thrownthrow's comments

thrownthrow | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is it finally time to quit?

Thankyou. I had forgotten that when I posted. The US is my main target market and it is the quiet time of year.

thrownthrow | 6 years ago | on: Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp

I was going to suggest to anyone interested in VMS to head over to the deathrow cluster but unfortunately it's now dead. https://deathrow.vistech.net/410.html

thrownthrow | 6 years ago | on: How to parent more predictably (2018)

I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. A thinly veiled insult perhaps?

thrownthrow | 6 years ago | on: '1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell

Huxley

thrownthrow | 6 years ago | on: New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It

3 times in 3 years with 10 to 20 companies each time plus cramming on top of that! Sounds exhausting.

thrownthrow | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Should I quit my job?

6 months. General advice is always n months, however that advice is so generic as to be meaningless.

thrownthrow | 6 years ago | on: Blue-collar workers who become white-collar later in life

From what I've seen of exorcisms on TV, they certainty do look exhausting.

thrownthrow | 6 years ago | on: My Budget – free, open-source offline cross-platform budgeting

I use GNUcash for business too, but use git as storage/sync instead.

Also a simple fast tool with some handy little reports and graphs is http://homebank.free.fr/en/ We still use this for our personal finances.

thrownthrow | 7 years ago | on: Dieter Rams designed products to last, is horrified how we throw things away

By consensus of the Joneses.

thrownthrow | 7 years ago | on: They resent the fact I’m not a robot

I had a similar experience working for a food distribution wholesaler in Melbourne. We rode pallet trucks and time pressure was so intense that there were guidelines on the number of steps where it was more efficient to walk next to the pallet truck rather than ride on it. I couldn't keep up and lasted all but 2 weeks. This was 25 years ago and it's disappointing nothing has changed.

thrownthrow | 7 years ago | on: Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market share needle

We need a version of Godwin's law for slack.

thrownthrow | 7 years ago | on: Six Degrees of YC Separation

Did you use the word in error or is this another example of the trend of start-ups using verbs to replace nouns?

thrownthrow | 7 years ago | on: Will it be snowy holidays in your region?

Yeah, nah, yeah. In the middle of stinking hot Australia, so probably not.

thrownthrow | 7 years ago | on: Fibonacci Plant Rules (c. 1980) [video]

Around 1980 seems right. This was an Australian science show for children. Loved that show.