Hacker News: svmegatron

New comment by svmegatron in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

svmegatron — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:15:39 +0000

“building for the sake of building” refers to _you_ doing the building

New comment by svmegatron in "Tell HN: Turned 44 today and I'm lost"

svmegatron — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:57:45 +0000

Better yet: keep going to therapy and start lifting weights!

New comment by svmegatron in "Hospitals lift curtain on prices, revealing giant swings in pricing by procedure"

svmegatron — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:13:03 +0000

Can you elaborate on this? My gut agrees with you 100%, but I can't puzzle it out.

New comment by svmegatron in "Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work"

svmegatron — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 14:13:27 +0000

I think you can - there is a link to sign up for the newsletter at the bottom of the page

New comment by svmegatron in "Show HN: Termipal – native micro-GUIs for shell scripts and command line apps"

svmegatron — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 21:22:24 +0000

Nice!!

New comment by svmegatron in "Ask HN: Which skills are essential for a developer to join a blockchain startup?"

svmegatron — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 16:35:21 +0000

A high tolerance for risk

New comment by svmegatron in "Ask HN: Should I buy a boat and live off the grid?"

svmegatron — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 00:50:58 +0000

You should, boats are rad. In my experience it won't be as cheap as you think - but it is still awesome!

New comment by svmegatron in "Show HN: New calendar app idea"

svmegatron — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:32:50 +0000

I just want to add to the chorus of people saying they would pay for this. I too would be delighted to pay for this app. Looks AWESOME, thank you for creating it!

New comment by svmegatron in "ThingieQuery: $19 SQL IDE for Excel"

svmegatron — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 19:26:43 +0000

That is AWESOME! Nice work!

If I can offer a button nitpick - I suggest "Try it out for free!" in big text, and "Version 1.5.248.1, 2016-04-26" in small text. Maybe as simple as wrapping the version info in a tag.

New comment by svmegatron in "Ask HN: What are the challenges of building a personal assistant like Siri?"

svmegatron — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:55:26 +0000

Certainly not with that attitude.

Writing software - even hard, complex software - isn't even remotely comparable to a space program.

New comment by svmegatron in "Side Projects"

svmegatron — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 23:03:52 +0000

I agree 100%. It has gotten easier to turn a side project into a business.

My take is that it has gotten easier enough that fewer folks are pursuing VC, opting to bootstrap instead. It's not that fewer side projects are happening - more side projects are happening. Fewer of them need VC money to succeed/scale/generate meaningful revenue, so VCs are seeing fewer side projects.

New comment by svmegatron in "How to Stay in Shape at a Desk Job"

svmegatron — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 20:52:05 +0000

The great thing about exercise is there is no minimum effective dose.

Pushups are a great exercise, and they are more of a full-body exercise than they appear to be. They're an excellent starting point!

New comment by svmegatron in "The Unexotic Underclass"

svmegatron — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 03:46:41 +0000

> The regulations barriers are immense and the security and compliance problems are legion.

Paging Uber ... I am kidding, kind of. I do wonder what would happen if a well-capitalized startup did something in this space. Provide services directly based on the hope/promise/belief of future repayment?

New comment by svmegatron in "Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?"

svmegatron — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:57:42 +0000

Nice! I see you're on Shopify - I started a fraud prevention app that's great for Shopify stores. Would you be willing to try the free trial? I'd love to hear what a fellow HNer thinks of it.

Link is https://www.merchantprotector.net

New comment by svmegatron in "Show HN: PitchXO – Track your pitches"

svmegatron — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:39:07 +0000

If you haven't considered it already - this might be a great product for "pay only if you succeed" pricing. Might be easier to get people to pay, say, $5k from someone who has just raised $10m than $200 from someone who almost by definition has nothing.

New comment by svmegatron in "What the Head of Hiring at Google Doesn’t Understand About Skills"

svmegatron — Thu, 29 May 2014 15:04:47 +0000

Bock and the author both miss the same point: the thing that helps you learn to think in a rigorous way is to study something that does not come naturally to you.

I see it as the difference between learning a new skill and practicing an existing one. The former forces you to focus completely, while the latter tolerates inattention.

New comment by svmegatron in "Script-injected "async scripts" considered harmful"

svmegatron — Tue, 20 May 2014 17:53:09 +0000

+1 for periodic re-examination of best practices.

New comment by svmegatron in "Sift Science (YC S11) raise $18M to stop credit card fraud with machine learning"

svmegatron — Wed, 14 May 2014 18:32:39 +0000

I run a product in this space (https://www.merchantprotector.net) and I'm quite impressed with Sift Science's pricing.

No charge for the first 10k transactions/month is impressive.

New comment by svmegatron in "Optimizely Raises $57 Million"

svmegatron — Mon, 05 May 2014 16:14:57 +0000

Weirdly, middle-click (at least for me) does open the link in a new tab. If I were to venture a guess, it would be that that behavior was unintentional. If it wasn't, I'm also curious about the logic behind it.

New comment by svmegatron in "Delete it Later – Schedule Your Tweets and Facebook Status To Be Deleted Later"

svmegatron — Thu, 01 May 2014 23:00:17 +0000

You could use DeleteItLater to prevent Buffer Overflow.

Sorry, I'll show myself out.