ironMonkey (u/ironMonkey)

ironMonkey commented on Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people · Posted by u/Uzo0312

dang · 4 years ago

We ban accounts that take HN threads into poisonous flamewars. The GP did that too, and shouldn't have, but this is a whole other level of nastiness and offtopicness. Please don't post like this to HN, if you want to keep commenting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

ironMonkey · 4 years ago

Do it!

ironMonkey commented on Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity gameworldobserver.com/202... · Posted by u/roussanoff

trhway · 4 years ago

A bit of Russian color. The CEO FB posts in Russian:

- the 1st, sounding great in Russian, yet hard to translate, is "work energetically like f&cking or f&ck off"

- the 2nd is "looking for a great PR professional in Russia"

https://vc.ru/hr/277765-glava-xsolla-obyasnil-massovye-uvoln...

While without directly offensive words, not like the FB posts above, his message firing the people is still written in a very insulting disrespectful tone. "Write me a long letter". Russian term is "izdevka". The message is written with a lot of mistypes and Russian language mistakes. It doesn't look to me like it was written in a rational and/or sober state.

Some points from https://app2top.ru/industry/xsolla-ob-yasnila-uvol-neniya-za...

- slowdown of growth is the reason for layoffs, and thus decision to cut 10% of salary budget

- primarily firing rank-and-file, not management

- time spend in git/IDE wasn't considered in the evaluating employee efficiency

- most layoffs in Perm is because salaries there are lower than in US

I get a feeling that he is losing it, like he probably got teared a new one by the investors or something like this, got drunk and got that epiphany ... The metrics collection was probably going for some time, and finally they found a use for them.

ironMonkey · 4 years ago

>- the 1st, sounding great in Russian, yet hard to translate, is "work energetically like f&cking or f&ck off"

it is a simple "work your ass out or walk your ass out" without the unnecessary slavic macho-bravade of foul words.

ironMonkey commented on There are no results for tank man bing.com/images/search?q=... · Posted by u/rcoveson

ironMonkey · 5 years ago

Been with DDG for 8+ years.

Let's just admit, that the privacy respecting search engines have a huge fault — a killswitch that they don't own.

DDG isn't investing in their own crawlers so this can happen anytime now. At least Google showed me the picture.

ironMonkey commented on Firefox Release 89.0 mozilla.org/en-US/firefox... · Posted by u/looperhacks

pantulis · 5 years ago

What!? This makes it unusable for me.

ironMonkey · 5 years ago

I'm afraid that's the case. Was hoping that native menus meant tighter integration with the Mac, but turned out to be something very different.

ironMonkey commented on Firefox Release 89.0 mozilla.org/en-US/firefox... · Posted by u/looperhacks

ironMonkey · 5 years ago

I update and the Mac's native sharing is gone. Wondering if the company employs product managers responsible for Mac features (i know it's complex to handle various capabilities for different OS versions) because i assume a storm of negative feedback is coming.

ironMonkey commented on Ask HN: Do you still use email? · Posted by u/x14km2d

ironMonkey · 5 years ago

Reasons why i don't feel Slack is a true alternative to emails is that with emails you can print it out and validate the nature of the conversation (BCC ftw by the way). With Slack, any person can just in time edit the message which can lead to really crazy situations, given they are rare, but still semantics is what makes win argumens sometimes.

UPD: any messaging platform that forbids editing is the closes to what we have with formal converations.

ironMonkey commented on Chrome testing RSS-powered ‘Follow’ button 9to5google.com/2021/05/19... · Posted by u/Breadmaker

ironMonkey · 5 years ago

I saw Brave bragged brining RSS subscriptions back. Observing a direct link.

ironMonkey commented on Signald: Unofficial daemon for interacting with Signal signald.org/... · Posted by u/gaius_baltar

ironMonkey · 5 years ago

To all the humans mulling to play with this library, note that the signal-service-java[0] dependency signald relies upon isn't an officially shipped one. It's a fork with backported features. To me, it makes the library 2-times unofficial as it relies upon an unofficial library itself.

The official implementation[1] hasn't been updated for around 1,5 years.

[0]: https://git.callpipe.com/finn/signald/-/blob/master/build.gr...

[1]: https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-service-java