Hacker News: jdmg94

New comment by jdmg94 in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

jdmg94 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:21:49 +0000

you would be amazed at the amount of middle managers who keep failing upwards in organizations like Amazon

New comment by jdmg94 in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

jdmg94 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:05:23 +0000

New comment by jdmg94 in "Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial"

jdmg94 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:45:50 +0000

"Git is too hard" is never a good argument to promote the use of a different tool. I use git on the terminal exclusively, never had an issue amending a commit or rebasing a branch, or even dealing with conflict resolution most of the time I just use one of the automatic strategies.

New comment by jdmg94 in "Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial"

jdmg94 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:41:31 +0000

I worked with SVN and I hated it, merging branches and dealing with conflict resolution on SVN was like getting stepped on the balls

New comment by jdmg94 in "Amazon RTO policy is costing it top tech talent, according to internal document"

jdmg94 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 03:50:08 +0000

I used to work at Amazon, 3-day RTO was not nice but tolerable, 5-day RTO made half of our senior staff leave. my commute to the office wasn't so bad, but my friends had to drive 1+ hours to the office and then pay $26/day for parking which you only get 50% reimbursed.

Amazon touts "frugality" as one of their core tenets but its hard to reconcile frugality with all the expenses of going to the office.

New comment by jdmg94 in "Jujutsu for everyone"

jdmg94 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 18:05:48 +0000

what does "retrofitting" git implies? I am confused by the agent-specific systems bit.

New comment by jdmg94 in "Show HN: SwiftAI – open-source library to easily build LLM features on iOS/macOS"

jdmg94 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:28:09 +0000

There is no examples or documentation on `CustomLLM` the README file has examples on `SystemLLM` and `OpenaiLLM` but there's no way for us to know if we need to bring in guff files, ollama, hugginface, etc.

New comment by jdmg94 in "Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux"

jdmg94 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:01:27 +0000

Great work! does the CLI support clipboard operations like MacOS' `pbcopy` and `pbpaste` ? I've added it to my stars to keep and eye on the project, GTK4 and wayland support makes it rather futureproof IMO

New comment by jdmg94 in "I've returned to Linux but I miss PowerShell"

jdmg94 — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 15:12:38 +0000

that is a thing that started under Nadella's leadership, during the 90s it was a different story.

New comment by jdmg94 in "Show HN: Clippy – a better pbcopy for macOS that handles files properly"

jdmg94 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:10 +0000

linux compat would've been nice

New comment by jdmg94 in "Google aims to reinvent email with Wave (2009)"

jdmg94 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:55:15 +0000

I was a wave user, barely had any friends in it, but it felt truly revolutionary back then. This started my disillusionment with Google and their products.

New comment by jdmg94 in "Googler... ex-Googler"

jdmg94 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:32:46 +0000

Same thing is happening to me this week at Amazon, I'm just not writing a post about it

New comment by jdmg94 in "Amazon introduces Nova Chat"

jdmg94 — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:33:36 +0000

Amazon likes to force their devs into full stack roles, like they'll hire you for a frontend role and you'll end up writing java. Some teams do recognize the need for specialization, but generally speaking UI at amazon is an afterthought.

New comment by jdmg94 in "Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly"

jdmg94 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 01:19:56 +0000

Good riddance, there's too many layers of management for a company that touts "It's always day 1", and once you become a manager you can only fail upwards.

New comment by jdmg94 in "Google change is breaking some digital photo frames"

jdmg94 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 19:15:17 +0000

after working at Amazon for a couple of years I ended up closing my AWS account

New comment by jdmg94 in "Only 1 in 10 Oracle Java users want to stay with Big Red"

jdmg94 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:14:31 +0000

millions of dollars in shitty legacy Java systems

New comment by jdmg94 in "Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts"

jdmg94 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 05:24:05 +0000

nix is just a package manager, you can install it on other distros, even on macOS. nixOS is the distro based on nix the package manager, hope this helps.

New comment by jdmg94 in "Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle"

jdmg94 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 03:59:10 +0000

mDNS is superior to UPnP, they just made a compounding sum of bad choices that ended up in a bad architecture. I do hope companies start learning that you can't have suit doing running an engineering company

New comment by jdmg94 in "Ghostty 1.0"

jdmg94 — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 19:22:23 +0000

how did you decided on building for arch and NixOS but not for red hat or debian?

New comment by jdmg94 in "Surfer: Open-Source Personal Data Warehouse"

jdmg94 — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 06:13:21 +0000

Great project, is there any plans to add linux support?