Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — johnchristopher

johnchristopher

HN member
Joined
Fri, Jul 22, 2011, 2:25 PM UTC
HN karma
10,203
Public activity
5,320 items

About johnchristopher

Freelance HN commenter, not taking jobs at the moment.

jhnchristophr@gmail.com

This is the topcolor I use: ffc16b :).

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #42763693

    [flagged]

  2. comment
    Comment #42759974

    [flagged]

  3. comment
    Comment #42758409

    It's a reference to an XKCD comic https://xkcd.com/1172/ that pokes fun at users with strong attachments to some software behaviours and/or interfaces. Also, it looks like you are …

  4. comment
    Comment #42756936

    [flagged]

  5. comment
    Comment #42756596

    I am amazed people are staying so calm and civil in this comment thread.

  6. comment
    Comment #42756067

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson%27s_choice

  7. comment
    Comment #42752114

    Do you use your space bar to handle heating ?

  8. comment
    Comment #42749553

    > If you ever became frustrated while typing: Hey, that's me ! (And I love systemd !) I haven't installed it yet so quick question: can it connect to remote host ? I often use syst…

  9. comment
    Comment #42714335

    > > In English, it seems to be called rednote. > I know someone who speaks Chinese and uses that app. The name in Chinese Xiaohongshu clearly translates to "Little Red Book," and t…

  10. comment
    Comment #42628899

    > I think a great deal of harm is done in this world by people looking at other people suffering and either convincing themselves or being convinced that there's a greater systemic…

  11. comment
    Comment #42601772

    > When I check tutorials on how to drill in the wall, there is (almost) no warning about how I could lose a finger doing so. It is expected that I know I should be careful around p…

  12. comment
    Comment #42503132

    I do wordpress dev at the moment and there are some blade template and I don't know how use autocomplete/LSP to hunt down functions/methods used in blade templates. Makes me sad :(…

  13. comment
    Comment #42501640

    That scenario could be made of very long stretch of times. Gold is a shelter value (or so was I told). Hard to use as a currency (you need to buy small parts that can be divided ea…

  14. comment
    Comment #42493733

    HN loves their acronyms. They sometimes say it's because they were on mobile but I don't believe it.

  15. comment
    Comment #42437168

    Wouldn't that just ends up re-inventing XML and ?

  16. comment
    Comment #42425122

    That is actually the focus of my question and comment: > > *I threw away my smartphone 4-ish months ago,* > *What did you replace it with* (if you did edit: scratch that, I brain f…

  17. comment
    Comment #42420875

    That's not the point. The focus here is on removing the smartphone out of the system, not removing features from the smartphone.

  18. comment
    Comment #42420819

    What did you replace it with (if you did edit: scratch that, I brain froze and was thinking of "did you replace it with a regular phone") ? Most accounts I read of people ditching …

  19. comment
    Comment #42386093

    Not that I am aware of. But I am trying to adopt some ADHD strategies to better handle some anxiety related problems.

  20. comment
    Comment #42382274

    > As someone who was a past military jet pilot and navigator, the one thing I still notice I have is an uncanny unconscious/subconscious sense of time. It's not perfect, but I rare…

  21. comment
    Comment #42340802

    Does it handle content security policies ?

  22. comment
    Comment #42311264

    > I understand what you're saying, people framework hop and what's popular does change frequently, but we're not all using Frontpage still, are we? yeah, we switched to WordPress. …

  23. comment
    Comment #42287777

    In minority report there's a scene ( https://youtu.be/NwVBzx0LMNQ?t=43 ) in a forensic/detective office in which MC swipes data and info on the screen (hologram ?) with their hands…

  24. comment
    Comment #42287530

    I had a flat file blog hobby project that would take ATOM documents and run them through XSLT to render the whole website, all on client side.

  25. story