Hacker News: GiorgioG

New comment by GiorgioG in "GitHub is once again down"

GiorgioG — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:54:42 +0000

I'm going to blame Claude Code!

New comment by GiorgioG in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

GiorgioG — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:26:13 +0000

In the US police have no obligation to protect the people.

New comment by GiorgioG in "Tested: How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten? Methodology and Results"

GiorgioG — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:36:33 +0000

People who still remember Zip drives! In college I did tech support for Iomega. It was an interesting time ;)

New comment by GiorgioG in "Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record"

GiorgioG — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 04:27:43 +0000

Great now let’s follow suit in all 50 states.

New comment by GiorgioG in "Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance"

GiorgioG — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:07:52 +0000

Let's not pretend this started with this administration. I'm not pointing any fingers at any one party or politician, but this is nothing new:

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...

'By the late 1990s ECHELON was reportedly capable of monitoring up to 90% of all internet traffic. According to the BBC in May 2001, however, "The US Government still refused to admit that Echelon even exists."'

New comment by GiorgioG in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

GiorgioG — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:13:34 +0000

Maybe if young folks could afford housing they'd have kids...there's a thought.

New comment by GiorgioG in "I am happier writing code by hand"

GiorgioG — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:59:06 +0000

We produce way more than the punch-card wielding developers of yesteryear and we’re doing just fine (better even).

New comment by GiorgioG in "Canada Announces Divorce from America"

GiorgioG — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:07:51 +0000

They didn’t get here on their own. In 2016, Democrats ran an uncharismatic candidate in Hillary Clinton while pushing aggressively progressive ideas. Enough swing voters decided to take a chance on something different, and Trump won his first term. Without that win, we wouldn’t be where we are today.

New comment by GiorgioG in "What twenty years of DevOps has failed to do"

GiorgioG — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:15:31 +0000

In my experience DevOps has little interest in doing actual DevOps - they just want to run ops. They want to advise (or tell us we’re holding it wrong) but not actually get their hands dirty. On the flip side, devs don’t want to spend a ton of time learning k8s or how to manage servers, cloud services, etc.

DevOps is a mess of our own making - embracing K8s created complexity for little gain for nearly all companies.

New comment by GiorgioG in "Scott Adams has died"

GiorgioG — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 04:35:48 +0000

Humanity is imperfect/flawed…that’s how.

New comment by GiorgioG in "Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave"

GiorgioG — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:19:52 +0000

> HN is known for its optimism and abundance mindset.

At this point I think you’re just trolling.

If you’re serious however, come back after you’ve spent a year in your desired first management role and we’ll see if you still feel the same way.

New comment by GiorgioG in "Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave"

GiorgioG — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 03:26:17 +0000

The first step is for you to get your head out of the sand and look around. Jobs are scarce unless you're knee-deep in ML/AI. You're talking like a naive, idealistic, young person. I'm long past any of those attributes and I do have a family and a mortgage. Sure you can move to Europe, workers have more rights...and they earn a hell of a lot less than we do here in the USA (my brother lives in Europe.) And even there companies try to employ contract workers so they have more "flexibility".

New comment by GiorgioG in "Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave"

GiorgioG — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 03:05:22 +0000

Workplace organization...for tech workers? I haven't seen it.

New comment by GiorgioG in "Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave"

GiorgioG — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 02:31:19 +0000

By all means then, lead the revolution.

New comment by GiorgioG in "Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave"

GiorgioG — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 02:07:19 +0000

It’s already normal and has been for a long time. Defeatist? No, people who have mortgages to pay and families to feed can’t be martyrs for workers’ rights. You want to change it, I’m not opposed, but you make it sound simple/easy.

New comment by GiorgioG in "Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave"

GiorgioG — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 02:01:30 +0000

That may work where you live, but as a small cog in a big wheel in the USA, profit over people is the rule, not the exception.

New comment by GiorgioG in "Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave"

GiorgioG — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 22:26:41 +0000

I did not say MongoDB weren’t being assholes here. I’m saying asshole behavior is the norm and should be expected. I have an excellent boss (and his boss is fantastically supportive too). Several coworkers have needed leave for sometimes weeks and they have accommodated them. I don’t expect this is the norm or written in our company policies.

New comment by GiorgioG in "Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave"

GiorgioG — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:02:43 +0000

IMO, there should be a balance. My brother lives in Europe and it seems every time he has a small ache/cold he can go to the doctor and get a note for a couple of days off. On the other hand, companies here in the US expect you to be at work unless you’ve been hit by a bus.

New comment by GiorgioG in "Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem"

GiorgioG — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:46:25 +0000

If only LLMs didn’t just make shit up regularly.

New comment by GiorgioG in "RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes"

GiorgioG — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:41:32 +0000

$5,000-7,000...that's crazy.