Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — confidantlake

confidantlake

HN member
Joined
Sun, Dec 02, 2018, 1:43 AM UTC
HN karma
1,223
Public activity
744 items

About confidantlake

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #49162772

    We've investigated ourselves and decided we are absolutely essential. In fact we deserve a raise for safely guiding the company during these uncertain times.

  2. comment
    Comment #49052969

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cringe

  3. comment
    Comment #48986310

    Yes because it is akin to producing a universe of slop and trying to find the single atom of gold.

  4. comment
    Comment #48984518

    I think you are right. One small exception I can think of is Microsoft Office still crushes Libre Office.

  5. comment
    Comment #48947181

    My father's generation had much more leisure time than my generation. When he was out of the office at 5pm work stopped. There were no laptops, slack pings, etc, etc. Vacations wer…

  6. comment
    Comment #48939254

    I'm sorry what? There isn't some super secret legal definition of every word. Buy means buy.

  7. comment
    Comment #48928405

    Opened this thread expecting to see a bunch of anecedotal sleep tips. Did not disappoint.

  8. comment
    Comment #48915191

    Ah I always felt like novels were a partnership in a way. He is putting down words and I am using that to create a world in my mind. 2 people reading the same novel are creating 2 …

  9. comment
    Comment #48915136

    That is an entirely unserious graph.

  10. comment
    Comment #48886032

    Try going for a walk when listening to an audiobook. When I do that I rarely zone out. When I don't I nearly always zone out.

  11. comment
    Comment #48880573

    Who trained the first philosopher?

  12. comment
    Comment #48880529

    If the purpose of college is not to get a job, then why do they give out degrees? Why do they give out loans? Many colleges heavily advertise how it will help your career prospects…

  13. comment
    Comment #48812448

    People not liking cardio was always a weird one to me. Kids love to run around. They naturally do it, no one has to prompt them. Not sure what happens to people as they grow up tha…

  14. comment
    Comment #48812090

    MIT. A degree from MIT. Kind of joking but not really.

  15. comment
    Comment #48778447

    They provide very few employment opportunities.

  16. comment
    Comment #48683545

    Why would you want to lock condoms?

  17. comment
    Comment #48667238

    If I get laid off I assume I am done.

  18. comment
    Comment #48667098

    Nah they are just following the herd. When everyone was hiring they hired, when everyone was firing they fired. Go along to get along.

  19. comment
    Comment #48624877

    A bad one.

  20. comment
    Comment #48621478

    Guess you haven't met any old people. I know a few who don't read/watch/listen to anything after 1969.

  21. comment
    Comment #48621398

    Wonder if the people liking were socket puppet's in order to encourage the patreon donations.

  22. comment
    Comment #48618069

    I thought I knew CORS before but after reading all the comments I don't think I know anything anymore. Guess I will just make a coffee and move on with my day.

  23. comment
    Comment #48618060

    > they also don't understand webdevelopment in general, especially the http protocol. I find that somewhat strange, because they also can't do native application Why would that be …

  24. comment
    Comment #48593705

    If you are leading hundreds of people then you really should not be cold applying to jobs. Someone in your network should bring you onto their team.

  25. comment
    Comment #48593680

    You realize that job posting is almost a completely useless metric right? We just had the biggest spam machine released in the history of humanity. Of course we are going to see hu…