Hacker News: dekayed

New comment by dekayed in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

dekayed — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:12:14 +0000

We already have these in the industry. They're Staff+ Engineers and Architects. It's generally the norm to not be cranking out code at this level, but they make sure everyone is moving in the right direction, assisting managers, and mentoring juniors.

Adam Neumann Wants WeWork Back

dekayed — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:25:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2024/02/06/adam-neumann-wants-wework-back

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39277341

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by dekayed in "Things we learned analyzing 515M Wordles"

dekayed — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 22:51:01 +0000

I start with RAISE as well, but follow up with POUTY to get the Y if I blank on the first round.

New comment by dekayed in "Germany approves global minimum corporate tax"

dekayed — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 17:18:32 +0000

I believe the US does already have this (went into effect last year, maybe). It applies to corporations which have a revenue over $1B.

What If Psychedelics' Hallucinations Are Just a Side Effect?

dekayed — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 23:39:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/11/non-hallucinogenic-psychedelic-clinical-therapy/675942/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38226029

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

How to Be a More Influential Engineer

dekayed — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:29:48 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.squareup.com/blog/how-to-be-a-more-influential-engineer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26265407

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

In GameStop Saga, Robinhood Is Cast as the Villain

dekayed — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:16:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/business/gamestop-robinhood-hearing.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26187743

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by dekayed in "Effective Airflow Development"

dekayed — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 02:54:41 +0000

Airflow is still a very good option, though there are more competitors on the market. Two options are:

Prefect - https://www.prefect.io/

Flyte - https://flyte.org/

Amazon AppFlow

dekayed — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:12:27 +0000

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-announcing-amazon-appflow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22957511

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

AWS hits back at open source software critics

dekayed — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 02:14:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-hits-back-at-open-source-software-critics/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21831478

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

IAB Unveils Solution for Interest-Based Advertising and CCPA “Do Not Sell” Right

dekayed — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 17:20:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dataprivacymonitor.com/advertising/iab-unveils-solution-for-interest-based-advertising-and-ccpa-do-not-sell-right/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21029086

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dekayed in "Azure Cosmos DB: Microsoft's Cloud-Born Globally Distributed Database"

dekayed — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 18:51:51 +0000

Could you go more into this? How did you go about the evaluation and what metrics were you using? How did you capture the 'developers just hated it' in a way that leadership understood?

I'm not disputing the outcome, just feel like it would be useful for others in a similar situation.