AaronNewcomer's comments

AaronNewcomer | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: I'm trying to guess your personality by your comments with an NLP model

I think it’s very heavily weighted by the subreddits you post in rather than the content of your posts. This was clear to me when I tried my different Reddit usernames that are both very educational and similar tone but focus on completely separate businesses.

AaronNewcomer | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: PHP on Netlify Edge Functions

There is already a serverless version of Laravel that runs on Lambda. Seems feasible that someone could make it work on the edge too.

https://vapor.laravel.com

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: “Apple AirPods are so unreliable we don’t allow them at YC demo day”

I comment occasionally on how much better people at my office sound when using their airpod pros rather than the headsets others use. I don’t hear the background noise and they just sound so much better.

Multiple times I have thought about pushing to get all of the Mac users a set as it is just so much of a night and day difference.

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: Old imageshack images have a 1:5 chance of showing a Ukranian flag

I noticed this days ago on my forum. It’s only on old images that would typically not display the image anymore anyway as the poster did not upgrade their imageshack when they changed things some years ago.

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Shares Plummet 23%

My point was it’s even bigger issues, not just or mainly because of Apple’s privacy rules.

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Shares Plummet 23%

SNAP talked pretty loudly about the same Apple issues but their stock spiked 62% after their earnings report. So this seems like more of a cop out.

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: Amazon raises price of Prime membership by $20 to $139/year

I am definitely getting my money out of Amazon Prime. I ordered 269 items on Amazon last year and 281 the year before up from 93 and 91 the prior two years. Plus whatever my wife ordered which is probably at least that many.

I regularly get next day shipping on orders and often same day or overnight delivery.

Plus the free delivery of groceries is nice compared to paying for Instacart or shipt or the per delivery fee from the local grocery stores.

I don’t use many of the digital services except for occasionally prime video but definitely feel like I get a good value for all the shipping.

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: Why are semi trucks in the US and Europe so different? (2018)

I do a lot of research for historical things and often want results from other languages and have found on Google if you search for something and then click the settings icon and then click languages you can choose multiple results for "Currently showing search results in:" which will give you results in the languages you choose.

I typically do this in incognito windows as I do not always want for instance English and Italian results.

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe Rogan

Discontinued April 2017

Must not've been that great of a selling point

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: Idaho Is Sitting on One of the Most Important Elements on Earth

Cobalt, for lithium-ion batteries

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: Tim Cook reportedly stalked when at his home

Same reason he has to fly private all the time. Risk to him or his life by a crazy person can be worth a trillion dollars.

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: Samsung plans $17B chip plant in Taylor, Texas

It made news because of how rare it is. Happens often elsewhere. California about burnt down because of their power grid. Snowy states get bad blizzards and often lose power, etc.

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: PHP Foundation; We support, promote, and advance the PHP language

I guess PHP has indirectly funded my lifestyle for over a decade so it's good to see this formal structure for ensuring its funding through the future!

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

I think that for the ingredients you need to treat the entire phrase as a single unit. For instance, when i put in apple as an ingredient you return results that need apple cider vinegar or pineapple.

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the easiest/fastest way to set up a blog for a developer?

I second Wordpress. It is easy, default themes look nice. You can do anything with a bit of customization and even download hundreds of thousands of premade themes inexpensively.

Especially this if you want to brand it yourself with your own domain and care at all about SEO.

I personally use Laravel Forge which in addition to its main use case of Laravel server management, give me one-click Wordpress installs on my AWS EC2 servers. And then route53 for the domains.

You could also easily launch a Wordpress server with AWS Lightsail and you do not need a very powerful server unless you become really popular. And even then there are pretty good free caching plugins, some installed by default.

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: Stamp collections are fetching whopping prices, but clubs need new members

I run the biggest international collectors show for my hobby and we always talk about the average hair color and old age.

I think that there are a couple big reasons for this. I think there is definitely an issue with less discretionary income for younger people to spend on collecting.

But I also think that there is a bit of a shift in the information that’s out there. Everything’s catalogued and priced and researched and it can just be really overwhelming for someone new to fit into expectations.

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand

I pretty much only use Facebook for the groups and pages I follow. So it seems they did tailor it for the reasons I use it.

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: New Apple Polishing Cloth

Heh.. been waiting forever for one of these! They describe it as being capable of cleaning any Apple display.

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: Mistakes I've Made in AWS

I’ve recently been thinking about this as well.

AaronNewcomer | 4 years ago | on: Back Orifice (1998)

Yeah I remember one of these would allow you to somehow make a jpg executable and then would download the full payload for the rest of the tool. Image sharing over AIM and the like would make direct connections when transferring so you had to look up their IP address with netstat or something while the picture was transferring to them. And then keep checking to see if they actually installed/opened it.