Hacker News: vinhboy

New comment by vinhboy in "AI.gov"

vinhboy — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 21:30:14 +0000

As someone who used to work in government contracting, this comment is so freaking true.

The whole thing about contractors is so spot on. The only slight difference I would add is that the contractors will NOT hire the best talent, they will hire whoever they can to fill the position, for the cheapest price, so they can claim to have fulfilled their RFP.

It's a dead end.

New comment by vinhboy in "Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company"

vinhboy — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 20:11:06 +0000

Yahoo home page is actually very engaging (in a car wreck kind of way), and they haven't updated it much in years. I definitely believe they are doing well.

New comment by vinhboy in "Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter"

vinhboy — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:19:43 +0000

The only site I know that died from instant user migration is Digg. Lots of sites died a slow death from users moving on to better platforms, but rarely does anything die from boycott that I know of.

New comment by vinhboy in "Tell HN: Messages from Another Azure Customer Are Appearing in My Queue"

vinhboy — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 23:29:43 +0000

oddly specific...

Don't know about Azure, but my AWS support tickets have always been answered with very helpful diagnosis.

New comment by vinhboy in "I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015)"

vinhboy — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 01:46:22 +0000

I'm curious what is the normal equity share given to board members? Is their advisory worth six years of engineering?

New comment by vinhboy in "Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore"

vinhboy — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 04:59:27 +0000

Curious what is your skillset and experience that Google wants to recruit you so bad?

New comment by vinhboy in "Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them?"

vinhboy — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 15:06:54 +0000

That's probably like one of the coolest purpose built machine I've ever seen. In my head I originally thought they did it by hand, lol.

New comment by vinhboy in "How to hire a pop star for your private party"

vinhboy — Tue, 30 May 2023 03:23:19 +0000

The wide spectrum of the human experience never cease to amaze me. Reading the stories in this article just made that spectrum a little bit bigger. Just wild. I am too shocked to have any sort of moral opinion about it.

New comment by vinhboy in "Heroku has been running a second copy of my scheduler instance"

vinhboy — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 05:35:16 +0000

Similar thing happened to me. Took a long time to realize there was a zombie Heroku instance running jobs.

That horror when you delete code but it's still running, you're just so confused...

I've forgotten how I resolved it, but man it was a pain to diagnose.

New comment by vinhboy in "In a deadly mountain pass, a tiny hotel is a lifeline"

vinhboy — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 15:59:52 +0000

I was expecting a story about an eccentric recluse, but it turns out to be a story about a failing government. Good read nonetheless.

New comment by vinhboy in "When Google paid websites to promote Firefox"

vinhboy — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 03:26:57 +0000

Yep. Google paid like $2 per download of Firefox. It cost like 5 cents a click, for the "download Firefox" keyword, on Google Ads to bring someone to my website. Profit.

New comment by vinhboy in "When Google paid websites to promote Firefox"

vinhboy — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 22:26:36 +0000

Fun memory, I made like $40K selling Firefox downloads.... on google ads. Learned a lot about google ads and SEO.

That was a lot of money for me as a poor kid from the TL.

New comment by vinhboy in "WolfMUD: World of Living Fantasy"

vinhboy — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 06:14:10 +0000

Around the same time, middle school I think, I was in the SF Public library playing MUD on the little terminal they reserved for searching books. We couldn't afford a computer, or internet, at home. The librarians tolerated us.

Eventually led to me learning C and running my own ROM MUD. I remember sending some random person $5 or $10 and they hosted my MUD on their server.

I too owe MUD everything.

New comment by vinhboy in "Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell"

vinhboy — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 21:00:52 +0000

those two things are not always mutually exclusive

New comment by vinhboy in "Build your front end in React, then let ChatGPT be your Redux reducer"

vinhboy — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 23:46:00 +0000

Wow that's an impressive backstory. Probably one of the more useful things I've seen come out of chatGPT

New comment by vinhboy in "What happens to a smartphone when it gets stolen?"

vinhboy — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 17:15:19 +0000

I am really happy to see a story from Mastodon. A first for me on any social media. This is progress!

Also, don't thieves usually turn off the phone immediately so you can't track anything.

New comment by vinhboy in "Tell HN: The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is an excellent MacBook replacement"

vinhboy — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 20:35:27 +0000

I tried developing on a PC... For whatever reason, my development setup (probably WSDL) crashes the PC every time it goes to sleep. Tried all kinds of remedies and it never worked.

Got so fed up I deleted windows and run Linux... it's working OK. It's not Mac OS X, but at least it doesn't crash.

I tried, I really tried.

New comment by vinhboy in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)"

vinhboy — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 17:13:52 +0000

Accrualify | Java Developer | Full-time | Onsite/Hybrid | Sacramento, CA

We're a small engineering team out of Sacramento building enterprise accounting software. We're looking for an experienced Java Developer to join our team. You will be required to be onsite initially so we can get you up to speed, but we will be on a hybrid schedule after.

We're very excited to grow our development team in Sacramento and meet local developers so join us if you are in town.

Be sure to let me know you found us on HN.

Apply here: https://accrualify.hrpartner.io/jobs/java-developer-ryzp0

New comment by vinhboy in "Ask HN: Have you ever inherited a code base you thought was well done?"

vinhboy — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 16:40:36 +0000

I might get a lot of flame for this, but I would say this is probably true of most Rails project because Rails has a lot of great standards (opinions). I am not sure why people hate Rails, I love it exactly for this reason.

New comment by vinhboy in "My take on Elon's offer for Twitter"

vinhboy — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 05:20:29 +0000

> You have a handful of examples you're clinging to, which show some people doing something you don't like, so EVERYONE MUST BE DOING IT.

I feel like more than 50% of this thread right now is doing exactly this and is unaware they are doing it.

To be fair though. There does exist corporations who has a proven history of trying to push a specific point of view, case and point: Fox News.

People assume that since Fox News exists, there must also exist an equal, but opposite: MSNBC, CNN, and (maybe) now Twitter or whatever...

In my opinion, this sort of false equivalencies is extremely counter productive and dangerous to our society.