Hacker News: heyitsdaad

New comment by heyitsdaad in "AMA: I'm Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) & Author of New Bestseller Incorruptible"

heyitsdaad — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:52:33 +0000

Intellectual dishonesty is corruption

New comment by heyitsdaad in "I keep tripping over "true, false, true""

heyitsdaad — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:39:29 +0000

You answered your own question. Call with

const isAdmin = true; . . . createUser(user, isAdmin, sendWelcomeEmail)

New comment by heyitsdaad in "MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packaging for Media over QUIC Transport"

heyitsdaad — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:15:53 +0000

The Internet you are referring to is not meant for low latency streaming. This is what it takes make it low latency. MPEGTS is proven stable and ubiquitous. If only it has less overhead.

New comment by heyitsdaad in "Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)"

heyitsdaad — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:51:39 +0000

Kubernetes networking is an inefficient mess.

New comment by heyitsdaad in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

heyitsdaad — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:09:19 +0000

That’s too young to get married. You never learned to be alone.

Embrace the fact that this is an opportunity: The wall is now empty, you can draw anything you want!

Focus on yourself : Read books, go to gym, eat healthy/cook

To socialize : meetup or equivalent, sports with people/hike

Do not date. Do not get on apps. Do not hook up.

Minimize drinking.

Read psychology and philosophy. Do not read self improvement books.

Give yourself time, it fixes everything.

Once you are happy with the person you have become (i.e. you look back at this post and realize you are at a higher level of consciousness) you can date.

New comment by heyitsdaad in "Do not apologize for replying late to my email"

heyitsdaad — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:06:19 +0000

You are talking to a human and they have feelings.

They feel guilty for not answering sooner and they are letting that known. It makes life beautiful.

New comment by heyitsdaad in "C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)"

heyitsdaad — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:43:43 +0000

First to market is not necessarily the best, case in point: many video sites existed before Youtube, including ones based on Apple Quicktime. But in the end Flash won.

To me it looks like there is a better way to do things and the better one eventually wins.

New comment by heyitsdaad in "The largest number representable in 64 bits"

heyitsdaad — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:49:28 +0000

bits == entropy.

Everything else is word play.

New comment by heyitsdaad in "NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston"

heyitsdaad — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:57:17 +0000

But don’t you think that’s how silly Elon’s rockets look like while they are landing?

New comment by heyitsdaad in "NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston"

heyitsdaad — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:00:31 +0000

1) Build a mobile platform with wheels that starts at the beginning of the runway

2) matches speed with the plane as it enters runway.

3) Plane will “touchdown” on the mobile base gently since speeds are matched.

4) Lock the plane to base and decelerate the base in a controlled manner.

If you can gently lock the base and plane you can even save the plane

New comment by heyitsdaad in "How I estimate work"

heyitsdaad — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:06:42 +0000

Compare this with how customer requests end up in products in startups:

Step 1: Customer <-> Sales/Product (i.e., CEO). Step 2: Product <-> Direct to Engineering (i.e., CTO)

The latency between Step1 and Step2 is 10 minutes. CEO leaves the meeting takes a piss and calls the CTO.

- Simple features take a day: CTO to actual implementation latency depends on how hands on the CTO is. In good startups CTO is the coder. Most features will make its way into the product in days.

- Complex Features take a few days: This is a tug of war between CTO - CEO and indirectly the customer. CTO will push back and try to hit a balance with CEO while the CEO works with the customer to find out what is acceptable. Again latency is measured by days.

Big companies cannot do this and will stifle your growth as an engineer. Get out there and challenge yourselves.

New comment by heyitsdaad in "The fix for a segfault that never shipped"

heyitsdaad — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:18:56 +0000

Things you shouldn’t spend time on in a start up

New comment by heyitsdaad in "Banned C++ features in Chromium"

heyitsdaad — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:23:08 +0000

The “pros” list is exceptionally weak. This was clearly written by someone who doesn’t like exceptions. Can’t blame them.

New comment by heyitsdaad in "Common misunderstandings about large software companies"

heyitsdaad — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 02:34:27 +0000

Spot on. There are disproportionately few people who care for the product. Most people care for making that fat promotion package so they can move up. Both eng and non eng.

New comment by heyitsdaad in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

heyitsdaad — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:11:24 +0000

Frog & Toad is a grown up book disguised as children’s book. I very much enjoyed reading it to my boys.

New comment by heyitsdaad in "Engineering dogmas it's time to retire"

heyitsdaad — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:42:00 +0000

Hard no buddy. Junior dev means junior code and junior judgement. Countless times we had prod issues because some dev thought the change was harmless and they didn't need review.

New comment by heyitsdaad in "Put SSH keys in .git to make repos USB-portable"

heyitsdaad — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:30:12 +0000

Sorry I’m too paranoid about this stuff.

I couldn’t get past ”Paste the private key file id_ed25519 into the .git directory of your current repo,”

New comment by heyitsdaad in "Microservices should form a polytree"

heyitsdaad — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:26:40 +0000

Take Counterexample #2. Add n5 as another arrow from n3. That looks like a legitimate use case to me.

New comment by heyitsdaad in "Show HN: I built Magiclip – an all-in-one AI studio"

heyitsdaad — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 18:58:50 +0000

Anything technically interesting you can share about any of these?

How do you decide on which parts to extract?

What models do you use for the features you listed?

New comment by heyitsdaad in "FileZilla Pro "Perpetual License" – A Warning to All Users"

heyitsdaad — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 23:20:50 +0000

Good faith and common sense is being violated. That’s a valid point here.