Hacker News: sofaofthedamned

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "The Quora Partner Program Is a Scam"

sofaofthedamned — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:26:47 +0000

Yup. I have an adblocker, but after the first answer (which was crap) I got a link to the question "What is jam made from?" and then got prompted with a modal to prompt me to make an account. Never again.

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6"

sofaofthedamned — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 20:50:09 +0000

So couldn't you charge the control-plane for zero-node clusters?

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6"

sofaofthedamned — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 20:47:42 +0000

I have personal experience of a few companies in the UK where GCP are offering 90+% discounts to onboard. GCP are spending hundreds of millions to do this. K8S control-planes are a rounding error compared to this.

You could have grandfathered in current deployments but - nope. In the tech world this is up there with killing Google Reader.

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "Facebook's Download-Your-Data Tool Is Incomplete"

sofaofthedamned — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 19:41:33 +0000

TBF it may be best to explain your working a bit better, considering you work at Google.

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records"

sofaofthedamned — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 20:02:35 +0000

That's actually a really good idea. Bit like a Credit Card Chargeback, except it's charged to the customer and is refundable.

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "The BBC’s attempt to build a Netflix-style service was snuffed by regulation"

sofaofthedamned — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:58:48 +0000

Same with NHK (I think) in Japan. Lots of old school broadcasters doing proper engineering.

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "Twitter's community verification system will be a disaster"

sofaofthedamned — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:57:54 +0000

If easydns can't survive a HN flood then I wouldn't want to be a customer of theirs.

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "The BBC’s attempt to build a Netflix-style service was snuffed by regulation"

sofaofthedamned — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 21:20:59 +0000

BBC research are amazing. They've been doing this for decades, most recently with next gen codecs and latency issues on internet transmission. As a British person I'm actually proud of them, even though many people complain their politics are orthogonal to mine.

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "Code Shame: Sharing your embarrassing code"

sofaofthedamned — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 21:03:20 +0000

Same! Best programming I ever did was on the ST and Amiga.

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1"

sofaofthedamned — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 21:59:00 +0000

Please don't overegg the issue with AMP by comparing it to cancer.

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "Auto-cpufreq – Automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux"

sofaofthedamned — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 16:43:35 +0000

I've not had the same issue on my Thinkpad X1C6. I think I installed TLP and Powertop but the battery life is better than Windows for my use case.

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "NHS gets £40M to cut login times on its IT systems"

sofaofthedamned — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 16:19:05 +0000

Yeah, Google's SSO is fine unless the first logged-in account (/u/0) is one with a redirect to a company portal login. At which point you have to manipulate the URL to get to a different account.

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "BugJail: New Java debugger – debug across time with mouse"

sofaofthedamned — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 15:28:41 +0000

Happy to proofread and fix it in a PR, looks like a nice tool.

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "[dead]"

sofaofthedamned — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 16:55:42 +0000

Agreed - have seen at least 2 of these in the last couple of days, this is ridiculous.

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?"

sofaofthedamned — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 09:58:16 +0000

ThinkPad X1 Carbon. It's a beautiful laptop and works well with Fedora after a couple of tweaks.

I've got an XPS 13 for work which is nice too but runs windows. Pros and cons are:

ThinkPad: Better keyboard by far, more rugged, better bios for Linux that supports normal sleep states

XPS: Can charge on either side, better speakers

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links"

sofaofthedamned — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:31:32 +0000

Donated via PayPal. Thanks for your work, would be great to see it in the kernel soon.

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database"

sofaofthedamned — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 19:38:16 +0000

Thanks - yes that's exactly what I meant

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database"

sofaofthedamned — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:26:17 +0000

Hate oracle personally. But when Amazon mention cost savings, I assume they're not at list price for normal aws customers like us?

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "Personal information and ads on Twitter"

sofaofthedamned — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 22:41:09 +0000

Not a chance. It's never a single engineer, code gets the PR checked by another engineer and the Jira will be specific with any PII, probably written by committee, all of whom know the importance of the data. Don't conflate this crap with blaming a single nebulous engineer.

I've not worked in years at a place that wouldn't understand the importance of PII. Not that it doesn't happen, but let's not mince words here - this was wilfully done.

New comment by sofaofthedamned in "Personal information and ads on Twitter"

sofaofthedamned — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:55:59 +0000

If Twitter didn't distinguish between phone_2fa and phone_identifier then they really shouldn't be in business.