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sharess — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 19:21:44 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848571

Points: 2

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New comment by sharess in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

sharess — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:32:24 +0000

Another option is to work at a consultancy where you hop aboard a new customer project every 3-6 months. Approach every customer as an opportunity to do some resume-driven development and pick a bunch of untested new technologies to experiment with. Be sure to do at least a couple of presentations to tell everyone about the hottest new things you are doing to bring value to the customers. Leave the project once it slowly starts sinking and then just keep hopping from customer to customer. You will be far away once the sea water starts coming through the windows and the non-technical people directing these projects will never figure out what you did.

I have seen that this is one of the most efficient ways to advance your career especially in larger consultancy companies with hundreds or thousands of different customers.

New comment by sharess in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

sharess — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:46:23 +0000

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-tab-a...

I built this for personal use, but maybe someone else also finds it useful.

It's a Firefox add-on that arranges YouTube video tabs based on the runtime of the video. I often hoard many YouTube tabs and at some point I want to either watch the shortest ones or play something lengthy so I can do household chores while listening to the video. This makes finding the correct video from tens of different tabs so much easier. There is one known major bug: if a video is playing, the sorting doesn't work.

There is an older version published for Microsoft Edge, but Edge Add-ons started rejecting the updates based on unclear reasons (something along the lines of "no value for user" ???). When reaching for support through email, I only get responses from people who don't understand English and just copy-paste the exact same unclear rejection report and close the ticket.

Chrome Web Store has a publishing fee and outright rejects me paying it, probably because I live in Switzerland and my credit card is from a Finnish bank.

New comment by sharess in "Chrome still hasn't changed its opinion about dropping JPEG XL support"

sharess — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 16:54:03 +0000

How is that message obnoxious? It is a well thought-out message which clearly demonstrates the user's good technical knowledge and passion for the topic.

I can't believe how soft the general consensus on Internet discussion has become. We will never get anything done if people consider this level of mild and sensible criticism obnoxious.

New comment by sharess in "Mozilla stops Firefox fullscreen VPN ads after user outrage"

sharess — Fri, 26 May 2023 16:34:09 +0000

This ad overlay shows such a fundamental lack of understanding on what Firefox was built on that the people who greenlighted this need to go immediately.

They are completely out of their depth and not fit for their job.

New comment by sharess in "Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline"

sharess — Sat, 20 May 2023 08:48:04 +0000

Social media companies are in a constant tug-of-war against the end users when it comes to controlling what the users see. The ideal is that the user has absolutely no control over on what they see and the social media company can fully dictate content. That is what makes the money.

Allowing users to freely query content in their own websites is completely antithetical to what they are trying to do. YouTube is also very aggressive in preventing scraping and limiting the usage of the official API. Which is quite ironic considering the history of the company.

Becoming Illiterate

sharess — Sun, 07 May 2023 19:29:58 +0000

Article URL: https://pigeonmeat.substack.com/p/becoming-illiterate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854767

Points: 1

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IT companies should be forced to publicly credit developers

sharess — Mon, 01 May 2023 17:07:56 +0000

Article URL: https://pigeonmeat.substack.com/p/it-companies-should-be-forced-to

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35775812

Points: 1

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