Hacker News: guftagu

New comment by guftagu in "A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon"

guftagu — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:36:32 +0000

We went to university together, had a semi-romantic friendship before as well. I always liked her and I thought she liked me back too but after graduating I was focused on other stuff, wasn't actively looking for a relationship. Hence the gap.

New comment by guftagu in "A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon"

guftagu — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:53:12 +0000

When I proposed to my wife, I met her after a couple of years and didn't know at the time if she was seeing someone. I nudged the conversation towards that topic and once I found out that she isn't, I literally proposed to her in office jargon. I said, "So if the vacancy is still available, can I apply?". She said yes, and we got married eventually but she still isn't too happy about that proposal line.

New comment by guftagu in "Aeropress – Why is a simple coffee maker such a hit?"

guftagu — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 08:47:15 +0000

You can definitely re-use the paper filters around least 3 times before throwing them away.

New comment by guftagu in "Off-Facebook activity"

guftagu — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:58:21 +0000

Emby doesn’t have good apps for as many platforms as plex does. I use plex on my PS4 where Emby doesn’t have an app.

New comment by guftagu in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)"

guftagu — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 11:54:35 +0000

Sorry, but on second thought this reply only lists the negative side of my experience. On the positive side, CataWiki has been excellent in communication and sharing feedback throughout the process and they have a really nice office and great culture. Definitely a place I could see myself working at so the company itself is not bad, just that the whiteboard part of the interview process could be improved/replaced.

New comment by guftagu in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)"

guftagu — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 11:43:40 +0000

Recently applied at CataWiki and aced the actual coding problem, but was later rejected because I failed the 2 hours whiteboard part of the interview. I have to say, those hours in front of the whiteboard are really not pleasant and I would have performed much better if I had real-life problems to solve using real-life tools.

New comment by guftagu in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2019)"

guftagu — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 11:38:01 +0000

Location: Tallinn, Estonia Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: typescript, node.js, react, ruby on rails (lots of small experiences in other technologies) Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmadarsalan/ Email: contact@arsalan{dot}me

I've spent most of my career (4.5+ years) in early stage startups and now I'm looking to move to a mid-sized company preferably working on a product having a positive effect on the world.

New comment by guftagu in "Reading privileged memory with a side-channel"

guftagu — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 05:47:28 +0000

Guys, can't we just detect a program doing spectre-like behavior and just kill it instead of having every other application suffer a performance hit by the proposed changes? Antivirus software already does similar stuff

New comment by guftagu in "TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds"

guftagu — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 16:41:05 +0000

It seems like they support every model but exactly mine. I'm running TP-LINK TL-WR845N

New comment by guftagu in "Why Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016)"

guftagu — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 08:57:39 +0000

I develop an application that has a SPA frontend and an API backend. They can love inside separate repos but I prefer to keep them together because if I change the API signature, I'll also make the same changes in the frontend and they will deploy together at once.

New comment by guftagu in "Django 2.0 released"

guftagu — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 06:24:54 +0000

I'd wait for the ecosystem to mature before building a business app with Phoenix. You never know what taken for granted library is missing in Elixir, and it's going to be damn hard to hire a developer experienced with Phoenix. Everyone on your team will be slow and will be making a steady stream of mistakes as they learn the framework

New comment by guftagu in "Can a Human See a Single Photon? (1996)"

guftagu — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 11:54:03 +0000

How do the waves have inertia then? We know for a fact that photons exert force in the surface they strike

New comment by guftagu in "Saying Goodbye to Firebug"

guftagu — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 04:47:24 +0000

I'm debugging a symphony app that sends out error messages as full fledged HTML pages with bells and whistles. Previously I could see the rendered version of the HTML in firefox by going to the Preview tab after selecting the request but a short while back they removed this feature. I am now forced to use Chrome for debugging. I can't see the point of Forgot dev edition of they have to remove useful dev features from it.

New comment by guftagu in "Problems with MacBook butterfly switch keyboards"

guftagu — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 17:39:07 +0000

But where would I find all my apps like Evernote, Skype, Numi, Tyke, Alfred etc. ?

New comment by guftagu in "Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile"

guftagu — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 16:56:22 +0000

Yeah, I won a WOWZAPP competition by making an HTML5 game in 2 days, wrapping it up in a Windows 8 app and publishing it to store. I got a Lumia 800 for it which ran Windows phone 7. When they already had Windows 8 devices out and the competition was to make Windows 8 apps. I still don't know what they expected me to do with this obsolete phone.

That phone was useless to me because there were literally no apps on the Windows 7 store. When I tried to sell it few days later, no one was even willing to consider it and I had to sell it for peanuts.

New comment by guftagu in "Apple and Qualcomm’s Billion-Dollar War Over an $18 Part"

guftagu — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 18:10:23 +0000

The title is too clickbaity to resist

New comment by guftagu in "Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch"

guftagu — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 03:39:52 +0000

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

New comment by guftagu in "It’s Okay to “Forget” What You Read"

guftagu — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 08:46:50 +0000

I have watched Apocalypto 3 times with a difference of 3-4 years. Each time I felt I was watching a completely different movie. Last time I watched it I saw it as a masterpiece in film art.

New comment by guftagu in "Launch HN: Dropleaf (YC S17) – subscription service for indie PC games"

guftagu — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 18:15:14 +0000

Sadly I think game developers will now optimize towards wasting as much times as possible without convincing the user to quit. Longer loading times, more cut scenes, more fluff essentially.

Short games with a small but great single player story campaign will die out against the rocket leagues.

New comment by guftagu in "Slight Street Sign Modifications Can Fool Machine Learning Algorithms"

guftagu — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 17:31:34 +0000

What do you think will happen when it (inevitably) gets hacked?