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New comment by ikhare in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

ikhare — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:23:20 +0000

We just have to keep calling it out. Lazy thinking has always been an issue, but at least it could be coachable.

New comment by ikhare in "Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly"

ikhare — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 22:59:43 +0000

A long time ago Google used to have a program called "bureaucracy busters," where submissions were reviewed by the CFO to find internal barriers to getting things done.

New comment by ikhare in "Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators"

ikhare — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 04:38:18 +0000

On the topic of calculators. I discovered Figr[1] on HN a while ago, and it really helps when doing one off multi variable thing, like helping a customer estimate their bill etc.

Kudos on building this. I occasionally search for these on Google and am always disappointed by the mess. Bookmarked.

[1] https://www.figr.app/

New comment by ikhare in "Show HN: TalkNotes – A site that turns your ideas into tasks"

ikhare — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 14:26:53 +0000

Nice project! Very polished. It reminds me of a prototype I built a couple years ago: https://github.com/ikhare/just-speak

Awesome to see these ideas turn into real products. Congrats.

New comment by ikhare in "Android features I envy as an iPhone user"

ikhare — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 06:30:06 +0000

I switched back to Pixel after two years of using an iPhone recently. It’s got a lot better phone and text spam detection. I get 5-10 spam calls and texts a day. The iPhone got unusable.

New comment by ikhare in "How Convex Works"

ikhare — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 20:50:39 +0000

Thanks for the kind words. Feel free to share any feedback in the discord community!

New comment by ikhare in "How Convex Works"

ikhare — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 20:48:48 +0000

You can use http directly for your functions [1]. Or you can create custom http actions [2]. We encourage websocket usage because it allows for reactivity and UI consistency and it plays nicely with reactive frontend frameworks like React etc.

[1] https://docs.convex.dev/http-api/#functions-api [2] https://docs.convex.dev/functions/http-actions

New comment by ikhare in "Project Oberon: Design of an operating system, a compiler, and a computer [pdf]"

ikhare — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:00:52 +0000

Back when I took compilers in college we wrote a compiler for Oberon. I couldn’t quite find my original class site, but this one seems roughly right (from a few years before I took the class): https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~wgg/CSE131B/

It was a great teaching language.

New comment by ikhare in "Transaction Isolation in Postgres"

ikhare — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 05:55:07 +0000

When I first learned about isolation levels in databases I was shocked that databases could “lie” to me. I think like most devs focused on the product end I just expected databases to be a magical black box that worked perfectly. Which I assumed was just the strictest definition of serializability without really thinking about it.

After watching some of Andy Pavlo’s lectures[1] it all just dawned on me: Databases are just like any other piece of code you write and have to think about all the tradeoffs with algorithms and book keeping to keep things efficient and providing the guarantees you want.

I highly recommend that lecture series.

Shameless plug: the reason I watched those lectures was to understand the internals of DBs better because I started working at Convex. Where we try to make sure things like this is something an app developer doesn’t have to worry about. Though we do mention it in our docs[2] for the curious.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWS8LEQAUVc&list=PLSE8ODhjZX... [2] https://docs.convex.dev/database/advanced/occ

New comment by ikhare in "Somafm"

ikhare — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:43:11 +0000

Thanks for the reminder! I’ve been listening to this since sometime in the late 90s early 2000s. I spent so much time focused because of this, and it became a formative part of my music taste in high school.

I am a downtempo person so classic Groove Salad kept me going.

New comment by ikhare in "Convex vs. Firebase"

ikhare — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 21:03:44 +0000

Hey no problem! We’re all trying to make this space better. Thanks for all the work you put into it too!

New comment by ikhare in "Convex vs. Firebase"

ikhare — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 18:20:59 +0000

(I work at Convex)

I was the one of the original TLs of Google Photos, specifically on Android and eventually managed all of the frontend teams for Google Photos. So I hope it's not a stretch to say that I have deep empathy for frontend problems. We also have great frontend oriented folks on the team.

I also worked with jamwt at a previous company (Bump) doing frontend work. When we worked together, I remember the acceleration of our ability to execute when the backend people were closely involved in our data syncing problems. Heck jamwt and team even wrote most of the initial client syncing code. When backend and frontend folks work closely together to solve data problems you can make magical things happen. In the end we're just product oriented engineers trying to ship delightful experiences.

New comment by ikhare in "Google Photos – Can I get out?"

ikhare — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 05:15:34 +0000

The Trash option available while signed in vs. Deleting locally mean different things. The first is moving the file to trash where it can be recovered for a little while, the second is blowing the file away from your file system. We wanted to keep these features distinct and clear.

Though I can understand for those using the app entirely signed out this can be frustrating. Thanks for the feedback. I do hope you sign in however, there are a lot of things available to you signed in that simply don't exist in the signed out view.

New comment by ikhare in "Google Photos – Can I get out?"

ikhare — Sun, 31 May 2015 01:06:34 +0000

You are using the device folders view. Try the default photos view.

New comment by ikhare in "Google Photos – Can I get out?"

ikhare — Sun, 31 May 2015 01:04:18 +0000

You just filed it ;-) We'll fix this soon for local photos.

New comment by ikhare in "One reason I dread Google doc shares"

ikhare — Sat, 24 May 2014 19:47:32 +0000

Chrome has a concept of multiple users in it's preferences. When you turn it on then you can pick an icon per account and it shows up on the top right of the browser window. To switch to a different user click on that and switch to a different user. Each user can sign into a different google account.

Each user has it's own cookies, chrome extensions etc. Keeps work and personal accounts very separate.

New comment by ikhare in "A Programming Hobby"

ikhare — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 15:59:55 +0000

I'd love to hear more. I've been through this more than once and don't have a good answer on how to get out.

How 'Sailing Stones' Move Themselves Across Death Valley

ikhare — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:40:08 +0000

Article URL: http://m.core77.com/blog/transportation/scientist_figures_out_how_those_big-ass_sailing_stones_move_themselves_across_death_valley_25038.asp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5874615

Points: 8

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New comment by ikhare in "Ask HN: Am I committing career suicide?"

ikhare — Tue, 28 May 2013 06:34:05 +0000

People here have given great motivating responses. But In don't think anyone has answered the whether it would be hard to get an job again after a big gap if you decide to get one again. It seems like you want to continue coding in some form, so really there will be no gap of experience in your resume.

If anything finding people who have built products themselves and put them out there is great to see and are hugely valuable to an enlightened organization. Whenever I interview people this is always a fun part of the conversation. I find that those people are very likely to be tuned to building great products and are the kind of people I want to work with.

New comment by ikhare in "Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo"

ikhare — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:33:10 +0000

I can easily imagine what some of the dependency management issues could be, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on the following two options:

In the Java world there is a concept of a .war file which packages everything up so it's easy to deploy on app servers that handle it like: Tomcat or Jetty.

Also what's wrong with giving out a prebuilt virtual image for a single server install? Github enterprise does this.