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misterbowfinger

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About misterbowfinger

anon account.

half troll, half serious.

if you'd like to reach out, send a note:

misterbowfinger plus hn at gmail dot com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #24476916

    Cool good to know! Out of curiosity - do you just not check personal email at all at work? Or do you use your phone and don't connect to corporate wifi?

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    Ask HN: Accessing personal email on FAANG work computer?

    I have a side startup that, occasionally, gets some email to my personal email. I'd like to also check my personal email on my work laptop, but would my IP for my startup get rolle…

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    Comment #18037430

    Thanks! Is there a diagram that shows how it works? I'm still having trouble visualizing it.

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    Comment #18036721

    Couldn't really parse out the website for what Clustrix actually is. Is it basically a leader node that distributes writes to key-value stores, and then the reads figure out where …

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    Comment #18001691

    I'm still confused about the paranoia around AGPL. If MongoDB is AGPL, why does everyone else throw a shit fit? Despite its faults, MongoDB is still massively popular, so I assume …

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    Comment #17976182

    I'm honestly confused why they didn't just postpone TGIF and then ignore the election. Just say someone got sick or something. Let employees deal with the results themselves and mo…

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    Comment #17975593

    Yeah, possibly...

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    Comment #17975591

    Yeah I'm starting to think that I have to get a coworking space. There are some libraries and stuff, but they don't seem consistent.

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    Ask HN: Where do you work on your side-hustle?

    I live & work in Chicago, and for the past year or so I've been working on my side-hustle when I get home from work. But, getting focused at home is a real struggle and I'm looking…

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    Comment #17940464

    Interesting! I wonder if there's a bug in the gRPC library that you used?

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    Comment #17940449

    For those that didn't know what GraphD or Freebase were: https://medium.com/@iainsproat/freebase-is-dead-long-live-fr...

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    Comment #17906351

    Hate to be that person, but what's "Cloud Native" even mean? Is there a glossary for buzzwords somewhere?

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    Comment #17877697

    Firefox will [...] block storage access from third-party tracking content. Is that an impact on LocalStorage?

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    Comment #17872115

    It's weird that they go on and on about how traditional Enterprise approaches suck, but they then offer SurveyMonkey Enterprise as a market opportunity. How are they different?

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    Comment #17865604

    Thanks for correcting! Good to know! AmeriSpeak seems to have national representation, so I can only assume it was drawn randomly throughout the nation.

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    Comment #17865570

    Uhhhh... what? This particular survey featured interviews with 1,058 parents who belong to the panel and have a teen ages 13 to 17, as well as interviews with 743 teens Link: http:…

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    Comment #17865552

    Original study: http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/08/22/how-teens-and-parents-...

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    Comment #17856837

    The example of why Elixir is less productive makes 0 sense: Doh Phoenix and Elixir are trying to do all the best to help developers be productive, when you are a technology that pr…

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    Comment #17856502

    > The biggest issue is that very few within the Linux Desktop community seem willing to untie behind these solutions and instead prefer to keep everything fragmented I suspect this…

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    Comment #17856462

    Thanks for the detail and the link! I was perhaps a bit naive and continue being so... It feels as though the issues you listed seem solvable? As in, the work to create a distro & …

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    Comment #17856410

    > But you'd have to have one or two distros that were particularly good for gaming that the majority of them used Right, that's probably closer to what I'm getting at. There's prob…

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    Comment #17856319

    > Given the disaster that has been Windows over the last few years, and that Apple hardware is often out of the price range of the average user, Linux should be primed to take over…

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    Comment #17835311

    > I could go on for years about all sorts of interesting tips for improving your writing Please do! Do you have a blog or something to follow?

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    Comment #17824180

    > It's always the same. Every single "diversity" measure needs to be chaired by a hip-hop producer or a fashion designer. This is why blacks will never be seen as true equals in ou…

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    Comment #17818912

    Here's an example of a high-profile one: https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1032271799529218048