Hacker News: EvanKnowles

New comment by EvanKnowles in "EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code"

EvanKnowles — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:59:57 +0000

Feels like a bonus to me.

New comment by EvanKnowles in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

EvanKnowles — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:40:03 +0000

If I click Join I am immediately redirected to a "Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access doge.gov" CloudFlare page. That's odd.

New comment by EvanKnowles in "Is AWS S3 having an outage?"

EvanKnowles — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 06:38:50 +0000

"Where's my new server gone? ... oh, it's hanging out in us-east-1, damnsit."

New comment by EvanKnowles in "Australian lab-grown meat cultured from quail cells hits the market in Singapore"

EvanKnowles — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 11:25:59 +0000

Avoid them for ethical reasons too.

New comment by EvanKnowles in "Job seekers could soon face an 'employer's market' as unemployment rate rises"

EvanKnowles — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:38:13 +0000

Problem is, sometimes you don't need the best-world-class coders, you need cheaper coders to align a button.

New comment by EvanKnowles in "Flexible schemas are the mindkiller"

EvanKnowles — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 09:47:32 +0000

I think a lot of devs go through a "I'll just store code in the DB and evaluate at runtime!" phase. Some of them never get through it though.

New comment by EvanKnowles in "Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'"

EvanKnowles — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 07:21:50 +0000

We had this, but HR moved so slowly that the (good) guy that was fired was still there when the new guy arrived.

New comment by EvanKnowles in "The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed (2022)"

EvanKnowles — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 06:58:10 +0000

That feeling when you ask a question, they go "uhhhhh", in the background you can hear mechanical keys clattering, and suddenly they can give a textbook definition.

More fun is when you can google their answers and find the website they're reading from.

New comment by EvanKnowles in "A man's pay-to-use toilet gag showed Google Maps can be used to track people"

EvanKnowles — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 10:15:21 +0000

"A few years back, Will added a share house as a McDonald’s restaurant. It didn’t didn’t last long before it was removed by Google, he told Crikey in a phone call this week, but it appeared to fool at least one person. “A car drove past slowly with its driver looking pretty confused,” he said."

Perhaps he could not make the information available on the internet even worse?

New comment by EvanKnowles in "What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report"

EvanKnowles — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 08:22:58 +0000

Eventually enough content will have been produced that a human could watch an incredible series every day of their lives without anything new coming out. That's when humanity will peak and crumble happily away.

New comment by EvanKnowles in "Africa Does Not Exist"

EvanKnowles — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 06:41:35 +0000

I mean, a bunch of us here are sitting on the continent right now.

New comment by EvanKnowles in "Ask HN: How did Git become the standard when Windows is the majority OS?"

EvanKnowles — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 06:10:01 +0000

We used to use a VCS called Borland (yeah, Delphi Borland) StarTeam, which was basically the exact same flow. Luckily for us they audited us at some point, decided we were using too many licences, and insisted we triple our monthly expense or stop using StarTeam - that was the incentive to persuade business to let us slow down dev for a bit while we changed to Git.

New comment by EvanKnowles in "An underwater landslide knocked out two critical submarine cables serving Africa"

EvanKnowles — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 08:25:53 +0000

My web client was behaving waaay better than my desktop client on this issue.

New comment by EvanKnowles in "Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing"

EvanKnowles — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 11:53:20 +0000

It improved suddenly in the third season, I was about to give up.

New comment by EvanKnowles in "Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source"

EvanKnowles — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:03:42 +0000

Wait, people aren't breathing through noses?

New comment by EvanKnowles in "A new world order? BRICS nations offer alternative to West"

EvanKnowles — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 06:12:40 +0000

We have Popeyes in South Africa, we just don't like it.

New comment by EvanKnowles in "Americans need to be richer than ever to buy their first home"

EvanKnowles — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 20:55:39 +0000

The kind of houses that could be bought for that starting value in South Africa, in beautiful, safe neighourhoods, with 1gb/s internet connections...

New comment by EvanKnowles in "Neuromancer: Miles Teller Eyed for New Apple+ Sci-Fi Series"

EvanKnowles — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 14:14:05 +0000

I always read a dead channel as pure static.

New comment by EvanKnowles in "Ask HN: Do you genuinely enjoy your developer job?"

EvanKnowles — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 07:46:37 +0000

When I get to actually dev, totally. I work at an insurance company, I ended up here after I got hired by contract house (from a referral from a friend, who was hired by that contract house because they picked up grads), and they posted me here ~11 years ago, then I went permanent.

New comment by EvanKnowles in "JDK 19 Release Notes"

EvanKnowles — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:59:08 +0000

Actively coding in Java in a large system at the moment (so we can't Kotlin), but if I were to start a greenfields I'd give serious consideration to doing it in Kotlin.