Hacker News: randop

New comment by randop in "Ask HN: Work instead of tech?"

randop — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:06:06 +0000

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. — Matthew 7:7-8, KJV

New GwisinLocker ransomware encrypts Windows and Linux ESXi servers

randop — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 20:43:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-gwisinlocker-ransomware-encrypts-windows-and-linux-esxi-servers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32379705

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Why Windows Phone Was a $7B Failure

randop — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 23:31:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrwsKFyPmXw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32008194

Points: 11

# Comments: 4

Chinese government to dump Windows in favor of Linux

randop — Sun, 08 May 2022 12:51:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/chinese-government-to-dump-windows-in-favor-of-linux/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31303572

Points: 9

# Comments: 5

New comment by randop in "Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker"

randop — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 23:09:18 +0000

For me i use http://www.ipcop.org/ then use the blacklist on http://www.shallalist.de/ Using this on an old laptop.

New comment by randop in "The Benefits of Thinking Small (2010)"

randop — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 23:44:38 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APxGubAkOz0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRWL8-dn_Uk

New comment by randop in "Is timeless UI design a thing?"

randop — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 06:22:26 +0000

Have not yet seen a full UI that have not undergone change. But, there are UI elements that have stand the test of time.

The best example I can think of is Letters and Numbers. We have been using them for a long time to communicate and interact with each other.

New comment by randop in "Escaping the SPA rabbit hole with modern Rails"

randop — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 01:21:08 +0000

I feel like seeing more and more post about criticisms for workflow or framework that it is becoming unhealthy with the developer community.

There is always short comings on every tool and library, and part of responsibility of a good developer is discerning trade-offs.

New comment by randop in "Draw This: a polaroid camera that draws cartoons"

randop — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:57:26 +0000

This is fun. It would be awesome if it can piece together the body so that it would not look like floating t-shirt and pants :D

New comment by randop in "AI Can Detect Illnesses in Human Breath"

randop — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 01:38:54 +0000

This is interesting to see being used in real world. Still wondering what types of cancer it can detect. Maybe throat cancer, who knows.

New comment by randop in "A Swift Developer’s React Native Experience"

randop — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 06:16:07 +0000

> the fact that a Swift iOS developer would now need to still learn some Android with Java to write the Android native code for the feature complicates things greatly. Now you need to know three languages to do a feature on your own.

Can't put it more clearly as you have said.

This is like back in the days of doing cross-browser development where there are 3 of them: IE, Chrome(webkit), Firefox.

New comment by randop in "How SQL Database Engines Work, by the Creator of SQLite (2008) [video]"

randop — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 06:05:25 +0000

Thank you. Very educational. Interesting to know that ORDER BY includes significant performance penalty without LIMIT.

New comment by randop in "The Machine Fired Me"

randop — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 01:03:17 +0000

This story is fascinating. Computers were designed to be black-and-white. It seems like the automation tool that was in place is not transparent or restrictive that its hard to figure out why that happened to you.

Glad to hear that you are able to continue on your job.

New comment by randop in "Ask HN: How to not fail on coding interview questions?"

randop — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 00:18:33 +0000

You are not alone on this one. I myself have also been through this experience.

Have you considered a different option ? How about building your own start-up to serve real business needs? Or working on open source projects. There are a lot of opportunities to look forward into.

Why keep banging your head multiple times on something, when you can use that energy on other meaningful ways.

New comment by randop in "A Bitter Guide to Open Source"

randop — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 23:39:27 +0000

> Some a$#h@!& is gonna come in and whine about something

This is very true just like in our society (good or bad intention it may be). Nice article Ken Wheeler by the way.

How much time do you normally spend writing OSS?

New comment by randop in "I fear Google's control of the web"

randop — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 06:38:03 +0000

All for-profit organizations employ "Boiling frog" [1] strategy depending upon the market, consumers, and as their product goes through evolution. Whether the end-goal of it is for good or not, it's hard to judge.

The fear of change expressed on this article is natural. Enforcing HTTPS is good for consumers. But, we need to watch carefully with the market dominance of Google Chrome.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

New comment by randop in "Steam store to sell VR porn video games"

randop — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 03:12:03 +0000

Valve have probably done market research on this. And you know, that this numbers are favorable for them. They have age profile of its userbase and they also have age filter on their catalog. This is a business decision choice rather than morality.

Will this increase VR adoption?

New comment by randop in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

randop — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 23:35:54 +0000

As for me, I also dislike Github being owned by Microsoft. Big conflict of interest. Microsoft core business is closed-source software.

But, it's not wrong to give Microsoft a chance to cultivate Github. Yes, Microsoft have a long track record of being disproportion with open source products. This is also true with other companies.

Good thing to point out is, there are alternatives.

New comment by randop in "AI winter is well on its way"

randop — Wed, 30 May 2018 05:09:09 +0000

AI is favorable for big companies to better scale their services. It seems that Facebook have also faced AI scaling drawbacks and they are developing there own AI hardware for it https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/18/17254236/facebook-designi...

New comment by randop in "The Open Home Lab Stack (2017)"

randop — Wed, 30 May 2018 04:42:23 +0000

Have anyone tried Intel NUC for home lab setup? What are pros and cons?