chovybizzass
Re:Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its service
on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:54AM (#29081231)
Google Meet fails at about 15 users. Zoom can handle hundreds.
Re:Ask HN: How did you gain your first, your 10th, and your 100th payi...
on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:20PM (#29034809)
the only time i had paying users was from me getting in early on iptv and posting on iptv subreddits.
Re:How I learned to program
on Saturday October 16, 2021 @11:21PM (#28893654)
i read a lot of books in two weeks. i read a lot of open source code libraries.
then i do side projects constantly.
i still feel like an imposter.
Re:Apple fires leader of AppleToo movement
on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:10PM (#28885236)
I should have started the IBMtoo movement. That place was rancid with harassment. My boss told my director not to come to work with a cane and to stay home until her (degenerative) illness was healed.
Re:“looks like Firefox quietly added ads into the address bar”
on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @08:59PM (#28780453)
i hate google
Re:Ask HN: What advice would you give a senior software engineering st...
on Thursday September 30, 2021 @11:36PM (#28714195)
You're unemployable at 40 in this field, had I known that I would have studied finance instead. Besides that tech changes so quickly every year or two you basically start over learning a whole new set of skills...and your experience means nothing to hiring companies you still have to answer ridiculous algorithm questions even if you're a frontend programmer.
Re:Sirubo: Packet filtering to block Google and Facebook tracking
on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @07:13AM (#28681429)
Can I use this on my routers?
Re:Ask HN: I am being pushed out. How do I handle?
on Saturday September 25, 2021 @11:06PM (#28658094)
I just got put on a pip this week. One thing if you're over 40 and in the USA you have 21 days to review any sort of severance package. Take it to a lawyer, he can probably get your more.
Re:Ask HN: I'm a solo founder and a billion dollar company wants to us...
on Friday September 17, 2021 @09:35PM (#28572772)
i don't know man, sounds like they are just getting a custom product with a developer on the cheap. I would say at least $20k/mo to work fulltime on their feature requests.
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Coffee Mug?
on Sunday September 12, 2021 @11:10PM (#28507478)
ceramic travel mug. works great for warming up coffee and keeps it warm for awhile.
Re:Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers
on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:57PM (#28324139)
Or get your typo into a spec like "referer"
Re:Masks to be required outdoors at Palo Alto's K-8 public schools
on Saturday August 21, 2021 @02:10PM (#28259166)
you don't need them outdoors, you need them indoors
Re:Apple’s Mistake
on Monday August 09, 2021 @11:57AM (#28118472)
Coming soon. Illegal meme hash scanning
Re:Ask HN: Is there any software that can be considered finished?
on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:45AM (#28071587)
I recently saw PayPal is still using code I wrote 16 years ago. Ironically, I was working for my architect from PayPal at another company at the time. We had a good laugh.
Re:Ask HN: Does a landing page MVP work?
on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @09:16PM (#28068559)
I setup a landing page, posted on reddit and got 10 emails. I haven't started building yet.
Re:Ask HN: Are Service Workers broken or do Twitter engineers suck at ...
on Monday August 02, 2021 @12:12PM (#28038569)
i've been using service workers for a few years now. I still don't know what they are for. I just copy/paste from docs
Re:YouTube Tests Cheaper 'Premium Lite' Subscription for Ad-Free Viewing
on Monday August 02, 2021 @07:41AM (#28035352)
I had youtube when I was watching a lot of videos on sailing...I cancelled after a few weeks, as it was $13/mo
I would have just let it ride for $3/mo without even thinking.
Re:I made a Telegram bot that notifies you of replies to your HN comments
on Monday August 02, 2021 @04:18AM (#28034161)
genius...i've been wondering how to get notified.
Re:Ask HN: What Is an Alternative to Medium?
on Monday August 02, 2021 @12:30AM (#28032916)
neocities.org
Re:What are the different community softwares out there?
on Sunday August 01, 2021 @02:52PM (#28028833)
I built a reddit clone which is MIT license.
Re:What’s your side project?
on Saturday July 31, 2021 @04:31PM (#28021319)
Re:Fauci wants to make vaccines for the next pandemic before it hits
on Saturday July 31, 2021 @03:22PM (#28020885)
Are we working on a delta vaccine? I just assumed we were but nobody has mentioned anything about a delta vaccine.
Re:Tesla autopilot thinks moon is traffic light
on Saturday July 31, 2021 @12:39PM (#28019640)
When answering captchas I always select the moon when it asks me to identify traffic lights. Jokes on you Tesla!
Re:Ask HN: Why didn't the early web support more client side languages?
on Saturday July 31, 2021 @10:52AM (#28018618)
it did support jscript for IE3
Re:Ask HN: Why not publish into the Public Domain, instead of OSS lice...
on Saturday July 31, 2021 @06:25AM (#28016884)
there's the DWTFYW license (Do What the F--- You Want)
Re:Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages
on Saturday July 31, 2021 @03:02AM (#28016011)
bummer on not being able to write to sqlite. I am using neocities and was wonder how i could get a db into play
Re:Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file
on Friday July 30, 2021 @08:58PM (#28014224)
Searched for "porn" -- got this: http://static.wiki/en/Progressive_outer_retinal_necrosis
Re:38% of remote workers work from bed
on Thursday July 29, 2021 @09:34PM (#28003513)
i take my meetings from bed. i usually wake up 20 minutes after the call is over.
Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @08:14PM (#27991334)
I've been using https://search.brave.com for a few weeks. Most of the time I find what I need.