Hacker News: relaxatorium

New comment by relaxatorium in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

relaxatorium — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:12:08 +0000

Nah, AI's gonna let them ship more and more features you don't use so they can keep jacking the price up.

New comment by relaxatorium in "Fast Cash vs. Slow Equity"

relaxatorium — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:52:57 +0000

It never fails. If someone mentions “selling courses” as one of the best examples of a business they can think of, their line of business is “self-help guru/grifter”.

He even has the “how to have better sex” book out there for you to buy.

New comment by relaxatorium in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

relaxatorium — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:13:40 +0000

This is a thing someone says if they think Silicon Valley was built in 2005. Semiconductor development built Silicon Valley, and it was not by my relatively limited understanding a "move fast and break things" process.

New comment by relaxatorium in "Only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming"

relaxatorium — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:58:34 +0000

Incentivizing publishers to load massive amounts of third party JavaScript was an industry mistake and the people who write JavaScript for ads are profoundly irresponsible and unprofessional.

New comment by relaxatorium in "Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes"

relaxatorium — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:58:34 +0000

Unless I have missed something (always a real possibility to be fair) there are also no clear details about what DOGE is, what its powers or lack thereof are, what its staffing is, or what its actual processes will be.

We’ll find out more when the actual Trump administration starts I guess, but so far it seems like a broad concept that two guys can use for tweets.

New comment by relaxatorium in "Linode increases price of compute plans and more"

relaxatorium — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 16:24:35 +0000

Not really, that's why I'm reviewing other providers as per the second half of the sentence.

New comment by relaxatorium in "Linode increases price of compute plans and more"

relaxatorium — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 16:10:58 +0000

As a small business running like 30 Linode instances, this isn’t “hit the ejector seat button” stuff but it is absolutely “move up the schedule to check-in with all other cloud providers RE: pricing” stuff.

New comment by relaxatorium in "Apple’s new App Store tax on ads is a direct shot at Meta"

relaxatorium — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 12:00:40 +0000

It’s already slimy that social networks, Meta’s most prominently, cut users off from the people who choose to follow them unless they pay for these sorts of things, so this is just slime on top of slime. All our most valuable companies, rolling around in nasty slop.

New comment by relaxatorium in "Justin Kan: Web3 games don’t need to lure players with profit"

relaxatorium — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 02:29:33 +0000

The word “fun” doesn’t show up until paragraph 19 and that’s the problem with these kinds of games in a nutshell.

New comment by relaxatorium in "Apple and MLS to present all MLS matches for 10 years, beginning in 2023"

relaxatorium — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 17:27:27 +0000

It's a gamble, because as of now they're not even the most popular soccer league in America let alone the world.

Liga MX (Mexican soccer) ratings destroy them for the obvious reasons (the league the US's largest most passionate soccer fanbase is most passionate about), EPL ratings beat them pretty handily as well (English Premier League, the highest profile and probably best of the European leagues).

Given the money and momentum behind MLS though, there is at least a chance by the end of this deal that they have become one of the top soccer leagues in the world and Apple looks extremely clever, which is not something you can really say for a lot of leagues with actual better soccer than MLS has right now.

It is weird that Apple, one of the biggest companies in the world, now has a vested interest in globally promoting a specific soccer league. MLS is probably thrilled with this compared to their current situation where ESPN+ does dump pretty much all the games onto streaming as content, but is generally disinterested in promoting it too heavily because of their vast prtfolio of already more popular sports.

New comment by relaxatorium in "Apple and MLS to present all MLS matches for 10 years, beginning in 2023"

relaxatorium — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 17:15:38 +0000

That these are worldwide rights is also interesting, that almost never happens for sports deals because there's usually more money to be had chopping up broadcast rights and selling them per country.

New comment by relaxatorium in "Oauth2 support for GMail"

relaxatorium — Wed, 18 May 2022 20:41:48 +0000

I'm sympathetic to the extremely legitimate security concerns here, but it's pretty rich for the "open, we're so open" company to be running a classic 90s Microsoft Embrace Extend Extinguish playbook on SMTP/IMAP which, for all its faults, is one of the more important open protocols undergirding the internet.

New comment by relaxatorium in "Bitcoin Failed in El Salvador. The President Says the Answer Is More Bitcoin"

relaxatorium — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 15:06:29 +0000

Because it’s at least partially, if not mostly, a publicity play and “bitcoin” is the word most regular people know when it comes to crypto stuff.

New comment by relaxatorium in "Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M"

relaxatorium — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 12:31:04 +0000

If I remember correctly, their method for “annotate the world” was less expand the types of content on genius.com and more some sort of extension or standard for slapping their annotations onto other people’s sites which never really took off and also pissed people off.

New comment by relaxatorium in "BBEdit 14"

relaxatorium — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 17:48:48 +0000

In my own experience, it's a solid but outdatedly old-school code editor, but it shines spectacularly in text processing.

I always tend to use other editors as my daily driver (TextMate, Atom, VSCode, whatever the new flavor is), but I always keep BBEDit around and updated for this reason. Eventually I am going to need to open an enormous CSV or logfile and do things to it and BBEdit is there for me. It happily opens the thing where other apps scream and choke and die, and it has great text processing tools to do things with that data.

Another thing that's not my reason for liking it but is very real is it's incredible Macness. Unsurprisingly given its 30+ year history on the platform, it's an extremely well behaved Mac application that adheres very cleanly to Mac user expectations of behavior. Doesn't matter that much to me personally, but you'll find a lot of the old-school "fondly reminiscing about Mac SE/30s" types really appreciate that it just feels more like a Mac application than probably even a lot of the built in MacOS applications these days.

New comment by relaxatorium in "Gitlab 14"

relaxatorium — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 19:22:16 +0000

It's hard to sell in an article because all their releases say Performance Improvements, but this version actually appears to be noticeably snappier in a way that makes a difference in my day to day usage, which is great.

New comment by relaxatorium in "Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model"

relaxatorium — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:11:36 +0000

The page mentions 89% of the features available in Starter being available in the free tier. Is there a good enumeration anywhere of what those features are and what they 11% that would be lost is?

I'll need to evaluate this for my company in the next year and that would be extremely helpful, as the new pricing grid of course does not include the phased out tier for comparison, which is the specific direct comparison I actually need to make here.

New comment by relaxatorium in "GitHub is down"

relaxatorium — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 18:06:24 +0000

Always a good reminder to see what parts of your infrastructure are more dependent on Github being up than they should be.

New comment by relaxatorium in "GitLab 10.4 released"

relaxatorium — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:03:43 +0000

Are most if not all of GitLab's future CI and CD improvements going to be focused on using Kubernetes and/or containers exclusively?

We're not using that method of either hosting GitLab or deploying our software at my company for various historical reasons, and while GitLab has been good for us overall in its basic workflow, it's a bummer how much of the future roadmap and CD/Devops improvement seems not to apply to our setup.

New comment by relaxatorium in "Unemployment in the U.S. Is Falling, So Why Isn’t Pay Rising?"

relaxatorium — Fri, 19 May 2017 15:01:21 +0000

This reminds me of the recent American Airlines story where they raised employee wages and institutional investors hammered them for it

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-american-airlines-rais...