Hacker News: codr

New comment by codr in "Why Working at Google Is Not My Dream Job Anymore"

codr — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:31:58 +0000

I don't get it. The blog post is about failing multiple Google interviews, then complaining that the process is good enough for you, then saying Google isn't your "dream job" anymore?

How is this different than the old, "I didn't want to go to your stupid birthday party anyway!"??

Maybe I missed something in the post but I was hoping to read about someone who had actually worked at Google before criticizing it..

New comment by codr in "Easter Egg Hidden in VMWare Fusion and Workstation"

codr — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:41:46 +0000

I somewhat agree - but given that no meaningful piece of software has ever shipped without bugs being punted (and bugs that weren't even known about), when is there really time to add an easter egg?

New comment by codr in "Fish vs. Fish in Street Fighter II"

codr — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:05:49 +0000

Just gotta say this is a strange outcome of our technological developments.. I mean think of the energy that was spent making this work - it could've been done doing something.. I dunno fucking useful?!

It's almost as bad as watching two "grown-ups" play Street Fighter lol.

New comment by codr in "Ask HN: Devs expected to code for fun, how about middle managers?"

codr — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:11:23 +0000

Golf, yacht sailing, cycling.

New comment by codr in "Codr, an app to help teach kids to code"

codr — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 19:55:44 +0000

VB?! Modern languages that are simple (like JS, Python) make more sense to me.

VB is a bit old and outdated at this point, I think.

(btw, my handle is not related to this site)

New comment by codr in "Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics"

codr — Wed, 28 May 2014 22:43:09 +0000

I would say equal rights should be at the top of the list, yes.

Even for a special "hacker community".

New comment by codr in "The Critical Engineering Manifesto"

codr — Wed, 21 May 2014 21:46:25 +0000

So it's not just me... the whole thing seems quite hard to understand, and somewhat full of hot air?

New comment by codr in "Poll: Were you banned by AdSense? When in the cycle were you notified?"

codr — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:02:52 +0000

Re: terminating a job, in many states employment can be legally terminated without reason (both by the employer and the employee).

See "at will employment".

New comment by codr in "Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale"

codr — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 20:41:02 +0000

No rollback plan? Wtf.

New comment by codr in "Link Bubble - A new browser for Android"

codr — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 17:36:44 +0000

It's more of an innovation than an invention, it seems. (nothing wrong with that, to be clear)

New comment by codr in "Ask HN: How do you earn your money?"

codr — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 01:04:18 +0000

The nice thing about just being an employee is you get a lot more free time to enjoy life. Yes, there is life outside of software for some of us!

Also, way less risk.

I work for big companies, and the chance of getting laid off is about 0%, while the chance of an annual raise and performance bonus is 100%.

Not saying it's the best way to go, but it works for me.

New comment by codr in "Ask HN: How do experienced programmers learn new languages?"

codr — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 04:38:27 +0000

Think of something you want to write in that language; this is the only thing that really works for me.

Tutorials and canned examples are ok, but if it's not something I actually want then I'm not really learning much.

And if you can't do anything useful in the language you want to learn, then ask yourself why you want to learn it?

Or take something relatively simple, and code it in whatever language. I did this a while back, and wrote a port scanner in c, java, perl, and python.

New comment by codr in "Open source bike comparison and review"

codr — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 04:30:52 +0000

Not sure I'd go so far to call it bs.. ballpark figures are better than nothing!

At least the listed frame weights are somewhat less subjective than complete bike weights - and there are a bunch of people that definitely care about that kind of "minutiae".

New comment by codr in "Open source bike comparison and review"

codr — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 01:16:31 +0000

Cool idea.

Would love to see frame weights added, along with complete bike weights.

Not seeing Raleigh, Focus, and a bunch of other brands listed. Will more be added?

New comment by codr in "Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments"

codr — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 01:10:46 +0000

The royal 1%?

New comment by codr in "Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments"

codr — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 01:06:32 +0000

Yes, this seems like the whole point of the "feature".

I'm really missing what problem is being solved..

New comment by codr in "Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments"

codr — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 01:04:56 +0000

> cut the amount of discussion on HN by a large amount. Maybe even by 90%.

Indeed, this seems to be the point.. which is kind of ridiculous.

What problem is this solving again? If it's bickering sub-threads, just add UI to collapse threads.

New comment by codr in "Ask HN: Getting back into Python"

codr — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:59:13 +0000

Thanks - yeah I will certainly need to shift my thinking away from c#-style (read: Visual Studio) development.

As for pdb, I guess I've been spoiled by Visual Studio's debugging - hover to see values, step through source code, etc.

Is there no Python debugging/IDE equivalent to Visual Studio's hover/etc?

New comment by codr in "Ask HN: Getting back into Python"

codr — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:52:41 +0000

Ah good question - desktop, basically.

edit: To be somewhat more specific I will be automating/testing a client application that uses a server backend.

New comment by codr in "Ask HN: Getting back into Python"

codr — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:51:47 +0000

Thanks!

By "indentation" I meant using that for conditional blocks, instead of the C-style bracketing that I'm used to.

I found that list of IDEs, but basically what I'm asking is what are people's favorites from that list?