Hacker News: sjs

New comment by sjs in "Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails"

sjs — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 21:24:23 +0000

Plus Shopify and GitHub must drive most development of Rails so it’s basically an in-house dependency to some extent. I know that’s simplifying things.

New comment by sjs in "SPAs Were a Mistake"

sjs — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:35:51 +0000

Users care they just don’t know why many modern websites are bad websites. Every website is now an app whether that actually makes it better UX or not.

Shopify CEO says long hours aren't necessary for success

sjs — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 17:10:26 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1210242184341000192

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21892492

Points: 552

# Comments: 238

New comment by sjs in "The next ten years of Instapaper"

sjs — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 01:09:45 +0000

In some countries what you read may be sensitive info for many people.

New comment by sjs in "It’s cheaper to build multiple native applications than one responsive web app"

sjs — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:35:07 +0000

Touch screens and gestures for one thing.

New comment by sjs in "Backblaze Vaults: Zettabyte-Scale Cloud Storage Architecture"

sjs — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:11:50 +0000

Time Machine + SuperDuper! clone + Backblaze + Arq (to S3 Glacier). I'm ready for meteors, bring it on.

New comment by sjs in "The new MacBook"

sjs — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 06:07:16 +0000

I have to fly or take a ferry to get to an Apple Store. There isn't one on Vancouver Island. So it's great when you can get to one, but if you can't the support is not so good.

New comment by sjs in "What is the best hard drive?"

sjs — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 22:47:39 +0000

Please put dates on things that are published. It can be important information for readers. Leaving off dates is frustrating and doesn't make the content any fresher in any way.

New comment by sjs in "Amazon Echo"

sjs — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 20:55:28 +0000

Simpsons did it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_XII

New comment by sjs in "Arq backs up to Google Drive storage"

sjs — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 21:40:22 +0000

I have the fastest upload available in my area (5 Mbps) and my initial backup may have taken a month or two for something to the tune of 900 GB. You certainly don't need 1 Gbps to backup remotely but 500 Kbps might not be quite enough.

New comment by sjs in "Atom Is Now Open Source"

sjs — Tue, 06 May 2014 16:00:00 +0000

Code is text last I checked. I see what you're getting at, but "text editor" encompasses that already. For everyone I talk to anyway.

New comment by sjs in "No more `grunt watch` – faster builds with the Broccoli asset pipeline"

sjs — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:51:23 +0000

It's a crummy pattern. broccoli.js FTW!

New comment by sjs in "Don't Learn to Code, Learn to Program – But Come Back in 10 Years"

sjs — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:21:57 +0000

Colloquially they are synonyms. Especially amongst people who don't make software. It's not derogatory and not worth getting bent out of shape about.

BUT ... (Bet you saw this coming)

Coders turn detailed specs into code. No real thought required.

Programmers, or software developers, design systems and code them themselves.

That's the distinction I make anyway. I've seen coders at some workplaces. It's a dreary job and I would never do it.

New comment by sjs in "2013: The Year in Apple and Technology at Large"

sjs — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 17:12:14 +0000

I had a Creative Nomad jukebox and it was so bad I went back to an MP3 discman (all the while laughing at the $500 iPod). I had never owned an Apple product. After trying a Mac I saw first-hand that Apples makes great products so I tried an iPod and loved it. Not because of marketing or advertising. People who claim that Apple is successful because of marketing – and think Apple's millions of customers are brainwashed – are the ones who are brainwashed.

New comment by sjs in "2013: The Year in Apple and Technology at Large"

sjs — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 17:05:41 +0000

Anand is excellent, but he looks at things and writes from a completely different perspective. They are not comparable in my opinion.

New comment by sjs in "Underscore Price Dynamics"

sjs — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 15:51:52 +0000

That is not a popular stance. See cable television.

New comment by sjs in "Don’t buy an SLR if you’ll only use the kit lens"

sjs — Tue, 07 May 2013 20:12:00 +0000

His wife is a pro photographer but he is not. He just gets to play with high end equipment because it's available to him.

New comment by sjs in "Why the Fuck?"

sjs — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:53:41 +0000

Facebook has dealt mainly with software till now, but look at all the projects Google has tackled. Self-driving vehicles, fiber Internet service, blanketing cities with wifi, Google Glass, fighting for net neutrality. Google has the talent, bank roll, and ambition to tackle something monumental that spans hardware, deals with regulatory overhead, involves a lot of on-the-ground grunt work, etc. Apple has the resources to tackle such problems as well but hasn't shown the will to do things like street view or fight for net neutrality, which is probably why people think of Google more than Apple when they think of such problems.

New comment by sjs in "Sailfish OS"

sjs — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:11:54 +0000

More outdated than unconventional.

New comment by sjs in "Hacking ls -l"

sjs — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 05:39:17 +0000

The easiest and naive way to fix that is to buffer the whole thing. Don't use this to do `ls-comma -lR ~`, but only on small directory hierarchies.

https://github.com/samsonjs/bin/blob/master/ls-comma

It's a disgusting hack and it works very well. I didn't find anything useful in the man page so I wrote this instead. Looks like there is something in the man page but I think my hack was probably faster.