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hguhghuff··on Ask HN: How to learn to sleep on your back?
You could tie a plank across your stomach preventing rolling over.
hguhghuff··on Software development requires servant leaders
Maybe. I think there’s all sorts of leaders and all sorts of ways and configurations projects can have.

IMO the most inspired software is the implementation of the vision of one person who had an artists/visionaries clear idea of what they want to create, who listens to input and brings in new ideas from others, but has absolute control over the decisions.

Servant leaders of software projects I’m guessing has the potential to lead to somewhat ordinary software.

hguhghuff··on Ask HN: Why there is a black bar on top of HN?
Yes please. Wondering this myself.
hguhghuff··on Show HN: Polyhedra Viewer
How would I export these shapes for use in threejs or other web based 3d display?

Can they be exported as gltf format?

hguhghuff··on Apple Kills the App Store Affiliate Program, and I Have No Idea What to Do
Stop referring sales leads to Apple. They need to understand that you are sending them sales.
hguhghuff··on JetBrains IDEs subscription is 50% OFF for the next 3,5 hours only
I have now bought it .... glad I saw this post ... awesome value for an incredible product.

One thing.... I had to open a new account because it would not let me buy because I have a perpetual fallback license for an earlier purchase of pycharm.

hguhghuff··on Leonardo Da Vinci's to Do List (Circa 1490)
He seems busy.

And each of his todo items, like mine, look like they could easily explode out into 20 more.

hguhghuff··on How to beat LinkedIn: The Game
LinkedIn is like one giant business motivational poster.
hguhghuff··on Willoughby Wallace Hooper: Photographer of Death
I really dislike seeing real world pictures of death.
hguhghuff··on Dogs in the Workplace: A Review of the Benefits and Potential Challenges
I don’t like dogs. It would be really uncomfortable to have them at work. I’d probably leave.
hguhghuff··on After 11 years, I’m finally ready to pay for the app we’ve built
No link to the website. No explanation of what it is. Close tab.
hguhghuff··on Improving our account management policies to better support customers
The worst that happened to me on amazon when I had credit card issues is that I could no longer make changes in the developer console and instead was forced to contact amazon accounts to resolve the issue.

I could still see everything and all my systems continued running.

hguhghuff··on Improving our account management policies to better support customers
Amazon does not delete your account as far as I know until some extreme has been reached.

You guys need to understand the scale of distrust this issue raises.

If you want to fix it, give up on putting lawyers and spin doctors up front.

Instead, give this disastrous issue the response it deserves and get the CEO and Chairman of google to make s loud, clear and focused apology and say loudly that we do not delete your entire computer systems over account payment issues until defcon 3 is reached.

Why the F would I build my SAAS business on google cloud without that message being yelled repeatedly and loudly and clear from the top level of the company, as much so Google understands it as the market understands it.

And by the way, I pay ALL my cloud accounts on credit card. I note carefully that at google this means I have a higher chance of having my entire computer systems deleted than if I use some other payment mechanism. Your policy here appears to me to be using systems deletion add leverage to get me off credit card payment. All of which says to me that google still just doesn’t get it.

hguhghuff··on Improving our account management policies to better support customers
Then you should have have press release that says “We screwed up, we’re sorry, and we won’t delete your accounts any more”, instead of all this many-lawyered garbage about “account management policies”, words that no one is interested in.

This post has 7 comments and 11 points after an hour. Compare that to the post that led to this outcome. If your trying to reassure the market that you don’t delete a companies entire back end infrastructure then yes this meets some internal management butt covering goal, but does not tell the market definitively that google cloud no longer deletes your entire computer systems.

hguhghuff··on Improving our account management policies to better support customers
Google fails even here to reassure the market because this is all carefully worded corporate speak about “account management”.

What they are really trying to say is “Google Cloud is now less likely to delete your entire business computing systems over some minor credit card issues.” For this reason, this press release will not get the attention that google wants it to.

Note however that google has included human reviewers in the process and googles humsn reviewers are notorious for being ruthless.

It’s googles attitude to customers that is the ingrained and deep problem. Google has built into its DNA from the beginning that it does not want to be in contact with you, that you cannot get emergency attention, and that you are probably wrong.

hguhghuff··on How an offer to sell our business inspired us to take on $17M in debt
Does it say how much was offered to buy the business?
hguhghuff··on Supersharp Images from New VLT Adaptive Optics
Kinda hard to find the pics so here’s top 100 https://www.eso.org/public/images/archive/top100/
hguhghuff··on Nanix: An idea for a modern, small, Unix-like operating system
Meh. 25/30 meg ain’t huge.

And who uses floppies anyhow?

hguhghuff··on How I Socially Engineer Myself into High Security Facilities
Dunno, I just didn’t get the sense that this had the ring of truth to it.

It reads more like fiction.

hguhghuff··on Building a better news experience on YouTube, together
YouTube still can’t get the obvious basics right however.

I watch msnbc, cnn and a few other news channels on YouTube.

Every time, the top suggestions are from random accounts that seem to be reposting from the original source, presumably to get some sort of benefit.

YouTube doesn’t seem to even know that is happening, or has no interest in fixing it.

If YiuTube can’t handle the most basic requirement of the news which is to publish the original news source versus a pirated one, how can YouTube handle any other news authenticity challenge?

hguhghuff··on US tries to kill pro-breastfeeding policy
What’s with all the immature puns in the article trivializing the subject matter?
hguhghuff··on A man who paves India's roads with old plastic
References abound but here’s the top one https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/01/27/h...

I’d think twice before making roads from (even more) toxic chemicals.

hguhghuff··on A man who paves India's roads with old plastic
I read recently about children getting cancer from sports fields made from recycled car tyres.
hguhghuff··on What I would do differently if I was learning to program again
So you don’t use vim as a programming environment/editor?

So not actually disagreeing with me, just stirring?

hguhghuff··on What I would do differently if I was learning to program again
Why would anyone not want the power of an ide?

Is it a Unix tough guy thing where there’s nothing that a GUI app does that you can’t do better in a terminal? Or is it that you’ve never really spent a lot of time in a professional ide so when you argue against it, it’s cause you don’t know?

hguhghuff··on 7 features proposed so far in Python 3.8
I’d like Python to have the incredibly terse fat arrow function syntax from javascript.

Also destructuring support from javascript, which fundamentally changes much of my programming style.

hguhghuff··on What I would do differently if I was learning to program again
I’d use an ide from day 1 instead of wasting time with vim.

I seriously dramatically slowed down my advancement as a programmer because I didn’t use a full featured ide straight up.

Now I only use vi to edit files in /etc

hguhghuff··on Amazon Lumberyard: A Scream of Anguish
This is really, really poorly written.
hguhghuff··on Ask HN: Should I quit trying to be a programmer?
All you lack is lots of practice. Programming is hard but gets easier the more your practice.

And I mean practice on some project that you are personally interested in completing, some genuine goal, not an exercise or theoretical. /academic challenge.

hguhghuff··on Odroid-Go Review: An Affordable DIY Portable Game Console
The buy link https://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_cod...
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