Hacker News: grigjd3

New comment by grigjd3 in "They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia"

grigjd3 — Sun, 12 May 2019 15:06:16 +0000

This is largely true in any field.

New comment by grigjd3 in "Turnover Hits Apple’s Famed Industrial Design Team"

grigjd3 — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 05:24:52 +0000

I mean, know what you're walking into, but if you have that, then yeah. My family makes me risk averse. No complaints. Happy as is, you can chase after whatever, as long as you're vaguely relevant in the field.

New comment by grigjd3 in "I'm Against Podcasts"

grigjd3 — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 16:27:10 +0000

I don't get it. This guy can feel free to not listen to podcasts. It's not killing music by any stretch of the imagination. I still find plenty of bars and restaurants that annoy me with having a local band play that I don't really want to listen to. There really is nothing forcing you to identify and listen to podcasts.

New comment by grigjd3 in "Apple said Qualcomm’s tech was no good, but privately it was ‘the best’"

grigjd3 — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 04:25:33 +0000

The difference is the supporting documents found by Qualcomm during discovery. Internal Apple documents stated that Apple was actively trying to portray Qualcomm's patents as inferior by going to other providers.

New comment by grigjd3 in "Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attributed to a checklist"

grigjd3 — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 01:28:02 +0000

Where do you work, so that I know to avoid it? Documentation needs updating as things change.

New comment by grigjd3 in "Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attributed to a checklist"

grigjd3 — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 01:26:00 +0000

Maintaining checklists in documentation for software design reduces mistakes dramatically. Writing step-by-step exacting build instructions for one of our core products reduced the annoying requests for help I got dramatically.

New comment by grigjd3 in "The Coming Desert"

grigjd3 — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 01:17:44 +0000

I'm glad you found the writing style pleasant. I found it grating and self-indulgent.

New comment by grigjd3 in "Mathematica Version 12 Released"

grigjd3 — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:48:20 +0000

A shrink-wrapped version of the instant API that could be installed on a server would be a good product.

New comment by grigjd3 in "Mathematica Version 12 Released"

grigjd3 — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:33:10 +0000

Associations came very late to Mathematica (version 10 if I remember right) and the whole of the tools in Mathematica had to be converted over. The result was incomplete.

New comment by grigjd3 in "The Indictment of Julian Assange Is a Threat to Journalism"

grigjd3 — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 00:20:35 +0000

I don't know what planet you live on, but there is plenty of publicly owned property that I have no access to. If you think otherwise, just try randomly walking onto a military base that does not allow visitation. You may argue what you feel is morally right, but any actual adult has realized that morally right does not equate to the law.

New comment by grigjd3 in "JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016)"

grigjd3 — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:40:10 +0000

The lack of comments is a problem. The rest seems whiney to me, but sometimes I need to leave notes for other developers as reminders.

New comment by grigjd3 in "US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums"

grigjd3 — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 22:01:44 +0000

Your health insurance company listens to you? Mine just constantly tries to wriggle out of paying.

New comment by grigjd3 in "Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job"

grigjd3 — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 05:49:31 +0000

Don't know why someone is entitled to a particular career. Change can be hard but I certainly wasn't ever promised an easy life.

New comment by grigjd3 in "Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job"

grigjd3 — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 05:26:09 +0000

I have my doubts. Maybe a bootcamp can prep someone to make apps (though I know very little about mobile app development), but at least in my job, I need a pretty in-depth understanding of how technology works. It's not enough to have used Spark a few times but I really need to know what it's good at and what it lacks and I need this understanding across all my tools. I need to know at least the basics of the implementation and to have that understanding across all my tools, I have to have a pretty strong theoretical grounding that I just don't see the bootcamps providing. Like maybe a few really bright people figure that out while in bootcamp, but I suspect most don't.

New comment by grigjd3 in "You Are Not Google (2017)"

grigjd3 — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 23:55:48 +0000

You were able to find documentation? Where do you work?

New comment by grigjd3 in "You Are Not Google (2017)"

grigjd3 — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 23:46:54 +0000

So I've worked with AWS and with our internal clusters as a dev. My experience has been that I have to make work-arounds for both, but at least with AWS, I don't have to spell out commands explicitly to the junior PEs.

EDIT: I should be clear, our PEs are generally pretty good, but because their product isn't seen by upper management as the thing which makes money, they're perpetually understaffed.

New comment by grigjd3 in "Filing Your Taxes Is an Expensive Time Sink. That’s Not an Accident"

grigjd3 — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 15:13:08 +0000

I was particularly entertained by the tax forms this year. The 1040 is now only half a page, but there are several other required forms that didn't exist last year.

New comment by grigjd3 in "Base salaries offered to software engineers in SF, NYC, and Seattle"

grigjd3 — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:10:18 +0000

So I work in a cheaper location for one of these companies and while I get paid a bit less, it's so much cheaper to live here that I can pocket a lot more.

New comment by grigjd3 in "Base salaries offered to software engineers in SF, NYC, and Seattle"

grigjd3 — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 23:45:46 +0000

I find Big O to be useful when designing solutions just to be able to quickly decide what data structures are appropriate for a task, though, admittedly, this doesn't come up that often.

New comment by grigjd3 in "On Being a Free Software Maintainer"

grigjd3 — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 15:18:45 +0000

I think the worst experiences are always what stands out in peoples' minds.