1. aurelianito Sep 7, 2023 parent

   Semver is based on a lie. It assumes that you can define what is the proper behavior of a library. That's not necessarily true, and can be subtlety false, and different depending on the use case. I can think on some situations where I trusted semantic versioning and it bited me when an update was made. I am not talking about new bug introductions. I assumed behavoir that the library owner assumed as not important.
2. aurelianito Jul 6, 2023 parent

   There should be no shame in younger people above ourselves. I am 46 and a coupple of years ago the CEO and CTO of the company I worked for were in their twenties. It did not bother me at all. If they do their jobs properly, it is fine at any age. If they dont do their jobs properly, it is not fine at any age.
3. aurelianito Jun 16, 2023 parent

   Behind paywall :'(
4. aurelianito Mar 21, 2023 parent

   I think that there are 2 foundationañ problems that make complex projects over budget: 1. Stakeholders are incentivized to negotiate down the budget, skewing the result. 2. Breaking down a big task into smaller ones comes with the risk of missing some activities, but adding a nob-required subtask is almost imposible, also skewing the results.

   Estimates of big endevours must be made by comparison instead of breaking down the tasks to avoid the second issue. That's one of the little secrets that make poker planning succesfull.

5. aurelianito Jan 10, 2023 parent

   The appeal for me is that I prefer to have my own kitchen to prepare most of my own meals while traveling. Cannot do that in a hotel room.
6. aurelianito Dec 25, 2022 parent

   Extra points: leave old and outdated documentation and scripts in the repository. New documentation should go to a wiki that is not referenced in code and does not track versions. Different parts of the wiki should apply to different code versions.
7. aurelianito Dec 13, 2022 parent

   I managed to use a boring machine as a screwdriver to build an standing desk.
8. aurelianito Dec 13, 2022 parent

   I think that the parent says that while you can learn almost anything from youtube, it is imposible for other people to know that you know something you learned on youtube without a test.
9. aurelianito Nov 18, 2022 parent

   Please unflag the grand parent. Even thou I do not agree with what it says, I think it is interesting to have the discussion.
10. aurelianito Nov 18, 2022 parent

    I find it sad that this post was flagged. If it is not found interesting by the community no one would upvote it and it would just fade away. Flagging posts like this one makes hacker news far less interesting.
11. aurelianito Oct 4, 2022 parent

    What you need to do is to learn to love what you do. The actual activities, barring some really awful ones, are not that important.
12. aurelianito Aug 17, 2022 parent

    Pressing a button is too much work?
13. aurelianito Aug 17, 2022 parent

    Only on long trips!
14. aurelianito Aug 17, 2022 parent

    That's not true. It needs to recharge a part of the electricity used. For example, if it provides 2/3 of the electricity being used it would potentially triple the range.
15. aurelianito May 4, 2022 parent

    Given what you explained, it seems to me that the cloud was an excuse given by the new overlords to just get you out off the way. Cloud is fashionable now, but any excuse would work for them. This seems to be a power grab.
16. aurelianito Mar 24, 2022 parent

    The variations in ability of a trained musician are imperceptible to an untrained listener.
17. aurelianito Mar 17, 2022 parent

    Commit early. But do not commit garbage. Each commit should be a small but meaningful advance. All tests should pass. If working with compiled code, off course it should compile. No todos. No clunky var or method names. A branch per merge request.

    If you do it like this it is great for everyone. Do not squash commits or rebase. Those are antipatterns. We are lying to ourselves when we do it. We cannot learn from history we rewrite.

18. aurelianito Feb 2, 2022 parent

    Ethical CEO is an oxímoron.
19. aurelianito Jan 26, 2022 parent

    I meant it literally, including making other people sick or making other people to not have access to a hospital.
20. aurelianito Jan 25, 2022 parent

    If your choice hurts other people, off course.
21. aurelianito Jan 23, 2022 parent

    It is very different to discriminate someone for who they are than to discriminate someone for what they do.
22. aurelianito Jan 23, 2022 parent

    It is business as usual. They will be in a similar situation as they were before the pandemic.
23. aurelianito Jan 22, 2022 parent

    In order for that to be true, unvaccinated people should not be hospitalized.
24. aurelianito Jan 22, 2022 parent

    These people also die from the flu and common cold. We cannot stop the world for them.
25. aurelianito Jan 3, 2022 parent

    The first example test given (rate limiter) gives a bad answer. I wouldn't use this method.
26. aurelianito Jan 1, 2022 parent

    No need for door bells. No need for street signs. No need for taxi stops. No need for privately owned cars (rent via phone app or use Uber like service).

    Those things affect urban planning a lot.

27. aurelianito Nov 19, 2021 parent

    We humans work by analogy. Experienced people think, probably unconsciously, it is similar as these tasks that took about this time. No breakdown required.
28. aurelianito Nov 9, 2021 parent

    The difference is that nVidia would not be able to remove your NFT from its db of serial numbers, because the association between the number and you, instead of being in a DB it is in the blockchain itself, and the only one that can change that association is the holder of the NFT.

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