Viewing profile — andyburke
andyburke
HN member- Joined
- Thu, May 03, 2012, 7:15 PM UTC
- HN karma
- 134
- Public activity
- 29 items
- HN profile
- View on Hacker News ↗
About andyburke
Recent public activity
-
comment
Comment #21413488
Here are just a couple of recent examples that invalidate your claim. They were pretty easy to find: https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/aclu-defends-article-l... https://www.cnn…
-
comment
Comment #21413116
Children are generally not separated from their parents when their parents commit non-violent minor offenses. Crossing a border is, at the least, non-violent. How major or minor it…
-
comment
Comment #21358851
As an android user who left iOS some years ago, this sounds absolutely awful.
-
comment
Comment #21274728
Build a cost model. Set prices that would make them profitable based on that model. Offer the service at that price. See if people are willing to pay for it. Verify that costs and …
-
comment
Comment #20823577
^^ this. Southwest has one of the best, if not the best, safety records of all major air carriers.
-
comment
Comment #20579332
Entertainment and relaxation are not unnecessary. Especially in our late capitalist civilizations.
-
comment
Comment #20520069
I would encourage you to think on this some more until the discomfort diminishes. Just because things are deterministic (at a level of complexity that is difficult or even possible…
-
comment
Comment #20502423
I've had good luck with pCloud on linux. And you can exclude file patterns, which has been a big improvement for storing my code (ignore all node_modules directories).
-
comment
Comment #20502317
Same. I moved when they wanted me to unencrypt my home directory on linux. I've had good luck with pCloud. In particular, I can exclude file patterns, which has done wonders for my…
-
comment
Comment #19914422
As a relatively long-time Keybase user, I went in and set up my Stellar wallet on my phone. There does not appear to be any way to fund this wallet, though. Reading the comments he…
-
comment
Comment #19640808
Can you point an EdgeQL 'server' at, say, an Amazon RDS Postgres cluster?
-
comment
Comment #19610044
Hello fellow 40 year old. I run DDG as my daily, but similarly have a hard time finding exact matches for error messages. I am suspicious, however, that I've learned how to use Goo…
-
comment
Comment #19315917
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon... They seem to discontinue a lot of products, including ones with fairly large user bases. It seems like a valid conce…
-
comment
Comment #18711064
Not calling them a pedophile? Additionally, what kind of hubris is it to imagine you can help with a rescue you know little to nothing about, especially in a way that could be view…
-
comment
Comment #18659061
I'm with you. But many people do not agree with us, and the last I heard, the ROI on each dollar spent at the IRS is higher than almost anywhere else in government. Hollowing out t…
-
comment
Comment #18498982
Isn't it more susceptible? The structure of Romaine is such that contaminants can fairly easily get "inside", but are not easily washed away.
-
comment
Comment #18498963
Limiting the text box will protect you against the most naive DoS attacks, but you need some kind of limit at the API level (request size, etc.). Never trust the client.
-
comment
Comment #18498870
Maybe we should form a union?
-
comment
Comment #18204834
I was never a Salesforce fan, but Benioff is making me take a second look.
-
comment
Comment #18126002
Not to mention that, based on some of the Reddit threads I've seen on this from actual Amazon warehouse employees, they're often not even getting full-time hours. Lots of people se…
-
comment
Comment #18029042
Not sure if you've seen these trends: https://news.gallup.com/poll/237137/republicans-positive-rel...
-
comment
Comment #18019979
Yeah, the author's take is myopic. What they call bloat, people from the 70s would call wondrous: ubiquitous networking with and without wires, beautiful graphical interfaces, encr…
-
comment
Comment #17230817
I'm not the person you're responding to, but I am turning 40 this year. I was also around for the terror that was Microsoft in the 90s when they were competing with Oracle for "com…
-
comment
Comment #17198247
Not sure why you think Carter closed the mental institutions: "1980 President Jimmy Carter signs the Mental Health Systems Act to improve on Kennedy’s dream [JFK wanted to create a…
-
comment
Comment #14674287
Where are you working that you can reasonably imagine this happening? The risks of someone making this claim are so, so high, yet you believe someone would do this just to 'settle …