Hacker News: flippinburgers

New comment by flippinburgers in "Docker Is Four Things"

flippinburgers — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 09:45:10 +0000

This is a hilarious comment because windows ignored the developer experience for YEARS with its horrible command line experience. Windows was a regression. Linux/unix, which powers the world by the way, is where it is at regardless of how old its foundations are.

New comment by flippinburgers in "How to find time to learn after work (2017)"

flippinburgers — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:52:57 +0000

I found the person who doesn't have kids.

Nothing about helping someone better understand something is cheating. Helping your own child? That is just natural. I find what you said revolting.

New comment by flippinburgers in "Show HN: Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter"

flippinburgers — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 22:37:07 +0000

This kid has plenty of time to dive into other languages. C is a great choice.

New comment by flippinburgers in "Google co-founder Sergey Brin on leaving retirement to work on AI"

flippinburgers — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 23:18:23 +0000

Paywalled so I will not attempt to read but the first little bit... Just makes me imagine what it must be like to be one of these elite engineer types at insanely luxurious parties talking to "experts" all day long and I have to take a hard look in the mirror and wonder why my life is such ... s***.

New comment by flippinburgers in "Ask HN: Should I give up trying to be a founder?"

flippinburgers — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 23:15:46 +0000

You make it sound so ... unaccomplished ... to just reach out and get a high paying "easy" job. Do they exist?

I have yet to find an "easy" high paying job. I've been stuck in the $50K~75K range my entire 17 year career. So maybe realize for a split second that there are many, many people making much less, experiencing much worse.

New comment by flippinburgers in "An introduction to metaprogramming in Ruby"

flippinburgers — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 23:15:05 +0000

Is this what passes for an article about metaprogramming in ruby?

Using send is extremely common especially when mocking private methods in rspec. I guess I am speaking from a rails lense, but what other lense is there for ruby development?

I am forever stuck in a world where "articles" aren't something you read in less than a minute.

New comment by flippinburgers in "LazyVim"

flippinburgers — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 08:01:20 +0000

Now that lsp is a first class citizen in neovim is very usable with little modification.

It will never be a ctrl+p install away from feature X system though. You do have to put some effort in.

New comment by flippinburgers in "6 days to change 1 line of code (2015)"

flippinburgers — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 20:47:14 +0000

Working on codebases - like rails without rubocop - is not something I would like to consider. There is already too much variability in how people code.

New comment by flippinburgers in "Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm"

flippinburgers — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 20:37:09 +0000

Regarding burnout I know individuals in the medical field who wish they could control their schedules by reducing the number of clients per day, but they simply are not allowed to because leadership expects them to turn certain levels of profit.

New comment by flippinburgers in "COSMIC DE: Desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros"

flippinburgers — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 08:17:03 +0000

I use pop os and for some nearly insanity level reason highlighting is VERY janky. It often looses focus, switches the start point, completely becomes unavailable, and generally has nearly driven me to go insane.

Maybe it is my mouse but I kinda doubt it.

New comment by flippinburgers in "A Japanese factory that designs clothes on a 40-year-old computer [video]"

flippinburgers — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:13:55 +0000

This is really beautiful.

New comment by flippinburgers in "More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck"

flippinburgers — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:21:45 +0000

I love it. In fact I haven't turned on my PC with the intent to play games since I bought the deck. I highly recommend it particularly if you have a busy schedule and want to be able to jump in and out of a game once in a while.

New comment by flippinburgers in "Get a personal teacher"

flippinburgers — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 01:06:52 +0000

Self evaluating in this way really can push someone to the next level in a skill they are trying to learn! It seems especially effective when learning an instrument.

New comment by flippinburgers in "Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions"

flippinburgers — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 13:44:08 +0000

The reasons? Racism.

New comment by flippinburgers in "Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions"

flippinburgers — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 13:38:27 +0000

Sounds good to me.

New comment by flippinburgers in "Ignoring boys' emotional needs fuels public health risks"

flippinburgers — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:56:34 +0000

So you are opting out because you perceive others as doing something wrong. Ok.

Having a child necessitates raising the child. Rather simple.

New comment by flippinburgers in "Gopher Wrangling: Effective error handling in Go"

flippinburgers — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 09:58:48 +0000

Man I definitely handle errors the "wrong way" in almost all go code I have written. I take a "log immediately with filename and line number" approach. For me, it works. For teams maybe not. For large codebases with a bunch of 'I am a "programmer" (because it makes me loads of cash) individuals', it is definitely not a good idea. It requires discipline. Personally I hate stack traces.

New comment by flippinburgers in "Dating, education, and sex ratios"

flippinburgers — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 22:58:53 +0000

I have a younger sibling who is much younger than me. I would have to disagree and say that they are hypersensitive about conflicting opinions to the point that it could destroy a relationship to have an argument about the wrong subject.

New comment by flippinburgers in "In praise of blowing up your life"

flippinburgers — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 12:38:32 +0000

As if.

New comment by flippinburgers in "In praise of blowing up your life"

flippinburgers — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 11:09:11 +0000

I have to agree. For those people who have loving families that they can work with - realizing that EVERYONE has differences of opinion - staying near family is the single best thing you can do. You can have kids. Those kids can be around your parents and siblings and other relatives. Honestly it is true living. All else gravitates towards being too self centered.