucrative)

New comment by nogabebop23 in "Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission"

nogabebop23 — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 16:21:48 +0000

GrubHub is taking over the relationship between the customer and the restaurant without either of those parties being aware of it. This is clearly a deceptive practice, and now GrubHub influences the customer's perception of the restaurant. Examples of conclusion(cause):

* That place is expensive (GrubHub sets the price which can be higher than the restaurant) * That place screwed up my order (GrubHub's game of telephone made an error) * That place is so slow (The now multi-step transaction slowed down the process)

>> They're saying you'll get food from restaurant X.

They're actually failing to say this, so the reasonable interpretation is "We ARE restaurant X" which is the fraudulent representation at the heart of the case here.

New comment by nogabebop23 in "Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission"

nogabebop23 — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 16:15:04 +0000

Hey, if it's just fast food why does the market even care who prepares it? How long till these food "delivery" services just capture all the addressable market masquerading as a bunch of uninformed, non-participating restaurants and make the food they deliver? Why are they leaving all this extra margin on the table?

New comment by nogabebop23 in "Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission"

nogabebop23 — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 16:11:54 +0000

yes - this is not "opt out", it's not even "default opt-in" like the telecoms got spanked for a few years ago, because they have no pre-existing relationship. It's fraudulent representation.