Hacker News: winphone1974

New comment by winphone1974 in "Third Places and Neighborhood Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Starbucks Cafés"

winphone1974 — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 03:23:41 +0000

What seems weird is that with the massive number of Starbucks closures I've seen smaller indies and local chains open up in the exact same locations and somehow make a go of it- how does that work?

New comment by winphone1974 in "U.S.-Saudi petrodollar pact ends after 50 years"

winphone1974 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 21:21:50 +0000

This obviously isn't true unless you think half the population is "evil". It doesn't help anyone's cause when you try and position it as "us vs. Them, and they're wrong"

New comment by winphone1974 in "Yet another project management SaaS"

winphone1974 — Tue, 28 May 2024 19:50:19 +0000

probably on which this app is built!

New comment by winphone1974 in "Show HN: We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL product"

winphone1974 — Fri, 24 May 2024 21:58:51 +0000

SQL is really close to a natural language that's unambiguous, there's a few rough edges but it's not bad. Anything more natural requires a lot of context and needs to solve ambiguity.

New comment by winphone1974 in "Ronda Rousey: "I never wanted to talk about concussion""

winphone1974 — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 22:04:47 +0000

I don't think I have a problem with the concept, but do with someone who feels this is their only option, organizers making money off of this and viewers who would demand this and pay for it. Individuals taking extreme personal risks? No problem with that.

New comment by winphone1974 in "Ronda Rousey: "I never wanted to talk about concussion""

winphone1974 — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 22:01:27 +0000

It doesn't have to be this way though. Women's basketball doesn't have as much violent contact as the men's game but is a better spectator sport IMO. women's hockey is also great without the crushing blows and no fights. Flag football is fun to watch as it's all about the offense and big defensive plays, not the crippling Hits. Aussie rules football has hitting but nothing like rugby or American football and it's a superior experience for the fans. I like the NFL and UFC but there are options if you don't.

New comment by winphone1974 in "Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)"

winphone1974 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 23:42:41 +0000

Hurl is great, especially for testing but I fear it's not acceptable by a huge segment of developers because of the lack of a UI

New comment by winphone1974 in "Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)"

winphone1974 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 23:40:11 +0000

Insomnia and postman are pretty similar these days. I like the REST extension for VS Code and hurl

New comment by winphone1974 in "Toyota's hybrid-first strategy is delivering big profits"

winphone1974 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 14:17:48 +0000

Better for non-commuters I Believe, especially in North America.

And aren't they all throw aways?

New comment by winphone1974 in "Toyota's hybrid-first strategy is delivering big profits"

winphone1974 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 14:14:55 +0000

Everything you say is true, but where the financial success comes from is leveraging this (well earned) reputation to support high, no negotiation, take it or leave it prices, and often mandatory financing. We'll see if the market continues to support fixed pricing and turning away cash buyers.

New comment by winphone1974 in "Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling (2019)"

winphone1974 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:26:34 +0000

If you can find time a few weeks later September is much better. Less smoke and fewer tourists-especially the rental motorhomes. Weather is a crapshoot year round but August and September pretty similar (unless it snows in either month!) Note: I'm sure you know this, it's more for any potential bike visitors.

It was cold in Calgary too, but you definitely had it worse!

New comment by winphone1974 in "Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference"

winphone1974 — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 14:23:39 +0000

All merchandise is commercial. Do your kids wear a Nike swoosh t shirt? Okay on an iPad? Love Lego? What the difference if it's a Microsoft football or new relic slingshot (all things I see from where I'm sitting)?

New comment by winphone1974 in "Passwordless: a different kind of hell?"

winphone1974 — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:04:01 +0000

Only because you've standardized on their ecosystem and pre-given them all your data. This is not the future we were promised

New comment by winphone1974 in "The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation of the Transavia AirTruk"

winphone1974 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 22:57:59 +0000

This is not a great example. It's based on essentially one player, Rick Barry, who shot underhand at a high percentage. There are no bad underhand foul shooters, which I find suspicious, Yet I can cherry pick very tall, very good foul shooters like Kevin Durant. Larry Bird and Jeff hornacek never struck me as particularly concerned with looking cool either.

New comment by winphone1974 in "The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation of the Transavia AirTruk"

winphone1974 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 22:47:39 +0000

The warthog is a pretty ugly plane IMO, yet well loved and highly productive, so function seems to have won.

New comment by winphone1974 in "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto"

winphone1974 — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 23:04:59 +0000

Any capital intensive project can become a resistant monopoly for the first mover, who then manipulates pricing to prevent competition.

New comment by winphone1974 in "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto"

winphone1974 — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 22:57:51 +0000

Not sure how optimism in technology translates into raging free market libertarian in a few sentences, but then this guy's never been very subtle or aware. I'm sure his 30-year-younger self would want to kick his today's ass.

New comment by winphone1974 in "LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees"

winphone1974 — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 22:52:14 +0000

There's lots of good "serious" php out there, the challenge is it has been so accessible there's even more garbage php that's crowded out the go stuff.

New comment by winphone1974 in "LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees"

winphone1974 — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 22:45:00 +0000

I agree! I think it's actually easier to avoid the big, weak network because it started as a professional tool. I curate my connections and don't accept every recruiter or sales person who sees it as yet another marketing channel. It's been invaluable for reaching out to my former coworkers to try and recruit them

New comment by winphone1974 in "LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees"

winphone1974 — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 22:40:44 +0000

There's very little correlation between a company that's deeply integrated with LinkedIn tools and what it's like to work there. If you're going to judge all companies based on their recruitment toolchain, good luck finding an acceptable position!