Hacker News: junkilo

New comment by junkilo in "The laptop that won't die"

junkilo — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:22:28 +0000

if you know you know: thinkpads do make for happy compute.

fwiw, thinkpad/lenovo isn't the only team* can assemble a pc properly. its just that they tend to keep working even after you drop them and spill coffee on them and come with an escape key. <.<

*] it's really the sub-culture/team behind thinkpads that we appreciate, which ironically isn't normally distributed throughout all of Lenovo.

New comment by junkilo in "How to quit cars"

junkilo — Fri, 19 May 2023 17:08:12 +0000

heres the archive.org link for those just loking to read the article, cheers:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230519170640/https://www.newyo...

New comment by junkilo in "Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news"

junkilo — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 22:35:44 +0000

*NIX is the only viable choice for mission-critical desktop stability in 2023. But that isn't to say Windows isn't feature complete. It is still king when it comes to gaming.

Desktop stability and reliability hasn't been a top-level OKR at Microsoft for many years. The company has been growing more product driven for years and falling victim to roadmaps being driven by muggles.

The only place where you can actually design a truly stable and reliable desktop is with open-source kernels and user software.

New comment by junkilo in "Yyvette's Bridal"

junkilo — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 04:01:36 +0000

"Make yourself useful unto the World and Human Kind will give you Bread" - Emerson

https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/famousquotes1.html

New comment by junkilo in "Glassdoor not so anonymous"

junkilo — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:57:11 +0000

Sad to see that were going to have to start using throwaway accounts to post anything on glassdoor. Next up: Blind.

New comment by junkilo in "We’re all paying for someone else’s 4-hour work week, not ours"

junkilo — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 23:09:21 +0000

or hotel brands that offer consistent hospitality services all over the world. Each of which requires a 24x7 multi-skilled staff..

or the piles of humans feeding the internet, tech and social media 24x7

New comment by junkilo in "Fierce Nerds"

junkilo — Tue, 18 May 2021 17:29:29 +0000

I have less problems with stereotyping than with the hum of a million managers patronizing remarks, like this article from PG.

I've grown accustomed to negs' (microaggressions) like these, but they do a greater injustice to actual genius. Mutual respect in a team will never be achieved when people treat others in this manner.

New comment by junkilo in "Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?"

junkilo — Thu, 07 May 2020 22:29:31 +0000

disclaimer: former uber engineer

we ran the numbers continually and like others mentioned, it was a no-brainer to build on-prem. that said, there are a few use cases where aws/gcp are a great fit. people selling cloud without putting in real engineering work to enterprises generally make my life harder than it already is.

New comment by junkilo in "An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website"

junkilo — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 18:47:22 +0000

plausible.io looks to be a one-developer show. pretty impressive.

New comment by junkilo in "Ask HN: Have you been laid off?"

junkilo — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:30:42 +0000

my new company just withdrew their offer (I started in a couple weeks) and I just left my previous gig (AV startup). backend+infra full stack python/go stuff

the new company's revenue went from 7 figures+ a month to 0 because of the virus and they are rightly freaking out

New comment by junkilo in "Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too"

junkilo — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:48:19 +0000

> "I had to say yes" and "I had convinced so many talented people to participate" and "How could I let their magnificent work go to waste?" and " and "I wanted him to see me as an artist [not only as a prop for sex appeal]"

as a Dad with daughters I am horrified by this evil. Coercion and oppression to obtain debasing sexual content makes me sick: "There was no room for negotiation. I had to say yes."

Why do people go to such great lengths, even to compromise their personal ethics, to please others peoples imagined sensibilities or expectations?

New comment by junkilo in "65 out of the 100 most cited papers are paywalled"

junkilo — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:36:39 +0000

gwern you are amazing, thank you.

New comment by junkilo in "Divorce and Occupation"

junkilo — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 21:01:20 +0000

Contracts are for when a relationship breaks down, not the other way around. The "contracts" offer protections to parents offering a legal path for enforcing access to their children as well as financial protections.

It also seems to offer access to additional social and cultural collateral than just cohabitation and has several inferred expectations in various social spheres.

Parties in a relationship sometimes have wildly different experiences, expectations and motivations "in love" and marriage provides a way to reduce this complexity.

There aren't many things that test your will and resolve more than having to sign a big contract on something. What people will commit to verbally is often vastly different to what they will actually sign to when it's in writing.

New comment by junkilo in "Migrating 1200 databases from MySQL to Postgres"

junkilo — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:21:28 +0000

Having used both from the prototyping stage to very large scale my answer: It doesn't matter.

They are both plenty feature complete to work well for relational data type problems. Grab the one you have more exposure to and you'll be fine.

That said, I'm still using mysql-innodb (latest percona) because the built-in replication has had more time to bake and its concurrency model (think 100k qps+) is plain better. For further reading see:

https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/

New comment by junkilo in "Ask HN: For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish you knew 4 years in?"

junkilo — Sun, 21 May 2017 00:01:30 +0000

1) Learn one thing really well and stick with it until you master it. Human confidence isn't wired to derive satisfaction from breadth of skills. The stronger single skills you develop, the easier it becomes to develop context and understanding as you add to your skillset.

2) Get solid on the basics and stay current: data structures, algorithms, computation and basic operating systems. Without these you'll never reach high levels of competency.

3) Develop boundaries. I've seen stellar developers reduced to a pile of depression and anxiety by poorly trained managers getting them to overcommit. Learn to know what you know well and what you do not know well. Push the rest back onto your manager and make them do their job.

4) Take time to enjoy and savor this time. We're in an age of technology that has never before existed.

New comment by junkilo in "Amazon Echo Look"

junkilo — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 18:36:52 +0000

Story: As an engineer that enjoys fashion but has limited time for the hobby I would like an app that can help me self-evaluate fashion choices and arrangements so that I can have more fun and look better.

how'd I do?

Sexual Harassment Doesn’t Happen at My Company [uber]

junkilo — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:11:00 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@apple.chow/sexual-harassment-doesnt-happen-at-my-company-2d29c23ea905#.b3wg3ym48

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924138

Points: 2

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New comment by junkilo in "Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon"

junkilo — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 18:12:57 +0000

Yeah that is low compared to the major tech hubs but sounds calibrated to the area you are living in.

It only takes one person to set a price provided they honestly believe in they value... and that person can be you.

New comment by junkilo in "Bullshit Startup Experiences"

junkilo — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:55:31 +0000

one from the devops/sre trenches...

> (devops guy) hi, im here for the lead devops role > (CTO) awesome, you'd be a great fit here. can you write a sudoku solver in ruby real quick? > (devops guy) [writes solver in ruby] > (CTO) wow looks great... when can you start? do you have any questions for me? > (devops guy) I do have a question: how do you shard your bigdata installations and what is it built on? > (CTO) oh I wrote my own, we call it redisbigtable -- its the worlds first CAP compliant data store. oh, and we shard by customer. > (devops guy) thank you for your time.

New comment by junkilo in "Uber Using Driver Phones as a Backup Datacenter"

junkilo — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 17:32:37 +0000

You have to store data on the client endpoints in realtime logistics applications; its just how it's done.

If you don't, networking failure scenarios will destroy your user experience since you'll end up with frequent irreconcilable data gaps with cellular networking being what it is.