<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: readerbaza</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=readerbaza</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:57:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=readerbaza" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "Software engineers hate code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Those who like greenfields only are probably those "upgraded" to PMs and the reason is they turn green into brown _very_ quickly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:43:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36664016</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36664016</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36664016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "The damaging results of mandated return to office"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>should have not showed up when asked 1/month.<p>...and they say the slippery slope is a fallacy</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2023 10:01:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36584503</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36584503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36584503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reason I dropped chrome around 2011/2012, they removed the options to have tabs laid vertically as not enough users used it (it was an hidden option and badly implemented).<p>Tree style tabs is the main reason I've used firefox since.<p>Tabs are really a bad design, maybe made some sense with 4:3 monitors but text was horizontal back then too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 08:10:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36193757</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36193757</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36193757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "A blocky based CAD program"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FreeCAD is a textbook example of an UI/UX "designed" by programmers.
Nothing works as expected. The underlying programming model leaks out way too much.
The fact that it's buggy doesn't help.
And critical functionality (assemblies?) is not supported by the core team.<p>I'm learning it because on linux desktop there's not much else but it's a joke for professionals.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 12:06:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36083016</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36083016</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36083016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "Telemetry in Front-End Tools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the only way. Just deny by default.<p>I never liked Postman and that's how I mostly stopped using it.
Completely stops working on analytics request denial and then starts sending reports to Sentry (but even if you allow those, they don't learn, I've tried)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2023 11:12:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35466795</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35466795</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35466795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "$39 Cooler Master case turns your old Framework Laptop parts into a tiny PC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why must it be an "old" laptop?
Get a new board and use it like a portable desktop.<p>I bet many people don't ever use those PCs but in 2 places (home, work)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 10:52:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35421391</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35421391</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35421391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Italy historical top 3 is always cheap city cars. Usually Fiat Panda which costs ~15k€ nowadays (used to be much less).<p>A 50K€ base model car as top 1 is a pipe dream. It'll happen when people can't buy cars anymore and all remains is the rich and robotaxis.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2023 21:50:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34238598</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34238598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34238598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nowadays digital stores sell you the privilege to get access to said content, you own shit.<p>Making virtually unlimited profit on a limited initial amount of time, labour, costs is what's evil here. "X number of years" argument will never solve it (the shorter the worst the hype push will get).<p>Should be capped by a function of said time, labour invested plus costs and allowed profit adjusted for inflation.<p>I don't care how much one thinks he deserves to milk such work/invention. Look at what Nikola Tesla gave us and what he got in return.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2023 16:32:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34233649</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34233649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34233649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why every electron app feels the need to reinvent the window border/title?<p>Does this look OK? <a href="https://i.postimg.cc/4ymyHWxF/window-border.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.postimg.cc/4ymyHWxF/window-border.png</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2023 15:51:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34232981</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34232981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34232981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They see elimination in a positive light, because they won't apply it to themselves.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2022 14:07:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34066048</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34066048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34066048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The point was well past when a git branch name became offensive (allegedly).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2022 13:50:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34065825</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34065825</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34065825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "Ask HN: How is your company training you to become a better developer/engineer?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1. companies don't "create" engineers, if they could...10x would be the new 1x<p>2. let people have time to spike WHILE working</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 13:23:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33773307</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33773307</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33773307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "Up to 30% of online reviews are fake and consumers can't tell the difference"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>First the obvious: amazon is evil and the website is crap. Search is bad, filtering is bad, sorting is bad. All on purpose.<p>Here's some of my process when I don't know what I need exactly already.
- try a few keywords first to find the right category
- use the keywords to make the first search, depending on the item filter by 4 star and above, never by price
- browse listings:
  - all caps BRANDNAME, skip
  - same picture or clearly same item from different brands, skip
  - listing has any badly photoshopped photo, skip
Arrive at a few options:
- there's customer photos/videos? check those (even if the review is fake, the photos are useful)
- shipped by == amazon, if false skip
- check 1 star reviews for delivery damage, if many skip or beware for delivery. amazon uses no padding most of the time.
- check 3 star reviews (then 4) for sensible users making good points
- always ignore reviews with "arrived fast/late"
- always ignore reviews with "seller" is sold by == amazon
Depending on item price, research product more and see suggested alternatives both on amazon and offsite
- check reviews on those products too
- check camelcamelcamel for price history
- current price ok, buy
- current price high, clear history of discounts, clean url from tracking and bookmark with price in the title (seldom open the bookmark, current price < bookmarked price? buy same or next day at most, price will likely increase after traffic)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:25:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33532012</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33532012</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33532012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "Ask HN: Why is there no performant remote desktop for Mac/Linux?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With Windows RDP it's possible to login in the same session that was started at the phisical machine. Also the physical monitor doesn't wake up upon login and the desktop remains password locked.<p>None of the options I tried on linux could match this features.<p>NoMachine did perform well but having the remote computer in the same room I could see it was mirroring the physical monitor and I could type on the keyboard. It does have a feature to make the screen black and lock inputs but then you're unable to log in from physical even if you know the password</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2022 11:13:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32592147</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32592147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32592147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "“Logistics”, an 857-hour movie, tracks a pedometer from shop back to factory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So...buying items made in your country is an extreme right winger thing.
And if you buy shitty stuff from communist china then it's exteme capitalism.<p>Would you watch a real time "movie" of the countless man-years it took to design and develop the infrastructure that made it possible for you to "watch", write and publish about this? I thought so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2022 10:52:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32562937</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32562937</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32562937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "Venice to introduce entry tickets and fees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just a cash grab<p>Venice is absolute trash for common tourists. I've been there many times, never willingly</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2022 17:00:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32058698</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32058698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32058698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ding! Had to really dig through the comments to find a mention of this...<p>Pre-pandemic blood samples were later tested and found positive in europe<p>Which makes the wuhan-zoonotic vs wuhan-leak a false dichotomy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2022 08:41:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31905533</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31905533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31905533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "Unexpected solar weather is accelerating satellites' orbital decay"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>how dare you! it's the evil co2<p>When the warning signs are ignored because they don't fit the political propaganda, then sure...it's "unexpected"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2022 08:35:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31891976</link><dc:creator>readerbaza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31891976</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31891976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by readerbaza in "Nuclear is back on the table for a green future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apparently it's difficult to understand that extremely cheap, highly abundant energy is the only way forward. It's not only a solution in itself but an enabler to even more solutions.<p>Meanwhile the price keeps rising...</p>
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<p>Those are rookie numbers, if we try harder I'll finally have a beach house, come on people!</p>
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