Hacker News: theparanoid

New comment by theparanoid in "Office on HP-UX and Unix"

theparanoid — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 23:27:59 +0000

Word docs being the medium of exchange created enough of a network effect. I remember trying to use other programs but importing/exporting to Word wasn't perfect.

New comment by theparanoid in "Comma 3X: Initial Impressions"

theparanoid — Fri, 16 May 2025 08:19:21 +0000

I bought one for my 2020 Toyota Sienna a couple months ago. The best analogy is that it's like upgrading to Tesla Autopilot. It's great for highway and freeway driving but not city streets.

New comment by theparanoid in "US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she'd died"

theparanoid — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 05:08:42 +0000

My classmate from nursing school is an RN at that hospital, I'm not surprised.

New comment by theparanoid in "Intel's Immiseration"

theparanoid — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 22:16:10 +0000

Intel's decline was obvious when I worked for them in 2010, their compensation package wasn't competitive with FANG and they consistently missed out or lost their better engineers.

New comment by theparanoid in "Who is driving Germany's far-right poll surge?"

theparanoid — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 07:59:37 +0000

The article is a nicely illustrated analysis of the issues (migration policy) driving the increase.

New comment by theparanoid in "Ask HN: Has anyone started over outside of tech?"

theparanoid — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 15:18:43 +0000

After a decade as a software engineer I became a nurse. It has its pros and cons. The defining difference is shift work vs project work. In California the pay is similar to tech which is a plus. Also watching all my previous teammates get laid off during the tech downturns is a motivating factor.

Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership

theparanoid — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:46:09 +0000

Article URL: https://airwaysmag.com/rolls-royce-boom-supersonic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32768166

Points: 201

# Comments: 245

New comment by theparanoid in "I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018)"

theparanoid — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 07:15:08 +0000

No, if they catch you they'll ban both accounts. They banned a conservative political activist's husband's account preemptively after banning her, https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-malkin-banned-airbnb-attendi...

New comment by theparanoid in "Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote work?"

theparanoid — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 11:31:23 +0000

It's not Republican. In the last presidential election, the county voted 60% Democrat (Pine Bluffs is the largest city and county seat).

New comment by theparanoid in "Ask HN: Why do you use a VPN?"

theparanoid — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 03:52:45 +0000

International travel. My bank (credit union) and cell phone provider (AT&T) both block non-US access. I also use it to get around Vietnam's blocking of websites e.g. BBC.

New comment by theparanoid in "Offboarding: Saying Goodbye with Grace"

theparanoid — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 16:24:15 +0000

Send a death certificate.

New comment by theparanoid in "I Am Not Satoshi Nakamoto"

theparanoid — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 01:16:18 +0000

Bruce linked to his own opinion piece in Wired.

New comment by theparanoid in "Pen Plotter Art and Algorithms, Part 1 (2017)"

theparanoid — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 04:22:16 +0000

I tried to register via Google at https://fountaincards.com/register and received a 404.

New comment by theparanoid in "It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us"

theparanoid — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 18:57:29 +0000

I doing my part by drawing it in cartoons.

New comment by theparanoid in "YouTube Sponsored Freedom of Expression Award Goes to YouTube CEO [video]"

theparanoid — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:10:02 +0000

The irony considering YouTube's step up of purging channels with alternative viewpoints.

New comment by theparanoid in "When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe?"

theparanoid — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 01:38:09 +0000

A more interesting paper is Life Before Earth, https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3381, analyzing biological complexity and projecting into the past for an origin of 9.7 billion years ago.

New comment by theparanoid in "I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride (2020)"

theparanoid — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 04:26:42 +0000

A compelling critique that Go's embodiment of the "Worse is better" philosophy from Unix is to its detriment.

New comment by theparanoid in "Java Verbal Expressions"

theparanoid — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:28:23 +0000

Anything but the simplest regexes are tricky to correctly write.

New comment by theparanoid in "New case studies about Google’s use of Go"

theparanoid — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:55:02 +0000

Go 2 will have generics, https://blog.golang.org/generics-next-step

New comment by theparanoid in "A First Try at ROI: Ranking 4,500 Colleges [pdf]"

theparanoid — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:48:11 +0000

NPV is more sensitive to major than college. A Berkeley liberal arts degree has lower lifetime earnings than a Cal State nursing degree.