Hacker News: barrrrald

New comment by barrrrald in "404 Deno CEO not found"

barrrrald — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:24:18 +0000

Who hurt you?

New comment by barrrrald in "Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – An AI-native notebook for data analysis"

barrrrald — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:41:26 +0000

I mean the whole product is a Hex clone, literally every feature is something Hex has had for a long time...

Understanding Forward Deployed Engineering

barrrrald — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:48:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.barry.ooo/posts/fde-culture

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46913481

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by barrrrald in "Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source"

barrrrald — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 21:49:23 +0000

I don't think an LLM wrote it; this has been their brand voice for a long time...

New comment by barrrrald in "Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access"

barrrrald — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 21:35:30 +0000

Not surprised - this stuff isn’t fully mature yet. But I interact with their team a lot and know they have a commitment to it (I’m the other guy in that video)

New comment by barrrrald in "Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access"

barrrrald — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:48:15 +0000

One thing I admire about Snowflake is a real commitment to self-cannibalization. They were super out front with Iceberg even though it could disrupt them, because that's what customers were asking for and they're willing to bet they'll figure out how to make money in that new world

Video of their SVP of Product talking about it here: https://youtu.be/PERZMGLhnF8?si=DjS_OgbNeDpvLA04&t=1195

New comment by barrrrald in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

barrrrald — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 02:20:52 +0000

I’m surprised not to see a discussion of the biggest drawback: despite being fewer characters, “uv” is harder to type than “pip”. It requires two different hands to participate and a longer reach with my left index finger. pip is convenient – just a little rattle off with my right hand.

New comment by barrrrald in "A16Z-backed data firms Fivetran, dbt Labs to merge in all-stock deal"

barrrrald — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:56:01 +0000

VCs often help companies find homes within their portfolios

New comment by barrrrald in "Warp Code: the fastest way from prompt to production"

barrrrald — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:59:44 +0000

no idea how the product itself works but they have set a new standard for small startup launch videos with this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jKOVAa1KAo

New comment by barrrrald in "Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig"

barrrrald — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:39:10 +0000

Windsurf didn't not go through because of regulatory or MSFT issue – that was always a fig leaf. OAI walked.

New comment by barrrrald in "Ana Marie Cox on the Shaky Foundation of Substack as a Business"

barrrrald — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 21:30:36 +0000

The implication of her article is that they’d have a hard time raising that money and/or that they somehow aren’t doing well - I don’t see any evidence of this cited anywhere in her post.

New comment by barrrrald in "Ana Marie Cox on the Shaky Foundation of Substack as a Business"

barrrrald — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:27:57 +0000

This post didn't age well – 3 weeks later Substack announced a $100m fundraise at $1.1b valuation. [1]

Ana's contention that Substack is "rickety" seems motivated by her conviction that they should adopt a more assertive, aggressive censorship regime, and that "we need a world where a social safety net protects risky writing".

There are certainly many interesting questions about the future of media and Substack's business – but the parade of people saying it can't succeed without more moderation keep being proven wrong.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/substack-fundrai...

New comment by barrrrald in "Co-founder exiting after pivot – what's a fair exit package?"

barrrrald — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:21:38 +0000

Keep the vested equity and move on. Anything else is asking too much.

New comment by barrrrald in "Databricks acquires Neon"

barrrrald — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:48:34 +0000

congrats to Nikita and all the wonderful folks at Neon!

New comment by barrrrald in "Fivetran to acquire Census"

barrrrald — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:41:02 +0000

Congrats to everyone. Some of the smartest and kindest people in data coming together!

New comment by barrrrald in "Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs"

barrrrald — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:50:57 +0000

Congrats to everyone, very excited to see how these come together

'Forward Deployed Engineering' and Why You Probably Shouldn't Do It

barrrrald — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:57:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.barry.ooo/posts/fde-culture

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42209115

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by barrrrald in "Spin 3.0 – open-source tooling for building and running WASM apps"

barrrrald — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:16:02 +0000

Component dependency is pretty wild and could massively simplify some complex apps

New comment by barrrrald in "Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN"

barrrrald — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 20:43:38 +0000

Congrats Taimur!

New comment by barrrrald in "Papermill: Parameterizing, executing, and analyzing Jupyter Notebooks"

barrrrald — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:47:56 +0000

Seems like it's mostly died off, most people I know have moved to hosted solutions like Hex or Colab