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New comment by jnash in "America's advanced manufacturing problem and how to fix it"

jnash — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 05:42:39 +0000

Nope. CEO's tend to be on the board of each others companies, making sure that there is never any argument over CEO compensation.

New comment by jnash in "America's advanced manufacturing problem and how to fix it"

jnash — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 05:41:29 +0000

> The stock price is essentially the fair market value of the company

That is something some people choose to believe to be true. The same way some people choose to believe that God (or a number of Gods) exist.

New comment by jnash in "ChatGPT Isn't Coming for Your Coding Job"

jnash — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 05:39:22 +0000

Agree. I haven't seen any examples of ChatGPT that might make me want to use it for my job. Yes if you are an inexperienced programmer (or just not very competent) then it might help you get something working I guess?

Abella: A System for Reasoning about Relational Specifications (2014)

jnash — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 03:51:16 +0000

Article URL: https://jfr.unibo.it/article/view/4650/4137

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33030695

Points: 1

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New comment by jnash in "Jonathan Blow: Software Is in Decline"

jnash — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 04:48:49 +0000

Jonathan Blow is full of it. Seriously. The amount of time he spends self promoting and telling everybody how to do things is jaw dropping. He is a good puzzle game designer. That doesn't mean that he is good at anything else.

New comment by jnash in "Ask HN: Have you ever inherited a code base you thought was well done?"

jnash — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 01:15:47 +0000

You have to be really arrogant to assume that you know within 5 minutes of looking at somebody else's code that you know how to do it "better".

I am sure you know how to do it differently, and more like how you prefer to do it, but that is not the same thing at all.

Legacy software is successful software. You are never asked to maintain failed software. Only software that is successfully generating $ years after it was originally developed.

So be humble. Show a bit of respect. And don't automatically assume that you are some super genius who knows how to do everything better.

And remember that other equally unenlightened developers will look at your code and go WTF and complain about how crap your code is. Don't be like them.

New comment by jnash in "Ask HN: Is there any worthwhile management training out there?"

jnash — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 01:53:06 +0000

Study history. More specifically the management techniques used by the Royal Navy when it was at its peak.

New comment by jnash in "Malcolm Gladwell opposes WFH while he works from his couch for the last 20 years"

jnash — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 01:33:01 +0000

Who cares what Malcolm Gladwell thinks? @dang is this really worthy of HN? There is nothing new here. Just the same old WFH discussion that we have had so many times on HN.

New comment by jnash in "The cost of diabetes"

jnash — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 04:35:05 +0000

You can reverse type 2 diabetes. Doctors in Australia, the UK and the US have done that for decades by recommending low carb diets.

New comment by jnash in "Have Scientists Been Wrong About Alzheimer’s for Decades?"

jnash — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 04:33:47 +0000

I suspect so. There is more and more anecdotal evidence that Alzheimer's and other similar diseases are cause by insulin resistance in the brain. However there is unfortunately no gold standard double blind research out there to confirm/deny it yet.

New comment by jnash in "Quitting job to focus full time on your hustle, what did/does it take for you?"

jnash — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 01:25:36 +0000

9 in 10 businesses fail within the first year. And another 9 in 10 fail the following years. The odds aren't great. Also now your customers are your boss. You don't necessarily have more freedom.

New comment by jnash in "What can $100k get you nowadays?"

jnash — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 03:07:43 +0000

Apparently quite a few nutritional research papers claiming that whatever "food" products you are selling is "safe".

New comment by jnash in "Ask HN: Why wasn't Vagrant widely adopted by open source projects?"

jnash — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 01:36:53 +0000

I build my software all the time using a normal boring build system. What's the problem here?

New comment by jnash in "You Don't Need Microservices"

jnash — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 01:35:44 +0000

Nothing magically makes microservices good or bad. Nothing magically makes monoliths good or bad. It all depends on how good the developers are. However it is objectively a fact that microservides are inherently more complex than monoliths. You basically take a monolith and add encode/decoding, network latency delays, no global commits, potential timing issues, partly-failed system scenarios, new types of distributed error conditions etc. to the mix. So there is zero upside to using microservices IMHO.

New comment by jnash in "You Don't Need Microservices"

jnash — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 01:31:58 +0000

Microservices can most definitely be tightly coupled. The same way that most OOP code I have seen is a spiderweb of tight dependencies. I bet that code you think is loosely coupled probably isn't. Most developers have no clue what "loosely coupled" actually means.

New comment by jnash in "You Don't Need Microservices"

jnash — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 01:27:59 +0000

Everything you claim is unproven and pure speculation. However what is proven to be true is that thousands of developers all over the world can effectively work on massive monoliths (like Linux and Windows) without using microservices.

New comment by jnash in "You Don't Need Microservices"

jnash — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 01:26:34 +0000

What problems are solved better with microservices? Serious question.

New comment by jnash in "You Don't Need Microservices"

jnash — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 01:25:51 +0000

Nope. 95% of SaaS products out there use monoliths not microservices. For good reasons.

New comment by jnash in "You Don't Need Microservices"

jnash — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 01:24:54 +0000

Thousands of developers use libraries and not microservices to implement Linux and Windows. If they can do it so can you. So no that is not correct.

New comment by jnash in "You Don't Need Microservices"

jnash — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 01:23:49 +0000

Nope. Each team is responsible for a library. The monolith is composed by combining those libraries into a single application. It gives you all the benefits without the disadvantages (no encode/decode/network latency, easy rollback, easy transactions management etc. etc. etc.)