asterfield's comments

On: Project Oak: Meaningful control of data in distributed systems

[asterfield]

Maybe I’m just paranoid, but isn’t the (possibly unwritten) intent of this project to be able to flip the client and server around and run code in your browser and phone? I don’t understand their incentive to work on this unless they can use it to gatekeep “official” youtube clients (for example).

[dboreham → asterfield]

Incentive is that there is a small market segment that wants "actual privacy" and a concern that this segment could become very large at any moment due to publicity/awareness. Nobody wants to be caught with their pants down in that event.

On: Brad Smith used Microsoft's $1B lobbying machine to win Activision battle

[asterfield]

At least for me - I never took stadia seriously because google was always going to cancel it. There’s no point investing energy in new google products.

It may still be true that cloud gaming is not an interesting product, but google’s failure to enter it isn’t proof of that.

On: Renting vs. Owning a Home, by State

[asterfield]

As a Canadian, the HOA is such a baffling idea. Are most homes in the states linked to one? How does the infection start?

On: Ask HN: Who can I discuss ideas/ projects with?

[asterfield]

I’m in love with personal projects, either from me or someone else.

You’re welcome to email me at the email in my profile if you have something you want to review or just want to bounce some ideas off someone

[JI_Joe1 → asterfield]

Thanks, will do.

On: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

[asterfield]

It's an improvement for sure, but cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb is way better.

On: Show HN: Apifier – hosted web crawler for developers

[asterfield]

I was just thinking yesterday of creating a similar service. I'm glad to see someone else has already made it :D

[jancurn → asterfield]

Cool, if things go well, we'll be hiring soon :)

On: Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea

[asterfield]

I found that writing an SQL query generation framework in PHP was fun. Try the same for Go? An HTTP proxy is also quite easy to do in Go, and again quite fun.