Hacker News: bananamansion

New comment by bananamansion in "XML Is a Cheap DSL"

bananamansion — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:05:28 +0000

what jobs require XSD verification?

New comment by bananamansion in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

bananamansion — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:15:57 +0000

tracking cost is a false equivalent. the cost is measurable but the benefit is intangible. This is a Goodhart’s Law in practice

New comment by bananamansion in "Show HN: The feature gap "Chat with PDF" tuts and a regulated enterprise system"

bananamansion — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:54:54 +0000

did you test this in a production environment?

New comment by bananamansion in "Launch HN: Webhound (YC S23) – Research agent that builds datasets from the web"

bananamansion — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 04:04:31 +0000

“I see you’re dynamically generating schemas per dataset. Have you explored using a domain ontology or building a reusable ontology layer so the agent’s outputs can interoperate more consistently across projects

New comment by bananamansion in "Show HN: Gumshoe.ai – SEO for AI"

bananamansion — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 12:36:25 +0000

why would someone want this data?

New comment by bananamansion in "Show HN: Workflow86 - An AI business analyst and automation engineer"

bananamansion — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:01:27 +0000

are you using n8n for the workflow builder?

Ask HN: What should you do in your last week before you leave your job?

bananamansion — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 05:34:40 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37685616

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by bananamansion in "Ask HN: How can I help you?"

bananamansion — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 19:18:02 +0000

can you expand on "did a lot of a/b tests and conversion experiments" any posts i can go to read more about?

New comment by bananamansion in "Ask HN: How do I know if im a slow developer?"

bananamansion — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:58:16 +0000

do your higher ups notice you produce less bugs? is this something you communicate to others or let your actions speak themselves?

thanks :)

New comment by bananamansion in "Ask HN: How do I know if im a slow developer?"

bananamansion — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 14:57:43 +0000

no it wasnt my first job, 2 years experience.. but i feel like every time i start a job the first 2 months i get this feedback over and over. but a few months later noone has any negative feedback, what do people expect from peoples first month? feels like they expect full competency within a certain timeframe (less than a month). i have trouble finding other people expectations so dont know how to meet what i dont know

New comment by bananamansion in "Ask HN: How do I know if im a slow developer?"

bananamansion — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 14:55:52 +0000

when i left they asked my friend to start working weekends, so maybe

Ask HN: How do I know if im a slow developer?

bananamansion — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 13:54:54 +0000

i got fired in 2020 march for my last job at a startup for not being fast enough.. I dont know if it was company specific or i;m legitimately slow developer. How fast and how much do you expect to work?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29966549

Points: 19

# Comments: 21

New comment by bananamansion in "The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longitudinal study"

bananamansion — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:56:17 +0000

thanks for the recommendation

New comment by bananamansion in "A/B test improved your website's conversion rate? Not so fast"

bananamansion — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 14:55:31 +0000

dont you then need to run the experiment for a long long time to get the significance of it? + the site needs enough users viewing the page to run it in any reasonable amount of time.. i would think most sites dont get enough traffic to run a/a let alone ab?

New comment by bananamansion in "Tell HN: Salary data is for sale"

bananamansion — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 07:48:05 +0000

if youre one of the employees that found out youre being paid significantly less than your team how do you convince your manager to increase your pay? Knowing youre high performing

New comment by bananamansion in "Ask HN: Who here has been successful buying a small business or tiny project?"

bananamansion — Sat, 22 May 2021 14:38:33 +0000

do you dropship? how hard is it to find something like this?

How do you A/B test at your company?

bananamansion — Mon, 17 May 2021 06:48:11 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27180674

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by bananamansion in "Ask HN: How do you vet open source libraries?"

bananamansion — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 17:39:43 +0000

you can use https://snyk.io/advisor/

New comment by bananamansion in "Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier?"

bananamansion — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 11:25:11 +0000

how does one find business ideas that you can charge 300/customer? is it 300 per month or per year?

New comment by bananamansion in "Turning the Puzzle Sideways: Sleep, Diet and the Brain-Gut Connection"

bananamansion — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 12:03:39 +0000

for how long did you eat the one food item for? ( is that all you would eat?)