Hacker News: wjamesg

New comment by wjamesg in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

wjamesg — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:19:15 +0000

Not a stretch at all, the OP alluded to it

New comment by wjamesg in "Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room"

wjamesg — Thu, 15 May 2025 13:59:16 +0000

Nothing from my end, thanks

New comment by wjamesg in "Google to buy Wiz for $32B"

wjamesg — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:36:26 +0000

I’ve been using Wiz for 2-3 years now and the product is

New comment by wjamesg in "Are Grownups Just Giant Kids?"

wjamesg — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:23:55 +0000

Having kids certainly helps one to mature and grow into a new perspective

New comment by wjamesg in "Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI"

wjamesg — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 15:56:19 +0000

Believe it or not, there are helpful support resources out there which are typically hard to come across, you’ve admittedly just had a shitty experience (not uncommon)

New comment by wjamesg in "Vanishing phone customer support is driving us all insane"

wjamesg — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 01:24:40 +0000

They’ll need diags…they would rather you do it than walk your through it on a call

New comment by wjamesg in "Who owns private home security footage, and who can get access to it?"

wjamesg — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 19:26:44 +0000

I agree, but it’s not so evident or easy for the average person. Who wants to deal with managing storage? Cloud will typically win for the masses, who are typically not thinking about privacy and may not know the difference between a SSD and HDD

New comment by wjamesg in "Is there a market failure in child care?"

wjamesg — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 18:00:58 +0000

This comment is completely out of touch in true HN fashion. The author believes having kids has turned into “an entitlement” and looks down upon this.

More than ever two working parents is a necessity for many families. To place blame solely on the parents for these circumstances ignores the larger picture of where we want to be as a society. Of course choosing to have children has consequences, but parents in the US should be able to have a reasonable expectation for affordable childcare, especially in a society and economy that demands multiple working parents.

But of course instead we could just blame the parents for creating the current scenario of unaffordable childcare.

New comment by wjamesg in "Is there a market failure in child care?"

wjamesg — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:39:40 +0000

I pay $1200/mo per kid in NC

New comment by wjamesg in "Is there a market failure in child care?"

wjamesg — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:12:25 +0000

I completely agree. There is an assumption of one or the other and not enough childcare supply to meet the true demand of two working parent communities.

New comment by wjamesg in "Is there a market failure in child care?"

wjamesg — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 16:57:33 +0000

Working parents send their kids to daycare out of necessity, it’s not a matter of being popular. Two working parents is also a necessity for many economically. Not everybody has the income and thus the convenience of having a stay at home parent.

In your words, this is a failure of the parent, but I disagree.

New comment by wjamesg in "When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed"

wjamesg — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:09:42 +0000

Likewise, highly recommended

New comment by wjamesg in "Can you raise a family on one income?"

wjamesg — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 02:33:42 +0000

In your view, what is “enough money to do so”?

New comment by wjamesg in "CPSC calls for full recall of all Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboards"

wjamesg — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:35:47 +0000

Looks like the company itself

New comment by wjamesg in "CPSC calls for full recall of all Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboards"

wjamesg — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:27:44 +0000

I have a OneWheel and this is an excellent summary

New comment by wjamesg in "Ask HN: What was life like before and after a baby"

wjamesg — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 01:44:26 +0000

If you are in a position where somebody can stay at home full time you’ll be fine

New comment by wjamesg in "Ask HN: What was life like before and after a baby"

wjamesg — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 01:42:40 +0000

I do not recommend co-sleeping. But if it works for you, great

New comment by wjamesg in "Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving"

wjamesg — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 23:32:18 +0000

For this reason, I use OWA exclusively

New comment by wjamesg in "“A Mild Recession”"

wjamesg — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:08:39 +0000

‘09 college grad here…can the economy just level out and be stable for folks for a while in my lifetime? Guess not

New comment by wjamesg in "Teams is killing my Mac every day"

wjamesg — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:00:32 +0000

Because it’s free with M365