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New comment by MiscCompFacts in "Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account"

MiscCompFacts — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:51:17 +0000

Is there a link to this argument?

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "New US homeownership measure puts people first"

MiscCompFacts — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:30:01 +0000

It was pointed out to me recently that immigration crackdown has maybe already started to affect housing prices in DFW since H1B crackdown. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-dallas-h1b-housing-m...

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

MiscCompFacts — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:05:46 +0000

Yea, this is a serious problem but honestly it was present before LLMs. Actually knowing, deeply, how to do something was always very difficult and very time consuming. People would substitute it with “edutainment”: youtube videos, Ted Talks, blogs, etc. The thing is nobody was really learning deeply. We were training our brains for recognition, but mastery requires training for generation which was always the harder of the 2 cognitive processes.

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

MiscCompFacts — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:50:06 +0000

Listening to NPR yesterday, they mentioned it’s a renters’ market in the Sunbelt [1]. Lots of new supply here in Texas and I just signed a lease recently with 2 months free in DFW. Bringing me down to ~$1550/month. Lots of places are offering 2-3 months for free.

[1] https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/tx/

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

MiscCompFacts — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:39:34 +0000

It’s all cycles within cycles, hopefully. If you study dynamic systems then you realize it’s cycles of good and bad, and within those cycles more smaller cycles of ephemeral good and bad.

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "[dead]"

MiscCompFacts — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:53:23 +0000

Also vercel dashboard is down rn, idk if that is coincidence or a larger issue. https://www.vercel-status.com

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "Introduction to the concept of likelihood and its applications (2018)"

MiscCompFacts — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:29:32 +0000

I’m native speaker and I thought they were the same. Still unsure of the difference. I guess I need to study this.

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "SQL Anti-Patterns"

MiscCompFacts — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 19:42:16 +0000

I think they reversed the 2 expressions. You should use “WHERE UPPER(name) = ‘ABC’” if you want to use the index.

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer"

MiscCompFacts — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:02:07 +0000

I do think this could be true. Your productivity is way more visible in a small company, execs actually know what you’re working on maybe from day-to-day and most definitely week-to-week. Slackers don’t last long and mediocre developers standout, now why they might be perceived as mediocre is another discussion. My first job was at a big corporation (~150,000 employees) and honestly I saw so much politics and fiefdoms and just generally low quality developers not doing much but they could sneak under the radar because they’re a small cog in the apparatus. My next company (~50-60 employees) the devs were definitely better and way more productive, but it also felt very performative/showy environment of what devs did every what and if you were perceived as not doing enough you definitely stood out. It was a very public, perhaps stressful, work environment with demos every 2 weeks.

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers"

MiscCompFacts — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:41:27 +0000

That seems like a fantastic salary, I’ve never gotten close to that.

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

MiscCompFacts — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:50:15 +0000

I was laid off at a small tech company mid July and found another job with a friend at another small company in mid September. I thought maybe I wouldn’t find another job for a while, but it took me about 2 months with a very significant (40%) pay cut. I like the company pretty well, but I’m still hoping for something more. We’ll see.

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything"

MiscCompFacts — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 01:26:23 +0000

Won’t people be willing when the cost of living goes up so much and all the tech jobs are gone to foreign labor that they have to work factory jobs?

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "Cognitive load is what matters"

MiscCompFacts — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 15:10:07 +0000

This essay was shared 8 months ago and had significant discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42489645 (721 comments)

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo"

MiscCompFacts — Thu, 29 May 2025 16:30:21 +0000

I work at a company that has several micro services and a backend all in one monorepo. For some anecdata.

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "Side projects I've built since 2009"

MiscCompFacts — Mon, 19 May 2025 20:17:10 +0000

There are those “Awesome *” lists, such as “Awesome Python” or “Awesome Selfhosted”. Those are nice curated lists of repos on GitHub.

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "Underrated Soft Skills: Charisma"

MiscCompFacts — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:11:03 +0000

Yes, the word rizz comes directly from ka-RIZZ-ma.

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine"

MiscCompFacts — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 22:14:19 +0000

Presumably innocent Russian men are being kidnapped and forced to fight for a dictator just as much. So let’s stop blaming the victim when Russia is clearly the aggressor and started this whole ordeal.

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "Cognitive load is what matters"

MiscCompFacts — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 03:03:48 +0000

I really enjoyed this post quite abit, and it’s a topic that I and many developers have discussed concerning good abstractions. This isn’t directly related to the article it’s self, but to the website minds.md. I was surprised to see it seems like a blogging platform for various authors but I didn’t see any information about where to upload or who runs this service. It mentions GitHub but doesn’t seem to link to it on the home page. Just curious to know more about this site and if it’s for anyone or a specific group of people?

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "Intel’s board, and an example of when boards and short-termism fail"

MiscCompFacts — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 18:48:52 +0000

I recently left a big company exactly for this reason. And the sibling post is probably right, the Dead Sea affect probably plays a huge role. I didn’t see very many people that were ambitious and it was way too “relaxed”.

New comment by MiscCompFacts in "The Physics of Colliding Balls"

MiscCompFacts — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 23:36:35 +0000

There is no “why”, there just “is”.