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New comment by danielPort9 in "Left to Right Programming"

danielPort9 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:02:02 +0000

Don’t know why python gets so much love. It’s a painful language as soon as more than one person is involved. What the author describes is just the tip of the iceberg

New comment by danielPort9 in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

danielPort9 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:54:32 +0000

I see it as “everyone deserves respect”. No need to overanalyse it. It’s one of those few things in life that are simply true, no proof needed.

New comment by danielPort9 in "Ask HN: Will human code review still exist a year from now?"

danielPort9 — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 10:45:06 +0000

That’s dumb. Your bosses will decide to pay copilot instead of paying you. We should use llms in a way that empowers us, not in a way that replaces us.

New comment by danielPort9 in "I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C"

danielPort9 — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 10:11:59 +0000

Just like any other Apple Watch. Don’t see the difference between them and CCP (probably because I’m not American)

New comment by danielPort9 in "YAGRI: You are gonna read it"

danielPort9 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:38:26 +0000

I think the tricky part lies on knowing which things can be done without consulting any product owner. I agree that created_at and updated_at don’t cause any harm. deleted_at on the other hand cannot be decided by engineers only (mainly because of GDPR reasons: if something is expected to be totally deleted, then that must be it). As usual, these kind of things are obvious to engineers with years of experience , not so much to newcomers.

New comment by danielPort9 in "Ask HN: How do some software engineers "do it all"?"

danielPort9 — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 22:35:01 +0000

You don’t know their performance at their jobs. You don’t know either if they fulfill family obligations decently. You don’t know how their lifestyle is affecting their health long term.

New comment by danielPort9 in "Product management is hosting a party, not playing chess"

danielPort9 — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:58:35 +0000

But then you don’t need product managers at all, or at least not full time.

New comment by danielPort9 in "Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture"

danielPort9 — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 15:23:22 +0000

But that changes from team to team, and sometimes even from individuals to individuals. It’s rare the company (not faang level) that invests that much in engineering culture.

New comment by danielPort9 in "Ask HN: What business would you start in 2025?"

danielPort9 — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 12:22:05 +0000

Fresh bread delivery. There’s nothing worse than waking up and find out that you dont have bread. Would be great to have fresh bread at my door every morning.

New comment by danielPort9 in ""Any sufficiently bad software update is indistinguishable from a cyberattack""

danielPort9 — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 10:42:58 +0000

Who said anything about open source not having issues? I talked about trust. Open source can be trusted simply because the code is scrutinised by many if the software is that important. CS cannot be trusted by anyone, because you simply don’t know how they develop their software. Yes, I do work for a private company because otherwise I cannot pay the bills. Companies on the other hand do have the privilege to choose what kind of software they can use (unless the regulation says otherwise, which is in itself something to fix too, but I do lack knowledge in that field to suggest anything)

New comment by danielPort9 in "Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed"

danielPort9 — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 10:32:11 +0000

> The glaring question is how and why it was rolled out everywhere all at once?

Because it worked good for them so far? There are plenty of companies that do the same and we don’t hear about them until something goes wrong.

New comment by danielPort9 in "Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed"

danielPort9 — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 10:12:19 +0000

> Either of these failures is inexcusable in a professional product

Don’t we have those kind of failures in almost every professional product? I’ve been working in the industry for over a decade and in every single company we had those bugs. The only difference was that none of those companies were developing kernel modules or whatever. Simple saas. And no, none of the bugs were outsourced (the companies I worked for hired only locals and people in the range of +- 2h time zone)

New comment by danielPort9 in "Ask HN: How often do your projects involve real team work vs working in silos?"

danielPort9 — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 10:02:33 +0000

I value collaboration as in: high level discussions about how to solve a problem or what’s next in the quarter. When it comes to implementation, please let me do it alone. There’s nothing worse than sitting next to someone to write code (because we all write code differently: I for instance don’t like to stare at the screen for more than 20min. I love to think about the code in my head while taking a walk… now all of that goes to hell if I have to do pair programming)

New comment by danielPort9 in ""Any sufficiently bad software update is indistinguishable from a cyberattack""

danielPort9 — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 09:55:44 +0000

It’s easier than that: do not trust non open source software no matter how many “seals of approval” it has. Now let’s spread the voice so that in 10 years companies start to think the same way.

New comment by danielPort9 in "Ask HN: Why Is Nobody Hiring Juniors?"

danielPort9 — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:33:49 +0000

Don’t sell yourself as junior. Companies blindly hire anyone who knows how to sell themselves.

New comment by danielPort9 in "Discussion: Job seekers can't find a job and Employers can't find an employees"

danielPort9 — Mon, 20 May 2024 14:34:01 +0000

Companies want “the best of the best”. I’m not talking about faang. Any tech company out there believes they can only succeed by hiring the best only.

It’s unrealistic. But I don’t see the paradox (companies say they “can’t find talent “ but what they mean is that they can’t find top talent according to some dubious tests).

On top of that, if you have years of experience in, let’s say Go or Python, but the company is only looking for Java or Kotlin devs, you’re out of the question. Ridiculous.

Ask HN: Am I being too picky?

danielPort9 — Sun, 12 May 2024 18:59:09 +0000

I have worked as a software engineer for over a decade. I would describe myself as someone who cares but not all the time. For example, I can provide a high quality solution for a task that requires it… but I cannot do it for every single task in our board.

I used to work in places in which I was giving myself 100%, let’s say, one sprint (2 week’s duration) every 3. It worked great. The other 2 sprints I was doing a good enough job.

I now work for a so-called “high performing” team, and I hate it. Everything must be done with a high quality standard and it must be done “on time” (there are no deadlines, but the moment your task is taking more time than it was estimated, you need to provide evidence of why that’s the case).

Not sure if that’s how things should be, or perhaps I am too picky or if simply I don’t fit the company culture. I like to do great things, but I cannot be a “high-performant” engineer all the time.

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