deepfriedbits

449 karma · joined August 19, 2010

Love Soulver. It's such a well-made app. My problem is that I use it so infrequently that I often forget I have it.

deepfriedbits··on An Event Apart – Farewell

Small world. I, too, attended that event in Chicago and it's there that Twitter was the buzz and I first created my Twitter account, nearly 15 years ago.

deepfriedbits··on Lastpass Security Incident

That's a clever approach to the situation.

deepfriedbits··on I patched my Slack client to keep “oops” messages others delete

Correct. This is the law in the United States. But would it apply to someone working outside of the United States?

deepfriedbits··on I Stopped Reading Hacker News Comments

Absolutely. Comments are sometimes critical around here and could maybe arrive softer but this is one of the few remaining spots on the internet to read largely civilized, high-value discourse on a topic and related context.

deepfriedbits··on The global housing market is broken, and it’s dividing entire countries

Can't imagine this is a practical solution.

deepfriedbits··on It’s cheaper to stop emitting now than to pull carbon from the air later

Sure. It is presently.

deepfriedbits··on A FTA TV Transcription Side-Project Becomes a Popular Tool for Journalists

Snapstream employs similar tech. It's how shows like The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight can quickly and easily find segments where certain words or phrases are used on television.

deepfriedbits··on My Steam Game Revenue Stats

I appreciate your positive reply. We could all honestly use more of that.

deepfriedbits··on Special Report: Afghan pilots assassinated by Taliban as U.S. withdraws

What? How do you make that leap? The Taliban were infamous for this type of stuff well before 9/11 or OBL's capture.

deepfriedbits··on Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

Eh you can say as much in a more delicate way – deliver every one of those points. I’m not going to feel bad for thinking we can all be nicer to each other.

deepfriedbits··on Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

I think you make very good points but wonder if you could have softened the delivery a bit.

deepfriedbits··on Shopify CTO: our platform is now handling Black Friday level traffic every day

My hunch is that Shopify is seeing surges in some areas because Amazon has been picked over for many items and can no longer adequately stock what consumers are looking for in some cases.

Many small Shopify retailers have pivoted quickly and are stocking some items that Amazon is having trouble keeping in stock.

deepfriedbits··on John Urschel Goes Pro

It really is impressive. Laurent Duvernay-Tardif of the Kansas City Chiefs is a similar story. He completed med school and his residency while playing football at the highest level.

https://www.kansascity.com/sports/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/art...

deepfriedbits··on Pentagon Puts Cyberwarriors on the Offensive

The beauty (curse?) of his case is that it will likely be a long time until we know for sure.

If he’s half as smart as a lot of people give him credit for being, it will take even longer to get to the answer.

deepfriedbits··on NASA’s Curiosity Rover Is Able to Drill Holes into Rocks Again

Different agency, though, right? NASA’s ethos predates the Matt Taylor situation.

deepfriedbits··on One-Of-a-Kind Private Train Takes on Florida’s Traffic Nightmare

It is steep. Not saying it will make a huge impact but I’d be surprised if they didn’t sell 10-ride, weekend, monthly, etc. passes at a discount.

deepfriedbits··on Cincinnati's Abandoned Subway

Chicago has 11.4 miles of underground subway tunnels in use. That's larger than what is described as Cincinnati's abandoned subway in the article.

deepfriedbits··on Cincinnati's Abandoned Subway

Chicago certainly has a subway. Sure, only a portion near downtown runs underground, while the rest is elevated (the L) but their system is the second-largest in the US.

deepfriedbits··on Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing

Seems like a nice feature for something like Little Snitch.

deepfriedbits··on A pessimistic vision of India’s looming environmental and economic collapse

Wikipedia says 200M (which is still an insane number). Typo in the parent comment?

deepfriedbits··on Giving you more characters

Reminds me of Zuckerberg's famous quote about Twitter: "... a clown car that fell into a gold mine."

deepfriedbits··on China tightens Great Firewall by declaring unauthorised VPN services illegal

Every hotel I've stayed at in China that caters to Westerners had a VPN in place. You could check your Gmail at the hotel but not outside of it (unless you had your own VPN).

deepfriedbits··on Ask HN: What are some good (fiction/non-fiction) books about human progress?

Really love Bryson's writing style. He manages to convey a lot of information in a way that makes it easy to consume. Great rec.

deepfriedbits··on uBlock Origin for Microsoft Edge

Great point about Firebug. I can definitely remember using Chrome for pleasure and Firefox for work for a time.

deepfriedbits··on uBlock Origin for Microsoft Edge

Interesting. My memory is probably hazy, but for me, Chrome took off because the choices at the time were IE and Firefox, which used to be an insane memory hog.

deepfriedbits··on Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google

Twitter's real value to Google is real-time search, in my opinion. They already license results from Twitter for search results, but having access to all of that sweet, sweet real-time data is nice.

The social graph is nice, but between Chrome and Gmail, Google already knows quite a bit about everyone.

deepfriedbits··on Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google

> Also the Google+ API is still read-only. Which means you can only use Google's official tools for posting content. There's no way for example to cross-post on both Twitter and Google+. Apps like TweetDeck aren't possible for Google+.

Is this true? Buffer allows you to cross-post to Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

deepfriedbits··on In Defence of a ‘No First Use’ Nuclear Doctrine

Nukes were strongly considered during the Korean War due to the massive number of Chinese fighting on the side of the aggressors in that war. MacArthur wanted badly to nuke China or more specifically, Chinese divisions and the threat of nukes helped lure China to the negotiating table when the U.S. wanted to wind down the conflict.

deepfriedbits··on All Olympic gold medal winners in the 100m sprint compared in one race

Yep. 66 countries, including the U.S., China, Japan, Canada, Argentina and Israel, boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

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