Hacker News: Selfcommit

New comment by Selfcommit in "ENIAC programmer Jean Bartik's Amazon book review"

Selfcommit — Sun, 12 May 2024 13:20:17 +0000

“I’m glad this book was well written”

That last line gave me a chuckle… the most positive feedback Bartik could provide, which somehow hurt more for the writing.

New comment by Selfcommit in "We don't have senior engineers anymore"

Selfcommit — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 16:02:18 +0000

I respect some of what’s being said about “mappers” vs “packers” - but the article presents the idea that there are 2 kinds of programmer and you’re one or the other, largely based on growth as a “real” mapper.

I think a more realistic description is that everyone is a mapper. There isn’t a single body of knowledge that is “software engineering” - so it’s ok to encounter something new, “pack” it, then map it if it’s valuable.

Far better to encourage mapping than create false dichotomies that can easily work their way into cultural fit interviews.

“The candidate failed to find an obscure error in the JS console… clearly a packer - no hire”.

New comment by Selfcommit in "Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize"

Selfcommit — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 01:19:37 +0000

I lost 2 uncles that I loved, and 1 aunt I never met to CF.

I am incredibly happy for those who have gained literal decades of life from this new treatment.

I do wish the wheel of progress could have moved faster.

New comment by Selfcommit in "Please don't say just hello in chat"

Selfcommit — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 22:02:15 +0000

I wonder if your tone and advice still make sense in these similar scenarios:

1. You have a large number of peers who start chat conversations with “Hi, are you busy?” That question is begged with just “hi” and implies a forced urgency.

2. All your coworkers start email threads with “hi” and wait for peers to respond before continuing. If that seems ridiculous, you now have an idea what “hi” is like for remote workers.

New comment by Selfcommit in "How Duolingo reignited user growth"

Selfcommit — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 02:55:07 +0000

Alright, I’m interested.

Any good reads to recommend on self determination theory?

New comment by Selfcommit in "Humans hold the key to collaboration no matter how good the software tools"

Selfcommit — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 17:22:28 +0000

Tools facilitate the process, but can’t replace it.

I wonder if there’s a measure for how well 2 GPT chat prompts collaborate with one another?

New comment by Selfcommit in "My First BillG Review (2006)"

Selfcommit — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:00:41 +0000

I had my “first Joel review” while applying to work at Stack. Joel still did the final interviews for all applicants back then. After 4-5 back to back on site interviews, I was spent. Somehow we ended up talking about old AutoIT scripts I’d written - many of which include apologies to future readers in the comments.

Joel was a great interviewer… that conversation turned into a game as Joel picked apart various ways he over compromise the script and asked how I’d respond in the next iteration.

Measuring SRE vs. SWE Impact

Selfcommit — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 21:18:49 +0000

Article URL: https://selfcommit.blogspot.com/2022/06/measuring-sre-vs-swe-impact.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31816096

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

How to Kill a Helpdesk: Ask-an-SRE

Selfcommit — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:00:02 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/u6nxil/how_to_kill_a_helpdesk_askansre/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31082494

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Selfcommit in "Toddler Password – Get a secure password generated by a toddler"

Selfcommit — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 01:26:51 +0000

Yes, I think that's the joke :)

New comment by Selfcommit in "Show HN: I built an open source event-management system"

Selfcommit — Mon, 14 May 2018 13:43:47 +0000

BlackBox is also great for this purpose:

https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox

New comment by Selfcommit in "Streaming Video and Audio with Low Delay"

Selfcommit — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:08:09 +0000

So the overhead to begin a video stream is due to the size of video data? Would video behave generally more like audio data (could stream immidiately) if the typical user bandwidth was larger?

Nicotinamide riboside effects on aging similar to caloric restriction

Selfcommit — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 17:17:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/03/28/pill-staves-aging-its-horizon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16717935

Points: 148

# Comments: 82

Ask HN: Seasonal uptick in recruiter efforts?

Selfcommit — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:01:54 +0000

I've recently seen a huge increase in LinkedIN messages and direct email contacts from recruiters. Is anyone else experiencing this? I'm curious if recruiters are more active certain times of the year, or if there's a sudden hiring trend .

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16630410

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Selfcommit in "Launch HN: EnvKey (YC W18) – Smart Configuration and Secrets Management"

Selfcommit — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:49:52 +0000

This is a great product! Our team does something similiar with an in house library and Google KMS.

I got a chance to talk about how it works at LISA last year: http://selfcommit.com

New comment by Selfcommit in "Ask HN: Are there any good online communities for macOS devs?"

Selfcommit — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 05:24:15 +0000

The silence here is stunning. Most of the support I've found is on slack or Google groups related to Mac administration (google macadmins) / munki packing tools. Not quite macos development, but a good place to learn how to package things.

New comment by Selfcommit in "As labor pool shrinks, prison time is less of a hiring hurdle"

Selfcommit — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:24:03 +0000

I'm really confused - when did we suddenly start having a labor shortage?

New comment by Selfcommit in "Stack Overflow reducing headcount by 20%"

Selfcommit — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:59:13 +0000

The transition is being handled with as much dignity as possible - The company is also offering to help place people through USV.

New comment by Selfcommit in "Azure Container Instances"

Selfcommit — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:03:28 +0000

I feel that pain on the splitbrain docs. That's my number one complaint about their API's - I'm never sure if I'm on the newest. That said, there's a "familiarity" to them... once you figure out how things changed it's easy to quickly determine the age of a code sample.

You should try the custom runtime again! It's come a long way since Beta.

New comment by Selfcommit in "Azure Container Instances"

Selfcommit — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:03:47 +0000

I don't think that unique really applies here - You can do the same with Google app engine standard runtime, or custom runtime if you want to use your own dockerfile. https://cloud.google.com/appengine/