Hacker News: askyourmother

New comment by askyourmother in "Show HN: CodeBlimp – Code Interviews Without Limits"

askyourmother — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:04:51 +0000

A great idea for those who have no idea how to hire people!

New comment by askyourmother in "Mob Programming – The Good, the Bad and the Great"

askyourmother — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:03:46 +0000

Mob programming because they don't trust the individual developers to deliver by themselves, mob programming because no one has a clue there and they hope there is wisdom in the crowd, and mob programming because they had nothing else to do.

New comment by askyourmother in "Ootside – Weather from a brutally honest Scottish perspective"

askyourmother — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:01:40 +0000

Ah Scotland, where vegetables is a deep fried battered chocolate bar, fruit is a can of irn bru, good weather is rain and wind, and copper wire was invented by two scots men fighting over a penny. And a friendly greeting is the 'glesgie kiss'

New comment by askyourmother in "The Art of Closing"

askyourmother — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:57:28 +0000

You would think docker would take all the help they can get, given how bad their current code base is. Maybe they should be "closing" their blog posts, and let real developers step in.

New comment by askyourmother in "Disruption is not a strategy"

askyourmother — Tue, 31 May 2016 16:52:17 +0000

But after we disrupted our pivot and enabled a sharing economy, we forgot what we were actually doing and when back to real jobs.

New comment by askyourmother in "85 percent of Facebook video is watched without sound"

askyourmother — Tue, 31 May 2016 16:51:01 +0000

You know why we turn the sound off? Have you heard how whiny and self righteous millennials are?

New comment by askyourmother in "The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do"

askyourmother — Tue, 31 May 2016 16:49:45 +0000

I remember interviewing for a search company, but then found most of the work and business was spent on adverts! No thanks Google!

New comment by askyourmother in "How do you stop a randomized game from randomly being boring sometimes?"

askyourmother — Mon, 23 May 2016 15:30:35 +0000

Bugs. Make sure it crashes at random times, then it takes longer to become boring.

New comment by askyourmother in "There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast"

askyourmother — Mon, 23 May 2016 15:26:35 +0000

My breakfast was magical - amazing smoked kippers, marmalade and toast, freshly roasted and ground filter coffee, a handful of fresh berries, and that was just the first course!

New comment by askyourmother in "My time with Rails is up"

askyourmother — Mon, 23 May 2016 15:03:18 +0000

If you want to rebuild Rails in elixir, go for it. Seems like a wasted opportunity though - to break away from all things Rails.

And yes, phoenix will end up bogged down like Rails, and hex will end up chock full of crap, it is the Rails developer mentality I'm afraid, they just can't help themselves.

New comment by askyourmother in "My time with Rails is up"

askyourmother — Mon, 23 May 2016 15:00:02 +0000

Rails is not a religion, it a tech tool (a pretty poor one at that), discussing it's many flaws is not shitting on it.

New comment by askyourmother in "We Only Hire the Best"

askyourmother — Mon, 23 May 2016 14:54:36 +0000

The worst are the new "tech companies with internal recruiters, tech tests prior to interview, twenty stages to offer, who moan they can't attract the best. Of course not! The minute you said tech test, I said goodbye, the minute you said internal recruiters, I laughed as I slammed down the phone.

The best companies that can and do attract the best, still keep it simple - direct face to face interviews, max two stages to offer, no fucking around with shitty tech tests, and making the time and effort for the interview.

New comment by askyourmother in "My time with Rails is up"

askyourmother — Sun, 22 May 2016 19:12:23 +0000

Better design? In all seriousness Django - they get this right. It seems to hurt rails developers that it means typing a bit more, or is a little less 'magic', but then python did always attract software engineers, whereas Rails always seemed to attract code "ninjas" at best.

New comment by askyourmother in "My time with Rails is up"

askyourmother — Sun, 22 May 2016 19:09:44 +0000

Improvements are a strong word, I thought they were still playing whack a mole on the numerous Rails RCE security issues.

New comment by askyourmother in "My time with Rails is up"

askyourmother — Sun, 22 May 2016 19:08:01 +0000

I said this before: phoenix is the new Rails, and that is not a good thing. Phoenix will end up bogged down with the same great "ideas", hex will end up chock full of crap like gems. Elixir ok, phoenix not so much.

New comment by askyourmother in "Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic"

askyourmother — Fri, 20 May 2016 15:24:29 +0000

Best part is credit card debt is typically unsecured - spend, consume, enjoy, stick up middle finger when repayment is due. Those who do repay will of course sub those who don't over the long course in the variable rates and fees.

New comment by askyourmother in "Agile is not a Fucking Noun"

askyourmother — Fri, 20 May 2016 15:09:51 +0000

Agile may be dead, but the books flogging it remain on Dave's website (the so-called pragmatic programmer).

New comment by askyourmother in "Agile is not a Fucking Noun"

askyourmother — Fri, 20 May 2016 15:08:47 +0000

For those of us who hate what agile has become, I fully fucking approve the medium post!

New comment by askyourmother in "Agile is not a Fucking Noun"

askyourmother — Fri, 20 May 2016 15:07:45 +0000

We have painting by numbers for those that cannot paint, and we have agile for those that cannot program or deliver projects. Oh, and agile (TM) really only exists to sell numerous books, conferences, and basically give useless managers and clients a hope in hell of producing something.

New comment by askyourmother in "Standard deviation is ready for retirement: Nassim Taleb (2014)"

askyourmother — Fri, 20 May 2016 15:04:13 +0000

The modern day "professional", they may hold degrees, may sound impressive, probably read a few books on the topic from O'Reilly, but basically are not that good. Same with programmers, most are not that good. Same with decorators, or writers, or any field really. There will be the few who like it, learn it, practise it, aim to get better at it, but the vast majority, no.