Hacker News: FlacoJones

New comment by FlacoJones in "In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality"

FlacoJones — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:56:29 +0000

Asimov said this was his favorite thing he ever wrote, and it addresses this same idea.

The Last Question - Isaac Asimov - Read by Leonard Nimoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XOtx4sa9k4&t=544s&ab_channe...

New comment by FlacoJones in "In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality"

FlacoJones — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:54:29 +0000

The Last Question - Isaac Asimov - Read by Leonard Nimoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XOtx4sa9k4&t=544s&ab_channe...

Even if the longevity obsessed manage Earthly immortality, non-existence will forever loom.

Will they be happy with 100 years? 500? 1 million? Non-existence remains a theological not scientific hurdle.

New comment by FlacoJones in "The Myth of the Second Chance"

FlacoJones — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:49:54 +0000

agreed. not everything that's true is wise.

New comment by FlacoJones in "Seattle ordinance intended to help app delivery workers is 'hurting' them"

FlacoJones — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:52:18 +0000

https://archive.is/Q6pYI

New comment by FlacoJones in "The worst programmer I know"

FlacoJones — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 15:38:35 +0000

Being a 10x engineer can come from either:

- 10x productivity yourself - Adding 2x to five 1x engineers

Non-technical management will never appreciate the engineering multipliers like Tim

New comment by FlacoJones in "Hardcore tech-interview style riddles and mathematical puzzles"

FlacoJones — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:15:45 +0000

ChatGPT got the snail one wrong over and over, not parsing that on the 16th day there will be no night for the snail to fall back down 4 meters:

Let's analyze the snail's progress:

During the day, the snail climbs 5 meters upwards. During the night, it slides 4 meters downwards.

So, in a day, the snail effectively moves 5 - 4 = 1 meter upwards.

To calculate the number of days required for the snail to reach the top of the well, we need to determine how many 1-meter increments are necessary to cover the remaining distance of 20 meters.

20 meters / 1 meter = 20 days

Therefore, it will take the snail 20 days to reach the top of the well.

New comment by FlacoJones in "What makes developers productive?"

FlacoJones — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:02:29 +0000

Time to Release

https://justkeepclicking.io/whats-your-ttr-equation/

New comment by FlacoJones in "How to reduce stress and overcome anxiety as a software developer"

FlacoJones — Tue, 02 May 2023 19:27:21 +0000

imho software engineers are the most susceptible to the hyperactivity that often leads to these types of maladies - which ultimately flips from “working 100 miles an hour” to “only able to work 2 hours a day”, aka burnout

Byungchul Han is what’s been saving me - almost like philosophical therapy. has helped me to realize the societal origins of a lot of the expectations i inflict on myself

hope his frameworks might help others!

https://youtu.be/BX-FK_Rmzjc

New comment by FlacoJones in "SBF paid over $40M to bribe Chinese officials"

FlacoJones — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:18:44 +0000

https://archive.is/7nsMF

New comment by FlacoJones in "No Lodash"

FlacoJones — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 19:08:11 +0000

Where is .cloneDeep? That alone is mainly what I use lodash for.

Even though JS is pass by value, if you pass an object, the other nested objects will still be references to its predecessor.

New comment by FlacoJones in "Consultancies know less than they claim and cost more than they seem to"

FlacoJones — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:54:35 +0000

https://archive.is/I8RJh

New comment by FlacoJones in "Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder."

FlacoJones — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 14:55:43 +0000

thank you for adding "(if you can)" to suggesting they relax...that is real

New comment by FlacoJones in "The great crypto crisis is upon us"

FlacoJones — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 20:00:02 +0000

Centralized exchanges do absolutely. No guarantees on deposits beyond a consumer Terms and Conditions check box.

Decentralized exchanges with proofs of reserves on chain less so, e.g. MakerDAO's over-collateralized stablecoin called DAI: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1316928/dai-reserves-bre...

New comment by FlacoJones in "The great crypto crisis is upon us"

FlacoJones — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 19:58:05 +0000

Closing line with the usual FUD around decentralization as a scary thing - even though it was centralization and privileged actors at the center of that centralization that has caused every major CEX collapse.

If we think an occasional CEX collapse is bad, the financial surveillance and political manipulation that would occur under a CBDC scheme is far more damaging to freedom and financial security in the long run.

Be vigilant of articles that slip in advertisements for CBDC - they are quickly becoming a propaganda weapon.

"A more promising approach is through central bank digital currencies that operate within the broader digital monetary system. This is an approach that builds on the trust embedded in central bank money, and could serve public interest in a future monetary system(opens a new window). The technology benefits flow to real world economic activities rather than just other types of crypto. The economic benefits of decentralisation should also be scrutinised more effectively. We are now seeing what happens when an industry rests simply on an article of faith."

New comment by FlacoJones in "Ask HN: Software architects – what’s your typical day look like?"

FlacoJones — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:54:07 +0000

- It's typically a journey up and down the stack in terms of frontend, backend, and DevOps, and a journey in and out of solving inherently complex problems (where the seams of your services are, authentication) and incidentally complex problems (frameworks, machine-specific issues, Docker hell etc.)

- 80% what needs to be done today/what fires need putting out, and 20% planning for the future and seeing how the bleeding edge can legitimately help us (e.g. WASM coming soon...). This is part of the general keeping up with advances in industry

- Mentoring, jumping on pair programming calls to unblock other teammates.

New comment by FlacoJones in "AWS and Blockchain"

FlacoJones — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:26:35 +0000

most of the problems blockchain attempts to solve are public coordination problems in adversarial environments rather than corporate problems the CTOs/CIOs are likely to have.

New comment by FlacoJones in "The future of cryptocurrency is at stake in Ethereum’s switch"

FlacoJones — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 08:12:05 +0000

https://archive.ph/PiYYA

New comment by FlacoJones in "I visited a friend who is watching Breaking Bad. Now clips appear on my YouTube?"

FlacoJones — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 19:17:26 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

New comment by FlacoJones in "Why are we calling it crypto? Just call them private coins"

FlacoJones — Fri, 27 May 2022 15:35:41 +0000

People in crypto invent new words rather than building new things all too often. I think it's a carryover practice that emerged from the whitepaper era of 2017-2018, when you had to have a massive pseudo-intellectual theoretical framework supporting your dApp to support a token raise.

Build cool things and don't hide behind jargon.

New comment by FlacoJones in "How to take credit for someone else's work on GitHub"

FlacoJones — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 22:20:10 +0000

One thing to note: I believe this only works if the email is not already associated with a GH account.