Hacker News: Fruitmaniac

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "Datacenters in space aren't going to work"

Fruitmaniac — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:37:04 +0000

Underwater datacenters make way more sense

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship"

Fruitmaniac — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 13:56:47 +0000

I admit I still don't understand Kotlin generic types. Or most of SOLID.

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes"

Fruitmaniac — Sat, 03 May 2025 12:45:55 +0000

One company's name was conspicuously absent from the article. Does anyone believe Tesla is still a player in the autonomous driving game? They always seem to be playing catch-up.

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "The Post-Developer Era"

Fruitmaniac — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 01:50:09 +0000

Saying AI writes code is like saying your clarinet plays music.

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "Open guide to equity compensation"

Fruitmaniac — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:04:01 +0000

I've earned stock options from three startups and none of them ever went public. The only company that ever actually paid me equity was Amazon and it was a pretty big payout. You will earn a lot more with RSUs than options.

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "The best programmers I know"

Fruitmaniac — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:19:43 +0000

I need to do more of these

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "'Unstoppable force' of solar power propels world to 40% clean electricity"

Fruitmaniac — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 20:21:20 +0000

America is so fucking backwards it makes me cry

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "Knowing where your engineer salary comes from"

Fruitmaniac — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 02:30:36 +0000

I'm an engineer with an MBA and they definitely don't teach in business school that respect is optional. It's just something bad managers do all on their own.

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "Knowing where your engineer salary comes from"

Fruitmaniac — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 02:24:50 +0000

I think the biggest career mistake engineers make -- myself included -- is assuming your contributions will be automatically recognized when in fact the amount of credit you receive is equal to how much you contributed multiplied by the amount of attention you draw to it.

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "A Man Out to Prove How Dumb AI Still Is"

Fruitmaniac — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 04:47:04 +0000

Try playing a game of Hangman with ChatGPT. It's hilarious.

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide (2nd Edition)"

Fruitmaniac — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 23:16:24 +0000

Is Tcl still a thing? At my first job I extended with a set of data-processing commands.

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

Fruitmaniac — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 20:14:50 +0000

Not everyone is as impressed as us by new tech, especially when it's kinda buggy.

The article makes a lot of good points. I get a lot of slop responses to both coding and non-coding prompts, but I've also gotten some really really good responses, especially code completion from Copilot. Even today, ChatGPT saved me a ton of Google searches.

I'm going to continue using it and taking every response with a grain of salt. It can only get better and better.

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default"

Fruitmaniac — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:03:53 +0000

Memory leaks are easy to code by accident in Java, so it must be even worse in Rust.

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "Meta puts stop on promotion of tell-all book by former employee"

Fruitmaniac — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:17:51 +0000

They just Streisanded themselves.

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "Volkswagen seeks to counter rivals with budget EV model"

Fruitmaniac — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 04:17:44 +0000

Raw materials costs are mostly based on scarcity, not salaries. If it weren't, steel would cost more that gold because it goes through more processing.

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "Volkswagen seeks to counter rivals with budget EV model"

Fruitmaniac — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 04:14:00 +0000

"We"? Do you think the average American would pay more so workers can earn a living wage? Which America do you live in?

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?"

Fruitmaniac — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 22:01:25 +0000

On the one hand, I was declined by Google multiple times but ended getting a $10k settlement in a age discrimination class-action suit.

On the other hand, I just got hired at 55 and it wasn't difficult.

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?"

Fruitmaniac — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:59:05 +0000

I dunno. I'm 56 and got hired last year as an Android dev. But then, I'm not very cynical.

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration"

Fruitmaniac — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:06:54 +0000

I reckon Earth would need to be around 93M miles from the fusion reactor.

New comment by Fruitmaniac in "Are DOGE's Claims of Social Security Payments to 150-Year-Olds Way Off Base?"

Fruitmaniac — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:10:57 +0000

You may be right about COBOL and 1875 but "a datetype that defaults to a random date" is literally how epoch dates work. Except it's not random.