<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: callc</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=callc</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:29:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=callc" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by callc in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>    Location: USA Central Time (no sponsorship needed)
    Remote: Yes, I prefer remote.
    Willing to relocate: Depends on specifics.
    Technologies: TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust, Bash, Java, C, C++, docker, k8s, Qemu, NoSQL
    Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calvincramer/ you can find full resume here
    Email: calvincramer [at] the g one.
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Hi, my name is Calvin. I'm a staff SWE with 6.5 years experience spanning from operating system development to cloud, full-stack to simulation solutions. I'm comfortable at every level of the stack, and enjoy teaching what I know. I have an eye for quality and performance, and love hard problems.</p>
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<p>You can say the same thing as we invented the atomic bomb.<p>Cool science and engineering, no doubt.<p>Not paying any attention to societal effects is not cool.<p>Plus, presenting things as inevitabilities is just plain confidently trying to predict the future. Anyone can san “I understand one day this era will be history and X will have happened”. Nobody knows how the future will play out. Anyone who says they do is a liar. If they actually knew then go ahead and bet all your savings on it.</p>
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<p>Wow this is a bad take and a half.<p>Apply the argument to abusing drugs now, and see how this argument throws all nuance out the window.</p>
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<p>Sounds like you are extremely valuable in the product you built.<p>In your experience it’s not just the manager direct report relationship that’s adversarial, it’s you against the whole company for the mismatched value they place in you.<p>You should use that as leverage. This comes with an mindset of looking out for yourself and not any loyalty to the company (I really wish that we could all find companies loyal and nice to their employees, in reality they are few and far between).<p>Something along the lines of “Hey I built our product. We’re making X in profit. I deserve Y in comp. I’ll give you a week to decide. If you reject I quit and build my own product or join another company.” Obviously add some fluff to reduce harshness.</p>
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<p>Recently I’ve been thinking about the text form of communication, and how it plays with our psychology. In no particular order here’s what I think:<p>1. Text is a very compressed / low information method of communication.<p>2. Text inherently has some “authority” and “validity”, because:<p>3. We’ve grown up to internalize that text is  written by a human. Someone spend the effort to think and write down their thoughts, and probably put some effort into making sure what they said is not obviously incorrect.<p>Intimately this ties into LLMs on text being an easier problem to trick us into thinking that they are intelligent than an AI system in a physical robot that needs to speak and articulate physically. We give it the benefit of the doubt.<p>I’ve already had some odd phone calls recently where I have a really hard time distinguishing if I’m talking to a robot or a human…</p>
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<p>Yes. Infinite low cost intelligence labor to replace those pesky humans!<p>Really reminds me of the economics of slavery. Best way for line to go up is the ultimate suppression and subjugation of labor!<p>Hypothetically can lead to society free to not waste their life on work, but pursue their passions. Most likely it’ll lead to plantation-style hungry-hungry-hippo ruling class taking the economy away from the rest of us</p>
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<p>“I built a car from scratch”<p>…<p>“Nobody said it has brakes.”<p>Taken at face value, everyone assumes when you say statement #1 that you are not speaking like a lawyer.</p>
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<p>There’s no point in looking into the logic or consistency of Donald’s words.<p>Just record his actions. Persecute him to the fullest extent of the law. Ignore everything he says.<p>He’s a broken person, the dictionary definition of a bully, and whose modus operandi is to inflict as much pain on his enemies as possible.</p>
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<p>I’m dealing with similar issues.<p>It’s reasonable to come up with team rules like:<p>- “if the reviewer finds more than 5 issues the PR shall be rejected immediately for the submitter to rework”<p>- “if the reviewer needs to take more than 8 hours to thoroughly review the PR it must be rejected and sent back to split up into manageable change sets”<p>Etc etc. let’s not make externalizing work for others appropriate behavior.</p>
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<p>Proposal to not tarnish the good name of actual engineers: slopgineers.<p>Maybe LLemgineers? Slopgrammers?</p>
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<p>Welcome to HN, thanks for sharing. That’s a very sad story, I hope you aren’t traumatized still.<p>A reasonable framework does exist. Since the claim is “we made a web browser from scratch” the framework is:<p>1. Does it actually f*** work?<p>2. Is it actually from scratch?<p>It fails on both counts. Further, even when compiled successfully, as others have pointed out, it takes more than a minute to load some pages which is a fail for #1.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:05:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654873</link><dc:creator>callc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654873</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by callc in "Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m happy that this shows that hard work, understanding your codebase, having performant software, having actually working software, rigorously measuring and proving proof of results still matters.<p>There’s a huge difference between using LLMs to offload any hard work and for LLMs to be of some assistance while you are in control and take ownership of the output.<p>Unfortunately, the general public probably didn’t try a git clone and cargo build, and took the article at face value.</p>
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<p>“Lying is just the reality of the world” is a cop-out<p>Don’t give them, or anyone, a free pass for bad behavior.</p>
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<p>I wish.<p>In reality, a large enough group of people on the internet starts to turn sour. Especially with anonymity. Especially without a specific purpose like a book club. Especially without moderation.<p>Small groups where you know everyone is where it’s at. To avoid internet stalkers and bullies, and for general quality of the community。<p>Our brains are built for small communities, not billions.</p>
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<p>Thank you!</p>
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<p><a href="https://calvinlc.com/" rel="nofollow">https://calvinlc.com/</a></p>
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<p>I really wish there was more transparency. We can’t see flagged posts without a direct link.<p>How about a flagged section?<p>What about a feature to challenge the flag?<p>What about a justification for the flag? Do flagged posts need to be approved by a mod?<p>I love HN. Flagged posts are the worst part. I can’t tell if the community is being taken over by a subset of bad actors, or YC is asserting opaque editorial control. Feels bad.</p>
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<p>It goes back before Donald was in charge of the Trump real estate business. It started with a really really shitty father who desired a “killer” business instinct in his children (read: cruelty) above all else.<p>Reading some of Mary Trump’s books will give some insight on the family that Donald grew up in. No love, all cruelty.<p>Donald is just a rich kid who inherited a big business and learned nothing but cruelty from his daddy.</p>
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<p>It might be childish, but I think the “act like an adult” (or not) is a good way to frame the bad behavior that’s been so present lately.<p>It encapsulates so much of how I want to describe things.<p>Selfish behavior - this adult is just a child who didn’t learn to share.<p>Mean and vindictive behavior - didn’t learn to empathize as a kid<p>Lying? You’re still a child. Grow up and then join the adults.</p>
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<p>I came here to say something similar. Ever since I found out about alt + left click drag anywhere in window to move, and alt + right click drag practically anywhere on any side to resize, anything else feels user-hostile.<p>I rarely use windows anymore, but just like you installed a tool to get this behavior.<p>This UI feature saves approx 3 seconds on average for resizing windows. Plus, more importantly it more predictably works, and is an easier target to hit than a 2-10 wide pixel line or square region.</p>
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