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Modern Law of Leaky Abstractions

CodeCube — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:40:40 +0000

Article URL: https://codecube.net/2026/1/modern-law-leaky-abstractions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46790776

Points: 2

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New comment by CodeCube in "Monte Carlo Simulation for Projections and Estimates"

CodeCube — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 03:48:11 +0000

Wrote a blog post about how I learned to use monte carlo simulations, and histogram charts to help me estimate and project things like costs, or project delivery dates ... while still communicating the uncertainty of the thing. I'd love to get any feedback or thoughts on this :)

Monte Carlo Simulation for Projections and Estimates

CodeCube — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 03:48:11 +0000

Article URL: https://codecube.net/2026/1/monte-carlo-cloud-costs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46536967

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by CodeCube in "Cowboy Coders and the Shift to Structure – How Teams Grow"

CodeCube — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:55:46 +0000

Ever worked with a "Cowboy Coder"? Or perhaps, you yourself are that gun-slingin' cowpoke! What works in a smaller team or startup, can eventually become a liability as a team grows if not managed correctly.

Cowboy Coders and the Shift to Structure – How Teams Grow

CodeCube — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:55:46 +0000

Article URL: https://codecube.net/2025/9/team-series-cowboy-coders/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45180697

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by CodeCube in "Moving Fast vs. Root Cause Culture – How Teams Grow"

CodeCube — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:23:19 +0000

Does your team "move fast and break things"? Or do you slow down and find/fix the root cause every time? As always, the right answer is the classic "it depends", and each approach comes with its own pros and cons.

Moving Fast vs. Root Cause Culture – How Teams Grow

CodeCube — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:23:19 +0000

Article URL: https://codecube.net/2025/8/team-series-root-cause/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066900

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by CodeCube in "Making SNES ROMs using C#"

CodeCube — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:59:24 +0000

This is so friggin' cool!! I was wondering recently why Nintendo doesn't use it's already-existing channels of the on-Switch emulators, to let gamedevs make _new_ games for those platforms. That would be such a cool, nostalgic, and potentially lucrative market!

New comment by CodeCube in "Show HN: Emergent Mind – AI Research Assistant for Computer Scientists"

CodeCube — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:08:39 +0000

Incredible to see the growth in capability of EmergentMind recently!

New comment by CodeCube in "Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone"

CodeCube — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 14:32:33 +0000

I'm legitimately surprised that whoever owns the blackberry IP didn't do something like this way sooner.

edit: lol, nevermind https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38875842

> Ryan Seacrest (yes the Ryan Seacrest) bankrolled a startup 10 years ago with an almost identical product. (They were sued out of existence by an already dying BlackBerry.)

New comment by CodeCube in "ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format"

CodeCube — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:15:12 +0000

Love to see Energent Mind continuing to innovate!

New comment by CodeCube in "Godot Engine GPT"

CodeCube — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 20:43:48 +0000

Yes it works for C#!

New comment by CodeCube in "Announcing the MonoGame Foundation"

CodeCube — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:13:22 +0000

Woooo!!!!! This is awesome news.

New comment by CodeCube in "DeepFaceDrawing Generates Photorealistic Portraits from Freehand Sketches"

CodeCube — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 14:23:01 +0000

> You'll never get away with an illegal U-turn ever again because the city will pull footage from peoples' internet-of-crap dashcams and the machine learning algorithms will comb the feeds and send fines directly to your mailbox with basically no human intervention.

This is not a "in a few years" thing in some places: https://youtu.be/taZJblMAuko?t=1536

New comment by CodeCube in "Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage"

CodeCube — Mon, 18 May 2020 15:36:34 +0000

I don't really think going viral on HN === mainstream ;)

New comment by CodeCube in "Do not Draw a Penis"

CodeCube — Thu, 14 May 2020 21:32:44 +0000

This reminded me of this scene from Superbad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orFw3vlif8I

New comment by CodeCube in "A first look at Unreal Engine 5"

CodeCube — Thu, 14 May 2020 18:07:55 +0000

What a classic :) I was working at EA Tiburon when this came out (not on the Madden team). Good times.

New comment by CodeCube in "Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever"

CodeCube — Thu, 14 May 2020 14:20:23 +0000

I completely respect wanting to live in SF ... I have personal reasons why I can't move away from where I'm at, but I also have a full time job with a company headquartered literally as far as possible from me in the continental united states. So I get to live where I have to live and make a good salary to support my family, and they get to use my talents as long as they continue to feel I bring them value.

That's the thing ... this discussion isn't saying everyone has to move away from SF, that's ludicrous. But if you want to live in SF, my point is why would you want to have to be on public transit for four hours every single day? It takes time you could use for living your life, and contributes to pollution.

In an ideal world, you could live in SF, work for google remotely, and maybe pop into campus every few days or even weeks, as needed. And then google can also hire from the millions of developers that live elsewhere as well. That way: you could live on the beach, live in socal, live in norcal, live on a farm in Iowa, live in Hawaii, live in New Jersey ... whatever kind of life you want to build, would not have to be linked to whether there is a company you want to work for in that place.

New comment by CodeCube in "Show HN: This Fursona Does Not Exist"

CodeCube — Tue, 12 May 2020 19:29:13 +0000

This is incredible, thanks for sharing!

New comment by CodeCube in "Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever"

CodeCube — Tue, 12 May 2020 17:53:55 +0000

This is why assigning an "onboarding buddy" is so important (even on-site) ... a new team member isn't going to feel empowered to ask questions and interrupt people right off the bat usually. Their more-senior onboarding buddy can make the introductions and get their questions answered by the right person without feeling awkward about it.

This isn't really a remote-only problem