Hacker News: astrodev

New comment by astrodev in "The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius"

astrodev — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 14:48:33 +0000

To be fair, Ronaldo is known for exceptional work ethic.

New comment by astrodev in "The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius"

astrodev — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 14:39:45 +0000

> combination that is increasingly rare in an economic system designed to squeeze out the inefficient

As a result, more and more areas of science and technology get stuck near local maxima. The same happened in all ancient civilisations.

New comment by astrodev in "Facebook: We don’t need your consent"

astrodev — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:09:03 +0000

The European people, actually.

New comment by astrodev in "Ask HN: Which industry will most likely produce the first trillionaire?"

astrodev — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 23:06:49 +0000

Sex robots. Disrupting the power of women in the sexual marketplace is bound to yield unprecedented profits.

New comment by astrodev in "Union Types have been accepted for PHP 8"

astrodev — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 10:35:52 +0000

On the other hand, having learned PHP inside-out as my first language, this is perfectly natural to me, and I miss the flexibility of PHP arrays in other languages :)

New comment by astrodev in "Union Types have been accepted for PHP 8"

astrodev — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 17:27:24 +0000

Before the usual avalanche of posts criticising some PHP 4 features, the union types look like a nice way to formalise something that is commonly used and very useful.

New comment by astrodev in "Ask HN: Do You Email Yourself?"

astrodev — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 12:08:37 +0000

Life changing.

New comment by astrodev in "Ask HN: Do you have experience with school bullying?"

astrodev — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:56:11 +0000

I went to a school in south-west Poland. My experiences were not too dissimilar to those described here, so I think this account is entirely plausible.

New comment by astrodev in "Mystery surrounds lost German sea data station"

astrodev — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:05:09 +0000

Maybe stolen for scrap metal (would not be that unusual, as absurd as it sounds)

New comment by astrodev in "Remote Work: Startups and the Problems"

astrodev — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:49:22 +0000

> I like the idea of taking periodical snapshots to have a feel that you are almost connected with your team mates

I hope you are being sarcastic.

New comment by astrodev in "Ask HN: Have your weekends evolved into “workends”?"

astrodev — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 14:54:43 +0000

I am fortunate enough to work remotely, so I can have a very productive environment during the week, too.

And what's not done by Friday, is not done, not my problem really since I'm paid by the hour.

New comment by astrodev in "Ask HN: Why is there so much intellectual posturing among engineers?"

astrodev — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 12:12:51 +0000

> High levels of intellectual ability allow you to write software with better abstractions and cleaner interfaces.

If anything, the opposite is true in my experience. People trained in writing clean interfaces write clean interfaces. The very purpose of abstractions (etc.) is to reduce the cognitive load on the programmer. The dumber the programmer, the more he needs those things.

New comment by astrodev in "Remote Workers: What are some common problems faced by you?"

astrodev — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 10:27:24 +0000

There are no problems, it's basically perfect.

No, You Won’t Get It Done over the Weekend

astrodev — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:56:08 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/better-programming/no-you-wont-get-it-done-over-the-weekend-1cbfc10eee01

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20768077

Points: 32

# Comments: 9

New comment by astrodev in "Drones replace patrol ships on Mediterranean"

astrodev — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:01:52 +0000

Didn’t read the article, but the title sounds very much like something I would support.

No need to add to the gigantic amount of money Europe wastes on social care.

New comment by astrodev in "Ask HN: If your job was remote, which city would you choose to live in?"

astrodev — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 22:24:01 +0000

What is the visa situation? The only thing stopping me from doing something like that is that I dislike the idea of border hopping every 3/6 months and I am definitely not going to go through the hassle of obtaining permanent residency in such a country.

New comment by astrodev in "Ask HN: How to get people to see what you're doing?"

astrodev — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 20:12:19 +0000

Nowadays, it seems possible to grow traffic without any external help. My simple website has grown from 0 to 9k monthly UU without a single backlink, I simply submitted it to Google.

New comment by astrodev in "Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you?"

astrodev — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 18:52:52 +0000

I may have some standards, but I have never had a chance to reject someone. This is actually very puzzling to me - most guys seem to at least have the option of meeting the extremely unattractive / obese women. I don't.

New comment by astrodev in "Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you?"

astrodev — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 18:51:18 +0000

Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I spent the past year going out so much... Some weeks I went out every night. Clubs, parties, Toastmasters, interest groups, assorted meetups, ... to no avail. I think I'm done with that, back to square one, writing code from my "basement", talking face to face to maybe 1-2 people a week.

New comment by astrodev in "Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you?"

astrodev — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 18:28:21 +0000

I tried therapy, didn't help one bit. Maybe my therapist was not very good, maybe not..