<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: two_cents</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=two_cents</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:52:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=two_cents" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by two_cents in "I'm never buying another Kindle"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Add to that the fact that you don't really own the e-books you "buy" through Amazon, just like pretty much every other digital "purchase" these days, and that's enough for me to never buy one.<p>True. That's why I prefer to buy books on other platforms, sometimes directly on authors website. 
And nothing stops me from reading them on Kindle. Maybe that's the reason why I don't understand the problem here.</p>
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<p><p><pre><code>  > We are still dealing with a home screen that prioritizes advertisements and promoted recommendations over your actual library. Navigating a large collection of books remains a chore, with sluggish animations and a lack of robust folder management that has been a standard feature on rival devices for years.
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Such claims make me think that this article is biased.<p>There are two tabs on main Kindle screen - Home and Library (and also pretty good search). In Library you can see all your books AND collections as folders.<p>BOOX devices have their own issues <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33353640">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33353640</a><p>I think Kobo has same issues with DRM as Amazon does.<p>Also, Kindle devices are cheaper, last time I checked, low end models of competitors, didn't have flush-front screens, like Paperwhite.<p>I never had problems described in this article (but YMMV of course).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:21:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837553</link><dc:creator>two_cents</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837553</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by two_cents in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of my favorite movies.
There is a context to it though: dystopian post apocalyptical society where all planet natives are telepathic and can read each other's thoughts.</p>
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<p>Isn't that what taxes are for?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 05:52:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44909031</link><dc:creator>two_cents</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44909031</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44909031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by two_cents in "Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Booking.com or frankly any other aggregator are great until the moment you have a problem and need to talk to their customer service. In that moment you realize that Booking.com does nothing that you can't do by yourself with same effort.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 22:01:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42704514</link><dc:creator>two_cents</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42704514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42704514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by two_cents in "Web apps built with Ruby on Rails"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't have a lot of experience with Golang and AI, I think Rails can give you different kind of productivity.<p>From what I know (please correct me if I am wrong) most people use AI to create scaffolding and automate all boring and repetitive tasks in a project. So code still needs to be written, you just outsource it to AI helper.<p>In Rails you write less code and concentrate on business logic because everything boring like DAL, authorization, caching is already written and tested in production.<p>edit: syntax</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:12:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42657550</link><dc:creator>two_cents</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42657550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42657550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by two_cents in "Can we communally deprecate git checkout?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can set default branch name for your repositories in settings.
Much more straightforward than in GitLab in my opinion.</p>
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<p>Apple Notes is pretty close to perfect for me - it's just missing Markdown support and backlinks. 
I did just figure out how to link notes together with the '>>' shortcut, which is a game-changer. I've tried a bunch of other apps, but I always come back to Notes.</p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/tellerops/teller">https://github.com/tellerops/teller</a> works good for me.<p>At work we use Ansible to fetch secrets from Hashicorp Vault.</p>
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<p>In my experience same goes with microservices. Same spaghetti, different abstraction layer,</p>
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<p>BOOX Palma maybe?
<a href="https://shop.boox.com/products/palma" rel="nofollow">https://shop.boox.com/products/palma</a></p>
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