Hacker News: LandR

New comment by LandR in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

LandR — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:37:41 +0000

This!

All my experience in trying to hire developers has been wading through an endless stream of people who were just useless.

Me: I want to represent a 2d grid, what data structure should we use? Them: A string?

This was someone applying for senior engineer. Others I've had filled their CV with SQL related acronyms. But couldn't explain what a foreign key was and then stubbornly insisted that at their current corp they would never ever use foreign keys in their SQL database!

I've had senior engineer when asked how to check if we had a 2d array with an item at x,y tell me if anything is on the same column or row, they couldn't do it, couldn't even verbalise how to approach it.

"Web Developers" who didn't know the difference between GET and POST. Web Developers that have never heard of PUT or what it would be used for.

New comment by LandR in "Show HN: Edsger – A handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2"

LandR — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:47:44 +0000

This awesome! I actually had no idea I could ssh into my Remarkable and do neat stuff like this!

> Why do it? It's so impractical!

Because you can and it's fun is always a perfectly valid answer here!

New comment by LandR in "The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters"

LandR — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:32:47 +0000

The Uncharted games are weird like this. They get lauded for their storyline, yet Drake is out their killing hordes of guys for what ? Some treasure ?

New comment by LandR in "SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud"

LandR — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:38:24 +0000

Yeah I was in a bar one night and was peckish, so tried to buy a packet of crisps. They said minimum spend on card was £5, so I said just charge me the £5 it's fine.

Card got blocked as they thought it was fraud. Annoying! And not something inebriated me wanted to deal with at 2am.

Ok. Maybe they protected me from myself, but still!

New comment by LandR in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

LandR — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:34:43 +0000

This is why at my current place we are not supposed to do any dev without an SME on the call. We do the development and share the screen and get immediate feedback as we are working in real time! It's great.

New comment by LandR in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

LandR — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:33:06 +0000

This is great :)

New comment by LandR in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

LandR — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:33:43 +0000

Man, I've been bouldering now at my gym for maybe 18 months and I can count on one hand the number of times I've spoken to someone.

A lot of people on their own have earbuds in too,and clearly don't want to be spoken to.

I had one time where I asked someone for some help, he then went and did the route and shrugged and said it's easy in a really condescending manner.

New comment by LandR in "Reverse Engineering SimTower"

LandR — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:18:45 +0000

Was this a thing?

I never knew this!!

Man, pre big-internet was so hard to find information on games. I remember for the original tomb raider a friend needed a guide, so I wrote and printed out them a guide for the full game, since I played it pretty obsessively.

New comment by LandR in "Coq theorem prover is now called Rocq"

LandR — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:59:32 +0000

The name sounded like Cock.

New comment by LandR in "Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links"

LandR — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:31:24 +0000

I love the clojure, but I think a big downside is not being able to use it at work and now work feels like I'm being forced to work with stone age tools in comparison. That gets quite depressing sometimes.

Sometimes I think I was happier before I learned Clojure.

Ignorance was bliss.

New comment by LandR in "Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links"

LandR — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:28:12 +0000

I love the clojure, but I think a big downside is not being able to use it at work and now work feels like I'm being forced to work with stone age tools in comparison.

Sometimes I think I was happier before I learned Clojure.

New comment by LandR in "Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)"

LandR — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:06:41 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HHLT2_a1tI

An example of me solving an Advent of Code with clojure and repl. You can see i never interact with the repl directly, I just send code to it via my editor and get results inline.

New comment by LandR in "The 49MB web page"

LandR — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:53:59 +0000

Man, I probably say no to like 40% of the requests I get as a dev. Often we will come up with a better way of doing things by just spending 15-30 mins talking to the business about the actual problem they are having.

Some are just flat out refused as they are just too stupid and will cripple the system in some way.

New comment by LandR in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

LandR — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:57:10 +0000

The point isnt to give a simple answer, even if it's a correct answer. The point is show how much you know and how smart you are.

The question is framed to you as a way for you to show you know x, y and z and talk about x, y and z.

Even if a valid solution is just do a, that's great. But the interviewer has no idea if you actually know about x ,y and z do they ?

New comment by LandR in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

LandR — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:32:19 +0000

As someone who would like to get a new PC (but a desktop) for coding, and is considering a mac, why would you never buy a mac for coding ?

I'm currently running Ubuntu on this ancient thing (which I love actually), but I absolutely don't want Windows.

New comment by LandR in "The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets"

LandR — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:03:05 +0000

Looks a bit like excalidraw. It's not, but it's pretty similar in look.

https://excalidraw.com/

New comment by LandR in "Scott Adams has died"

LandR — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:17:06 +0000

I've seen it in person once with a former coworker, everything created anxiety, everything was problematic, she spent her entire time looking for a reason to be offended (especially tenuously on behalf of someone else). It was exhausting trying to work with her. She took so much time off too, at very short notice, as she just couldn't cope with working that day.

New comment by LandR in "Carnap – A formal logic framework for Haskell"

LandR — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:49:11 +0000

Or maybe it's finished ?

New comment by LandR in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

LandR — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:44:56 +0000

Fire them?

New comment by LandR in "No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter"

LandR — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:05:37 +0000

I just want an adblocker and tree style vertical tabs, where the tab bar minimises when the mouse isn't over it.

That's literally my entire use case for using firefox.