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New comment by TheLudd in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

TheLudd — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:25:18 +0000

No. I am not saying that it is a bad idea to do this.

I am saying:

Given you have saved two hours per person per week

Then the value for the company is _not_ equal to two hourly salaries per week. The consequences are just not that simple.

New comment by TheLudd in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

TheLudd — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:55:31 +0000

If a test suite runs for either 6 minutes or 66 seconds I am not staring at it while it runs. I am doing something else. So that is not holding up my time

New comment by TheLudd in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

TheLudd — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:54:32 +0000

Yes. You work 2 hours less, but what do you produce in those two extra hours? Can you say that your company now spends X dollars less or earns X dollars more? I don't think it can be that clear.

New comment by TheLudd in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

TheLudd — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:00:12 +0000

One interesting factor that I rarely see discussed is this: Let's say a DevOps person does some improvement to internal tooling and a task that devs had to oversee manually now is automated. Every dev spent about 2 hours per week doing this task and now they don't have to anymore. Now, have we saved 2 hours of salary per dev per week?

Not sure. Because it totally depends on what they do instead. Are they utilizing two hours more every week now doing meaningful work? Or are they just taking things a bit more easy? Very hard to determine and it just makes it harder to reason about the costs and wins in these cases.

Fibble – and small ES module test double library

TheLudd — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 19:52:33 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/TheLudd/fibble

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38904543

Points: 1

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New comment by TheLudd in "Fork of the popular “I don't care about cookies” extension"

TheLudd — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 08:31:16 +0000

Can I get this on mobile?

New comment by TheLudd in "Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text"

TheLudd — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:04:03 +0000

2014: I made a new javascript framework!

2022: I made a new AI image generator!

New comment by TheLudd in "AlpineJS – Lightweight JavaScript Framework"

TheLudd — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 16:03:05 +0000

The headline says "AlpineJS – Lightweight JavaScript Framework".

New comment by TheLudd in "AlpineJS – Lightweight JavaScript Framework"

TheLudd — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 15:09:59 +0000

I can't take a project described as a "JavaScript framework" serious these days. A framework for _what_? Many things are done with JS nowadays.

New comment by TheLudd in "Show HN: Jetpack – Webpack made more convenient"

TheLudd — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 11:45:24 +0000

Modules that are part of your build, tests and npm scripts should be installed locally so that any contributor can run npm install/yarn and the develop your project without any other need and they will also get the correct version of the module.

Global installs are for modules that are outside your projects dev cycle. With that in mind, a module such as nodemon can be installed both globally and locally. It depends on the use case.

New comment by TheLudd in "Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats"

TheLudd — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 20:25:05 +0000

Sounds interesting. I'll report on my results here once I have uploaded my otherwise end to end encrypted private and personal conversations into this unknown script...

New comment by TheLudd in "EventStore: Open-Source, Functional Database with Complex Event Processing in JS"

TheLudd — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 21:14:53 +0000

I do event sourcing in my company and we had a look at this when we started out 4 years ago. What I don't understand is why build a database? Why not build something in the application layer that uses your fav database as a storage mechanism instead? Aren't the existing databases more mature and better to use?

Sam Harris is closing his Patreon account

TheLudd — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 08:09:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/6pc6bp/sam_harris_closing_his_patreon_account/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14854391

Points: 1

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Is this pro-FGM group for real?

TheLudd — Thu, 26 May 2016 10:32:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.facebook.com/Islamic-Female-Circumcision-480676625476877/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11776898

Points: 1

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New comment by TheLudd in "Open-Sourced Logos"

TheLudd — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 15:47:15 +0000

I could not throw anything together of this quality. If I were to create a product by myself, using one of the ones available would certainly be a step up.

New comment by TheLudd in "Show HN: A Guide to TDD'ing React Components"

TheLudd — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 07:03:28 +0000

I cannot respect a TDD guide that is dependent on your editor. Doing tdd is about code structure and implementations decisions imho. If you need to check some box in a dialog window of a certain editor in order to run your tests, your test runner isn't good enough.

RamdaJS – A practical functional library for JavaScript

TheLudd — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 17:36:48 +0000

Article URL: http://ramdajs.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8406553

Points: 7

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Dear Presenter, Please Don’t Drive Me to Suicide During Your Presentation

TheLudd — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 17:44:26 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/p/280bf42860c5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7325232

Points: 2

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