Hacker News: bobm_db

Elegant Objects in Java

bobm_db — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 10:16:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.elegantobjects.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22222914

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

One Size Fits No-One

bobm_db — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 07:51:09 +0000

Article URL: https://riskfirst.org/One-Size-Fits-No-One

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22167296

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by bobm_db in "If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)"

bobm_db — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:06:22 +0000

Click the button in the bottom right and it moves at light speed.

Which, it turns out is really, really slow. Big revelation to me!

New comment by bobm_db in "Pika – A JavaScript package registry for the modern web"

bobm_db — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:42:57 +0000

I'm going to go the other way on this. I like this idea, but I can see it's not for everyone.

I like to do some Javascript coding with my son on his Chromebook, and having a development environment is a hard problem for us to solve for some reason.

Having a webpage that just spins up VSCode and allows us to publish and test in a registry might be just what we need, no?

New comment by bobm_db in "Tesla Cybertruck"

bobm_db — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:02:48 +0000

Whether you like it or hate it, you have to take your hat off to the Tesla marketing department. This thing is a meme on wheels.

_Everyone_ is going to see this, have an opinion on it, and want to know what everyone else's opinion on it is.

Risk-First Estimating: Fill-the-Bucket

bobm_db — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 09:30:15 +0000

Article URL: https://riskfirst.org/estimating/Fill-The-Bucket

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21592591

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by bobm_db in "Giant Molecules Exist in Two Places at Once in Quantum Experiment"

bobm_db — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:30:13 +0000

Something I don't quite understand about quantum mechanics and the MWI... At the point the atom passes through the diffraction grating, it has a quantum superposition. According to MWI, reality has "branched", right?

Then the two realities interfere with each other to form the probabilistic pattern at the detector. So, according to MWI, reality has "merged" again?

If we accept the mulitiverse idea of MWI, doesn't that mean at some point particles aren't able to marge with their branched-reality versions?

The Agile Onion

bobm_db — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 14:22:12 +0000

Article URL: https://riskfirst.org/presentations/onion/index

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21157983

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bobm_db in "In 2027, at least 7 out of the top Tiobe languages will be Tree Languages"

bobm_db — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:30:23 +0000

This is an interesting idea.

Isn't Python a tree language? Whitespace is significant...

How about YAML?

New comment by bobm_db in "No Silver Bullet (1986) [pdf]"

bobm_db — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:36:37 +0000

I like this article, but I think actually the software industry has seen a succession of silver bullets. The problem is, once they appear, you take them for granted:

https://riskfirst.org/Silver-Bullets

New comment by bobm_db in "Coding Bets"

bobm_db — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:06:46 +0000

I've started to think I'm better off building lots of small OSS libraries than one big one.

The big one seems like some massive accumulator bet, which is really unlikely to pay off, whereas one of the smaller parts may just have an impact on it's own...

Coding Bets

bobm_db — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:05:10 +0000

Article URL: https://riskfirst.org/Coding-Bets

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20233037

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by bobm_db in "Things I learnt the hard way in thirty years of software development"

bobm_db — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 12:16:18 +0000

I really like this one:

> Documentation is a love letter to your future self

This seems like a brilliant way of transcending what feels like a drudge-job, making it into something really meaningful.

New comment by bobm_db in "Consuming Hacker News"

bobm_db — Fri, 24 May 2019 15:02:27 +0000

I think a really useful interface / AI project would be to write something that categorizes all the comments being made to an article.

That way I could dive into specific comments on topics that interest me, and also decide which comment branches to follow.

I have no idea how this might be implemented though.

New comment by bobm_db in "Consuming Hacker News"

bobm_db — Fri, 24 May 2019 14:30:36 +0000

What do I need to google to understand this reference?

New comment by bobm_db in "Consuming Hacker News"

bobm_db — Fri, 24 May 2019 12:36:44 +0000

I'm starting to find the "new" page more relevant to me than the front page...

Consuming Hacker News

bobm_db — Fri, 24 May 2019 11:12:52 +0000

Article URL: https://riskfirst.org/2019/05/14/Hacker-News

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20000305

Points: 121

# Comments: 40

New comment by bobm_db in "How fair do you think time estimate within 30% is? Plus/minus 20% if over 3 days"

bobm_db — Fri, 10 May 2019 09:48:42 +0000

Yeah good luck with that.

Problem is, time is just _one_ variable. It's possible to hit every estimate spot-on, if you allow the other variables to change wildly (number of bugs, completeness of features etc). It's kind of like in quantum mechanics, where by knowing one property of a particle, you have to let go of all the others (maybe).

Anyway, I blogged about this a lot here, if it is any use: https://riskfirst.org/Estimates

It seems wrong-headed to be insisting on this, so maybe education is the answer?

Do You Touch-Type?

bobm_db — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:59:47 +0000

I've been developing for many years, and recently started a new job where the keyboard layout seems "off", prompting me to wonder - is it worth learning to touch-type?

I'm pretty fast with whatever it is I'm doing at the moment (using about 6 fingers), and I wonder if there is any performance or ergonomic benefit from touch-typing, especially since a lot of programming involves reaching for odd symbols and key combinations.

Would be interested in what others think!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19745985

Points: 2

# Comments: 5