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New comment by pliuchkin in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

pliuchkin — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:20:07 +0000

Google won't ever take a break until we all pay for YouTube Premium. I think this trojan horse is mostly because of apps like New Pipe, Vanced, SmartTube and ad blockers in general.

New comment by pliuchkin in "Whatever Happened to Cheap EReaders?"

pliuchkin — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:21:00 +0000

Thats even worse than not having cheap ereaders, many countries are nowadays Amazon Kindle's hostage. Brazil for example, used to have many others competitors in the market like 5 to 10 years ago (Kobo, Lev Neo, etc). Now it is just Kindle. If you want to read ebooks, you "have" to buy a kindle.

New comment by pliuchkin in "I won't be vibe coding anymore: a noob's perspective"

pliuchkin — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:18:19 +0000

"I am even consciously scaling back on copilot use now whenever possible, and prioritizing Google search, reading documentation, blog posts and stackoverflow now."

Very soon we will run out of human written articles.

New comment by pliuchkin in "Java in the Small"

pliuchkin — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:12:25 +0000

As for my experience, nothing beats nodejs for fast scripting. Its literally just `npm install x y z` and then fire it up `$ node script.js`. But Im giving Java a chance.

New comment by pliuchkin in "Remembering Cyberia, the first ever cyber cafe"

pliuchkin — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:35:00 +0000

Glad to know about this since I had never had the opportunity to go into a cyber cafe. I recall the first time I saw one, it was in the ending scene of the film The Beach (2000), and it looks very, very similar to the green one in Rotterdam.

New comment by pliuchkin in "AWS us-east-1 down"

pliuchkin — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:49:42 +0000

But IAM is supposed to be Global, not us-east-1

Azure DevOps Outage in South Brazil – Postmortem

pliuchkin — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 19:32:30 +0000

Article URL: https://status.dev.azure.com/_event/392143683/post-mortem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36169744

Points: 3

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New comment by pliuchkin in "Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad"

pliuchkin — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:49:17 +0000

Is it time for a browser extension to ad block Amazon internals?

New comment by pliuchkin in "Lenis – Get smooth or die trying"

pliuchkin — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:14:43 +0000

Reminded me of old Macromedia Flash webpages

New comment by pliuchkin in "Letters about Soap (1997)"

pliuchkin — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 15:18:26 +0000

> In just 5 days here I have accumulated 24 little bars of soap. Why are you doing this to me?

Laughed so much here, but such a kafkaesque nightmare.

New comment by pliuchkin in "What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?"

pliuchkin — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:07:10 +0000

I worked in a room next to a public library in the late 2000s and since the work was not that demmanding, I had plenty of time to read and explore the library. Someday I found a room full of old books that were not catalogued, it was a donation from the family of the town`s main doctor that had recently died. I spent a few weeks exploring his collection and when I went into a science fiction book, I dont remember exactly but I think it was Arthur C Clarke Profiles of the Future, I found a receipt dating beginning 60`s, it was a receipt from an airplane company. The doctor had been the mayor in that time and had paid the company just to have a plane flying low over the town.

I could never exactly figure out his motivations but I like to think that there was some sort of commemoration going on in town and he hired the flight just to have people know what a plane was like. It happened in a very rural area of Brazil, in a town that by time that had not more than 1000 habitants, no television, no paved roads, almost nothing.

New comment by pliuchkin in "A Framework for Engineering Managers"

pliuchkin — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 12:53:26 +0000

Thanks, very useful. I'm just finding it hard do adapt and find a place for the role of a Software/System Architect (which is very common in my industry) in the framework since it conflicts a bit with the other roles, mainly, Tech Lead. I`m thinking of Software/System Architect to be a TL7.

New comment by pliuchkin in "How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel?"

pliuchkin — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:11:44 +0000

This reminded me a novel by Chuck Palahniuk called 'Choke' which one of the characters is addicted to collecting rocks. He is already in the news and perhaps from now on some sort of 'cult' starts.

New comment by pliuchkin in "Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?"

pliuchkin — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 12:46:40 +0000

I've got a LG Gram 16" running with Fedora. Loving it.

New comment by pliuchkin in "Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone"

pliuchkin — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 23:31:23 +0000

That's a good question, the first thing that came to my mind was someone cloning cards.

New comment by pliuchkin in "Design like it’s 1999"

pliuchkin — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:10:33 +0000

"Toggle Accessibility" button forwarding to a clean page.