Hacker News: jasebell

New comment by jasebell in "Why Clojure?"

jasebell — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:01:35 +0000

Done me fine for the last decade. Along with all the other languages that kept me in employment. I still use it daily.

New comment by jasebell in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

jasebell — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:23:04 +0000

I absolutely loved it!

Gave me the old ZX Spectrum vibes when I first started, that adds to the charm.

More of this please!

New comment by jasebell in "Stack Analyser: detect technologies used inside a repo"

jasebell — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:40:23 +0000

Does anyone remember SpikeSource?

New comment by jasebell in "Show HN: SmokeScanner – Using cigarette price arbitrage to find free flights"

jasebell — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 05:13:34 +0000

Could the code be open sourced? I care about whiskey much more.

New comment by jasebell in "Seinfeld Law"

jasebell — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 08:24:38 +0000

I can provide slap bass if anyone needs it while reading.

New comment by jasebell in "Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves performance"

jasebell — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 09:15:13 +0000

If you career depended on it then you'd be nowhere near a LLM.

There are so many pointless waffle papers on LLMs now.

New comment by jasebell in "[dead]"

jasebell — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 20:23:16 +0000

I've only seen one article predicting this. Bankruptcy means different things in different countries, so assuming a restructure of finance and payment of suppliers.

Still interesting to me. Is the AI winter coming (again)?

New comment by jasebell in "The rise and fall of Birchbox, the startup valued at nearly $500M has vanished"

jasebell — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 07:07:08 +0000

If you had access to the suppliers then it was an easy concept to copy. Those with the marketing budget were then going to be the winners.

That aside it was an interesting exercise of the combinatorial optimisation problem at scale.

New comment by jasebell in "The digital pound: A new form of money for households and businesses?"

jasebell — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 11:22:54 +0000

Do away with cash and track everything. It's not a good look.

New comment by jasebell in "Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes"

jasebell — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 06:25:43 +0000

Nice work. Are you going to write a blog post on the process. Would love to read it.

New comment by jasebell in "Finally, a Fast Algorithm for Shortest Paths on Negative Graphs"

jasebell — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 19:32:05 +0000

Definitely worth looking at, the Bellman-Ford algorithm can traverse negative edges but is slower than Dijkstra's.

An interesting read!

New comment by jasebell in "If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off"

jasebell — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 22:16:31 +0000

First place I heard that question was on a Jasper Carrott concert from the late 70s. :)

New comment by jasebell in "Ask HN: Am I the only one not caring about GitHub Copilot?"

jasebell — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:15:58 +0000

Not looked, can't see me looking at this rate.

New comment by jasebell in "What it feels like to be bullied out of a job you love"

jasebell — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 11:39:30 +0000

Years and years ago I worked at an organisation where I was expected to role play Dungeons and Dragons (polystyrene swords and all). When I refused it got tense.

The tipping point happened when I found a bug in the CTO's database code and it would run out of memory (not closing JDBC ResultSets). Then I started finding coins on the floor, I'd just pick them up and hand them in, I knew what was going on.

I didn't last long, glad I was ejected when I was.

New comment by jasebell in "Kelly Criterion"

jasebell — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 17:49:08 +0000

Fortune’s Forumla by William Poundstone is an excellent book. Edward Thorpe has most of his papers published too, they’re all good for a read [though I cannot be held responsible if you’re going to beat the dealer at Blackjack, I don’t need Kelly to know how that will turn out :)]

New comment by jasebell in "Too small to Kafka but too big to wait: Really simple streaming in Clojure"

jasebell — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 14:47:57 +0000

No I haven't but I appreciate the headsup. It's been a few years since I even looked at anything on Azure in all honesty.

New comment by jasebell in "Too small to Kafka but too big to wait: Really simple streaming in Clojure"

jasebell — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 09:33:35 +0000

Right now it does, later on it won't. Then it moves to Kafka.

New comment by jasebell in "Too small to Kafka but too big to wait: Really simple streaming in Clojure"

jasebell — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 09:32:31 +0000

It does ignore fault tolerance yes I agree, because right now I don't need it. When you're bootstrapping this stuff you want to be as lean as you can. The plan is to move to Kafka, which I do use a lot btw, when there's a case to move to that level of throughput. If I had my way now I'd use Kafka, my wallet on the other hand disagrees.

I know the reason for needing three machines for a Kafka cluster. And I'm certainly not pitching Durable Queue as a Kafka alternative unless, as in my case, the throughput will be so low in the initial stages as not to warrant a full Kafka cluster.

I could have run Kafka on a single node.....

The "a bit like Kafka", weak yeah it is but the solution posted presented a fairly quick way to establish a queue and decouple messaging from the running application, that was the whole point.