Hacker News: dreyfan

New comment by dreyfan in "Gitea Is Joining the Fediverse"

dreyfan — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 03:00:12 +0000

Even today I'm still a heavy user of the fediverse created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

New comment by dreyfan in "Ask HN: Would you pass an interview for your current position?"

dreyfan — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 16:28:08 +0000

Interviewing is easy today because companies are extremely desperate to hire.

New comment by dreyfan in "We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400"

dreyfan — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:13:31 +0000

Cloudflare subsidizes the small guys in hopes they'll turn into big guys. Bandwidth isn't that expensive in the first place though, that's just a myth perpetuated by AWS/Azure/Google.

New comment by dreyfan in "Problems once solved by a metaclass can be solved by __init_subclass__"

dreyfan — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 18:19:04 +0000

modern php and js/ts are both rather impressive how far they’ve come compared to the jumble of crap we had a decade ago.

New comment by dreyfan in "Problems once solved by a metaclass can be solved by __init_subclass__"

dreyfan — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 17:50:23 +0000

Python is quickly taking the crown for low-barrier to entry, slow, buggy code supported primarily by stackoverflow copy pastes from a never-ending supply of “data scientists”

New comment by dreyfan in "Use spacer components instead of CSS margins (2020)"

dreyfan — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 07:07:22 +0000

mmm, spacer elements. the new 1999 is looking pretty awesome.

New comment by dreyfan in "Databases in 2021: A Year in Review"

dreyfan — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 02:51:41 +0000

All you need is Postgres (OLTP) and if you have large datasets where Postgres falls behind for analytical work, then you reach for Clickhouse (OLAP) for those features (while Postgres remains your primary operational database and source of truth).

New comment by dreyfan in "Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility [pdf]"

dreyfan — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 17:34:41 +0000

> this is how you refute bitcoin

I don’t need to refute cryptocurrency for the same reason the onus isn’t on me to disprove the existence of god.

New comment by dreyfan in "37% of the world’s population have still never used the internet"

dreyfan — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 20:01:15 +0000

That’s a lot of people who haven’t had the opportunity to invest in bitcoin, defi, or nfts!

New comment by dreyfan in "100s of El Salvadorans Report Bitcoins Disappearing from Their Chivo Wallets"

dreyfan — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 15:19:19 +0000

They elected a crypto-bro as president.

New comment by dreyfan in "How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs"

dreyfan — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 22:47:50 +0000

Only two? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27454589

New comment by dreyfan in "Over 7k SOL ($1.2M) got lost on Solana NFT mint due to a hack"

dreyfan — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 19:32:55 +0000

No SOL was lost, just a surprise wealth redistribution.

New comment by dreyfan in "Failed for the past 12 years as an tech entrepreneur"

dreyfan — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 17:28:44 +0000

Stop building inferior versions of things which already exist. Build the things that don’t exist.

New comment by dreyfan in "Third High Severity CVE in Log4j Is Published"

dreyfan — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 18:45:17 +0000

I’m enjoying the Apache Software Exploit Advent Calendar

New comment by dreyfan in "Ask HN: Can web scraping be the basis of a viable business model?"

dreyfan — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 18:42:59 +0000

If you worked for a hedge fund and you know they purchase scraped data from quite a number of vendors then why are you asking if it’s a viable business model?

Of course it is.

New comment by dreyfan in "Ask HN: 27, accidentally became wealthy, lost drive. What should I do?"

dreyfan — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 17:58:54 +0000

I love that you didn’t consider yourself wealthy until you sold off the crypto, converted it to fiat, and paid taxes to a government.

New comment by dreyfan in "YouTube TV loses ESPN, ABC and other Disney channels in fee dispute"

dreyfan — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 16:18:35 +0000

Hulu + LiveTV is $65 and Sling is about $50 and Youtube TV $65.

These aren’t really comparable to standard Hulu or Netflix or Amazon Prime etc. It’s for people that want to pretend they’re cord-cutting while buying the exact same thing from a streaming company.

New comment by dreyfan in "Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019)"

dreyfan — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 01:27:02 +0000

It’s such a low throughput requirement I think even bitcoin could support it.

New comment by dreyfan in "What's New in ClickHouse 21.12"

dreyfan — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:04:41 +0000

Because ZK is garbage and complicates every clustered application that relies on it? Kafka is ditching ZK too.

Clickhouse cluster quite simply doesn’t support elastic rebalancing. Avoid CH if that is a hard requirement for your setup.

New comment by dreyfan in "Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after strikers sacked"

dreyfan — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 16:13:55 +0000

I would encourage you to look at how prosecutors have successfully utilized the CFAA as a blunt instrument before making analogies that may garner upvotes on HN but wouldn’t reduce a prison sentence.

Logic is not part of the CFAA.