Hacker News: sackerhews

New comment by sackerhews in "MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason"

sackerhews — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 22:39:09 +0000

My friends iPhone got replaced 3 times, every single time the same fault. Something to do with audio interface going missing and mic not working.

His next phone was an Android.

I remember looking it up and there were rumours that Apple had initially acknowledged this fault and replaced them with no questions asked but then withdrawn the memo.

New comment by sackerhews in "Download the full collection of Paul Graham essays in ePub for easy reading"

sackerhews — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:16:02 +0000

Convert to epub and use text to speech on your e-book reader.

Not the best, but you didn't ask for the best :)

New comment by sackerhews in "The Decommoditization of Protocols (1998)"

sackerhews — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 20:59:32 +0000

In the spirit of the Halloween documents, Microsoft implemented and extended the Kerberos protocol.

Extended it just a tiny bit enough to be incompatible with everyone else. After getting bad PR in the media, they reluctantly agreed to publish their changes. And guess what?

... in order to get it, you have to run a Windows .exe file which forces you agree to a click-through license agreement where you agree to treat it as a trade secret, before it will give you the .pdf file

See https://slashdot.org/story/00/05/02/158204/kerberos-pacs-and...

New comment by sackerhews in "3Hz Computer, Hold the Transistors"

sackerhews — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 18:14:53 +0000

I can't be the only one wishing there was a video of it in action?!

New comment by sackerhews in "Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program"

sackerhews — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 08:37:11 +0000

Only dead fish go with the flow.

New comment by sackerhews in "Ask HN: What is a sustainable methodology for taking notes of your learning?"

sackerhews — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 10:32:35 +0000

On the topic of flash cards, the Leitner system is pretty awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system

New comment by sackerhews in "GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome"

sackerhews — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 11:21:59 +0000

Namecheap or Google domains.

New comment by sackerhews in "How to Improve Your Monolith Before Transitioning to Microservices"

sackerhews — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 18:54:00 +0000

I was once working with a guy that was hell bent on microservices.

When our banking application became incompatible with logging, due to his microservice design, he really argued, fought and sulked that logging wasn't important and we didn't need it.

New comment by sackerhews in "FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes"

sackerhews — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 11:47:34 +0000

Wow, this both a fantastic joke and could be used as a school book example of the importance of context.

Given of course that everyone would have watched Father Ted. But the world would be a better place if everyone did.

New comment by sackerhews in "GitJournal: Mobile first Markdown notes synchronized with Git"

sackerhews — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 09:14:56 +0000

This is brilliant, well done! Is it possible to build the app as a (Linux) desktop client?

Also, you might want to look at this bug as it might be affecting your cash flow: https://github.com/GitJournal/GitJournal/issues/612

New comment by sackerhews in "MEGA Attack Explainer"

sackerhews — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:01:42 +0000

This is a totally out of context article.

New comment by sackerhews in "Constraint-based geometry (CAD) sketcher for Blender"

sackerhews — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 10:21:09 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27727150

New comment by sackerhews in "I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)"

sackerhews — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 08:58:34 +0000

This article sums up the value of combined networking, talent, opportunity and creative thinking.

New comment by sackerhews in "Scrapism"

sackerhews — Wed, 25 May 2022 11:55:36 +0000

Honorable mention even if he doesn't use Actions: https://github.com/elsamuko/Shirt-without-Stripes

New comment by sackerhews in "Programming Burnout"

sackerhews — Sat, 21 May 2022 09:26:30 +0000

> This is not burnout, this is simply bad planning.

This is not helpful, this is simply Besserwisser nonsense.

New comment by sackerhews in "Engineer turns plastic into bricks that are reportedly stronger than concrete"

sackerhews — Fri, 20 May 2022 11:16:10 +0000

> You mean all the other blogs? Do you mean all blogs that don't state skin colors in the domain/name are done by white people? That's one of the more racist and demeaning comments I've seen here.

New comment by sackerhews in "Please Stop Using Grey Text"

sackerhews — Wed, 18 May 2022 13:47:04 +0000

> What worked for printed text has no bearing for what works on an illuminated screen.

Yes it does.

> ... but it is equally important that things aren't too bright. You should avoid using extremes like #000000 and #ffffff ...

No, you shouldn't avoid them. Users are fully capable of adjusting the brightness and contrast of their monitors.

> Believe me, as a 50+ year old, I notice when it's hard to read things.

I believe you. I just don't think your personal experience is relevant.

New comment by sackerhews in "Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems"

sackerhews — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 10:58:54 +0000

What point where you making?

New comment by sackerhews in "Show HN: Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative"

sackerhews — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:25:47 +0000

Cool. But please fix that light gray text on white background in the demo (or make it even paler for more avant-garde :)

New comment by sackerhews in "Ask HN: What happened to surveillance camera guy?"

sackerhews — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 10:57:32 +0000

What was it about?

Mind sharing it?

  curl --upload-file ./the-video-file.ext https://transfer.sh/your-reference.ext