Hacker News: smoofles

New comment by smoofles in "Amazon props Vega to replace Android-based Fire OS on future smart devices"

smoofles — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:13:52 +0000

You say this as if Android has tens of thousands of useful/good apps.

There’s probably 100-250 that you might _really_ want.

Amazon can easily afford to pay each developer $1 million to port theirs, if they get serious about their own OS.

New comment by smoofles in "Amazon props Vega to replace Android-based Fire OS on future smart devices"

smoofles — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:10:25 +0000

If they create their own SoC with their own IP having their own system will make it easier to move forward, as they won’t need to share development concerns with a larger group (e.g. they want feature X to go into one direction, and Android takes it in a different one, meaning they would end up with a fork).

This is not a huge issue with smaller/trivial features, but can get really cumbersome with bigger ones, and even more so if the forks start diverging more. As for control, see Apple & getting a modern GPU API that works on mobile and desktop and can be iterated quickly.

For a large number of industries Android makes more sense because they depend on certain development processes (security, hardware support, regulated environment certification, etc), but for multimedia consumption a lot of those are not needed.

Last, but not least, vanity can be a big part of such decisions, too. Engineers love to build stuff, even if it means reinventing the wheel for the Nth time.

New comment by smoofles in "Steam Deck OLED"

smoofles — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 14:43:07 +0000

I mean, $800 is kinda cheap for self-worth, if we’re honest. Cheaper than a sports car or house with a view or own apartment or even one vacation someplace fancy.

But yeah, ideally one shouldn’t tie self worth to perishables.

New comment by smoofles in "Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out"

smoofles — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 15:32:25 +0000

Something like: If I have a call with you once, theoretically I might have a call with you again in the future. If they use my content to train "your" AI that would improve our theoretical future call, too, and is a "for me" use, I guess?

And I might have a call with any other zoom user, too, potentially, maybe. So really they are doing me a service by using my content all over the place — who knows, it might benefit me at some point!

New comment by smoofles in "Audio Sparklines"

smoofles — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:37:26 +0000

Looks like MonoLisa, at a first glance.

New comment by smoofles in "Audio Sparklines"

smoofles — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:33:35 +0000

Yeah, CLion

New comment by smoofles in "Ask HN: Startup acquired by a large company and it sucks. What to do?"

smoofles — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:32:16 +0000

> Alas ... not for mistreating or overworking employees but for lying on the business plan.

Business plan can be easily marked a “mistake out of sloppiness” if you don’t want to fire people.

Abuse is bad for the image and evidence collection takes ages (and hence is expensive).

Lying to the board works much better to get rid of people fast. I would bet you weren’t the first startup to do a bisserl of Zahlen frisieren.

New comment by smoofles in "Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors"

smoofles — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 11:20:16 +0000

Yeah it’s all a big conspiracy.

New comment by smoofles in "Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors"

smoofles — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 11:19:35 +0000

> Would be curious if they live up to their own marketing.

Do people really think that companies like Apple et al (who have a huge number of people following them eager to rip into them at ever opportunity) could get away with a "marketing story" like that? Like, really, Apple just making all that up and _not one single person_ whistleblowing on it if it were a lie?

New comment by smoofles in "“A Cold War Every Day” inside Apple's internal tools group"

smoofles — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 11:14:53 +0000

I’ve seen that done just as a gesture of good will, in a "if it helps, we can spend more money"-kind of way, even though everyone involved knows it would just complicate things.

New comment by smoofles in "Broken"

smoofles — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:13:21 +0000

Right. The poblem is when you focus on and optimize for hiring excellent developers only. Then all the non-excellent people that contribute to the average are in middle-to-higher-level management.

New comment by smoofles in "Broken"

smoofles — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:11:53 +0000

You do know that hardware and software teams are not the same thing, yeah?

New comment by smoofles in "Broken"

smoofles — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:10:47 +0000

Yeah, like iOS 13, Catalyst, and Catalina. It’s all rather amazing. Ship on time, ship all features that were announced, heck, their hardware teams can barely keep up!

New comment by smoofles in "Broken"

smoofles — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:09:02 +0000

It’s an enterprise full of hipsters that tell themselves they’re changing the world in order to be able to take the punishment (or to be ok with unethical work). :P

New comment by smoofles in "Ask HN: What is the difference between Burnout/Depression/Laziness/Wrong job?"

smoofles — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 19:18:09 +0000

Ugh, that’s a bit of a catch-all arugment, though. Acohol addiction? Societal norms problem. Education? Societal norms problem. Going or a killing spree? Societal norms problem. Bad teeth? Societal norms problem. Having to listen to everyone’s opinion out of being polite? Societal norms problem.

Maybe you should find someone with severe ADHD and try to convince them it’s not a problem at all, see how that goes.

New comment by smoofles in "Show HN: Arc Studio Pro – Collaborative Editing/Version Control for Screenplays"

smoofles — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 12:44:57 +0000

Looks neat!

New comment by smoofles in "Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism and Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit"

smoofles — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:41:33 +0000

First time I had that happen I quickly shut the door in the young lady’s face. Didn’t hit her, but it fell in place and she had to open it again herself.

She was pretty unhappy about that as well, incidentally.

New comment by smoofles in "Started a stupid company. Failed. "

smoofles — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 16:39:31 +0000

> Wait, actually I don't give a fuck what you think. I'm busy helping people while you're busy calling me a cock. Fuck you.

You so don’t give a fuck that you replied straight away.

But at least you didn’t have to repeat how busy you are helping people, since the poster you so-don’t-care-about-that you-had-to-reply-to specifically called it out as noble, amirite?

Whether the post was ment ironic or not: golfclap

New comment by smoofles in "Devops/Sysadmin Cheatsheet"

smoofles — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:40:41 +0000

I don’t know a lot of people running Ruby services on FreeBSD, either. I’m pretty sure I know one or two who, at least, develop on Windows.

But, yeah, noone’s stopping you to make your FreeBSD version of the cheatsheet, what with the open source spirit and all… :P

New comment by smoofles in "Sublime Text 2 Build 2181"

smoofles — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:54:35 +0000

I prefer the one I did http://drbl.in/cBbb

But then, I am biased. :P