Hacker News: isakkeyten

New comment by isakkeyten in "Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn"

isakkeyten — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:40:11 +0000

> (unlike Signal)

Well Tucker Carlson also said he used Signal and his messages were leaked by the government so yeah...

New comment by isakkeyten in "I love programming but I hate the programming industry"

isakkeyten — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 21:17:53 +0000

I wish I had this corporate experience. We focus on finesse, abstractions, witty or beautiful code. I keep being forced to optimise things that we haven't measured, add new lines to places to make the code pretty, rename variables, functions and avoid using Javascript arrays and use the "more performant" sets, etc etc.

All of this at the price of the god damn feature never being able to land and my PR staying in limbo for weeks.

But this is just another end of the spectrum I guess.

New comment by isakkeyten in "Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?"

isakkeyten — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 22:52:04 +0000

I've been on the other side of this. Big company was under the impression they could ultimately save money by switching from an enterprise ERP solution that costed them hundres of thousands of dollars in licences with an inhouse one. The only problem was the ERP was carrying 90% of the company on it's shoulders and this would've been a horribly large task. I worked on it for 2 years with incompentent managers and slow progress. After I left the company they continued for another 2 and then quit that endevour. Wasting a shitload of money (think 10 devs + managers for 4 years...).

New comment by isakkeyten in "JavaScript state machines and statecharts"

isakkeyten — Tue, 16 May 2023 12:18:47 +0000

There you are.

New comment by isakkeyten in "Meta plans to lay off 10k employees"

isakkeyten — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 14:41:36 +0000

I was once contacted for an interview by the company I was leaving during my notice period :)

New comment by isakkeyten in "Why would anyone need JavaScript generator functions?"

isakkeyten — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 15:16:39 +0000

Be careful. You will summon acemarke with this comment.

New comment by isakkeyten in "Drone downed in Zagreb is not Ukrainian – adviser to defense minister"

isakkeyten — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 15:47:26 +0000

I don't think that's it champ. Croatians don't have the "Я" letter.

New comment by isakkeyten in "“Zero fucks given” in other languages"

isakkeyten — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 09:36:39 +0000

In Macedonian we say "ne me boli kur" or the more prevalent "me boli kur" which mean "my dick does not hurt" or the latter more ironic version "my dick hurts".

New comment by isakkeyten in "Show HN: Code Hike – More than syntax highlighting"

isakkeyten — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 10:35:59 +0000

Right? I'm 99% sure this thing uses https://github.com/shikijs/shiki

New comment by isakkeyten in "A Visual Guide to React Rendering"

isakkeyten — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 07:20:49 +0000

Hate to be that guy but redux is not a react library, you are talking about the react-redux library which are bindings for react to redux.

So you don't hate redux, you hate how react binds to it.

New comment by isakkeyten in "Inside a viral website"

isakkeyten — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:52:32 +0000

This is actually a well done web app in my opinion. You can disable javascript and the app loads just fine. JS is used as a progressive enhancement to hydrate. Probably uses something like NextJS in the background. The HTML with inlined critical styles load in ~40ms on my internet. Sure it could be "better" in terms of TTI from the JS side but at what cost?

New comment by isakkeyten in "Show HN: Sqwok – A low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit and Twitter"

isakkeyten — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 20:49:25 +0000

Tbh it's very hard on the eyes.

New comment by isakkeyten in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

isakkeyten — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 12:03:55 +0000

A law is only dealing with the consequences, it's not prevention.

New comment by isakkeyten in "What language do people speak in the Balkans, anyway? (2019)"

isakkeyten — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 23:55:55 +0000

> Macedonian is just a dialect of Bulgarian language.

Yeah no.

New comment by isakkeyten in "Why we decided against GraphQL for local state management"

isakkeyten — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 20:48:25 +0000

He's been doing it for a while now. I believe he has setup some google alerts on the words 'redux | thunks | sagas' and he just brings his redux toolkit gospel along. And not just on this site, like, everywhere. Dev.to, reddit, twitter...

I've confronted him once but to no avail, I even got downvoted by the community. :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/fvuwpl/handling_si...

edit: i see that's happening to you too here lol, godspeed

New comment by isakkeyten in "Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn"

isakkeyten — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:47:59 +0000

That's the opposite of my experience but I'm assuming it's just more used where I'm from. I've gotten 3/3 of my job positions in these past 4 years by recruiters finding me instead of me looking for them. And I was a junior then. I still get contacts and offers in messages and get a connection request or two on the daily by HR people.

New comment by isakkeyten in "Reflections on the color of my skin"

isakkeyten — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 08:22:05 +0000

With risk to sound controversial but since when is not having a single black person in a team considered a indicator of a negative view towards black people? Would you rather they have a token black person to avoid this?

New comment by isakkeyten in "Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus"

isakkeyten — Thu, 21 May 2020 23:02:53 +0000

Or are we dancer?

New comment by isakkeyten in "Comparing Ember Octane and React"

isakkeyten — Tue, 12 May 2020 12:22:15 +0000

From a perspective of someone who codes react, what i dont like in ember:

- this this this, so many this keywords

- not a fan of decorators

- constructor and super

- mutability (unless it hides an immutable nature)

- hbs feels weirder to me than jsx

- the fact that you have yet another filetype in your code means even the tiniest components MUST be in more than 1 file, react lets you choose (edit: i rushed, seems there are template literals one can use)

New comment by isakkeyten in "Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help"

isakkeyten — Tue, 05 May 2020 07:56:13 +0000

But what is good code? What is bad code? I know what is slow code and what is fast, but not always fast is good and slow bad. So basically, good/bad code is mainly around maintainability. And if you are the only person that maintains it and can maintain it then you only need the code to be 'as good' as your ability to retain the memory of it's structure.