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New comment by fisensee in "Git rebase -I is not that scary"

fisensee — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:08:10 +0000

Git rebase isn't scary at all, what's scary is the git rebase cult. I'll probably die never really seeing the tangible benefit a meticulously curated git history provides but at least I saw a few hundred blog posts and hn comments declaring the moral failure that is not having the cleanest commit history. The cynic in me would say that people are over-identifying too much with their recent bikeshedding addiction (just like 10-page vim configs, custom built keyboards or whatever else promises them immense but immeasurable performance gains) but in reality I guess it's just completely different mental models about code. I have yet to look at any code or it's however dirty history and needed to consult a commit message to understand what it's there for but I'm looking forward to the day where one of my rebase colleagues fixes a bug with git bisect that wasn't efficiently fixable any other way.

New comment by fisensee in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)"

fisensee — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:24:33 +0000

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New comment by fisensee in "A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]"

fisensee — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 17:00:06 +0000

I agree, taking these quotes out of its time context is a bit silly but then again this is the implied intention of posting this here, right? Most people reading this and posting a comment will not be talking about the state of software in 1995 but today, using the article to show that the things described in it are still true/got worse. My comment itself was more of a quick reaction to the general sentiment in the comment section than a serious critic of the article itself.

Since I'm a huge fan of tiling windows managers and spend a lot of my time in terminal emulators as a power user I believe to understand his vision about computer usage and have a lot of admiration for what he and his colleagues were working on. But for the general population I believe he did not have the "right" idea (easy to say with almost 30 years of hindsight).

New comment by fisensee in "A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]"

fisensee — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 15:53:07 +0000

I've found the part where the author talks about "arbitrarily overlapping windows" and "fancy icons" as "cute but not essential" pretty telling. Find me someone on the street and ask them if these things are "cute but not essential". Sometimes I feel like software engineers forget what world we live in. In the virtual world all these things are obviously not needed and wasting precious computing power on them is a disgrace to the "craftsmanship". In the real world most applications are made for flawed humans with needs and preferences which stem not from logic and reasoning but from emotions and experience. This doesn't excuse shoddy engineering in any way (everybody has some horror story of somebody not understanding runtime complexity or something, so there certainly is a lot of it). But especially with the examples the author brings up like text editors and operating systems I find these critic/plea severly lacking. Are the core features of ed and visual studio code the same? Absolutely, you edit text. Are the extra ressources used for visual studio code compared to ed a waste? For some people here probably, but I would bet quite a lot that for most the answer would be no. In the end I often find that discussions about optimatization are often more for people to show off and prove that they are a "real engineer" than any real concern about performance.

Sorry Scrum, the Game Might Be over for You

fisensee — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 08:18:15 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/serious-scrum/sorry-scrum-the-game-might-be-over-for-you-915227f3a0d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26709387

Points: 19

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New comment by fisensee in "Why can't I write code inside my browser?"

fisensee — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 10:05:46 +0000

While I understand and recognize the frustration with programming today, I wonder if comments like these have any sort of factual basis to them. What exactly is over-complicated for no useful reason? And what are the ways to fix this? I haven't looked at every "coding for non-coders" app, but all I've seen fail in offering the same functionality as coding in itself does. How would the ideal way to programm look like where you have the same freedoms you have with todays languages, tools, frameworks, etc. while still being easy and intuitive to use?

New comment by fisensee in "Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support"

fisensee — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:16:30 +0000

While I agree with you mostly on the censorship from private companies on public discourse, I have difficulties to see how amazon is censoring anybody really. With the media platforms and social networks I am also very concerned with every action they take in regards to deleting content and banning users, since they basically operate as a monopoly for public discourse. But infrastructure services such as aws or google are only offering a completely optional service in regards to hosting a webpage/forum/etc. Everybody can buy a server and give others their ip address. By not offering their services to certain parties they're not silencing anyone, they're just not helping them. Parler could just as well buy some racks, like the many other companies that already do. So how is amazon deciding what people on the internet see and what they don't see?

Learning to Code Better with Lean Coding

fisensee — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 10:05:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/01/code-better-lean-coding

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19093955

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by fisensee in "A thread for Junior Developers/Engineers"

fisensee — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 15:15:21 +0000

> Maybe every morning they take the first 30 minutes of their day to tell you about what movie they watched last night? E-v-e-r-y-d-a-y.

Funnily enough I always think these are some of the best 30 minutes of my day. Certainly beats having to talk about your favorite design pattern first thing in the morning.