ShaneMcGowan's comments

ShaneMcGowan | 2 years ago | on: Angular v16

Computed properties, Stand alone components, “signals” already exist in Ember in some form to prevent constant recomputing of getters, route data being available in components directly

ShaneMcGowan | 2 years ago | on: Angular v16

Very interesting seeing Angular getting many of the features that EmberJS has had for a while such.

ShaneMcGowan | 2 years ago | on: Japan Has Millions of Empty Houses. Want to Buy One for $25,000?

Or move to Ireland and buy 20 already finished houses for that price

ShaneMcGowan | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who has deployed commercial features using GPT4?

I work for Intercom.com, we are currently adding GPT 4 to the support bot

https://www.intercom.com/ai-bot

Looks pretty cool from what I’ve seen

ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: What is the minimal possible UK address?

In Ireland we have the Eircode system, where each building (even individual apartments) get their own code

ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023

How is this news

ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: Watermark Remover (AI Powered)

This is basically like paying for piratebay premium

ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM

True but the products I build in this inefficient way solve other messes so you win some you lose some

ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM

We don’t need to worry about memory efficiency until we stop getting gains via hardware improvements. For now developers can just slap a web app into some chromium based wrapper, make sure their code doesn’t have any n^2 in it and you’re good to go.

ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: Epic is turning off online services and servers for some older games

Fortnite is the new money maker, UT doesn’t even come close unfortunately

ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: FX swap debt a $80T 'blind spot', global regulator says

At what point does one give up on this whole “global economy” thing and just move to the woods?

ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Pokemon Emerald Randomizer

Legally, be envious or pay $100 for a legit second hand copy

Illegally, just download it

ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: Waymo shows off its futuristic “transportation as a service” vehicle

What is the purpose of our lives currently?

ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does GDPR and CCPA Apply to Hacker News?

I’ve had all my submissions deleted when requested so not sure what the issue is

ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: Companies ran an experiment: Pay workers their full salary to work fewer days

From my personal experience Stress free 5 days > Fire fighting for 4 days

ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical?

I’m a huge proponent of banning all foreign entities and funds purchasing homes here in Ireland, and capping the number of properties nonforeign entities can purchase. (No cap on building their own property is still a grey area for me though)

ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: Ethereum Goerli testnet merge goes live before move to proof-of-stake

So is the price of Ethereum going to go up a load now since you don’t need to buy GPUs, you just buy Ethereum itself?

ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: GitHub suspends Tornado Cash developer account

Anonymising the purchase of hammers

ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: GitHub suspends Tornado Cash developer account

A tool that could be used for laundering money was used for laundering money. Developer is shocked that the US Government doesn’t like this

ShaneMcGowan | 3 years ago | on: Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B

Can’t wait until I’m acquired by Amazon and integrated with Alexa