Hacker News: jwmoz

New comment by jwmoz in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

jwmoz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:30:08 +0000

Insanely excessive and a waste of tokens when you could have googled how to disable a scrollbar.

New comment by jwmoz in "Operation: Epic Furious"

jwmoz — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:29:05 +0000

Not a fan of free speech?

New comment by jwmoz in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

jwmoz — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 10:56:24 +0000

Don't really understand how this is meant to work. I burned out. Am I autistic?

New comment by jwmoz in "Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions"

jwmoz — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:13:54 +0000

This is a complete nonsense. OP has invented a tricky technical test for themselves which they have spent long amounts of time thinking about.

In an interview a candidate is not in that mindset, at least I am not. Under stress and anxiety it is very difficult to fully understand things and build good cognitive structures in the mind.

New comment by jwmoz in "Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview"

jwmoz — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:51:02 +0000

It's almost impossible for me to do any serious work or problem solving in an interview situation due to anxiety and stress-my mind simple does not work the same way as it does when relaxed and in flow.

New comment by jwmoz in "Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview"

jwmoz — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:13:34 +0000

It's def not "Raw mental horsepower" it's more knowing an obscure algorithmic trick.

New comment by jwmoz in "Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview"

jwmoz — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:06:31 +0000

'Principal' developer at my last place spent 100 consecutive days grinding leetcode. Shortly after had an interview where they made him do a leetcode test live and he failed it.

The whole thing is broken.

New comment by jwmoz in "TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale"

jwmoz — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:43:06 +0000

Social media is hurting all of us on a worldwide scale.

It's a shame because there are good sides to it too.

New comment by jwmoz in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from 'reciprocal' tariffs"

jwmoz — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 05:29:12 +0000

Bond yields are king

New comment by jwmoz in "Why I don't discuss politics with friends"

jwmoz — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:24:25 +0000

Something I have observed also, and why I'd consider myself a sort of pragmatic centrist.

New comment by jwmoz in "Substance in broccoli, celery inhibits graying of black hair"

jwmoz — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:00:34 +0000

Brb just washing my hair with broccoli.

New comment by jwmoz in "AI killed the tech interview. Now what?"

jwmoz — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:38:20 +0000

None of this makes any sense. Why should I complete a tech test interview if I have 15 years of experience at X top firm? I would have done it already anyway.

I had a ‘principal engineer’ at last place who grinded leetcode for 100 days and still failed a leetcode interview. It’s utter nonsense.

A conversation with technical questions and topics should suffice. Hire fast and fire people.

New comment by jwmoz in "“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”"

jwmoz — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:15:12 +0000

Not a calculator engineer but this seems hideously complex?

New comment by jwmoz in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

jwmoz — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:48:35 +0000

A job is a means to an end.

New comment by jwmoz in "I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research"

jwmoz — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:57:05 +0000

Long > short.

New comment by jwmoz in "Using coding skills to make passive income"

jwmoz — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:55:18 +0000

Seems a very elaborate way just to do some work.

New comment by jwmoz in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

jwmoz — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:29:14 +0000

More importantly, is anyone here from Amazon quitting over this? What's your response?

New comment by jwmoz in "FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python"

jwmoz — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 06:05:52 +0000

This is not the way to do html with python.

New comment by jwmoz in "As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)"

jwmoz — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 08:40:32 +0000

Don't base your identity on your job.

New comment by jwmoz in "Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience"

jwmoz — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 09:55:23 +0000

Confused with uv/rye