Hacker News: shawnwall

New comment by shawnwall in "Claude is a Contrarian"

shawnwall — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:53:08 +0000

You mean like half the engineers I've worked with in my career? I wonder how we got here :)

New comment by shawnwall in "ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage"

shawnwall — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:03:53 +0000

Have you observed any humans and their decision making capabilities lately? :)

New comment by shawnwall in "USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data"

shawnwall — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:49:02 +0000

I believe we saw that this week - https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/time-serves-ai-bots-a-diff...

New comment by shawnwall in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

shawnwall — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:23:09 +0000

I believe that was an intent/goal of BAT in Brave.

New comment by shawnwall in "ubuntu.com is down"

shawnwall — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:28:21 +0000

lots of canonical/ubuntu down https://status.canonical.com/

New comment by shawnwall in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

shawnwall — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:55:52 +0000

been in the python game a long time and i've seen so many tools in this space come and go over the years. i still rely on good ol pip and have had no issues. that said, we utilize mypy and ruff, and have moved to pyproject etc to remotely keep up with the times.

New comment by shawnwall in "Python Practical Package Packing 2024"

shawnwall — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:37:08 +0000

Yeah I gotta agree here, I'm not sure I've seen someone so opinionated with python. I tend to try to use things built into python or official recs until I hit an actual problem that needs to be solved.

New comment by shawnwall in "Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason"

shawnwall — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:48:15 +0000

I'm not saying every choice they made is perfect. One of my qualms is the lack of backgrounds for button selection in areas with 'ok' and 'cancel' - which is one of the most important areas to give the user clear direction.

New comment by shawnwall in "Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason"

shawnwall — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:32:33 +0000

Google is making a huge amount of progress in UI and UX; the company has historically been rather mediocre in terms of it's UI and UX, while Apple was always the star. Over the past year or so the roles have reversed, and Google continues making strides towards unifying their applications in a single user experience and ui paradigm that allows for simpler app use, particularly for new users.

It's easy to get upset when things change, but keep in mind that change can be positive and/or negative.

Amazon unveils Fire TV set top box

shawnwall — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:52:37 +0000

Article URL: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CX5P8FC/ref=topnav_storetab_aftv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7522761

Points: 1

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New comment by shawnwall in "Yahoo fires HR head. To focus on GPA for hiring."

shawnwall — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:05:12 +0000

Some big companies do, just not the ones you'd probably care to work at. If they make this choice they simply lose out on a certain set of individuals. Their loss, not yours.

New comment by shawnwall in "Google's garden in iOS"

shawnwall — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:54:33 +0000

Safari on OSX has always had the ability for a user to set their default browser preference (to chrome for example). I wonder if iOS will ever go this route.

I find it odd that Microsoft went to court for doing the same thing in Windows but it's okay for Apple to do it.

New comment by shawnwall in "Ask HN: Good iOS Tutorials?"

shawnwall — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 23:57:21 +0000

I just wanted to throw this out there:

you should first read the objective-c primer.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#referencelibrary/Ge...

You mentioned the apple docs feel complex to you but I'd honestly recommend truly taking your time and working through them as they really are the best.

Unboxing the Nexus 7 is fun

shawnwall — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:11:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32DD4DF7Qpo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4251252

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by shawnwall in "AFIncrementalStore: Core Data with AFNetworking, Done Right "

shawnwall — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:51:01 +0000

As a long time Obj-C/iOS dev, web service interaction frameworks and/or best practices have been lacking for some time now. While RestKit works, it's learning curve is a tad steep and the sheer size of it can be a tad frightening in terms of 3rd party component reliance. If AFIncrementalStore is as great to work with as AFNetworking itself devs may have found themselves a new standard.

New comment by shawnwall in "Microsoft Moves from Followership to Leadership"

shawnwall — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:59:18 +0000

If Microsoft could actually release a desktop operating system that is properly designed visually and in terms of user experience, people could actually admire their PC's like they do in all of their stupid commercials. Their market share is so massive that a success in the desktop space could then drive growth in mobile as they actually have build a good UX there.

New comment by shawnwall in "Reality Greater Than Augmented Reality"

shawnwall — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:52:56 +0000

There _is_ usefulness to it if people would stop using it as a marketing/advertising tool and try to drive real value (which people need to be doing in general with mobile). We need to find uses within the enterprise or industrial space in combination with OpenCV.

New comment by shawnwall in "The Next Microsoft"

shawnwall — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:07:28 +0000

I posted and complained about that same skeumorphic podcasts app today. Apple leads so much in the realm of hardware design but is starting to take steps backwards in it's own application/software design. I'm very anxious and hopeful for Microsoft to progress in this arena and give Apple some competition.

Google is slowly cracking "open" iOS

shawnwall — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:44:32 +0000

Article URL: http://www.virtualpants.com/post/26147935178/google-is-slowly-cracking-open-ios

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4178321

Points: 19

# Comments: 36

New comment by shawnwall in "Why RubyMotion Is Better Than Objective-C"

shawnwall — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:56:40 +0000

Ramblings like this are a premier example of what is wrong with engineers today. If you are afraid to learn or use tools outside of ruby, you are not a true engineer. The world does not revolve around ruby.

Get some real iOS development under your belt before you make these broad assumptions.