Hacker News: phillijw

New comment by phillijw in "GitHub blocked me and all my libraries"

phillijw — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 12:24:24 +0000

I am shadow banned. I think because of one comment I made many years ago that was heavily downvoted? I just don't log in anymore. I emailed PG at the time and he said there's nothing he can do.

New comment by phillijw in "Don't include configs in your Git repos"

phillijw — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 03:02:22 +0000

I don't fully agree with the config thing. In microsoft land you can transform your configs based on a build parameter. And if you're using MS SQL you don't even need to use a password login, you give the service account the permissions to access the database. It's pretty harmless and fairly standard.

New comment by phillijw in "Twenty Billionaires Who Started With Nothing"

phillijw — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:33:52 +0000

Doesn't everyone start with nothing?

New comment by phillijw in "Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?"

phillijw — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:10:46 +0000

Interesting. But it really annoys me when people use "begs the question" incorrectly. Look it up!

New comment by phillijw in "Ask HN: Posterous 21.4M views, Tumblr 2.7B. Why?"

phillijw — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:37:21 +0000

The 5 times I've attempted to connect to a posterous page, I've had a connection issue or something went wrong. There are technical problems with posterous and they need to get fixed. And it's slow.

New comment by phillijw in "CSS Positioning 101"

phillijw — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:36:47 +0000

If only we could use this in emails

New comment by phillijw in "USPS sees $8.5 billion loss, warns Congress it'll be broke by 2011"

phillijw — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:10:26 +0000

USPS has become irrelevant

New comment by phillijw in "An umbrella designed using aerodynamic theory to withstand 100km/h winds"

phillijw — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:20:43 +0000

It may stand up to wind but it doesn't look like it keeps the rain off of you. If you have 100mph winds coming in from an angle you better expect the rain to come in at the same angle too

New comment by phillijw in "So you want to start a web startup?"

phillijw — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:21:49 +0000

Have you tried raising a flag out there for anyone to help?