Hacker News: seaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=seaxHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:02:59 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by seax in "YouTube cracking down even harder to punish user for skipping ads"]]>I think advertisers haven't adapted well to the youtube market at all. They're still operating under the TV model where ad breaks are an expected part of the tv viewing experience and don't understand that on youtube they are intrusive as hell . This also couples negatively with advertisers viewing youtube apparently not putting any limits on ad length as an opportunity to deliver a sermon. I think most people would be annoyed but not totally put off by a couple 15 seconds ads but the issue is that users just have no idea if they'll get a 15 second ad or a 15 minute ad so they skip everything out of extreme frustration with the entire experience.

]]>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:30:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40053291seaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40053291https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40053291<![CDATA[New comment by seax in "Richard M. Stallman resigns"]]>Why did it take him takes to come the the conclusion that sexually abusing children is wrong? And why are you defending that?

]]>Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:10:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20994562seaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20994562https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20994562<![CDATA[New comment by seax in "Drought Has Revealed Spain's Long-Submerged 'Stonehenge'"]]>It's really a shame that we are destroying or have destroyed so many sites like these for (relatively) short sighted dam building.

]]>Wed, 11 Sep 2019 12:52:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20939508seaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20939508https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20939508<![CDATA[New comment by seax in "Uber lays off 435 people"]]>Agreed, I'm curious what they are actually working on with a team like that. Although they do have a not unsubstantial physical data center presence so I think a fair number of engineers are in support of that and not software engineers.

]]>Tue, 10 Sep 2019 21:09:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20933772seaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20933772https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20933772<![CDATA[New comment by seax in "Uber lays off 435 people"]]>"engineers" is a pretty nebulous term these days though.

]]>Tue, 10 Sep 2019 21:00:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20933682seaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20933682https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20933682<![CDATA[New comment by seax in "Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera"]]>> I wonder if the reason will make it through the corporate fog

I really doubt it. Given the change control policies of huge corps and how awful it is to get anything new/get rid of anything they'll just toe the zoom party line and keep it.

]]>Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:53:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20395328seaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20395328https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20395328<![CDATA[New comment by seax in "Linode is offering KVM virtualization (no beta opt-in)"]]>Pro: It's faster

Con: There are still issues being worked out, support seems to be staying on top of it though.

]]>Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:30:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9746344seaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9746344https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9746344