Hacker News: eyan

New comment by eyan in "Using PostgreSQL’s JSONB for NoSQL (2019) [video]"

eyan — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 10:33:56 +0000

Great data point! Thank you!

New comment by eyan in "Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app"

eyan — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 11:09:21 +0000

No mention of XMind yet. So here it is: https://www.xmind.net/

New comment by eyan in "How I Shot This Lunar Eclipse Sequence in Camera, on Film"

eyan — Mon, 31 May 2021 18:31:04 +0000

Printed template, multiple exposures. There are images of the template around middle of TFA.

New comment by eyan in "Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer"

eyan — Sun, 30 May 2021 15:08:16 +0000

> If I didn't learn something from the junior engineer or intern this past month, I wasn't paying attention.

Amen! Not just junior engineers. PMs, analysts, testers. We all have a lot to learn from the rest of the team!

New comment by eyan in "ISO Standard for Preparing Tea"

eyan — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 08:54:24 +0000

I can't upvote this enough.

I love _something_. I hate talking to other people who love _something_. ...use the combinations you enjoy.

Bless the parent comment.

New comment by eyan in "Chick Corea has died"

eyan — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:56:02 +0000

I'd call The Köln Concert "protracted edging".

New comment by eyan in "Quitting Caffeine"

eyan — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 04:16:33 +0000

I see what you did there. :)

New comment by eyan in "Ask HN: As a small development team, how do you get projects?"

eyan — Tue, 23 May 2017 09:13:02 +0000

Not doing it in a structured way. Catching up with friends in the industry. Mostly over coffee. Local customers.

New comment by eyan in "Ask HN: As a small development team, how do you get projects?"

eyan — Tue, 23 May 2017 08:37:33 +0000

I'm on the same boat. Strengthening my network at the moment. I don't know exactly how to move forward as well. I'm in the Philippines.

For inspiration, I'm reading this again and again: https://www.winwithoutpitching.com/the-manifesto/

New comment by eyan in "Exercise 'keeps the mind sharp' in over-50s, study finds"

eyan — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 09:11:07 +0000

I was being kind, sir.

What I was trying to say is: I don't give a flying raccoon if people want to exercise or not.

So yeah. No strategising from me.

New comment by eyan in "Exercise 'keeps the mind sharp' in over-50s, study finds"

eyan — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 07:27:07 +0000

> The real question is how do you get people of their ass and start exercising?

You don't. You wait for them until they decide and act on their decision.

New comment by eyan in "Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave"

eyan — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 07:27:10 +0000

I totally agree with this analysis.

New comment by eyan in "Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave"

eyan — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 04:54:40 +0000

> Saying 'it's not a business model' is basically equivalent to saying 'I don't have to worry about money.'

No, Sir. I think the point flew past you. Saying "it's not a business model" means that you need to worry about how to sustain yourself from the get-go if you want to go where ever pleases you, open or closed source.

New comment by eyan in "Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave"

eyan — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 03:24:59 +0000

Most insightful comment in this mishmash.

I'll say it again for future searchers of wisdom: Open Source is not a Business Model.

New comment by eyan in "Ask HN: What current companies have the best software engineering culture?"

eyan — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 07:34:43 +0000

You forgot IBM. grin

New comment by eyan in "React Implementation Notes"

eyan — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 02:46:29 +0000

Offtopic but... I'm cheering for pyret! And for the group behind it of course. :)

New comment by eyan in "Ask HN: Where do you go for learning about health and well-being?"

eyan — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 08:05:16 +0000

I've been focusing, and doing, this wellness and exercise thing lately. Just reading for the last several years.

Best article, which led me to action, is this http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/everything-you-know-abou... together with the book The Power of Full Engagement https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743226755/ref=as_li_tl?ie...

And here are the guys I read regularly (on and off, actually):

Scott Sonnon: http://www.rmaxinternational.com/flowcoach/

Pavel Tsatsouline: http://www.strongfirst.com

Phil Maffetone: https://philmaffetone.com

the guys at GMB: https://gmb.io

and Leo Babauta: http://zenhabits.net

New comment by eyan in "Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes"

eyan — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 01:32:08 +0000

In behalf of the Argentinian circus people, I thank you.

New comment by eyan in "Picolisp"

eyan — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 02:01:46 +0000

Long time fan. Great docs. And a 'native' Prolog interpreter: http://software-lab.de/doc/ref.html#pilog

New comment by eyan in "Ask HN: What is the future of back-end development?"

eyan — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 12:38:57 +0000

How far into the future are you looking at? There's got to be a server somewhere. Somebody has to write code for those, aside from caring and feeding.

Smaller applications, in the Big Data sense, will still be used on site. At least say, 10 years down (yeah, pulled that figure from my ass).

So no. I don't believe that back-end development will be obsolete. Middle is the new back.