Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — huntleydavis

huntleydavis

HN member
Joined
Fri, Aug 02, 2013, 2:15 AM UTC
HN karma
86
Public activity
24 items

About huntleydavis

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #25416275

    I think the ultimate question is whether it's markedly better on average than what the rest of the market can offer for $30k. Covid has reduced the value of almost all education se…

  2. comment
    Comment #24905708

    I think the idea of the 'Personal Computer' has been grossly warped over the past 20 years from a tool that primarily serves our personal goals to a 'Device' that's designed to ser…

  3. comment
    Comment #22034584

    From years of schooling and artificially constructed engineering problems we've gotten used to, for some addicted to, the idea of end solutions fitting neatly into a clean edged bo…

  4. comment
  5. comment
    Comment #21566347

    The irony

  6. comment
    Comment #21218507

    To be fair, the way that people in technical roles explain things to those with less technical knowledge can often feel condescending and 'mansplained' regardless of the gender rol…

  7. comment
    Comment #19417930

    They monopolize a resource : big data

  8. comment
    Comment #11904166

    Very impressive performance loading considering the number of fonts. Curious if they are just loading an incredibly stripped down version of each font for the preview and then lazy…

  9. comment
    Comment #11136081

    I suppose the free form nature of HackerNews and the wide sprawling community make a lot of topics fair game. I recant my sentiment.

  10. comment
    Comment #11135108

    While this is tragic news, this really doesn't feel at all correlated to HackerNews.

  11. comment
    Comment #11120604

    Privacy is obviously the foremost issue at hand with the Government's request here, but there is also a huge potential impact on the future of the iPhone software. There is a huge …

  12. story
  13. comment
    Comment #10456014

    Here's my take on it as a former Homejoy employee: https://medium.com/@rockstox/an-inside-look-at-homejoy-s-fai...

  14. comment
    Comment #10396245

    Being from Chattanooga, it is ironic to me that I moved to San Francisco for tech only to have slower internet here in SF than the small city in Tennessee that I left.

  15. comment
    Comment #10356522

    It would be cool too if you could set conditions on when to merge. I finish a PR it's kind of late : Merge tomorrow 8am if tests passing etc.

  16. comment
    Comment #10356393

    I liked 'Don't Be Evil'. It felt like it was a constant reminder to fight becoming a cliche evil corporation. 'Do the right thing' adds little to no value in terms of being a moral…

  17. comment
    Comment #8461580

    I honestly think that if executed correctly, this will completely replace squarespace, and then possibly wordpress.

  18. comment
    Comment #8109783

    Book will have much larger font

  19. comment
    Comment #8097946

    I think this is a risk that bolt.co and really any startup that chooses a short 'techy' word as their company name has to factor in.

  20. comment
    Comment #7721947

    Pretty sure this is just delay from their intended April 1st launch

  21. comment
    Comment #7567504

    I think it's safe to say that when a tech company reaches a certain size, especially ones that have a substantial amount of user data, it's impossible to be politically neutral on …

  22. story
    Homejoy acquires largest competitor

    As many of you know, we have been neck and neck with a competing cleaning company and recently things have gotten very tense as we battle for market share and cleaners. Well, that …

  23. comment
    Comment #6202513

    So who's starting the Kickstarter campaign?

  24. comment
    Comment #6202453

    To put the the 7 billion cost in perspective...that's approximately the cost to build the new segment of the Bay Bridge.