Hacker News: calenti

New comment by calenti in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

calenti — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:53:40 +0000

Bitching is free and easier than making pull requests. And I bet it was 1 or 2 choads plus a variable pack of minions, not everyone. And Megacorp X can file all the bug reports they want, their lack of investment is not my urgency.

New comment by calenti in "Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)"

calenti — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:42:01 +0000

That also includes knowing how to process game. A dead deer or a dead rabbit has a small window between being a dead creature and a toxic mess. If you're gonna plug animals learn how to make proper use of them.

New comment by calenti in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

calenti — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:41:34 +0000

Reality is infintely analog and therefore digital will only ever be an approximation.

New comment by calenti in "Ask HN: How do I help a colleague who introduces a lot of typos?"

calenti — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:56:23 +0000

Systems and processes are good, but if the individual doesn't want to help make it better that is a different but related problem. Testing locally, checking work...that's the behavioral part of this he _can_ control. You can't force him, but might be able to encourage it, not by calling someone out in a code review/etc but privately discussing some local validation they could do. Also, I'm betting the "typos" aren't for corpus words but config strings like swmn0023094 or server names or whatever. That might be more of a custom dictionary type or DSL solution to check values against valid constant values.

New comment by calenti in "How uv got so fast"

calenti — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:03:08 +0000

It's a question of what you want to invest your time in. Everyone creates output, whether it's lines of code, a smoke screen to hide your social media time, or a set of ongoing conversations and perceptions than you have a use in the organization.

New comment by calenti in "How uv got so fast"

calenti — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:01:48 +0000

It also comes that the well-compensated people are probably that because they know how to advocate for their worth, which usually includes a list of things they will tolerate and a list they will not, whereas "market rate" is just happy to be there and more inclined to go along with, ya know, whatever.

New comment by calenti in "How uv got so fast"

calenti — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:00:05 +0000

Exceeds 1. Politics is the craft of influence. And, debatably, there's a politic even when population size=1, between your subconscious instinctive mind (eat the entire box of donuts) versus your conscious mind (don't spike your blood sugar).

New comment by calenti in "A guide to local coding models"

calenti — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:06:24 +0000

Well you did hire some(thing)...for $100/month.

New comment by calenti in "No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me"

calenti — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:46:09 +0000

Also, physical books are immutable; electronic content is not. Orwell was not wrong, just premature.

New comment by calenti in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

calenti — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:55:27 +0000

Ditching for what?

New comment by calenti in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

calenti — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:52:38 +0000

Yeah, capitalism. Our sense of fairness hate it but our portfolios love it.

New comment by calenti in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

calenti — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:51:39 +0000

"Seamless" may be irrationally exuberant but it's better than the others _at scale_.

LibreOffice, etc. may see similar from the UI end but if you're scaling across multiple sites/archetypes/employee models/regulatory environments, -and- want access to a wide and deep pool of administrative labor, M365 is seamless by comparison.

New comment by calenti in "Ticker: Don't die of heart disease"

calenti — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:45:44 +0000

To me the terms mix and it helps to separate the things that are externally manageable from the things that are not. The physical is complex but straightforward - the body biochemistry operates on material in, biochemistry mix, expenditure out. The brain is physical - neurons, pathways, etc. The mind, OTOH, is a virtual little candle isolated in a prison of meat and bone trying to understand how to interact with the world around it. External forces can alter the body and brain, but only the mind can change the mind. And does, in ways that are very difficult to control because the sole operator is part of the mechanism. People who try to change on their own and can't aren't failing or weak, it's just really f-ing hard.

New comment by calenti in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

calenti — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 19:21:22 +0000

+1 - crap code can come out of notepad / emacs / vi or IDE-flavor-of-the-day or even the AI code sausage maker. Testing, specification, knowing what you are building and why still matters.

New comment by calenti in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

calenti — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 19:19:23 +0000

An all-in-one like Rational Rose may be making a comeback in terms of these agentic AI projects, because now you actually can turn a spec into code without layers of tagging and UML.

New comment by calenti in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

calenti — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:15:56 +0000

Complacency about customers requires a monopoly, which Synology does not have.

New comment by calenti in "Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?"

calenti — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 22:22:35 +0000

He was representative, not causative. The rot had been settling for years.

New comment by calenti in "Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?"

calenti — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 22:20:59 +0000

Bezus checked out long before he moved to emeritus. Wanted to be a movie producer and shoot his rockets. Andy took over with all of the vision of a corporate franchiser running a Dollar Store.

New comment by calenti in "Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music"

calenti — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:11:37 +0000

More like wine - more profitable in the attention/branding market to make your own label than take someone else's.

New comment by calenti in "Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?"

calenti — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 02:40:57 +0000

Debt chickens will come home to roost and once the bond interest/return death spiral starts it will be very difficult to break. Interest payments are already #3 in the national budget.