Hacker News: 89vision

New comment by 89vision in "The Toyota Corolla of programming"

89vision — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:57:48 +0000

The PHP thing is believable, I'm just still stuck on scala vs python based on my observations from working in the industry and being part of the hiring process for both of these languages. Perhaps it's because I work in B2B SAAS where these products aren't always necessarily exposed to the public internet.

New comment by 89vision in "The Toyota Corolla of programming"

89vision — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:43:04 +0000

I wonder where this graph gets it's data from. Scala sitting at 4.6 percent and python at 1.2 percent is not what I would expect, but my perception of the industry could be totally off.

New comment by 89vision in "Matt's Script Archive (1995)"

89vision — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 04:34:34 +0000

What a throwback! I discovered these as a kid in the early days of the web. I remember the perl being a little too obtuse to grok as a preteen, but I figured out where I could change things at certain parts of the code to make things look a little differently. Those were magical years that inspired me to get into coding and problem solving as an adult. Thanks Matt.

New comment by 89vision in "DuckDB 1.1.0 Released"

89vision — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 17:53:39 +0000

Depends on the scale of users you expect for your project. Generally I like to keep oltp and olap tools in their lanes, but if < 100 people are going to be using it probably doesn't matter. I doubt duckdb has any sort of acid guarantees, so thats something to keep in mind.

New comment by 89vision in "Ask HN: Why did GeoCities have that crazy design aesthetic?"

89vision — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:17:52 +0000

Well, I was 13 and trying to learn html by piecing things together from "view source" and seeing what other people were doing on their page. We didn't have the benefit of stack overflow or what anyone today would consider a reasonable search engine. The dopamine rush was unimaginable at first, but quickly faded as i got pretty bored of static html. Once I found perl and cgi-bin, the dopamine was back, rinse and repeat over and over again for the last 25ish years. Those early years of the web were pretty magical for me and initiated a life long fascination of technology and problem solving.

New comment by 89vision in "Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection [withdrawn]"

89vision — Fri, 31 May 2024 21:03:25 +0000

I always wondered why snowflake doesn't just install a control plane on customers own cloud resources a la databricks. Seems like they'd be able to mitigate a lot of liability that way.

New comment by 89vision in "ICQ will stop working from June 26"

89vision — Fri, 24 May 2024 16:46:40 +0000

2476319, got it in 1997 or 1998

New comment by 89vision in "The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound (2019)"

89vision — Tue, 07 May 2024 23:21:03 +0000

The wall of sound sounds way more fascinating imho.

New comment by 89vision in "Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?"

89vision — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 20:55:30 +0000

are you still selling this?

New comment by 89vision in "Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?"

89vision — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:42:56 +0000

> the vendor gleefully assured us that they were experienced with "migrations of this scale"

Sales is mostly just lying to collect a commission check.

New comment by 89vision in "Show HN: Restaurants in Peace – leave a remembrance for a closed restaurant"

89vision — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 05:41:01 +0000

Cool website. Reminds me a lot of the early golden years of the internet

New comment by 89vision in "What is the Demoscene? An interview"

89vision — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:06:09 +0000

Some young people aren't sure what they want to do with life and school is a reasonable place to figure that out and hopefully pick up some practical skills/networking/life experience along the way.

New comment by 89vision in "The Twelve-Factor App (2011)"

89vision — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 02:35:47 +0000

how does the application pick it up? We use the built in secrets that are injected into the container as env vars and then the application picks it up that way. Not trying to sound combative, just looking for better ways to do things.

New comment by 89vision in "The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps"

89vision — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:01:49 +0000

Sure, I fail to see how that invalidates my point

New comment by 89vision in "The Twelve-Factor App (2011)"

89vision — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:01:03 +0000

do you have any examples of more secure ways of injecting secrets?

New comment by 89vision in "The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps"

89vision — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:23:37 +0000

sure, It's no doubt an arms race. The prevalance of websites going down due to scaling issues feels like order of magnitude less than it was 20 years ago though. Purely anecdotal with no real data to back that up.

New comment by 89vision in "The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps"

89vision — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 14:11:37 +0000

20 years ago if a blog or website ended up on slashdot/digg/whatever there was a good chance it was going down. Scalable websites are a commodity today

New comment by 89vision in "That's a Lot of YAML"

89vision — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:21:35 +0000

Just build some sort of object model and generate all your yaml. Nobody should be handcrafting it

New comment by 89vision in "Ask HN: How to Focus Again?"

89vision — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 17:07:30 +0000

I lived almost 40 years with undiagnosed ADHD inattentive type. I had terrible grades, I couldn't organize anything in my life, terrible rejection sensitive dysphoria. Luckily, programming and computers have always been a consistent source of dopamine for me to hyperfocus on so I've done reasonably well in my career. It started impacting my marriage so I recently decided to talk to a mental health professional and got a diagnosis. I started a low dose of adderall which has helped a bit with some of those things, but it also sometimes has the side effect of making me hyperfocus on the wrong things. My diagnosis took one visit, maybe the laws are different in your state

New comment by 89vision in "Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats"

89vision — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 15:46:22 +0000

I remember when this happened. It felt like everybody's parents joined at the same time almost overnight