fredthomsen
Re:Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?
on Friday January 16, 2026 @11:39PM (#46655283)
A PM I've worked with many times always used to say, "They want an easy button! It's that simple!."
Re:Finland or Sweden joining NATO would spark Russian response, Russia...
on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:51PM (#30472219)
Swedish foreign policy and neutrality originates from all the wars they fought against Russia prior to the 1800s.
Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @01:41PM (#29983733)
Seems like the social and commerce aspects are drawing scrutiny. I think MS will escape unscathed here
Re:The Decline of Django
on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:09AM (#28878540)
wow... yeah... strongly strongly agree. I love email, rss, irc, etc and still use them today and strongly disagree that we shouldn't educate people coming up about these tools.
Re:Only Windows 11 Pro will let you install Windows 11 with a local ac...
on Saturday July 03, 2021 @02:05PM (#27723539)
Can you provide some more info about the raspberry pi and Ubuntu config changes done without user consent?
Re:What the Crypto Crowd Doesn’t Understand About Economics
on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @12:15PM (#27593539)
It's very easy for people today to forget the 1800s that had significant periods of deflation and thus one of the reasons the federal reserve was created... although they allowed deflation to happen during the great depression as well. There is certainly some debate that can be had about the way to easy money policies that exist today (and I do think it's far too dovish), but people need to learn their history and realize the damage that deflation does.
Re:Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and Infuse
on Thursday June 10, 2021 @02:12PM (#27463645)
I was very happy to see this tool mentioned and recommend it highly. Very nice tool to add album art and cleaning up the tags for your existing music
Re:Ask HN: Is Signal Down?
on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:41PM (#25793591)
Family and friends have starting using it as the main messaging app the past 3 months. Definitely growing.
Re:Docker's Second Death
on Sunday December 06, 2020 @03:51PM (#25326514)
Had the same experience and the compose equivalent was barely functional.
Re:Docker's Second Death
on Sunday December 06, 2020 @03:50PM (#25326504)
Couldn't agree more. compose is a wonderful tool that lets you avoid the k8s complexity if you don't need it.
Re:Transitioning from Docker to Podman
on Friday November 20, 2020 @05:54PM (#25166072)
Heavy compose user here, and when I tried the podman equivalent of compose was missing some functionality that made me move back.
Re:Ask HN: Will Apple M1 mean better support for Raspberry Pi?
on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @10:18AM (#25137679)
Curious how is CPU architecture abstracted away more macOS than any other OS?
Re:As a former social media analyst, I'm quitting Twitter
on Sunday November 01, 2020 @06:33PM (#24963491)
Have to agree. 280 characters is not that much better than 140, and what good ideas are compressed into that format. Sure you can link to a blog post, but then you might as well use rss.
Re:Mailing lists are resistant to censorship
on Friday October 30, 2020 @09:06AM (#24941783)
Agree with this and this is why everytime I see people suggesting some project should be moved from being hosted on a mailing list to github, I roll my eyes
Re:Google's new logos are bad
on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @12:20AM (#24915177)
because this just seems like change for the sake of change
Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
on Sunday October 25, 2020 @06:53PM (#24890800)
Definitely agree with this. Twitter and other social media has really forced the short 140 character snippet or image to be favored over thoughtful posts and blog articles.
Re:California Middle-Schooler Threatened with Jail for Missing 3 Zoom ...
on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:32AM (#24886567)
As a swedish expat for most of life, it's always struck as very strange the American insistence on personal responsibility and railing against the nanny state, yet public schools are treated like jails for children. Going to the bathroom requires a special pass??
Re:DOJ will charge Google with multiple violations of federal antitrus...
on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:46AM (#24837208)
Amazon would seem to me like the much easier target with the sketchiness around AmazonBasics
Re:Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses
on Friday October 16, 2020 @09:52PM (#24806856)
Most of the places I know of or where friend's work use Atlassian. I am wondering if this will drive a shift towards GitLab considering the general consensus I've heard is that GitHub Enterprise is too expensive.
Re:Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on innovation
on Sunday September 13, 2020 @08:29AM (#24460406)
I don't agree that centralization in Europe is the answer, that's exactly how you end up relying on others manufacturing capacity. Decentralize more so when the political winds change you are not at the mercy of other countries if your own nation has no manufacturing capacity to speak of.
Re:Canon's cloud platform has lost users' files and can't restore them
on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @07:31AM (#24197451)
The cloud is just another backup option and you should have 3. That being said, you expect more from a paid service.
Re:I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible
on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:12AM (#24158944)
and the paid providers actually have customer service
Re:How Tim Cook Made Apple His Own
on Sunday August 09, 2020 @08:47AM (#24099259)
and let's not forget the touch bar.... Urgh. Still holding onto my 2015 MacBook from work and hoping it never dies.
Re:Justice Department to propose limiting internet firms’ Section 230 ...
on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:38AM (#23551204)
so funny considering the history of 230 and how prodigy was the inspiration for it because they modded user posts
Re:Airlines want to cancel rule requiring them to refund fares for can...
on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @09:15PM (#22809196)
but moral hazard makes the management of these companies worse and worse everytime one gets bailed out
Re:Airlines want to cancel rule requiring them to refund fares for can...
on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @09:14PM (#22809189)
If the vouchers were good for 10 years I might be ok with it
Re:Scotland to use 100% renewables on time to host 2020 climate summit
on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @07:37AM (#22168782)
Agreed. All countries want to be seen as leaders, and this can nudge them in the right direction.
Re:In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on a...
on Sunday January 26, 2020 @11:01AM (#22152667)
My local library is wonderful. My kid has activities, learns reading, draws, etc. and it offers computer skills to those who wouldn't otherwise learn them. Very good use of local tax dollars.
Re:Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
on Friday December 27, 2019 @01:24PM (#21893128)
Feels like there has been a bit of a resurgence lately, not that I have any hard data to back that up. The major players ie google and now apple have dumped it, but most blogs and news sites still have rss feeds.
Re:Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
on Friday December 27, 2019 @01:22PM (#21893109)
Big fan of newsboat. I still run freshrss on a pi just for use on mobile and starting certain article s.