Hacker News: strangecyan

New comment by strangecyan in "BrewDog's James Watt Launches 'Shadow DOGE' to Take on UK Government"

strangecyan — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:59:10 +0000

Well - he's certainly got the character for it.

New comment by strangecyan in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

strangecyan — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 16:56:35 +0000

Amazing! Are you generating the list.json and just pushing new data when it's due to run out? Or is there some logic that loops it?

New comment by strangecyan in "Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web"

strangecyan — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 17:36:58 +0000

There's a userspace networking mode that pulls it out of the kernel?

https://tailscale.com/kb/1112/userspace-networking/

New comment by strangecyan in "[dead]"

strangecyan — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 14:34:56 +0000

I may be misunderstanding but I'm not sure she's left definitively if she's still a member of the board and is being compensated as such?

New comment by strangecyan in "MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch"

strangecyan — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:11:29 +0000

Apple were making direct comparisons to the GE76 Raider 11UH-053 which has a RTX 3080 in it, indicating that it had the same performance for 100W less power consumption. That seems pretty competitive to me!

New comment by strangecyan in "Google engineer who criticized company in viral comics on why he finally quit"

strangecyan — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 10:07:34 +0000

Yes, both the tone and the words on paper were sexist. I would give it another look and try and read it in the most empathic light you can, you might reflect on it.

New comment by strangecyan in "Show HN: Animockup – An open-source design tool to make animated mockups"

strangecyan — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 21:38:28 +0000

Hey Alyssa, really useful tool thank you. Currently silently fails on Safari when trying to export an MP4 as the MediaRecorder API doesn't exist. Might be worth putting a notice on what browsers you're supporting.

New comment by strangecyan in "Ask HN: What's your spectacular burnout story?"

strangecyan — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 17:44:10 +0000

I think these are really important stories to share and openly discuss but the way this question is asked is just ridiculously insensitive.

New comment by strangecyan in "Show HN: iOS Device info done right"

strangecyan — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 08:15:50 +0000

Why would you want to change layout on a switch statement? That feels very early 2000s web. Just use auto layout and constraints so that all of the new iPad split screen stuff and any new device sizes comes free.

Ask HN: Intro to programmatic video?

strangecyan — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 21:27:49 +0000

Does anyone have any resources around generating video programmatically and how it's used in the world? All specifics seem to be a closely guarded secret.

Examples would be TV News tickers, video that are clearly generated automatically from breaking news; sports broadcasting where dynamic information about the game is put on the feed or even stuff like the Facebook 'Friends Day' video where your information is put in a template?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14590595

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New comment by strangecyan in "Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network"

strangecyan — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:33:31 +0000

I assume it is the case with Snapchat, I don't think you can build a service at that scale without collecting some kind of data. The difference, I think is two-fold. We know that Facebook collects, analyses and keeps data and when you use Facebook it feels like it. The other difference is that Snapchat doesn't use that data to make a people or thing recommendation engine, which is what turns people off about Facebook.

Facebook's problem is it's Network

strangecyan — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:13:36 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@MrMonkeySquid/facebooks-problem-is-it-s-network-37bc05a793c4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14159251

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New comment by strangecyan in "Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network"

strangecyan — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:19:05 +0000

As I mentioned in another comment, joining Facebook is something that just isn't a good idea for young people. The network that is praised as the primary reason Facebook is successful in the article, does more damage to someone's future than gives them benefit in the present. Schools and Colleges running checks on Facebook for anything negative about them, finding one student and following the network for other, has affected some of my friends. As has employers and work experience checking Facebook. 'The Network' also means that family are suggested to friend you almost immediately; I don't need to explain the problems with that. Snapchat is a safe haven for creative, throw away content that isn't indexable, searchable, doesn't have a social graph or a permissions model.

New comment by strangecyan in "Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network"

strangecyan — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:07:35 +0000

The idea that Facebook has beaten Snapchat just because they've cloned features is such a weird proposition to me.

Facebook's problem is not that they don't have features, it IS the network that is stopping kids from signing up. Snapchat is a safe haven for creative, throw away content that isn't indexable, searchable, doesn't have a social graph or a permissions model.

New comment by strangecyan in "Introducing New World Lenses"

strangecyan — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:55:48 +0000

Looking at the F8 Keynote and the Computer Vision stuff that they are showing off now just reinforces to me that Snap is going in the right direction and is ahead. At this point it's who has the most data to feed the models and for me, that's Snapchat. Imagine this being put in personal drones, etc.