Hacker News: jongorer

New comment by jongorer in "Llama3 implemented from scratch"

jongorer — Mon, 20 May 2024 05:57:41 +0000

the nitpicking in this thread is incredible lmao

New comment by jongorer in "Llama3 implemented from scratch"

jongorer — Mon, 20 May 2024 05:55:21 +0000

I must say I find your comment off putting.

New comment by jongorer in "Notesnook – open-source and zero knowledge private note taking app"

jongorer — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:16:48 +0000

Not sure about how "zero knowledge" figures into this; is the app merely E2EE? In which case, it's no different from Evernote?

And there is no open source server component, so you can't host this yourself. And say what you will about Evernote, I trust them to stick around way more than another random notes startup thing.

p.s. not to get too political but it seems like the founder is expressing some problematic views on his twitter account (https://twitter.com/thecodrr). Problematic as in, he's this close to being an outspoken supporter of terrorism and radical Islam.

New comment by jongorer in "The game theory of John von Neumann transformed the 20th century"

jongorer — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 09:38:44 +0000

sounds like you're mad because you don't understand simple game theory (and perhaps also jealous of his mental capacities and/or status?). Mr Neumann wasn't advocating for "genocide" (which is a completely false characterization, if not a hysterical one) as much as he was trying to save the world from much worse fate.

New comment by jongorer in "To Code or to Nocode?"

jongorer — Tue, 03 May 2022 09:17:21 +0000

You’re overestimating the importance of business people. Viewing products from a business point of view inevitably leads to inferior products, as the focus is on purely making money. It’s not about making money or about the synergy of business and development. It’s all about creating useful shit for other people to use. You need domain expertise, good taste, and the ability to create value by building things. Focus on money and you’ll be cutting corners, trying to sell useless shit to people who buy it for others to never use.

New comment by jongorer in "We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the Wolfram Institute"

jongorer — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 07:37:38 +0000

“Witness me”

New comment by jongorer in "Scala at scale at Databricks"

jongorer — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 07:02:36 +0000

While easy to understand, I’m constantly surprised to see this type anti-intellectualism. The fact that you don’t have the required prerequisites to understand a codebase doesn’t mean it’s bad. Educate yourself on Category Theory and functional programming techniques and learn to leverage these tools to your advantage.

Alternatively you can work in Go where braindead simplicity is the mandated norm.

New comment by jongorer in "Ask HN: How to convince big tech team that tests and code quality matter?"

jongorer — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:36:14 +0000

Formal style guidelines and mandatory tests for everything are largely wastes of time and often detrimental to software development.

To elaborate: formal style guides prevent simple things like formatting code in a manner that is easier to read in some cases (“why is this newline here? Why did you column aligned this block of expressions?”), and more insidiously force you to write worse code because they constrict you. Style guidelines should be just that - guidelines and engineers should have the decency to not request stylistic changes during code reviews unless they spot code that is obviously sloppy.

As for tests: insisting on having tests for everything impedes development in the present as well as in the future. More crucially the compulsive desire to have everything testable makes you write worse code as you need to abstract away parts that would simply be function calls or use patterns that obfuscate the code. Some will claim that this results in better designed code, but realistically speaking it just results in more complex code, which is almost always worse. You don’t need to use abstractions everywhere. Developers should focus on making shit work well and not over engineering code because they want to feel smart all the while making rationalizations about testable code and whatnot. I digress though so back to my original point regarding tests: in order for tests to justify their existence they have to test something significant and/or test a module that provides a service (read: hidden behind well defined API, api which you test to ensure that it doesn’t break its “contract”)

New comment by jongorer in "On Pegasus – NSO, Israel, and the World"

jongorer — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 09:04:23 +0000

Yes, this is why subsidiaries in the private sector are useful - when something goes terribly wrong with one, like it did with NSO, it doesn't implicate the whole of Israel/IDF - at least not explicitly.

New comment by jongorer in "Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe"

jongorer — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 05:09:55 +0000

I’ve personally conducted business with Patrick, and integrity isn’t a term I’d associate with him. Most polite term I can think of would be “shrewd”.

New comment by jongorer in "Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe"

jongorer — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 05:05:14 +0000

This is so satisfying to hear. Always happy to see management and recruitment types being used up and hung to dry.

New comment by jongorer in "OpenSimWorld, Directory of the OpenSimulator Metaverse"

jongorer — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 07:59:23 +0000

MORE LIKE YES AMIRITE

New comment by jongorer in "In software, when an engineer exits the team"

jongorer — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 05:29:21 +0000

Whoever wrote this sounds like an awful manager: extremely self-centered and mixes poor rationalizations with pseudo empathy so as to seem as a decent person. In other words, I find that managers with that much... personality are the hardest to manage (harhar!); they can be extremely flippant in their behavior and unpredictable with demands. Maybe they take the job too seriously? You just need to keep push some boxes around on zenhub and send some emails my dude, this isn't the crusade and you sure ain't no knight (lmao).

New comment by jongorer in "Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011)"

jongorer — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 16:08:41 +0000

Have you ever been to uni? Tailgating is performed on a regular basis, even by ppl w/ cards that are too lazy to take them out of their backpacks.

New comment by jongorer in "Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011)"

jongorer — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 16:01:27 +0000

"Sorry, I must've misplaced it somewhere - thanks though I'll make sure to find it now."

New comment by jongorer in "Interview with a ransomware group"

jongorer — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 12:55:04 +0000

what makes you so sure ransomware is "wrong"?

let me rephrase this: do you think corporations are "good"?

New comment by jongorer in "“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”"

jongorer — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 13:38:08 +0000

Vast majority of users don't care for the source code, nor even know what source code is. And personally, as a developer, I never bothered to look at the source code of software I've used, much less fix or extend it - and that goes for all the devs I know personally.

New comment by jongorer in "Diablo II: Resurrected"

jongorer — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 08:37:28 +0000

This is awesome, I've been playing Path of Exile since it released and now I have hope to return to childhood.