Hacker News: sswaner

New comment by sswaner in "Bob Weir has died"

sswaner — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:46:25 +0000

May the four winds blow you safely home.

It was a privilege to see him perform many times.

New comment by sswaner in "It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)"

sswaner — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:03:05 +0000

While I completely agree with the sentiment, there are 100 million reasons why it will never happen. Having dealt with Oracle for over 20 years, I have seen their predatory relationship with their customers. They will hold onto this trademark in the hope that they can somehow monetize it.

At some point they will approach companies, likely tech companies that produce a product or offering that can't be described without using the word "JavaScript". They will offer a "convenient" licensing agreement of $50,000 per year for the use of their trademark.

They used this playbook with Java, an easier path because they had something more substantial than a trademark, but the approach will be the same. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/165kzxg/oraclejav...

As Oracle's debt problems mount, the company seems increasingly likely to weaponize this trademark against companies—despite otherwise showing little interest in the word. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/w...

New comment by sswaner in "A graph explorer of the Epstein emails"

sswaner — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 03:16:27 +0000

Pretty much, at least at the semantic layer. https://publish.obsidian.md/followtheidea/Content/AI/Ontolog...

New comment by sswaner in "Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun"

sswaner — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 03:01:12 +0000

Perhaps just me still carrying some latent trauma, but the upside down, legs bent moment reminded me of a picture from 9/11. Not going to link to it.

New comment by sswaner in "A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity"

sswaner — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:56:01 +0000

Based on the title, I was expecting the article to be a lamentation on Jira and Scrum.

New comment by sswaner in "Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person'"

sswaner — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:23:55 +0000

And perhaps a sense of civic duty: Those tax rates were created (hopefully) by elected representatives.

New comment by sswaner in "Tough news for our UK users"

sswaner — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 22:40:40 +0000

Makes Fleabag’s cafe more normal (Guinea Pigs are not Hamsters, I know).

New comment by sswaner in "Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016)"

sswaner — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:12:40 +0000

“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.”

Overheard every few sprints…

New comment by sswaner in "A look back: WordPerfect on DOS (2023)"

sswaner — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:09:43 +0000

Me too! I have shared this point with several people over the years and none understood this. I guess I was a WordPerfect nerd.

New comment by sswaner in "'The Best of All Possible Worlds' Review: Leibniz Lives Again"

sswaner — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 13:03:07 +0000

Or 2 years for Heidegger?

New comment by sswaner in "'The Best of All Possible Worlds' Review: Leibniz Lives Again"

sswaner — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 13:02:18 +0000

Same. Maybe this thread can lead a resurgence of the word “Panglossian”.

New comment by sswaner in "Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home"

sswaner — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:41:40 +0000

Rather than call the Amazon execs liars and sadists perhaps consider that the senior execs (Andy and his directs) believe that they are responsible for crafting a successful company. It is far more plausible that they believe that while it may have worked to have remote workers, that they WANT a company that has the features of an in-office culture and feel it is within their right to take that path.

Unless you think that you would be a lying sadist if you rose the ranks to senior leadership, why do you think that the Amazon leaders are somehow different?

New comment by sswaner in "Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town"

sswaner — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:39:17 +0000

This makes me think of that show from Japan where parents send their 5-year-olds to go grocery shopping on their own.

And reminds me of the many times friends and I rode our bikes 5 miles along the highway to the next town so we could play video games at an arcade. Growing up in the 80’s was very different from now.

New comment by sswaner in "Virtual Apollo Guidance Computer"

sswaner — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 19:48:07 +0000

I am willing to pay to have the physical interface built if anyone with the machinist/electrical engineering skills is interested. My vision is to have the screen and button interface built, with a Raspberry Pi powering it. Reply if interested.

New comment by sswaner in "After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL"

sswaner — Thu, 30 May 2024 10:46:00 +0000

https://youtu.be/b2F-DItXtZs?si=rxrMwJVu95WQQt7M

New comment by sswaner in "Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio"

sswaner — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:44:10 +0000

I agree that this is not a move I am happy to see. I hope I am proven wrong. I have been struggling with my love of Twilio. For years they have been one of my favorite tech companies, but I have been really struggling with them and their products lately. It feels like they have lost their core mission.

Do Copyright Owners Have Valid Legal Claims Against AI Companies?

sswaner — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:26:46 +0000

Article URL: https://aiforlawyers.substack.com/p/do-copyright-owners-have-valid-legal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38291559

Points: 2

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New comment by sswaner in "WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight"

sswaner — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:52:00 +0000

On many United flights you can connect to onboard wifi without buying the plan and have internet access on port 22 and apparently unrestricted UDP. This allows me to connect to an EC2 instance running mosh. Coding in vim is a great way to pass the time on a flight.

New comment by sswaner in "My dad's resume and skills from 1980"

sswaner — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 23:32:39 +0000

True. Imagine where we would be if that hadn’t happen. The lost opportunity is immense.

New comment by sswaner in "My dad's resume and skills from 1980"

sswaner — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:48:40 +0000

That resume reinforces the argument that the GI Bill is the best legislation every passed in the US.