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Tech lead @ANZx Email- rob@robryan.me Github - https://github.com/robryanx @_RobRyan
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robryan··on Twitter Blue for $8/Month
Sells them on the mission. Things like a colony on Mars and full self driving are pretty compelling goals for some people.
robryan··on Twitter Blue for $8/Month
This is probably fine though, it is the Elon way of doing business. Make fast decisions and try and whole heap of things. He then gets criticised for not delivering on the majority of them but still comes out ahead of orgs that take 6 months to make the decision in the first place.
robryan··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
They don't really need to find out anything meaningful. They are basically just putting Twitter employees on notice that they may be going deep into the details when assessing where the company is at and what changes they might want to make.
robryan··on Ask HN: What's Going on with the HN Algorithm?
Probably heaps of flags, just like this post is likely not on the front page quickly due to flags.
robryan··on Most people don’t finish online job applications
Even worse when after writing these you get asked questions that you have already answered in the application.
robryan··on The 4th Year of SerenityOS
There are a number of people actively pushing ARM support forward.
robryan··on The 4th Year of SerenityOS
One nice thing for a new contributer is there is so much low hanging fruit everywhere.

Can just open any app and you will see little things that would make for a good first PR. The codebase is also full of Fixmes, many of which are very approachable for a beginner.

robryan··on Ask HN: For a job in tech, are you only interested in remote only jobs?
Yeah, basically remote only. The vast majority of jobs in my city would be a pain to commute for, maybe I would 2 days a week at most but the opportunity would have to be way better than what I could find remote.
robryan··on The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack
I have spent a long time in ecommerce and follow the results of a bunch of public ecommerce companies.

It seems to be that Google basically collects the whole profit margin. Companies will do this to keep growth as high as possible to justify their high market caps and hope that they can eventually scale back on advertising and keep their customer base.

robryan··on Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
The specs are pretty good though in that most of the handling of mangled HTML is actually defined in the spec. So while the specs are enormous, simply implementing exactly what they say to implement can get you most of the way there.
robryan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)
I notice that some jobs are listed remote with a specific location and some not. Any location requirements on the ones that are just listed "Remote"?

Thanks.

robryan··on Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus
Discord seems like the best UX to me. Only things I can think of is some weird UX around new call features and search could be better compared to say gmail (although I generally have no problem finding things I want to find).
robryan··on Is this the end of social networking?
At least they provide a premium ad free service.
robryan··on Is this the end of social networking?
Yep. I think it is useful to have a list of people you know incase you ever need to connect them, which is basically Facebook Messenger.

The blasting life updates at everyone know ever knew part of it though is just so unnatural. It was a novelty for a while but that stage is well over now. Facebook eventually got features to allow people to be more granular about updates but they have never really pushed them.

At one point I would use Skype with friends which was terrible. Discord now though is basically everything I could ever want for group messaging.

robryan··on An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter
Depends on the normal usage, if someone was doing this across unique ips and slow enough that the usage change may be say 1% it wouldn't be noticed.

A more sophisticated system that could look at the ips in use and compare to previously used ips for the accounts would notice something.

robryan··on Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era
Seems to be working for YouTube, although their subscription is probably on the high end cost wise.
robryan··on News engagement plummets as Americans tune out
Efficiency wise you could probably just put in a day or 2 of catch up before going to vote. Would probably actually get a more impartial view on candidates not tainted by whatever the latest controversy is that will be forgotten in a week.
robryan··on News engagement plummets as Americans tune out
It is pretty easy to keep on top of news, just occasionally browse the headlines and pickup more narrow interest stuff via social media.

Most things are just part of the 24 hour news cycle and don't mean much of anything, certainly not worth sitting there with CNN or similar on to get fed to you at a very slow pace and full of ads.

robryan··on Uber and Lyft’s new road: Fewer drivers, thrifty riders and jittery investors
eBay is arguably a bad example because they sure could do with a proper overhaul of their software that is halfway modenised with a bunch of rough edges accumulated over decades.
robryan··on Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
I'd throw up Gunfire Reborn. I don't really like FPS either but the character building RPG elements keep me interested. It is fairly forgiving in that an average player won't really hold the group back.
robryan··on Tell HN: I was permanently banned from eBay in one hour
Not only a mess but they seem to have been halfway through modernising things for years.

They built a new API but are probably never going to be able to get rid if the old one.

robryan··on Netflix’s big power clash and rivalries behind the crash
1080p Firefox extension for Netflix seems to work on Linux.
robryan··on Shopify to Acquire Delivrr for $2.1B
Shopify basically has the data for this. They could just exclude from the search sites that don't already get a decent amount of direct sales. There are other metrics as well like refunds/ chargebacks and return customers.
robryan··on Ask HN: Did you change jobs during the Great Reshuffling and regret it?
Crazy, probably 3x what would be reasonable per kWh in Australia.
robryan··on uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
Ad tech went too far and has driven everyone to blocking. If the extent of ads was a couple of Google style sponsored text based results a lot of people would probably be fine seeing those.
robryan··on Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed
Harpy on Android is pretty solid. Nice UI and loads fast. I seem to have some issues viewing threads when navigating to them from a retweet but I may just be missing something.
robryan··on The new silent majority: People who don't tweet
Presumably people are losing a lot of followers on Twitter broadcasting their political views when they are mostly followed for some other reason. These people might be motivated to correctly categorise their Tweets.
robryan··on Ask HN: Do you think nuclear armageddon is plausible?
It is an interesting question in that is the proportional response to a tactical nuke a tactical nuke. It would also vary in terms of the opponent's capabilities, say if the US isn't well setup to deploy them or won't gain the same battlefield advantage.

For effective deterrence I think there has to be an expectation that the response to a tactical nuke is the big red button.

robryan··on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
If Australia invades New Zealand I am happy for them to cut me off.
robryan··on Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
I think you can call the bluff. Putin wants to build an empire not have Russia leveled. Of course you are playing a high stakes game in actually doing this though.
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