Andrenid (u/Andrenid)

Andrenid commented on Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018? · Posted by u/westoncb

Andrenid · 8 years ago

The size of this discussion and the sheer number of different ways this can be done is mind boggling.

I'm all for having choices and I'm glad we're beyond choosing between FrontPage, Dreamweaver, and Notepad, but no wonder new people to web development are so overwhelmed.

Andrenid commented on I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare nypost.com/2018/05/28/i-w... · Posted by u/ytNumbers

snissn · 8 years ago

I'm curious if that is accurate or not. It hangs in a weird way in the article and doesn't indicate where the info was posted.

Andrenid · 8 years ago

Maybe she means all that info was exposed in the court case?

That's exactly the sort of "true but out of context" thing a tabloid like this site would use.

Andrenid commented on Hacker News Points Inflation taimur.me/hn-inflation/... · Posted by u/refrigerator

at-fates-hands · 8 years ago

This is why I went from just reading/commenting on the front page stories, to actually starting on the New tab and then working to the front page.

I also see a ton of upvoted stories on the front page with no comments. I always thought the focus of HN was the thoughtful conversations that took place around topics, not the accrual of fake internet points.

Andrenid · 8 years ago

I feel like number of comments should carry more weight than upvotes. Then upvoted comments could weigh the entire story up further too, pushing quality discussion over a simple upvote click.

Andrenid commented on Ask HN: What should we call phones as they stop being used as phones? · Posted by u/Andrenid

FroshKiller · 8 years ago

Personally, I wouldn't bother introducing a word besides "phone," because we shortly won't be carrying one single device like this anymore. May as well just keep saying "phone" for the few years left.

Gizmodo tried to suggest "com" instead of "smartphone" about 10 years ago: https://gizmodo.com/5061705/smartphone-is-a-dumb-word-we-nee...

Andrenid · 8 years ago

What will replace phones that soon? Are you referring to smart watches and wearable tech? Wont we still use a phone as a primary device to tie it all together?

Posted by u/Andrenid 8 years ago

Ask HN: What should we call phones as they stop being used as phones?

Andrenid commented on Uber’s New Rival in Australia: An Indian Upstart nytimes.com/2018/03/18/te... · Posted by u/johnny313

LouisSayers · 8 years ago

In Melbourne there are so many cash only food places that you do need to carry cash - or at least know where the nearest atm is.

Andrenid · 8 years ago

I absolutely love exploring all the food and coffee around Melbourne and I can't even remember the last one that didn't take PayPass. Even the market stalls and coffee carts have an MPOS or CBA tablet. Maybe a couple of super hipster places take cash only for the image, but I haven't actually found one yet.

Andrenid commented on Uber’s New Rival in Australia: An Indian Upstart nytimes.com/2018/03/18/te... · Posted by u/johnny313

tgasson · 8 years ago

They'll struggle to get anywhere asking for cash. Australians generally carry little to no cash around

Andrenid · 8 years ago

I haven't carried cash or wallet for about a year now. All I use is my phone (CommBank app, which uses PayPass network). Whether it's a coffee, snack for my kid, weekly shopping or a night out, I can barely even remember the times I've been caught out. Maybe twice in a year. Only times I take my wallet out the door is if I'm driving (I live in Melbourne and mostly walk or take trams) or going to the Doctors or something that requires ID/Medicare.

Food trucks, weekend markets, everyone has an EFTPOS/MPOS or CommBank tablet in their business now.

Andrenid commented on ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US theverge.com/platform/amp... · Posted by u/tony101

jermaustin1 · 8 years ago

One of my clients does license plate reading and tracking. They have hundreds of tiny customers, and a handful of VERY LARGER customers, so I can say with 100% certainty, there are hundreds of agencies across the USA already doing this.

For fun, I tracked my rental car from Georgia to Texas after a vacation a few months back to see how often I hit one of my client's customer's cameras. It was a lot. I saw myself hit toll booths, go under over passes, and parked at a service station. About 25 hits that my account had access to (probably hundreds or thousands that I didn't have rights to see).

Andrenid · 8 years ago

What do they do with the data? Is it just for law enforcement to find people, or is there value in the data?

Andrenid commented on Show HN: How I built an image proxy in Go to anonymise images in 20 mins blog.machinebox.io/how-i-... · Posted by u/matryer

macqm · 8 years ago

Cool, but if you are truly concerned about privacy, I don't think that sending the pictures for facial recognition to a third party service is a great idea.

Andrenid · 8 years ago

I think "censor" is the word OP is looking for, not "anonymise".

Andrenid commented on Show HN: Hack interviews by studying questions recently asked by companies techinterview.club... · Posted by u/lambdabit

Andrenid · 8 years ago

Repost (from the same day): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16169971

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