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New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"

HalcyonicStorm — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:14:13 +0000

It could also be that they might be sued for stating the real reason so they went with something that would be dismissed if it went to court.

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing"

HalcyonicStorm — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 01:46:39 +0000

Erlang is uniquely suited to chat systems out of the box in a way that most other ecosystems aren't. Lightweight green threads via the BEAM vm, process scheduler so concurrent out of the box, immutable data structures, message passing as communication between processes.

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "Show HN: I Built a Visual Workflow Automation Platform – FlowRipple"

HalcyonicStorm — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 19:00:33 +0000

What's this built with on the frontend and backend?

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "Users don't care about your tech stack"

HalcyonicStorm — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:18:58 +0000

Dawww thank you!

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "Users don't care about your tech stack"

HalcyonicStorm — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:22:26 +0000

Ive been working in Elixir since 2015. I love the ecosystem and think its the best choice for building a web app from a pure tech/stability/scalability/productivity perspective (I also have a decade+ experience in Ruby on rails, Nodejs, and Php laravel, plus Rust to a lesser extent).

I am however having trouble in the human side of it. Ive got a strong resume but I was laid off in Nov 2024 and Im having trouble even getting Elixir interviews (with 9+ years of production Elixir experience!). Hiring people with experience was also hard when I was the hiring manager. It is becoming less niche these days. I love it too much to leave for other ecosystems in the web sphere

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "Scrum is the Symptom, not the Problem"

HalcyonicStorm — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 20:34:40 +0000

Coding will only be held as high value if its a product led growth company. Its a cost center otherwise.

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "Scrum is the Symptom, not the Problem"

HalcyonicStorm — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 18:32:47 +0000

I definitely want to become an owner and learn about the business. I've even conceived and executed projects to improve the bottom and top line revenue. That being said, as a developer in a small business, the thought is that I'm too expensive an employee to not be coding even if I had a lot of impact on my own initiatives. The thinking is that a lot of people can think about strategy but very few people can code so I get pigeonholed into just executing. This has been my experience at multiple startups at various stages of their lifecycle.

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "The planet's got 99 problems, but exponential growth isn't one"

HalcyonicStorm — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:38:12 +0000

I think the former colonies might disagree with your assessment of a graceful decline and dissolution of the empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre

A lot current geopolitical issues are consequences of the British empire dissolution and the way it was handled

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "First do it, then do it right, then do it better"

HalcyonicStorm — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 21:25:39 +0000

While I agree with you in that we should have more native applications that are more conscious of how much resources they're using, making that transition from Electron to Native is probably not easy and riddled with pitfalls. Unless there's a standard path, how do you sell that to your superiors in the company in terms of opportunity cost?

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "Your small imprecise ask is a big waste of their time"

HalcyonicStorm — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 14:22:57 +0000

I imagine part of it is that it's far easier to lose your job disagreeing with your superiors in the private sector ("Not a culture fit", "Not a team player"). It's better to just go along with stuff sometimes because most of the time systemic failure takes years to manifest.

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video]"

HalcyonicStorm — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 12:53:10 +0000

I'm always here to speak praises for Ryan Bates. His practical videos to build features was a huge insight for me as a junior developer at the time.

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "A LiveView Is a Process"

HalcyonicStorm — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 20:53:31 +0000

It is historically not great at number computing. This is being addressed by a relatively new project called Nx. https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx

It is not the right choice for CPU intensive tasks like graphics, HFT, etc. Some companies have used Rust to write native extensions for those kinds of problems. https://discord.com/blog/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-m...

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "RailsCasts Retrospective Part 1: The Fuel"

HalcyonicStorm — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 19:44:38 +0000

I owe a lot to Ryan Bates and Railscasts for transforming from a CS student to junior software engineer. It provided the details in mentorship that supplemented what I received IRL at work.

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published"

HalcyonicStorm — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 11:43:41 +0000

The scale of time over which this will happen will be soo great that we humans most likely wont need to worry about it. We will either die out or evolve many times before then.

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer health plan for NYers"

HalcyonicStorm — Mon, 09 May 2022 21:17:05 +0000

I understand where you're coming from related to this. We (in the US) hear this critique with regards to the NHS or the Canadian healthcare system.

The part you're missing is that there is an arms race of pricing between healthcare corporations (there have been massive mergers of hospital systems) and insurance companies in terms of prices. We, the patients, are caught in between the giants while prices are going sky high and we are at our most vulnerable.

The hope is this will fix prices to a reasonable level so if we choose to go for private care, those prices will also be reasonable. A lot of specialists that I see ask for cash payments and don't accept insurance. They are also overbooked because a lot of healthcare providers are being driven out of industry from the conditions.

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract more money"

HalcyonicStorm — Sat, 07 May 2022 17:05:34 +0000

As a brown man living in a post 9/11 United States, I get treated extremely differently when I have a beard vs when I am clean shaven.

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "Pirate site traffic surges with help from manga boom"

HalcyonicStorm — Tue, 03 May 2022 19:59:54 +0000

I pay Viz and Shonen Jump as a subscriber in their apps. Whats frustrating is that I only get a tiny subset of their catalogue. I can't ready some of their older series. I'm even willing to buy them if given the option but I'm only offered new stuff that I'm not really interested in.

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "Ask HN: How do you avoid dopamine addiction on social media?"

HalcyonicStorm — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 17:45:46 +0000

This also worked for me. I deleted the Instagram app from my phone. If I want to see it, I can look at it from the phone browser. The experience is just barely not smooth enough to break the addiction.

I also keep the Nintendo Switch nearby. I've come to allow myself to take breaks, and I play Dead Cells for a level. Its the perfect amount of time to rest while also not completely losing context.

The other thing is that regular exercise for an hour everyday seems to improve my social media addiction. I feel better overall so I don't need the hit from social media.

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness?"

HalcyonicStorm — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 04:47:05 +0000

I think its related to weight. We have to acknowledge that there is a serious obesity epidemic in the developed world. The majority of adults are overweight and obese. This is anecdata from what I've seen: you see fat runners. you see old runners. You dont tend to see many fat old runners.

The other thing is that if you dont regularly change your running shoes, you will absolutely hurt yourself. I get knee pain if I don't swap out my shoes every 250 miles or 3 months.

New comment by HalcyonicStorm in "Ask HN: How to optimize your career for happiness?"

HalcyonicStorm — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 03:18:22 +0000

My view, on top of what my sibling comment said, is that even if joint damage was a risk ( and it shouldn't be because I'm doing strength training with weights under a certified coach to prevent stress from going to where it shouldn't be), I'd rather take that risk than be sedentary, fat, and at home all the time like I was before I started running. I found a community on top of an activity I like. I found that I have goals beyond just my career goals. I got into coooking and baking because nutrition is important for an athletic lifestyle.