Hacker News: icodemuch

New comment by icodemuch in "Did Automattic commit open source theft?"

icodemuch — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 18:10:23 +0000

This seems like a pretty damning indictment of Automattic. The WordPress foundation (that they presumably set up) may have rules that give them legal cover for some of the moves they’re making, but it’s going to hurt them in the court of public opinion. I think that matters to developers, who are the people ultimately responsible for choosing whether or not to contribute to / use their product. It’s true that migration cost might prevent churn from these actions right now but stopping the train of logic there seems short sighted. What about all the business that they may have received in the future that they might not get now because they’ve tarnished their brand?

New comment by icodemuch in "The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs"

icodemuch — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 15:57:50 +0000

I read the article as acknowledging this pressure by arguing that Weird Nerds should not be forced into people management positions. Without the workplace pressure on Weird Nerds to become people managers, would they still manage people? Maybe not.

I can’t speak for academia, but in tech companies I’ve worked at I’ve seen a marked improvement in management when there’s a tech track for engineer advancement such that they never need to become managers, if they don’t want.

Ask HN: Is it safe to update to macOS Catalina (10.15.3)?

icodemuch — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 20:37:17 +0000

When Catalina first came out, HN was flooded with articles about how bad it was. Now, a few weeks later, is it safe to update my mac? I've backed up everything, but would still hate to have my personal laptop performing on a subpar level when I need it for photoshop, iterm2, xcode, firefox, etc.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21517892

Points: 9

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New comment by icodemuch in "macOS Catalina"

icodemuch — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:59:40 +0000

Thanks for the heads up! I was just about to update. Didn’t see anything about the 32/64 bit thing in the update release..

New comment by icodemuch in "A Collection of Dev Checklists"

icodemuch — Sun, 19 May 2019 07:41:44 +0000

500 server error on most checklists

New comment by icodemuch in "Understanding real-world concurrency bugs in Go"

icodemuch — Fri, 17 May 2019 14:38:04 +0000

I'm just learning Go now and I'm still in the middle of the whole "Go solves concurrency" part. It's nice to get a second opinion

New comment by icodemuch in "Boeing may be now well and truly fucked"

icodemuch — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:21:52 +0000

Site doesn't work for me

New comment by icodemuch in "Refactoring Back End Engineering Hiring at Slack"

icodemuch — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 19:13:23 +0000

It gratifys me in some weird way to know that companies stress out about the recruitment process at least as much as I do

New comment by icodemuch in "Ask HN: We've had Agile, Scrum, Lean Startup. What are current fads?"

icodemuch — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 16:56:27 +0000

Are the current fads not still agile, scrum, and lean?

New comment by icodemuch in "Apple to contribute to U.S. teen's education for spotting FaceTime bug"

icodemuch — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 18:53:47 +0000

Feels like the headline here should be related to bug itself, the amount of privacy it violated, and how long it took Apple to fix it!

Clearly a good PR move for Apple.

New comment by icodemuch in "Browse State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Papers with Code"

icodemuch — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:20:07 +0000

Awesome! Thanks for sharing

New comment by icodemuch in "Australia’s beloved kangaroos are now controversial pests"

icodemuch — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 05:46:08 +0000

Hard to imagine when you haven't seen it in person

New comment by icodemuch in "Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M"

icodemuch — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:12:17 +0000

Hopefully this means that my Fossil Q Wander is going to be on the cutting edge of Google's software updates now. Big fan of this watch by the way, only complaint is that it doesn't led itself to workouts as well as some other watches.

New comment by icodemuch in "Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?"

icodemuch — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 19:24:44 +0000

I've also gone through several iterations including text files, excel and google sheets. My latest approach (and personal favorite) has been the GTD approach with Trello detailed here: https://blog.trello.com/gtd-getting-things-done-maximizing-p...

New comment by icodemuch in "Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probability and statistics (2017)"

icodemuch — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 17:33:15 +0000

Love to see people trying to make topics in math and cs more accessible to a wider audience

New comment by icodemuch in "Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)"

icodemuch — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 21:31:32 +0000

I've been using Sublime since I started and have no complaints. That being said I always hear about emacs referred to as the OG. I know there's positives and negatives to both, but is there any pressing reason to switch from one to the other?

New comment by icodemuch in "Ask HN: Developers, how do you estimate projects and write proposals?"

icodemuch — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 06:34:38 +0000

Googling it comes up with a bunch of calculators to generate time and cost of project, but I don't know how much I'd trust them.. Honestly seems like it comes down mostly to trial and error, and understanding your own process when deciding how long a project might take / cost.

New comment by icodemuch in "Ask HN: How does HN handle trolls?"

icodemuch — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:17:52 +0000

Here's what the guidelines say:

"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, so we ban accounts that do it."

New comment by icodemuch in "Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit"

icodemuch — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:16:49 +0000

So Twitter has finally given up on building for the avg person and begun creating more tools to make life easier for advertisers (ie big money) and they're suddenly more profitable. Shocker!!

New comment by icodemuch in "How to Beat Amazon"

icodemuch — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 23:30:21 +0000

tldr: the only chance you've got to beat Amazon when building a consumer brand is selling a premium product to a specific niche