Hacker News: ianwalter

New comment by ianwalter in "Claude Code is now available to Pro plans"

ianwalter — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:51:28 +0000

How is that a weird reply? I literally started the sentence with "I".

New comment by ianwalter in "Claude Code is now available to Pro plans"

ianwalter — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:29:23 +0000

I would subscribe to Max if they had a coding agent interface on web like OpenAI's Codex, but without a novel implementation like that the monthly plan doesn't make sense since you can just use API, OpenRouter, etc.

New comment by ianwalter in "Firefox tab groups are here"

ianwalter — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 17:44:12 +0000

Yea crazy how long it took. Zen browser users have been waiting for them to ship this so it can be used in Zen. Of course they announce this the day I switch to Orion.

New comment by ianwalter in "No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones"

ianwalter — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:39:15 +0000

Sure, but because of fintech not as many need to get created. Fintech has made it relatively easy for new entrants to work with partner banks through BaaS platforms.

New comment by ianwalter in "Merry Christmas Everyone"

ianwalter — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 04:52:59 +0000

I guess I never really thought about it, but yea a lot of bangers on that list

New comment by ianwalter in "Merry Christmas Everyone"

ianwalter — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 04:44:16 +0000

Wow what a great set of movies too

New comment by ianwalter in "Continuum – Meet people from all over the world... then kill them"

ianwalter — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:18:21 +0000

Same. I can’t believe this is still a thing.

New comment by ianwalter in "Hired.com Shut Down"

ianwalter — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:05:31 +0000

This makes me sad because not only did I get my current job through Hired, but I’ve also recruited several great software engineers through the platform.

Hired.com Shut Down

ianwalter — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:03:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lhh.com/us/en/hired/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40746030

Points: 2

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New comment by ianwalter in "The danger of the mediocre success when testing startup hypotheses (2023)"

ianwalter — Mon, 13 May 2024 13:00:39 +0000

Everything is a series of battles and campaigns. If the overall war is a mediocre success, you still have plenty to learn from if you're digging into those.

New comment by ianwalter in "Product Roadmap"

ianwalter — Wed, 08 May 2024 19:19:40 +0000

As a software engineering leader I can appreciate the huge amount of work it took you all to get here. It may not be super flashy because you had to start from scratch and get to feature parity with existing platforms, but IMHO Bluesky has the best app and I'm excited about all of the stuff you will add in the future. I'm rooting for you!

New comment by ianwalter in "Product Roadmap"

ianwalter — Wed, 08 May 2024 01:56:25 +0000

I think so. Sure, platforms like Threads have the raw numbers and network effects, but Bluesky has an authentic community, a solid team (Dan Abramov from the React team joining was a surprise), and they are making the right product tradeoffs. I can definitely see them “coming out on top” as the spiritual successor to Twitter in a few years.

New comment by ianwalter in "The worst possible way to be rejected for a job"

ianwalter — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 18:14:52 +0000

Do you have any friends that can go through a mock interview with you? There are also mentorship platforms that offer this as a service. I am biased since I have been on the mentor side of this, but I think they are well worth the money.

New comment by ianwalter in "The worst possible way to be rejected for a job"

ianwalter — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 17:58:19 +0000

Personally I'd blame HR. It's their job to fully think these things through and make sure they are being executed on in a coherent fashion.

New comment by ianwalter in "The worst possible way to be rejected for a job"

ianwalter — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 17:49:53 +0000

Just my opinion as a hiring manager, but there is ZERO chance that these calls have potential to change the outcome.

New comment by ianwalter in "Designer News is dead"

ianwalter — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 04:04:55 +0000

Thanks for writing this. I don't remember why I stopped visiting DN a long time ago, but a reduction in quality content makes sense.

New comment by ianwalter in "The Bun Shell"

ianwalter — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 13:53:59 +0000

Really cool. How would you use config files from other shells like .zshrc? We use direnv and mise to scope binary versions to project directories and just wondering how stuff like that would work.

New comment by ianwalter in "InVision design collaboration services shutdown"

ianwalter — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:12:10 +0000

Wasn't InVision built on something crazy like ColdFusion?

New comment by ianwalter in "Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%"

ianwalter — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 13:12:08 +0000

Yea I understand that, but whats the point of that strategy if users don't want to even subscribe to podcasts in the app because how bad the UI is. It's like they've never used a podcast app before.

New comment by ianwalter in "Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%"

ianwalter — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 12:57:25 +0000

Instead of investing in massive podcaster deals, they should have just focused on integrating podcasts into the app in a sane way. I would pay more if it were as good as Pocket Casts, but it's nowhere close.