Hacker News: superflyguy

New comment by superflyguy in "The day I found Saowen.com had stolen my content"

superflyguy — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:05:27 +0000

I'd be tempted to include blogs about/links to Tiananmen Square protests etc then report the copies to the Chinese authorities. Possibly do something similar for Russia about homosexuality or whatever.

New comment by superflyguy in "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft"

superflyguy — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 10:16:11 +0000

No, The Butt by Will Self.

New comment by superflyguy in "Show HN: A mobile-friendly, web-based, countries of the world game"

superflyguy — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 13:20:45 +0000

Long-press the back button.

New comment by superflyguy in "An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante, Whoever You Are"

superflyguy — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:50:22 +0000

Salinger has certainly got this reclusive business down to a t - nobody's seen or heard anything from him for a good 8 years now.

New comment by superflyguy in "LG Releases Gram 17 Laptop: An Ultra-Thin Notebook with a 17.3in Display"

superflyguy — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 16:22:08 +0000

If it doesn't have to be portable why spend that much on a laptop at all? Why not get a desktop you can at least sensibly upgrade/fix etc?

New comment by superflyguy in "LG Releases Gram 17 Laptop: An Ultra-Thin Notebook with a 17.3in Display"

superflyguy — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 16:19:52 +0000

So you believe that a reviewer or perhaps a random internet commenter making a statement for or against a feature such as a headphone socket "gives attention" which is picked up by a company as it works on the spec for subsequent models? How would that work? How would you know whether the person was going to buy one anyway, or wasn't an idiot - what if you get some people who like it and some who don't? Wouldn't you just stick with the status quo, or talk to people who know what they're talking about?

New comment by superflyguy in "Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast"

superflyguy — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 14:55:44 +0000

Sadly, Chrome doesn't support extensions for mobile. Firefox does, which is the (only) reason I use it but that's obviously not going to be around forever. If the choice is ever surf with ads/trackers or don't surf I'll be not surfing.

New comment by superflyguy in "The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts"

superflyguy — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 13:14:59 +0000

Google barely sells phones. They might have done with Nexus but they sell as many Pixels in a year as Apple do in 3 days. I know no-one with a Nest. They're still very much an ad company.

New comment by superflyguy in "Modern China Is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre (2016)"

superflyguy — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 09:44:57 +0000

Why, was Buddha around after Jesus then?

New comment by superflyguy in "Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10"

superflyguy — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 13:07:50 +0000

There's always one.

New comment by superflyguy in "Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracking you around the web"

superflyguy — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 20:36:23 +0000

Please provide me with a list of topics I'm not allowed to joke about.

New comment by superflyguy in "I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back"

superflyguy — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:54:48 +0000

"In general, drop "lol", "lonely fanbois" etc from your vocabulary if you want your statements to be taken seriously."

Thanks for the advice but I appear to be immune to this "social networks and digital media causes depression" issue, as I couldn't give a fuck what anyone thinks about me.

New comment by superflyguy in "Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracking you around the web"

superflyguy — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:08:16 +0000

If that's your angle, remember that that nonsense included explicitly the suggestion that one problem with tracking might be when you "get involved with a terror group", along with other drivel about "digitized karma" and unwanted ads. If you don't want ads, run an adblocker. That's literally what they're for.

New comment by superflyguy in "Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracking you around the web"

superflyguy — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 09:26:51 +0000

No it's not just you. I block ads with ublock origin. The end result of the tracking is targeted ads, and as I don't see any of them I don't care how accurate they are.

New comment by superflyguy in "I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back"

superflyguy — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:43:10 +0000

What's your source for the reason iPhone sales are dropping?

New comment by superflyguy in "I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back"

superflyguy — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:41:16 +0000

Fragmentation! Lol! The only people who seem to care about "Android fragmentation" are lonely Apple fanbois. It makes no difference to Android users as the version of Android you run and the apps you can install/websites you browse are entirely unconnected.

New comment by superflyguy in "Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps"

superflyguy — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 22:41:34 +0000

Stack overflow is pretty popular. Although their recent attempt to "be nice to new users" (which wasn't necessary before, and coincides with the quality of answers rapidly approaching that of Quota) suggests that this won't last forever.

New comment by superflyguy in "Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal"

superflyguy — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 19:00:12 +0000

Even if you were someone for whom the page is clear, you might still be confused by why someone who would need to take a not insignificant amount of time getting their development machine installed and configured correctly but would balk at having to type - just once at any point during the lifetime of their laptop - a single git clone to pull down their config.

Neovim (https://neovim.io/) makes a thing about how it's got "strong defaults" but there's got to be the least compelling reason to use it.

Newcomers to vim are generally encouraged to use it as-is and make their own config changes as and when they need to, and experienced users will have config which gets enhanced to meet whatever circumstances they're confronted with, but none of this requires a completely different editor.

New comment by superflyguy in "Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but refuses to give details"

superflyguy — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 15:53:57 +0000

Presumably because nobody cares about the security of email addresses. The part of their system which handles credit cards hasn't been shown to be compromised, but maybe Gmail's spam filter needs to work a little harder. (I've already spent longer writing this than I spend going through my spam folder each year)

New comment by superflyguy in "Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but refuses to give details"

superflyguy — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:41:46 +0000

Why would anyone care if you had their address, or email address? Why would Amazon be interested in going into details about an email address leak? Outside of a handful of people who get excited by every leak no matter what, nobody cares. It's an email address. You get some more spam maybe? Big deal.