jonhendry

joined 2 years ago
[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Shirley Manson or GTFO. But I don't think they'd like her.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

One wonders if one of those ready to go apps in Slack is a Slack app that runs inside of Slack.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

Maybe the gormless rich kids give him cocaine.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

Could be worse, they could be English.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Frankly I'd be more impressed if they had a lab of non-thermodynamic devices.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Are you sure he limits it to his foot skin?

Play your cards right and you could put him to work like one of those fish that eat dead skin off feet as part of a pedicure.

Apropos of nothing, does Stallman still request access to a parrot? It'd be funny to find him a place to stay with a person whose parrot is trained to talk shit about Stallman. "KWOK! SHUT UP ABOUT HURD!"

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just to confuse things design a logo that references both Margaret Hamilton from NASA and Margaret Hamilton the Wicked Witch actress. Maybe a woman flying on a NASA rocket-propelled bicycle, but maybe not because the slow and judgey might think that's calling NASA Hamilton a witch.

Actually referencing a non-technical woman might even help repel HN types.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago

"Cathedral Central"

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago

I hate 'edge' in its new form as pseudotechnical marketing guff. Frex, "AI-driven MCU market surge sparks innovation in global and Chinese firms for edge AI"

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 4 points 2 years ago

Depends on what liquid is in the hot tub.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago

And then they denied that any of them had ever embraced the term, stapled tea bags to their hats, etc.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago

Oh dear.

"The overriding gist of the DOJ’s lawsuit against Apple brought to mind, for DF reader E.G., Kurt Vonnegut’s dystopian short story Harrison Bergeron. Despite being an enormous Vonnegut fan, I couldn’t recall reading it before. It’s so apt. As E.G. quipped in his email to me, “Only in making all products, services, and experiences equally bad, will we have equality and fairness.”"

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