Hacker News: phatbyte

New comment by phatbyte in "How babies and young children learn to understand language"

phatbyte — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 11:04:37 +0000

I can chime in.

My wife is from Germany, and I'm from Portugal, we both speak English with each other which is easier (DE is very hard for me to learn), but she talks DE with the little one and I talk PT with him.

He can speak perfectly DE, PT, and English depending on which language he listens to, which is quite impressive for me as a parent.

He can even maintain a proper conversation and do translations between languages.

Sometimes he adds a word from another language in a phrase but he seems to know what that word is in the correct language.

New comment by phatbyte in "Windows XP Activation: Game Over"

phatbyte — Thu, 18 May 2023 22:09:50 +0000

Never had problems installing any major Linux dist, but 15 years ago I still remember the boring and time consuming on patching the kernel with custom patches so that my wi-fi card or gfx card could work.

I stopped trying to use Linux as a desktop OS since then. But recently I tried for fun installing Ubuntu and everything just worked out of the box.

I still feel Linux is too fragmented, too many package managers, too many UI managers etc...but that's part of the beauty of it I guess.

New comment by phatbyte in "Show HN: Filmbox, physically accurate film emulation, now on Linux and Windows"

phatbyte — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 09:16:17 +0000

And at a reasonable price. Thank you for sharing this.

New comment by phatbyte in "I don’t believe in sprints"

phatbyte — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 12:58:08 +0000

I think the author completely misses the point or never worked in a proper agile team.

Imagine running a marathon without mile markers. Sprints are like mile markers they help you know and adjust your velocity and capacity to reach the end goal.

Without these sorts of tools you are just running without any sense of achievement or tuning to your teams performance.

New comment by phatbyte in "I hate what video games have become"

phatbyte — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 21:13:07 +0000

"...you are watching Avengers End game in Netflix and they ask you if you wanna pay 5 dollars more to watch Captain America use his well known outfit instead of regular clothes?..."

For the love of whatever-god-or-not-you-believe, don't give them ideas

New comment by phatbyte in "Ask HN: Why doesn't HN alert users in some manner to new replies?"

phatbyte — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:10:30 +0000

No thanks.

New comment by phatbyte in "Do Dev Careers Die at 35?"

phatbyte — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 07:55:20 +0000

The article mentions the usual path is from junior dev to product manager. In all my almost 20 years of experience I've never seen a developer go to PM as a natural career progression.

Its not even a technical role at all, no idea where this came from

New comment by phatbyte in "I was let go for refusing to deploy a dark pattern"

phatbyte — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 13:29:59 +0000

> They had no version control.

Had to read this two times and check the year of the article to make sure this wasn't from 2001

New comment by phatbyte in "Mark Zuckerberg's Ponzi Scheme (2019)"

phatbyte — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 21:06:48 +0000

I don't understand the correlation of PHP in this case. It's not about the stack but about the time vs opportunity.

New comment by phatbyte in "Facebook Container for Firefox"

phatbyte — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:41:20 +0000

While I appreciate this kind of solutions, in my brain all I can think is: what the hell is wrong with the web today?

I mean, what did we do to ourselves? How the hell did we ruin the web experience this much?

Looking back in the 90s, the web wasn't the most pretty thing but how simple it was. You went to a news website and that was it. Click, read, the end.

These days however:

- Go to a news/content website

- wait for the 40MB of useless CSS and JS "minified" crap to download.

- Agree with 2 or 3 huge popups to allow collect your data

- Get a new popup to make you disable your ad-blocker plugin. And if you disable it, you need to refresh the page all over again.

- Get a "subscribe to our newsletter" popup

- Get tracked by amazons, facebooks, etc...

- And once you finally click on an article.... get another popup to subscribe to their premium paid content...

Seriously, we broke the web, and now we are trying to fix it with putting more plugins and tools on top of this problem. I just feel the web is fighting against us and our browsers, and in the end everyone will loose.

New comment by phatbyte in "Hiring Without Whiteboards"

phatbyte — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 07:54:33 +0000

I see Ableton on that list, is probably one of the most used DAW applications used in music production, everyone who's in audio production, engineering know these guys. I'd take a job with this company any time instead of working for a Google/Facebook as another code monkey

New comment by phatbyte in "Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?"

phatbyte — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 07:23:21 +0000

I'm pretty sure no-one from the future will have a way to plug his/hers mini-USB-XC or whatever the usb name will be at the time in the future (USB standards are just a mess).

New comment by phatbyte in "Show HN: Create a Deep Fake Video from Any Image"

phatbyte — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 08:51:24 +0000

What are you doing with the data collected? I don't see anywhere a privacy policy, gdpr or anything

New comment by phatbyte in "Remote working – Bringing sanity to mind and lessons worth learning"

phatbyte — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:26:38 +0000

Have you tried a co-working space? For me it helped me a lot

New comment by phatbyte in "Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version"

phatbyte — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 13:04:22 +0000

Which free alternatives?

New comment by phatbyte in "Boeing’s Flying Car Has Taken Off"

phatbyte — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:22:21 +0000

I never understood the appealing of flying cars. Not only it looks much more dangerous than cars in case of accidents, but also picture yourself living in a city with millions of these flying around, always covering sun light, noise, just visually horrible

German HR and recruiting platform Personio raises $40M Series B led by Index

phatbyte — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:18:31 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/personio-series-b/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18929675

Points: 3

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New comment by phatbyte in "pH7Builder: An Open Source Social Dating CMS"

phatbyte — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 12:19:45 +0000

Are people still using the web for dating? I thought mobile was taking all the pie.

New comment by phatbyte in "Why I didn’t fix your bug"

phatbyte — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:35:46 +0000

> -2h private (eat, exercise, shower, read, girlfriend, etc.)

How to manage to do all of this in 2h? Just for Gym it's always around 40-50m, not counting the time to get there and back. Eat unless you always order out it takes also 40-50 (prep and eat).

New comment by phatbyte in "Show HN: A game my 12-year-old daughter wrote"

phatbyte — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 14:58:22 +0000

Awesome art style, but I wish the toolbox had labels, after I watered the plant, it transformed into a pumpkin and gave an unknown item. No idea what to do with that :X