Hacker News: durandal1

New comment by durandal1 in "Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills"

durandal1 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 22:55:44 +0000

I've had a long career in software and my conclusions is that if soft skills are valued over hard skills, the organization is already captured by talentless engineers and leaders. There are holdouts in the world, where execution is king, find those places and run away from soft skill fortresses. This is more true than even with LLM-amplified productivity.

New comment by durandal1 in "Raising money fucked me up"

durandal1 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:24:43 +0000

One of my kids are particularly brilliant and what I found is that the combination works best, "you are smart therefore I have high expectations" AND "without doing the work being smart doesn't matter". Together this creates a self image of the capable doer.

New comment by durandal1 in "Raising money fucked me up"

durandal1 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:18:39 +0000

Also a succinct condemnation of HN as a hub for strivers.

New comment by durandal1 in "BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech"

durandal1 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:53:16 +0000

For anyone who has or has experienced the latest gen FSD from Tesla this comes across as a complete lie. Why would you spend energy lying on HN of all places?

New comment by durandal1 in "Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US interventions"

durandal1 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:26:13 +0000

Normal productive people doing normal stuff reframed through the lens of pettiness and jealousy.

New comment by durandal1 in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

durandal1 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:03:57 +0000

This is based on my personal experience, I used to ride trains for travel a lot. I grew up in Europe and lived there for 31 years so this is not based on ignorance.

New comment by durandal1 in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

durandal1 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:35:45 +0000

Trains will fairly unreliably take you from one place that is not your home, to another place, which is not where you want to go, at a time that is probably not exactly when you wanted to arrive. Freedom of movement is incredibly important, and trains are very rigid in this aspect.

New comment by durandal1 in "Monodraw"

durandal1 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 22:13:02 +0000

Long time user of Monodraw, such a delightful app. My main use case is to draw view hierarchies, tables and diagrams in source comments.

New comment by durandal1 in "Omarchy Is Out"

durandal1 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:44:25 +0000

The only tiling window experience that stuck for me is Aerospace.

New comment by durandal1 in "Starship's Tenth Flight Test"

durandal1 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:28:29 +0000

But what we can't have is affordable housing and healthcare without private actors effectively involved in value creation. As has been demonstrated over and over again.

New comment by durandal1 in "Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first"

durandal1 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:38:08 +0000

Also, this track looks nothing like a competitive drone race track, the obstacles are easier and it seems designed to cater to the autonomous drones.

New comment by durandal1 in "iTerm2 critical security release"

durandal1 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 13:59:28 +0000

Donating in times of stress is a great idea, just donated as well.

New comment by durandal1 in "Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust"

durandal1 — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:26:57 +0000

20% faster for some operations now, but with only a small subset of SQL implemented. Sound like making it as fast as SQLite will be hard with full compatibility given that I expect a lot more branching etc?

https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo/blob/main/COMPAT.md

New comment by durandal1 in "Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT"

durandal1 — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 18:25:16 +0000

Pre-announcing makes no sense when you're leading the pack, it's a stall tactic for your customers to not leave when trying to catch up.

New comment by durandal1 in "Analysing 10 years of 'who is hiring' HN data"

durandal1 — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 20:55:13 +0000

Nope, it's all there, look again (maybe not great on mobile or something?)

New comment by durandal1 in "Analysing 10 years of 'who is hiring' HN data"

durandal1 — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 19:58:37 +0000

HNHiringTrends[1] is my goto site when I try to explain the current hiring sentiment of software.

[1] https://hnhiringtrends.com

New comment by durandal1 in "Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay"

durandal1 — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 19:54:05 +0000

By "maintenance mode" you mean shipping more features per year than the pre-Elon Twitter? Remember, the pre-Elon Twitter was completely stagnant and seemingly unable to ship even the most desired features.

New comment by durandal1 in "Jiff: Datetime library for Rust"

durandal1 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:12:40 +0000

I really think Rust should adopt one of the popular datetime crates into the std lib - it's not reasonable to offload researching maintainer status and quality to each developer needing to use dates correctly.

New comment by durandal1 in "Ladybird browser spreads its wings"

durandal1 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 11:28:30 +0000

Where is the proof that Rust can achieve the productivity and design flexibility needed at browser scale?

New comment by durandal1 in "Zig Goals"

durandal1 — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 20:07:57 +0000

I know, I'm saying they implementation they ended up with is terrible.