Hacker News: rottingfruit

New comment by rottingfruit in "Update on an Employee Matter"

rottingfruit — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 05:46:39 +0000

I guess agree to disagree? I personally don’t believe that these sorts of conversations are work appropriate and I’m wondering whether or not they become inappropriate when the poster disagrees with what’s being posted. The only way I could see this being taken as an accusatory gotcha is if your world view being questioned in any sense is a personal attack. Which is pretty par for the course for older millennials tbh.

New comment by rottingfruit in "Update on an Employee Matter"

rottingfruit — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 18:33:52 +0000

I don’t mean to ask this in an accusatory gotcha way I’m just wondering what your stance is on someone warning their coworkers in Portland, or somewhere else that there are “looting communists around so be careful.” Or something similar referring to a blm protest. Do you feel this is also appropriate in a workplace channel?

New comment by rottingfruit in "Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup"

rottingfruit — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 17:51:26 +0000

This is a weak take. Are we saying that any feature built into a web browser is desirable by virtue of the products popularity? 99% of chrome users use it because they recognize the interface from school laptops. Do you really want to live in this world where massive corporations can put whatever they want in their products and the justification is “yeah well people still downloaded it?”

New comment by rottingfruit in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

rottingfruit — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 04:06:35 +0000

That extension sounds really interesting. Is there any way to know when it’s released?

New comment by rottingfruit in "ElectronJS alternative: SciterJS – HTML/CSS/JS in 4.5 MB executable"

rottingfruit — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:16:04 +0000

I think patreon would be great for your case. You already have 99 backers on Kickstarter who seemed to pledge a hefty average. It would take longer to get the Kickstarter lump sum but it would also keep generating income. If you make one you’ll have at least one patron (me)

New comment by rottingfruit in "The End of the American Internet"

rottingfruit — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 23:08:09 +0000

I don’t know I hear things like with ___s population they can just throw people at the problem. Has that historically been true though? Why then have China and India not always led the way as super powers in the first place?

New comment by rottingfruit in "Reddit – “Windows 10 prompted me to register to vote”"

rottingfruit — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 19:58:55 +0000

We can not be polarized to the point that uplifting the nations founding principle is seen as taking a side. I just don’t get your logic. At that point anyone encouraging voting is subtly siding with Democrats.

New comment by rottingfruit in "Oracle’s TikTok deal accomplishes nothing"

rottingfruit — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:03:55 +0000

I’m not a fan of this take. I think dancing and smiles is a great way to veil something more dangerous. I’m not saying tik tok specifically is doing so but just because something looks like a toy doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous underneath.

New comment by rottingfruit in "My Diplomatic Life"

rottingfruit — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 13:25:40 +0000

I sympathize with what you’re saying but I don’t think you should be advising people to write off a diplomatic career if they have kids. I like many other people had a very volatile childhood for no real reason. I don’t think I particularly minded the moving a lot and enjoyed making new friends in different places. It’s also worth noting that if your kids are anything like my friends who grew up in really stable suburbs they’re going to be peeling their eyes out in boredom and waiting for the first chance they get to take off and go as far away from that stable suburb as they can. All I’m saying is that every kid is different and what was bad for you may be great for another kid and what sounds amazing to you may feel like hell to someone else.

New comment by rottingfruit in "I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf]"

rottingfruit — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:05:03 +0000

It really makes me wonder about why this letter, out of the presumably many about App Store review, is the one that Tim Cook would read and forward. From where I’m standing it looks like you’d have to come off as an otherwise huge fan to have your criticism taken into account.

New comment by rottingfruit in "Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store"

rottingfruit — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 07:44:13 +0000

The reason I, and I assume many others, have less of a problem with that is that you can fairly easily still download and play fortnite without the Play Store. As far as I know that’s not an option on iOS outside of jailbreaking your phone.

New comment by rottingfruit in "U.S. looking at banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok"

rottingfruit — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 06:52:38 +0000

Tik tok isn’t allowed in China as far as I know.