Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — hlmencken

hlmencken

HN member
Joined
Sun, Feb 02, 2014, 8:13 AM UTC
HN karma
139
Public activity
52 items

About hlmencken

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #23147625

    You can't invest in the s&p like that. > Between January 1, 1963 and December 31, 2014, 1,186 index components were replaced by other components. You can know an index of 500 large…

  2. comment
    Comment #23042745

    It's a huge shift in behavior. Outside of Covid-19 context something like this could have been a huge red flag. I'm sure people at amazon are working near as hard as anyone to resp…

  3. comment
    Comment #23033056

    I agree 100% on airbnb. I disagree completely on uber. Uber is safer, better and fairer than taxis. The strategy of growing it quickly is aggressive and clearly short term but the …

  4. comment
    Comment #22972509

    There is but one interweb.

  5. comment
    Comment #22957182

    I really don't think Target is that upfront. How am I supposed to know Mossimo and Goodfellow are Target brands. I do however understand that Kroger groceries are made by the kroge…

  6. comment
    Comment #22901687

    Read the room.

  7. comment
    Comment #22838648

    Being a manager and hirer is very different from being the interviewee. It's great to believe that you could have some innate ability to judge one's empathy and character in a set …

  8. comment
    Comment #22824957

    I really am not a fan of showing a price and then only finding out after clicking into a piece of work that that price is not the price of the art but of some monthly payment. On t…

  9. comment
    Comment #22824824

    How do we make our company look like an alternative to zoom when people look for that? I know, bash meetings and say that using another nondescript wiki/document tool is the right …

  10. comment
    Comment #22814009

    There are a lot of 3d printers out in the world

  11. comment
    Comment #22418971

    Unless leadership skills have any overlap in the private and public space.

  12. comment
    Comment #22418468

    I can't imagine it was a top down thing. It's just a silly point of culture that isn't that important day to day. Take a step back and have some empathy for people who aren't under…

  13. comment
    Comment #21445338

    They are embracing a lot of technologies because that is how they gain market share and then extinguish them.

  14. comment
    Comment #17769757

    https://hellopoetry.com/poem/15305/the-man-pulling-radishes/

  15. comment
    Comment #17517003

    Born in Greenland, that's a first I've seen.

  16. comment
    Comment #17493677

    This sort of badinage is what makes HN so endearing. Thanks!

  17. comment
    Comment #17240286

    >that's basically anti-net-neutrality Net neutrality is about access to internet, not what your browser and/or software supports. An ad blocker certainly isn't anti net neutrality.…

  18. comment
    Comment #17230545

    It was a pleasure but gitlab and bitbucket have continued to improve and I've expected some sort of exit for a while. I appreciate everything the Github team has done, but barring …

  19. comment
    Comment #17200752

    Are you missing part of your quote?

  20. comment
    Comment #16990735

    Hopefully google will not expose everyone's passwords /s

  21. comment
    Comment #15396032

    > A massive data breach at Yahoo in 2013 was far more extensive than previously disclosed, affecting all of its 3 billion user accounts, new parent company Verizon Communications I…

  22. comment
    Comment #13544596

    Hiring React Node Scala SDET and Product Owners at Hart, a healthcare company in Orange county. React: http://grnh.se/skjun51 http://grnh.se/ic2hlt1 Scala: http://grnh.se/6xbea11 N…

  23. comment
    Comment #10785783

    Take one meeee.....

  24. comment
    Comment #10785766

    I mean, this is what they agree to in order to keep making the product. This was a settlement and is what apple agreed to instead of having to discontinue the property theft and pa…

  25. comment
    Comment #10617833

    Maybe you could just get bored within the article and they want to show you more content before you leave the page. if you actually want to finish the article a simple button press…