Hacker News: thebouv

New comment by thebouv in "Launch HN: Flow Club (YC S21) – Virtual co-working space for focused work"

thebouv — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:34:27 +0000

Hmm, I guess I don't really get the concept. I still don't know how this stops constant interruption from emails, Zooms, and messaging pings.

If the block on my calendar for this is supposed to help stop people contacting me -- well, it doesn't stop them now.

I'm glad this seems to work for some people though.

New comment by thebouv in "Masking Emotions: Face masks impair how we read emotions"

thebouv — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:01:10 +0000

Do you just imagine parents at home with their developing children, wearing masks 24 hours a day?

Or that they only learn how to emote and facial expressions from their limited interactions outside their home?

Wear a mask. The kids will be fine.

New comment by thebouv in "Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and more"

thebouv — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:49:17 +0000

I was on the phone with them getting a demo of Enterprise Managed Users at the time and the demo was failing too, ha. So we looked at the status page together and saw all yellow.

Doesn't matter, I wanted EMUs without the demo anyway. Still was funny to happen when I was talking to an engineer at the time.

New comment by thebouv in "Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0"

thebouv — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:21:42 +0000

Only commenting to say their site makes me mad cause it breaks the browser history. I click the link, go to the fb engineering site, and the back button has no history to go back to HN. Dark Pattern UX -- gross.

New comment by thebouv in "Six years of professional Clojure development"

thebouv — Thu, 06 May 2021 16:15:26 +0000

If I want to learn a new technology, that's been out a while, I make sure to look for jobs for it first. Just a gut check on how many opportunities are out there for it.

This doesn't work for something brand new of course, but I still do a cursory look through job sites to see what I can see.

Like for instance on Dice.com right now there are 60 jobs available. If I were interested in Clojure today and saw that, I probably wouldn't bother because I know Clojure is mature but there's not a market for it apparently.

Again, this isn't meticulous or scientific at all, just a gut check with a few searches.

Then again, Rust only has 13 jobs listed soooooo.....

New comment by thebouv in "Prank Windows XP simulator"

thebouv — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:56:51 +0000

Yeah, coincidence, saw the same on my Mac.

New comment by thebouv in "Apple Introduces AirTag"

thebouv — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:48:55 +0000

If you have an iPhone yes. Will it let the Android users know?

New comment by thebouv in "Apple Introduces AirTag"

thebouv — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:39:05 +0000

I don't want my device sending or receiving any data using my data plan without my knowing. Do apps I have installed send shit constantly? Sure. But those are MY apps -- that's on me for using them. But if someone else has a tag, and I'm near it, my phone shouldn't be used to send/receive data about said tag at all. I definitely don't like this "we created a network of devices and everyone is opted in" setup.

Similar to the hub-bub raised of Alexa devices "sharing" internet connectivity.

New comment by thebouv in "Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time"

thebouv — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 21:13:02 +0000

Never heard of this but now I'm in love.

Now to figure out what I can write about.

Though I'm definitely going to use this for internal docs at work probably. Very nice.

New comment by thebouv in "Poland Justice Minister announces online freedom of speech bill"

thebouv — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:46:46 +0000

Really? Define it then.

Facebook is a website by all technical terms.

Where is the hard defined line between social media services and a website?

What is a website that hosts a forum?

What is Discord?

What if I run a WordPress website with the BuddyPress plugin?

What about comments on my blog articles?

New comment by thebouv in "Nova by Panic"

thebouv — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:54:40 +0000

I feel like buying it to support them because Mac native app companies are few and far between. And Transmit was good when I needed to use it (haven't forever). And Coda was my main editor for a long time.

But I'll still use VS Code cause I work on a Mac and on Linux and it's nice for it to just be the same. And I have no complaints to solve with VS Code. It does exactly what I need for Python and other stuff.

New comment by thebouv in "Nova by Panic"

thebouv — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 23:21:40 +0000

I love Panic. Transmit was awesome when I needed a great sftp client gui. But I don't need it anymore.

Coda was baller. But I don't need it anymore.

I think I'll go ahead and buy Nova to check it out and support them. But VS Code does everything I need and I have no complaints about it. Plus I can use the same editor on my Mac and on my Linux desktops.

I find it interesting they're getting into this space, but more power to them.

New comment by thebouv in "Docker update ToS: Image retention limits imposed on free accounts"

thebouv — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:34:52 +0000

Continuously throw stuff at the wall to see what sticks?

New comment by thebouv in "Docker update ToS: Image retention limits imposed on free accounts"

thebouv — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:29:21 +0000

Rough idea: maintain an Awesome List of images worth saving, take submissions from public, use that list to automate what to pull?

New comment by thebouv in "Microsoft won’t sell police its facial-recognition technology"

thebouv — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:47:05 +0000

But they'll sell it to a third party. Who can then sell it to the police. So this just means they won't directly sell it, but they'll still make their money.

New comment by thebouv in "Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results"

thebouv — Wed, 27 May 2020 15:39:12 +0000

I'd really love to hear the perspective from engineers working on this inside of Google.

How do they perceive the work that they're doing?

Do they see the harm it causes, or do they only believe in the promise of the good it gives?

New comment by thebouv in "Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms"

thebouv — Wed, 27 May 2020 13:53:32 +0000

You're expecting a lot out of a country still trying to get Creationism taught in schools as an alternative scientific theory.

New comment by thebouv in "Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms"

thebouv — Wed, 27 May 2020 13:48:09 +0000

> essentially create a public(1) forum where I am not able to exercise my first amendment rights(2) (and, legally speaking, rightfully so(3)). I cannot help but to find this very concerning.

(1) Private forum, displayed in the public. (2) Those rights protect your speech from being suppressed BY THE GOVERNMENT. (3) Correct if you meant legally as a private company running a private forum, they can manage the content as they see fit, including fact checking the POTUS. Or incorrect if you meant you have a legal right to exercise your speech on their platform free of their rules.

New comment by thebouv in "Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms"

thebouv — Wed, 27 May 2020 13:17:41 +0000

The comments defending the fact checking?

Or the comments defending it is okay for big government to step in and threaten to close a private company over fact checking?

New comment by thebouv in "Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms"

thebouv — Wed, 27 May 2020 13:14:14 +0000

The corrupt part out loud is a distraction from the hidden corruption.