Hacker News: thewileyone

New comment by thewileyone in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

thewileyone — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 02:59:37 +0000

I've worked at a multi-national bank with HQ in London, Operational HQ in Singapore, Shared Services in Malaysia, India and China, Data centres in Hong Kong, Dubai and back in England. Every day was basically remote working with teams across the globe. No video; email, IP phones and audio-only meetings on MS Office Communicator. When the bank downsized office space so that 1/3 of shared services had to work from home, wasn't an issue at all because we were so used to working remotely.

This biggest issue is that new and middle managers are only trained to manage, not to lead. They feel that they must be able to reach out and touch someone to manage, hence RTO.

New comment by thewileyone in "DOGE is done. What happened to its records?"

thewileyone — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:33:19 +0000

Property of Elon Musk

New comment by thewileyone in "LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders"

thewileyone — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:48:36 +0000

Gross Revenue is sometimes passed off as Revenue in reports, until you examine the fine print.

New comment by thewileyone in "You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month"

thewileyone — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:55:17 +0000

As a long-time Windows user, from 3.11 onwards, sometime Macbook owner and a Linux tinkerer on spare devices, Windows 11 is a step backwards in UI with all it's inconsistencies and forceful but poor implementation of new features. Linux, the distros I've tinkered with, seems to be more polished and consistent across the board.

Only reason I still use Windows is AAA games and MS SQL Server, which I prefer using SSMS to control.

New comment by thewileyone in "Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years"

thewileyone — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:29:12 +0000

Correct, the personal computer is not the entry point for computing anymore.

New comment by thewileyone in "PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)"

thewileyone — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:26:18 +0000

I bought the Orange Box years and years ago and to install this Steam launcher to play Counter-Strike, what a pain in the a$$. Stop playing, promptly forgot about it.

Years passed, and wanted to play something else that was on sale on this Steam thing that seemed familiar so reinstalled it. To my surprise, my old Orange Box games were still there.

That has led to an unhealthy 20 years of hoarding on-sale games like Smaug.

Thanks, gaben!

P.S. Sony is screwing their fans.

New comment by thewileyone in "Should European housing politics be Americanized?"

thewileyone — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:15:53 +0000

It like watching car crash videos ... It's hard to look away ...

New comment by thewileyone in "Peppa Pig studio wants to clone child actors' voices with AI indefinitely"

thewileyone — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:03:47 +0000

Something innately creepy about creating new content in perpetuity with a voice that no longer exists.

New comment by thewileyone in "Can China build its own ASML?"

thewileyone — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:47:00 +0000

R&D is difficult and expensive which makes this "logic folding" more impressive. It might not have been a new idea but Huawei, against all the demonization against it over the last 10 years, is commercializing it and that's a huge achievement.

R&D is difficult and expensive which is why the US and Europe gives up on many cutting edge technologies and relies on the tried and true and discounting opportunities. This will be the end of their dominance.

New comment by thewileyone in "Federal judge rules Trump's $100k fee for H-1B visas unlawful"

thewileyone — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:03:41 +0000

Has your friend changed her mind about Trump or is now just blaming Biden for Trump having to these things that impacts her?

New comment by thewileyone in "Doing nothing at work"

thewileyone — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:27:53 +0000

If you're still learning or giving opportunities to learn new things, stick it out. If you're stagnating and not allowed to learn new things, it's time to leave.

For the first 10 years or so, this is relevant. After that you can figure out what you really want to do.

New comment by thewileyone in "Doing nothing at work"

thewileyone — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:26:18 +0000

I've argued the same for 30+ years. Having some slack is healthy so that teams can be simultaneously proactive and reactive to issues. Even the best athletes do not train or compete 24/7.

New comment by thewileyone in "Huawei executive credits bans for accelerating domestic chip independence"

thewileyone — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:24:46 +0000

The West thinks that making things difficult ends with subservience, meanwhile the East just sees it as a challenge to solve.

New comment by thewileyone in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

thewileyone — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:24:46 +0000

Good enough for a relaxing sh*t break.

New comment by thewileyone in "Inside the unraveling of U.S. diplomacy under Trump"

thewileyone — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:16:30 +0000

The fall of an empire in real-time.

New comment by thewileyone in "UAE to leave OPEC"

thewileyone — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:06:43 +0000

The 3 generation cycle has proven to be true in the past but families are smarter today.

New comment by thewileyone in "A mushroom that makes people have the exact same hallucination"

thewileyone — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:31:17 +0000

Occam's Razor ... it's the simplest explanation isn't it?

New comment by thewileyone in "Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings"

thewileyone — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:28:52 +0000

Just one more step Mark, one more step needed.

New comment by thewileyone in "Was Trump oblivious to the realities of Netanyahu's promised 'easy' war on Iran?"

thewileyone — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:23:33 +0000

Or it's all just the "Big Penis Strategy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuEKb9Ktqhc&pp=ygUgc291dGggc...

New comment by thewileyone in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

thewileyone — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:01:37 +0000

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