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New comment by fuzztester in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

fuzztester — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:32:51 +0000

How to Shoot Yourself In the Foot:

https://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~comp03a/misc/humour/shootfoot....

New comment by fuzztester in "Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms"

fuzztester — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:38:41 +0000

For what types of work do you Janet in production?

New comment by fuzztester in "Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)"

fuzztester — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:33:08 +0000

There are many open source compiler and interpreter projects on github.

also:

https://github.com/BaseMax/AwesomeInterpreter

and probably there is one for compilers too.

New comment by fuzztester in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"

fuzztester — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:58:03 +0000

iow, it's the equivalent of your common or garden variety of teenager proclaiming that this new thing they just found is gr8, all else is shite, only to jump on the next bandwagon next week, month, or more rarely, year.

New comment by fuzztester in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"

fuzztester — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:54:59 +0000

>It’s the new “…on the blockchain”.

yes, except it's more ... on the same lines, just to hammer the point home:

it's web 2, it's SaaS, it's the latest weekly, er, sorry, daily, hottest JS framework, its the latest rap / punk / hippie / dreadlock / crewcut / swami / grunge/ guru hairstyle, it's agile, it's functional programming, it's OOP, it's OOAD, it's UML, its the Unix philosophy, its Booch notation, it's CASE tools, ... going back even further, it's structured programming, it's high-level languages, it's assemblers, its veganism, it's the keto diet, it's the Atkins diet, it's the paleo diet, it's cholesterol is bad, no, it's good, etc etc etc.

New comment by fuzztester in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

fuzztester — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:02:22 +0000

Lincoln?

New comment by fuzztester in "Men who stare at walls"

fuzztester — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:03:08 +0000

tl;dr ;)

pascal long letter quote

https://www.socratic-method.com/quote-meanings/blaise-pascal...

New comment by fuzztester in "Fuck you, pay me" by mike monteiro"

fuzztester — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:40:20 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854512

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856361

Fuck you, pay me" by mike monteiro

fuzztester — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:40:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856387

Points: 1

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New comment by fuzztester in "Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?"

fuzztester — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:36:47 +0000

Been there, seen that, got the t-shirt (and the scars), for many of the above points.

The kill fee idea, I got from this video:

"fuck you, pay me" by mike monteiro

https://youtu.be/jVkLVRt6c1U

New comment by fuzztester in "Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?"

fuzztester — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:07:08 +0000

>You need to stay on top of things and communicate regularly, even if your client doesn't.

you have to tell them that they have to communicate regularly too. otherwise, how can business be done. how can issues be sorted out. they will blame you for the issues later, although they did not discuss them with you. aka cya syndrome.

if they continue not to do it, you should fire them. or use reverse signoff protocol.

"we mutually agreed at the start of this engagement, that if you don't sign off on acceptance of a given deliverable within x days, it is understood that you have accepted it and will pay for it".

If it happens more than once, leave them. it indicates they don't take you seriously.

all such terms should be put in the contract, initially.

if they don't agree to such mutually protective terms, don't sign the contract at all.

Negotiate a kill fee for the contract too.

New comment by fuzztester in "Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?"

fuzztester — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:56:09 +0000

>I would absolutely not offer freebies. That telegraphs desperation. Instead, offer a free initial consultation for a 1 hour meeting,

that is still a freebie, though, by definition. if you offer anything for free, it is a freebie.

and, offering a freebie does not necessarily signal desperation. i am not saying that one should not offer freebies, or even that one should. it all depends. and many variations are possible.

For example, escrow, via a services marketplace.

New comment by fuzztester in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

fuzztester — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:41:33 +0000

And I bet emacs has a mode for that too.

New comment by fuzztester in "Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package"

fuzztester — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:59:30 +0000

I've heard it's called falling, er, failing upwards.

New comment by fuzztester in "NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed"

fuzztester — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:05:26 +0000

got it, thanks.

New comment by fuzztester in "Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE"

fuzztester — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:47:28 +0000

looks like slashdot effect is ongoing for the site.

New comment by fuzztester in "The Om Programming Language"

fuzztester — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:26:37 +0000

thanks, all.

New comment by fuzztester in "The Om Programming Language"

fuzztester — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:25:28 +0000

thanks.

New comment by fuzztester in "I baked a pie every day for a year"

fuzztester — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:24:41 +0000

355 / 113

( = 3.1415929204 )

is one approximation I have read about, attributed by some, to ancient or medieval Indian or Chinese mathematicians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_pi

New comment by fuzztester in "The Om Programming Language"

fuzztester — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:06:06 +0000

How does it do the proving?