Hacker News: seandoe

New comment by seandoe in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

seandoe — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:06:57 +0000

Err does go far, right? Japan is pretty cheap in my experience.

New comment by seandoe in "What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?"

seandoe — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:40:38 +0000

Make having kids a zero-cost endeavor. If that doesn't do it, make it a profitable one. It's as simple as that.

New comment by seandoe in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

seandoe — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:35:43 +0000

It seems like a step in the right direction to combat scalpers.

I've wondered though... Why not have a non-transferrable ticket system? If you can't go then you return your tickets to the pool and if they sell you get your money back.

New comment by seandoe in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

seandoe — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:30:13 +0000

Many versions are made, the best ones get the most views. You don't need huge budgets and guaranteed revenue to make great art. In fact, I'd argue it's often the opposite. Most big budget movies suck these days.

New comment by seandoe in "Be wary of Bluesky"

seandoe — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 05:10:10 +0000

Ok yea that makes sense.

New comment by seandoe in "Be wary of Bluesky"

seandoe — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:18:14 +0000

And the atproto is pesetas right? You publish to bluesky or whatever and the content is replicated to your pds. I recognize the minor difference, but if you have the energy and wherewithal to orchestrate pesetas across silos, surely you can setup a pds elsewhere.

New comment by seandoe in "Be wary of Bluesky"

seandoe — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:08:43 +0000

That's just not practical for most people (the publishing part). And in relation to microblogging, are you going to publish every 140-character, out-of-context thought on your personal website?

New comment by seandoe in "Android developer verification: Early access starts"

seandoe — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:21:28 +0000

This is great news to me. I'm going to celebrate it. As evil as everyone thinks they are, they did the right thing here. Thanks google.

New comment by seandoe in "US startup Substrate announces chipmaking tool that it says will rival ASML"

seandoe — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:15:58 +0000

Wow, total scam. Sad.

New comment by seandoe in "Just Use Curl"

seandoe — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:12:07 +0000

I like it. It makes me smile. Don't take it personally.

New comment by seandoe in "The React Foundation"

seandoe — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:07:43 +0000

I think OP means "regardless of the CEO's political stance." And yes, your comment does sound self-righteous.

New comment by seandoe in "Doing Rails Wrong"

seandoe — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:24:48 +0000

This point has been made so many times. Know your tools and use the best tool for the job.

New comment by seandoe in "Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come"

seandoe — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:34:40 +0000

> each of which individually must be an improvement over the status quo

I agree. And looking at the average web user specifically, is "owning your own data" enough of a UX improvement? Maybe paired with less ads and products that optimize for the end-user rather than advertisers? I think... maybe. I hope so. It's going to take a lot of work done for little money, which is concerning, but I'm optimistic.

New comment by seandoe in "Gemini 3.0 Pro – early tests"

seandoe — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 03:00:42 +0000

gemini.google.com

New comment by seandoe in "Nine things I learned in ninety years"

seandoe — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:20:17 +0000

I was thinking something very similar as I read the letter and hear people talk about luck in a similar way. I think attributing things to luck, while seemingly humble, can be dismissive and/or simplistic. Yes, we're all lucky to be in our situations -- living in this time, fed, privileged. Though, whether this luck is experienced positively or not is entirely subjective. Also, to ascribe our given situation to luck dismisses the concerted efforts of all living things of this time and past that have guided us to our current situation -- once again, without qualifying it as good or bad. It is almost disabling in it's message. The flip side is that many things happened that were dreamed, planned, intended, and carried out to land us in our situation. This to me feels more empowering, hopeful, appreciative, and also responsible than casting off as merely luck.

New comment by seandoe in "Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia"

seandoe — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 01:18:21 +0000

Apophenia

New comment by seandoe in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

seandoe — Fri, 16 May 2025 01:55:48 +0000

Yes. Yes it is.

New comment by seandoe in "Dead Reckoning"

seandoe — Mon, 12 May 2025 04:35:00 +0000

Ah cool, I didn't know that. Sorry, I didn't intend to encourage that impression.

New comment by seandoe in "Dead Reckoning"

seandoe — Fri, 09 May 2025 13:02:08 +0000

Amazing story. I read the book and couldn't put it down. Highly recommended.

New comment by seandoe in "The "Take It Down" Act"

seandoe — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 01:27:06 +0000

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Maybe because it _is_ how things work, not seemingly.