Hacker News: 01284a7e

New comment by 01284a7e in "What being ripped off taught me"

01284a7e — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:00:15 +0000

Your business is getting the money. Your business is not to fly around the world trying to engineer-mog the client. The OP has a bad ego.

"They don't even use version control..." Yeah? Get the money. The client are "carpetbaggers", yeah okay... get the money.

It's implied that they hired you because they need the help. But they also may have hired you because they need the help and you seem like a sucker they can stiff.

New comment by 01284a7e in "Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates"

01284a7e — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:27:54 +0000

Seems like the logical conclusion, no matter what.

New comment by 01284a7e in "Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)"

01284a7e — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:21:51 +0000

I don't think it's a scam at all. Will it be around in a week? Probably not. But it's not a scam.

New comment by 01284a7e in "I Quit. The Clankers Won"

01284a7e — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:13:24 +0000

The opposite is true in my case - though 1 organization that had a small budget for things like AWS certs. I remember almost everyone who would get those certificates would never really learn anything from it either. They would just take the exams.

New comment by 01284a7e in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

01284a7e — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:07:08 +0000

The right thing to be said here. Oracle is trash. Would you expect rude idiots to be nice smart people all of a sudden?

New comment by 01284a7e in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

01284a7e — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:03:05 +0000

I'm sorry but you work at Oracle. Terrible people. Very rude people. You should expect it.

New comment by 01284a7e in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

01284a7e — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:10:12 +0000

All (not some) of the most successful devs I've known in the sense of building something that found market fit and making money off it were terrible engineers. They were fairly productive at building features. That's it. And they were productive - until they weren't. Their work ultimately led to outages, lost data, and sensitive data being leaked (to what extent, I don't even know).

The ones who got acquired - never really had to stand up to any due diligence scrutiny on the technical side. Other sides of the businesses did for sure, but not that side.

Many of you here work for "real" tech companies with the budget and proper skin in the game to actually have real engineers and sane practices. But many of you do not, and I am sure many have seen what I have seen and can attest to this. If someone like the person I mentioned above asks you to join them to help fix their problems, make sure the compensation is tremendous. Slop clean-up is a real profession, but beware.

New comment by 01284a7e in "Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command"

01284a7e — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:13:18 +0000

I'm cool with blogging about your mess-ups, sort of. Is "I'm incompetent" a good content strategy though? Yeah, you're going to get a lot of traffic to that post, but what are you signaling? Your product is a thousand bucks a year. I would not go near it.

New comment by 01284a7e in "I dropped our production database and now pay 10% more for AWS"

01284a7e — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:55:03 +0000

I'm cool with blogging about your fuck-ups, but honestly, not really. Is "I'm incompetent" a good content strategy? Your product is a thousand bucks a year. I'm not going near it. But that's just me?

New comment by 01284a7e in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

01284a7e — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:37:10 +0000

While I agree, how much training does anyone get as an interviewer? I spent 10+ years doing interviews at all sorts of orgs (including Fortune 500s, government, etc.) without a single hour of interviewer training.

Now that I think about it, none of those organizations ever trained me at anything at all. Huh.

New comment by 01284a7e in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

01284a7e — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:21:53 +0000

RE: My take on it is: you have to make your country/society a place where people will want to have children and feel/know that their children's lives will be good ones.

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"Every healthy creature tends to multiply himself." - Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus"

People aren't "healthy" (happy, secure, etc.) in America...

New comment by 01284a7e in "US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report"

01284a7e — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:27:58 +0000

"Information wants to be free". Government stooges help information with what it wants.

New comment by 01284a7e in "Travel Is Not Education"

01284a7e — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:03:29 +0000

Most people live in a fake world, especially when they are playing the part of tourists.

The original post laments having to interact with these people (in Cambridge, MA - oh no, Harvard and MIT sweatshirts, maybe as a "local" you should walk off the beaten path a bit).

Looking up webcams and Wiki pages as a substitute for going places is a bad conclusion - it's even more of a fake world. The author thinks we can somehow "really beautiful how rich of a cultural understanding can be cultivated without ever setting foot in the country". Really beautiful? Come on, that's ridiculous. I get that this is Hacker News but that's a terminally online viewpoint that's warped as can be.

New comment by 01284a7e in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

01284a7e — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 04:03:54 +0000

Divide and conquer...

New comment by 01284a7e in "2025 Letter"

01284a7e — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:03:05 +0000

Meh. Everywhere has foreign investment. The economic elite of the UK owns the US as well.

New comment by 01284a7e in "Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control of the world'"

01284a7e — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:00:29 +0000

"The Iraq War, launched in 2003 – resulting in over 100,000 deaths"

Isn't this an extreme low-ball estimate?

New comment by 01284a7e in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

01284a7e — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 12:41:28 +0000

Free, and open source models. Now and forever.

New comment by 01284a7e in "Indie, alone, and figuring it out"

01284a7e — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:24:48 +0000

Yes, I have found almost any developer job where you code much of the time to be incredibly lonely. Especially when teams are distributed, which seems to be the norm these days.

New comment by 01284a7e in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

01284a7e — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:27:01 +0000

Ha, maybe rethink the I AM NOTHING BUT A HUGE CLOUD CONSUMER thing on some fundamental levels? Like food?

New comment by 01284a7e in "You are how you act"

01284a7e — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:37:03 +0000

"...a 2016 internal memo written by Facebook executive Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, leaked in 2018, which stated that the company's growth was paramount and that negative consequences, such as harm from bullying or terrorism, were acceptable collateral damage".

Don't submit stuff from this guy, he is an atrocious human being.