Hacker News: tonylxc

New comment by tonylxc in "It's time to head back to RSS?"

tonylxc — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 05:17:39 +0000

I built a tiny website back in 2005-ish to aggregate RSS feeds from sites that I was interested in. Just for myself and didn't think too much that it could have been an actual product. That was before Google Reader launching in October 2005. Today it's sad to see Google Reader discontinued.

Somehow I find this article very interesting in that it's kind of a sandwich that the promotion of Feedly is inserted in the middle, which makes me wonder if the article really wants to advocate the revival of RSS, or is just another marketing one. Does anyone have the same feeling here (confusing face)?

Edited: fixed a typo: Google Reader launched in October 2005.

New comment by tonylxc in "Ask HN: Is Slack down?"

tonylxc — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 19:24:42 +0000

yes (kindly from Los Gatos).

One of my team member just wished a slack-free day, and it has come true!

New comment by tonylxc in "Rebtel forfeits customer's money without letting them know"

tonylxc — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 09:08:41 +0000

Found a settlement regarding to Skype's inactive credits back in 2010: https://techcrunch.com/2010/01/14/skype-credits-inactivity-s..., clearly Rebtel's behavior should be against the law.

New comment by tonylxc in "Rebtel forfeits customer's money without letting them know"

tonylxc — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 09:00:10 +0000

"Note that any purchased Rebtel credit will expire after twelve (12) months of inactivity."

I'm one of their customers. My credit is gone without any reminders or notification. I have been left in dark until I tried to use the service yesterday and found out that my credit is gone. The credit is literally my money.

Comparing to what Skype does (https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA10378/how-do-i-reactivate...), this is totally irresponsible and unacceptable to me. They provide no way of "reactivate" the credit.

So guys, be aware of such irresponsible service providers and check your provider's terms.

Rebtel forfeits customer's money without letting them know

tonylxc — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 08:56:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rebtel.com/en/legal-information/terms-of-service/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13218416

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by tonylxc in ""Mgt Team has over 40 yrs experience managing wireless stores", REALLY?"

tonylxc — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 07:21:58 +0000

This is off the point. And I'm not questioning the fact either.

New comment by tonylxc in ""Mgt Team has over 40 yrs experience managing wireless stores", REALLY?"

tonylxc — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 07:17:19 +0000

Alright, this is really funny. Do 10 people each with 4-year experience really add up to "40-year experience"? I don't think so. I think this is just kind of a joke.

What would you think if Google (now Alphabet) said their management team had over 100 years of experience? (not carefully calculated, but you can do the math if you like :))

They should be more honest than using such gimmicks.

New comment by tonylxc in ""Mgt Team has over 40 yrs experience managing wireless stores", REALLY?"

tonylxc — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 07:02:08 +0000

"Mgt Team has over 40 yrs experience managing wireless stores"

Seriously, 40 yrs of wireless store management?? Was there any consumer facing wireless service back in 1976? I'm confused.

As far as this article says, (http://mashable.com/2014/03/13/first-cellphone-on-sale/#QX95...), the first cellphone on sale was in 1984 and it cost $3,995. I wonder if there were already "wireless stores" that needed to be managed whatsoever at that time.

"Mgt Team has over 40 yrs experience managing wireless stores", REALLY?

tonylxc — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 07:01:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crowdfunder.com/progressive-wireless

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12171029

Points: 2

# Comments: 6

New comment by tonylxc in "Common Search – nonprofit search engine for the Web"

tonylxc — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 20:49:50 +0000

I'm particularly interested in the discuss forum. Is it an open source one or built yourselves? Thanks!

New comment by tonylxc in "January 28th Incident Report"

tonylxc — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 23:58:42 +0000

I totally share the same view that to best avoid failure is to embrace it and cope with it.

It is true that all their sentence is about recovery, however, it is disappointing that they didn't mention anything about a redundant datacenter.

New comment by tonylxc in "January 28th Incident Report"

tonylxc — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 23:51:13 +0000

My point is: they shouldn't ONLY plan on ensuring recovery occurs fast; they should also plan on having multiple data centers, which to me is more important. It's frightening to know that such an important service is only operating in a single data center.

However, their recovery report didn't mention anything about such a plan.

<< Edited: correct a grammar error.

New comment by tonylxc in "January 28th Incident Report"

tonylxc — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 22:55:02 +0000

TL;DR: "We don’t believe it is possible to fully prevent the events that resulted in a large part of our infrastructure losing power, ..."

This doesn't sound very good.

New comment by tonylxc in "Central banks are planning to launch a new form of digital currency"

tonylxc — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 00:51:47 +0000

Though the name "E Dollar" sounds so antique...

New comment by tonylxc in "A Brief History of Null Island"

tonylxc — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 19:23:38 +0000

I suppose the NullPointerException is totally legal on this island.

New comment by tonylxc in "Haskell for Mac"

tonylxc — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 08:09:20 +0000

Sounds good but still not convincing. For example, R can do the same thing, too, or even better. And it can be integrated with other programming languages. I would never buy it either until somebody really shows it's worth the money.