Hacker News: eecks

New comment by eecks in "Thank HN: Five months ago, I was feeling like a loser, now I am opposite"

eecks — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 11:12:28 +0000

This is not Reddit.

New comment by eecks in "Show HN: Slightly Better Hacker News – alternative web front end for HN"

eecks — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 21:05:43 +0000

What made you choose Angular?

New comment by eecks in "Would you prefer working from home after the pandemic?"

eecks — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 12:11:56 +0000

I want to be able to go to the office when I want and I want to be able to work when I want

New comment by eecks in "Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack"

eecks — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:47:58 +0000

You couldn't have asked him in during covid and they couldn't have asked. Unless this was really close to your front door you should have let it go.

New comment by eecks in "Nationwide tells 13,000 staff to 'work anywhere'"

eecks — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 08:46:56 +0000

Well right now you can't because of the virus..

New comment by eecks in "Brazil stares into the abyss as Covid intensive care units fill up everywhere"

eecks — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 21:20:39 +0000

In Ireland we're still locked down to within 5km of our homes, you have to work from home, not allowed to meet socially, no restaurants, shops or gyms, police fines are in force for breaking the rules

New comment by eecks in "Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers"

eecks — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 22:45:31 +0000

Can we start a support group?

New comment by eecks in "Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers"

eecks — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 22:45:01 +0000

What was your solution? Just get a new job? I find myself in this situation now..

New comment by eecks in "What's a horrible metric to measure a software developer's performance?"

eecks — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:44:01 +0000

I just posted the same - looks like you got there first :)

I have seen this play out many times.

New comment by eecks in "What's a horrible metric to measure a software developer's performance?"

eecks — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:43:20 +0000

The problem is when something is measured it normally becomes a target and:

Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

New comment by eecks in "Ask HN: Boss ignoring me – what next?"

eecks — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:40:43 +0000

I've never been an IC (they don't really have that role in my country) but this seems a bit strange. Why not have a video call to catch up?

New comment by eecks in "Employee #1: Reddit (2016)"

eecks — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:12:36 +0000

What is crazy is that they just didn't roll back. Even if they had lost a ton of users surely they could have kept at least 30% and built on that for the next few years.

New comment by eecks in "Ask HN: If you could work for yourself, would you work for yourself?"

eecks — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 19:07:25 +0000

Yes, 100%

New comment by eecks in "Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla's carrying Bitcoin's dirty baggage"

eecks — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:57:31 +0000

So it's like BTC fans are distracted by the price so and/or don't see the need to argue their position? Interesting theory

New comment by eecks in "Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla's carrying Bitcoin's dirty baggage"

eecks — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:41:48 +0000

Hacker News is pushing the "bitcoin is bad" narrative a bit too hard recently. I am not sure I have seen anything like it on this site before. It feels completely unnatural. I normally see more nuanced discussions about things here.

New comment by eecks in "Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index"

eecks — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:41:15 +0000

What about Cardano? Isn't it already rolled out with >70% of ADA staked?

New comment by eecks in "Ask HN: What is your biggest struggle right now?"

eecks — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:06:25 +0000

Covid restrictions

New comment by eecks in "Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustPilot review"

eecks — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:46:59 +0000

is scam a protected word or something? "a scam is about tricking you into parting with your money"

If I _feel_ like I have been scammed surely I can say so?

New comment by eecks in "Ask HN: Where to go after becoming a senior dev?"

eecks — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:57:04 +0000

I see what you mean now. I don't think in that way at all. How do you set the bounds of meeting your goal?

New comment by eecks in "Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future"

eecks — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:40:29 +0000

YFFA can also just ban you for any reason