Hacker News: bot41

New comment by bot41 in "Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?"

bot41 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:17:19 +0000

I'd love to see your prompts for this work. Both issues seem to be easily solved and minor - unless you're looking to one prompt every change.

New comment by bot41 in "Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?"

bot41 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:08:47 +0000

From my experience, BAs don't model the solution - they translate and document stakeholder requirements

New comment by bot41 in "Your work matters – Build your schedule accordingly"

bot41 — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 21:05:18 +0000

That's a great quote!

New comment by bot41 in "Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?"

bot41 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:41:30 +0000

There is definitely loads to fix and it does sound like the team was inexperienced but they were successful it seems.

New comment by bot41 in "Launch HN: Spinach.io (YC W22) – Better daily standups"

bot41 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:40:12 +0000

That's fair enough. I would imagine managers would like it though :)

New comment by bot41 in "React I love you, but you're bringing me down"

bot41 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:39:31 +0000

I just use Remix and use React in it's simplest form. Working for me so far but it might not work for big complex apps

New comment by bot41 in "React I love you, but you're bringing me down"

bot41 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:38:26 +0000

Or with Remix Run which is great

New comment by bot41 in "React I love you, but you're bringing me down"

bot41 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:28:22 +0000

Is Svelte still overly dependent on Rich Harris? He's great but that reliance put me off Svelte.

New comment by bot41 in "React I love you, but you're bringing me down"

bot41 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:27:41 +0000

Got a good example of business logic not being in a component? Looking to learn.

New comment by bot41 in "React I love you, but you're bringing me down"

bot41 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:19:27 +0000

Is it that they are global state to react but not to the programmer or his/her code?

New comment by bot41 in "React I love you, but you're bringing me down"

bot41 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:10:53 +0000

> There are always [] half-finished fix-the-world ideas conflicting with each other,

I work in a code base like this. People's suggestion? Introduce React!

New comment by bot41 in "Launch HN: Spinach.io (YC W22) – Better daily standups"

bot41 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 17:44:08 +0000

Sounds toxic-ish! Why pick on someone who isn't paying attention?

New comment by bot41 in "Launch HN: Spinach.io (YC W22) – Better daily standups"

bot41 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 17:43:01 +0000

"crush your daily standup" - I am not sure that will be appealing to audiences outside America (assuming the target is dev teams worthwhile).

If I knew the first few mins of a standup were going to be a round table like "what's your all time fav book?", I would just join late.

New comment by bot41 in "Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?"

bot41 — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 12:47:50 +0000

The worst tech team you've ever seen and yet they are generating 20 million a year? I think you should give them the respect they deserve and understand the limitations they have been under.

My thoughts:

* Get the code in source control straight away

* Get the infrastructure stable and up to date if it's not

* Get CI pipelines set up. As part of this, make sure the code is running through a static analyser. This will give you a backlog of things to work on.

* Organize an external penetration test to be carried out

* Investigate updating and/or consolidating the software libraries used (Jquery etc)

* Choose a page/feature to update on its own. Bring it up to date.

At this point, you should be in a much better state and you will have learned a lot.

New comment by bot41 in "Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle"

bot41 — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 12:37:47 +0000

FF throws an insecure warning so I can't check it out

New comment by bot41 in "Ask HN: Who are the technically competent CEOs in tech world?"

bot41 — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 15:21:18 +0000

> Managing a large company is not something a software engineer could do

That is essentially saying that people who are software engineers have only one set of skills.. which is just false obviously.

New comment by bot41 in "Ask HN: Daily users of Mastodon, what do you use it for?"

bot41 — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 15:19:09 +0000

Thanks!

Who gets the analytics from people's page views, browsing etc?

New comment by bot41 in "Queen Elizabeth II has died"

bot41 — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 21:53:23 +0000

I'll need to thread lightly before I get banned by Dang for not loving the british queen!

If we observed monkeys and saw that one was showered with gifts and jewellery their whole lives because they were offspring of two other particular monkeys.. we would chuckle at that. Not for being the strongest, tallest, biggest, smartest or best at something. Just for existing.

New comment by bot41 in "Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News for writers?"

bot41 — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 21:56:29 +0000

> I've never saw a software engineer hoard some knowledge for a competitive edge.

Not even in work?

New comment by bot41 in "Show HN: A web tool for making pie charts"

bot41 — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 21:51:58 +0000

Suggestion: Let users share their piecharts via a link/image on twitter, reddit etc.