Hacker News: tapsboy

New comment by tapsboy in "More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad"

tapsboy — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 18:19:00 +0000

Microsoft recently pushed Minecraft movie backgrounds for Teams users, including Enterprises

Show HN: New history.com focussed on real History

tapsboy — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:17:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.history.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43426017

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tapsboy in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

tapsboy — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 20:16:00 +0000

Can we sue the USCIS for not making an interview slot available for a family based greencard application and then rejecting the application because we didn't attend the interview before the time limit?

New comment by tapsboy in "Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io"

tapsboy — Wed, 31 May 2023 13:50:54 +0000

This might be a play against Snowflake Unistore (https://www.snowflake.com/blog/introducing-unistore/)

New comment by tapsboy in "DevOps is a failure"

tapsboy — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 20:59:13 +0000

Even thought this is downvoted and it kind of underplays the overall devops role, I understand the sentiment here.

That might be a reason why Vercel, Netlify, Render and others are picking up usage. YC has been investing in several similar companies. Big cloud is going in the same direction with AWS Amplify/App Runner, GCP Firebase/Cloud Run and Azure.

New comment by tapsboy in "Ask HN: To use or not to use React?"

tapsboy — Wed, 25 May 2022 01:07:04 +0000

This is not an exact answer to your question, but if you run a "simple" website or web application and really want to move to react, choose an easy to use and maintain popular framework like Next.js and host it on a platform like Vercel or Netlify

New comment by tapsboy in "Launch HN: Rownd (YC W22) – Add authentication and accounts to any website"

tapsboy — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 05:39:36 +0000

What is your opinion about Gigya, LoginRadius and other old timers in the CIAM space? How are you changing this space? Also how does it compare to AWS Cognito, GCP CIP and others?

New comment by tapsboy in "Google TV"

tapsboy — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:48:24 +0000

I think, it is an industry wide problem

https://dcurt.is/apple-tv-all-the-way-down

New comment by tapsboy in "Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+"

tapsboy — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 04:39:10 +0000

The mostly same problems plague Amazon Fire TV and Amazon Prime, Prime Channels, Prime Video for purchase, Prime video included in prime account, Prime App on different platforms, SSO with TV Network Apps. Looks like Apple is trying to catch up with mess.

With Google, I don't even know where to start. Messaging is not the only product line they messed up. Play Movies offering the same thing as Youtube Movies and Google Play Music - Youtube Music (you can buy, you can subscribe). Adding podcasts to Google Play Music, then removing it for a standalone app. However if you download the podcasts from the standalone app, they show up as Albums in Google Play music (on Android)

Node.js Dev from the Foundation

tapsboy — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 18:52:21 +0000

Article URL: https://nodejs.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19201643

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tapsboy in "Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases"

tapsboy — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 19:59:50 +0000

Been a paid user for a while. I love all the UI elements, markdown support, cross-platform compatibility etc. I have used Evernote, Simple Note and Boostnote previously.

Some problems however:

Desktop app takes a while to load. I understand it's electron, but so are Slack and VSCode. I am ready to keep it open on Mac. But on pressing Cmd+W, it closes the app, though not quit. Re-opening from that state is still slow. No other electron apps do that.

Offline experience on mobile isn't good. When I am in subway and want to jot down something quickly, it searches for internet for a while before allowing me to do anything

New comment by tapsboy in "Now 2.0"

tapsboy — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 17:58:46 +0000

I have similar questions if @rauchg is still reading. We just got a premium account and was setting up Dockerfiles and now.json based on Now 1.0.

All, I want to do is provide a Dockerfile that included a cross-platform build process. Including now specific build tools is not ideal for avoiding vendor-lock in.

Now has amazing for us to build prototypes, internal sites etc that we may eventually move to our standardized AWS infrastructure. Adding now specific build tools makes the process unusable for us

I understand from the docs that Now 1.0 is not deprecated yet, but it bothers me to invest more time in converting some of our internal projects to Now

New comment by tapsboy in "Now 2.0"

tapsboy — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 21:46:14 +0000

I second that. Long-running docker containers are more beneficial in many use-cases. Now 1.0 was the closest thing I found to Azure Container Instances and AWS Fargate

Now offering 1.0 style deployments on an ongoing basis will be helpful.

New comment by tapsboy in "Serverless Docker Beta"

tapsboy — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 04:14:01 +0000

This is more of a question to @rauchg and others who have used now one. When I use now within the AWS realm, are the AWS services when used in conjunction with Zeit Now containers subjected to ingress/egress costs? As it does sound like I am using a different cloud as far as AWS is concerned

New comment by tapsboy in "Serverless Docker Beta"

tapsboy — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 04:06:48 +0000

Also ACI (Azure Container Instances)

New comment by tapsboy in "Learn GraphQL by querying JSON"

tapsboy — Wed, 02 May 2018 16:53:33 +0000

Looks like a low friction way to bring on new team members to GraphQL.

However, the tools is either broken or not finished yet. I tried to change posts to books in the JSON tab and I get an error below: "Cannot extend type "Post" because it does not exist in the existing schema."

New comment by tapsboy in "Facebook to exclude US users from some privacy enhancements"

tapsboy — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 17:26:17 +0000

> Maybe it's a consequence of people naturally caring more about their surroundings Agreed.

I actually find HN more globalist, than let's say mainstream US media or US based tech media, as represented by the OP techcrunch article.

New comment by tapsboy in "Facebook to exclude US users from some privacy enhancements"

tapsboy — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 17:24:10 +0000

Agreed, my comment was just a refreshment of title from previous commenter

New comment by tapsboy in "Facebook to exclude US users from some privacy enhancements"

tapsboy — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 15:10:40 +0000

Nope, more like: "Facebook will not roll out European privacy-related code changes to rest of the world"

New comment by tapsboy in "Guide to Slack import and export tools"

tapsboy — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:26:02 +0000

I agree. It feels like Slack broke our trust. I don't have any records, but do remember slack in it's earlier days promised of not sharing private communication to the employers and sending the logs directly to govt agencies or 3rd party audit agencies.