Hacker News: qz2

New comment by qz2 in "Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook"

qz2 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:11:21 +0000

Well you won’t have to next time :)

New comment by qz2 in "Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook"

qz2 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 18:26:32 +0000

I don’t get the charger whining from people. If you add the price of the charger and the wired earphones to the price of the phone then with inflation it’s cheaper than the handsets were in 2018.

I’ve got 7 Apple chargers here as well. This is a completely rational decision which is transitional while we all move to USB-C slowly.

Your general point is right but it’s not the state of the company you need to look at but the direction they are travelling and Apple appears to be heading in the least wrong direction.

New comment by qz2 in "BMW to shame out-of-warranty UK drivers with smart billboards"

qz2 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 13:44:00 +0000

I never factored them into my plans before. I have eliminated them now :)

I drive a tiny little french thing with a chainsaw engine so probably not my market anyway.

New comment by qz2 in "BMW to shame out-of-warranty UK drivers with smart billboards"

qz2 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 13:21:50 +0000

Added BMW to my vendor shitlist.

New comment by qz2 in "Going All in on the Mac App Store"

qz2 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 13:17:56 +0000

Neither did I, until I did.

New comment by qz2 in "Going All in on the Mac App Store"

qz2 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 13:17:34 +0000

WSL distributions and Windows Terminal are both exclusive to the store.

Wait until you try mixed mode windows and Linux containers. That’s the definition of a shitshow.

New comment by qz2 in "Octopuses Like to Punch Fish"

qz2 — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 09:56:46 +0000

Or just don’t bother clicking it.

New comment by qz2 in "Going All in on the Mac App Store"

qz2 — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 23:03:00 +0000

That’s even worse. File system performance is so terrible that it’s unusable for anything past trivial operations. AFAIK it maps the Linux ABI/syscalls to NT and that’s it. So you get the dire small file performance of NTFS to contend with (MFT locking).

Wherever you go there are puddles of this ick to stand in.

I’ve been at this long enough to know when to give up and walk away.

New comment by qz2 in "Going All in on the Mac App Store"

qz2 — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 22:42:20 +0000

Grass is not greener on the windows and WSL side. It’s yellowed and littered with turds to stand in. I run both platforms side by side and the Mac is by far the least painful. Windows 10 on an average day is like gargling sand. I mean for two months now alt-tab is broken on 20H2 release. No fix incoming yet. Zero days unpatched for 90 days etc. On WSL it’s a networking and HyperV encrusted nightmare. Have fun trying to get anything vaguely complicated to do anything even remotely sane. Total shit show.

A fine comparison is the windows App Store which is genuinely like playing Russian roulette with a gun made of butter. The Mac App Store is much much much less crazy.

The Mac has its fair share of suck but my word at least they actually tried to put something cohesive together.

Going to put it honestly but I don’t think Microsoft are earning my respect or attention, just shouting about how wonderful their product is while it’s falling to pieces in my hands.

New comment by qz2 in "Windows 0day privilege escalation still not fixed"

qz2 — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 19:42:17 +0000

Alt+tab has been thoroughly broken on Windows 10 20H2 for over two months now. It randomly switches between the second and third window. No fix in customer facing versions yet either.

They are slow and incompetent.

New comment by qz2 in "Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming"

qz2 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 15:28:17 +0000

Can you please get a different job?

New comment by qz2 in "I rewrote a Clojure tool in Rust"

qz2 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 08:40:15 +0000

This is the most HN article I have ever seen.

New comment by qz2 in "Back to the '70s with Serverless"

qz2 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 22:29:14 +0000

Absolutely not. I was merely an engineer telling truth to the management staff. This taught me a rather large lesson that it’s more about the person’s integrity passing the facts on than the convenience of the facts or the reality of the facts themselves.

I hold myself to a far higher standard than my former employers.

New comment by qz2 in "Back to the '70s with Serverless"

qz2 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 20:40:02 +0000

My house was paid for by someone who was that arrogant :)

New comment by qz2 in "Back to the '70s with Serverless"

qz2 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:32:55 +0000

I worked for an online gambling startup that got owned on launch day and the investors pulled out the day after.

Thank fuck I was just a contractor and not a founder or shareholder.

New comment by qz2 in "The Acorn Archimedes and the first ARM processor"

qz2 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:28:33 +0000

Annoying because over here in the UK everyone shrugs if you mention it now.

New comment by qz2 in "The Acorn Archimedes and the first ARM processor"

qz2 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:25:10 +0000

To be fair it was a bit early technology-wise and they would have had to rip the entire thing out and start again three times since. We did pretty good out of copper in the end.

New comment by qz2 in "Back to the '70s with Serverless"

qz2 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 18:39:44 +0000

There’s at least two layers of indirection and yes I probably could fool you or just blatantly lie.

New comment by qz2 in "Back to the '70s with Serverless"

qz2 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 13:39:51 +0000

I don't believe in anything past 100% portable IaaS platforms. Within those bounds, careful application of AWS is fine.

New comment by qz2 in "Back to the '70s with Serverless"

qz2 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 12:17:47 +0000

There are a lot of religious followers of the one true AWS way of thinking. I dared bitch too loudly about SES delivery policy once and said to look elsewhere and earned the ire of the architectural elite.

This is insane because I'm certified too but a non believer, a concept which does not compute for a lot of people.