Hacker News: vitalurk

New comment by vitalurk in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

vitalurk — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:06:03 +0000

Nice move. Regulating competitors away while screaming about free markets. Not a meme country at all..

New comment by vitalurk in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

vitalurk — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:46:46 +0000

This move shouts “you win China, your products are superior than ours”. We hate losing at our own game don’t we?

New comment by vitalurk in "Should Sports Betting Be Banned?"

vitalurk — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 04:28:48 +0000

Yes, the math understanding is not here at scale. It's strip mining a vulnerable populace. Of course it should be banned.

New comment by vitalurk in "Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake"

vitalurk — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:06:17 +0000

Who is fighting against this veritable scourge? I'd love to join in!

New comment by vitalurk in "Tetris shows promise in reducing PTSD symptoms"

vitalurk — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 22:55:54 +0000

I respect that. If you change your mind, feel free to comment here. Am infantry vet studying psychology and super interested in the topic!

New comment by vitalurk in "Tetris shows promise in reducing PTSD symptoms"

vitalurk — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 05:02:53 +0000

Hey, any chance you would be into connecting and talking about healing trough playing games?

New comment by vitalurk in "Discussion: Job seekers can't find a job and Employers can't find an employees"

vitalurk — Mon, 20 May 2024 14:50:43 +0000

It's been tough finding a role as a UX designer who is self-taught and has experience despite a lack of degree. Most of what I can find is hourly or small fee gigs that are devoid of any real value (You cannot hire a 1099 to whip up your UX in a week, sorry.)

It's disheartening, and I'm about to stop looking for work for 4yrs while I use my education benefits to go to school. I can get paid $2k/mo to study, so I think I'll put together a team and spend 4yrs building micro-SaaS products while studying art history, instead of siphoning my energy and soul applying to tinder-algorithm-powered-job-onboardings.

A goddamn waste if you ask me.

A product/UX designer who has worked almost 100% remotely as of yet.

New comment by vitalurk in "GPT-4o"

vitalurk — Tue, 14 May 2024 00:43:20 +0000

Replicants/AI systems, they are everywhere.

New comment by vitalurk in "J.G. Ballard predicted the rise of social media (2016)"

vitalurk — Wed, 08 May 2024 00:57:25 +0000

You should check out the Bitcoin whitepaper.

New comment by vitalurk in "Zoho is attracting the attention of African startup founders"

vitalurk — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:11:07 +0000

"Don't you guys have laptops". Maybe it's about your customers and the devices they use!

New comment by vitalurk in "CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred"

vitalurk — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:09:16 +0000

They split the students to take away their power. They kicked people off Slack, wiping the incriminating message history, and then re-adding students (woopsie), they allowed rampant racism to be posted in the channels. They did so many shady things with arbitration, it was absolutely harmful.

New comment by vitalurk in "CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred"

vitalurk — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 23:32:12 +0000

Good to see some justice

New comment by vitalurk in "Figma removed `window.figma` on view-only pages today"

vitalurk — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:04:37 +0000

For some reason, 2 of my "*" symbols were truncated.

New comment by vitalurk in "Figma removed `window.figma` on view-only pages today"

vitalurk — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:58:43 +0000

Their collective seems to be thriving: https://kaleidos.net/

But I don't have the expertise to know for sure.

New comment by vitalurk in "Figma removed `window.figma` on view-only pages today"

vitalurk — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:29:23 +0000

Penpot is great, free, and doesn't rat** you. Oh and it's made by a kickass collective. That is where I went when I binned Figma.

New comment by vitalurk in "I'm an idiot. I just gave money to kinda-scammers, not the US government"

vitalurk — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 20:15:45 +0000

Hey maybe (Definitely.), you aren't and idiot and the UX of these products is sub-par/unacceptably bad. Just my 2c.

New comment by vitalurk in "Mustard"

vitalurk — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 13:31:12 +0000

It kind of blows my mind that most people around me eat steak without a good Maille or Grey Poupon mustard. Thanks for this list, I'm gonna explore!

New comment by vitalurk in "Minimal phone gets back to basics with E Ink display and real keyboard"

vitalurk — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 22:07:09 +0000

It's bewildering to me that you're the weird, odd one for doing this.

New comment by vitalurk in "Ask HN: Slow thinkers, how do you compensate for your lack of quick-wittedness?"

vitalurk — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:09:28 +0000

I'm a slow thinker who's quick witted. Odd question bud.

New comment by vitalurk in "Amon Tobin – Foley Room site (2007)"

vitalurk — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 13:57:48 +0000

Canibus had a cool web player! You could make your own version of his music (Mentioned in https://theoutline.com/post/6977/canibus-internet-mic-club)

Doja Cat has a programmable music video: https://dojacode.com/