Hacker News: kilbuz

New comment by kilbuz in "The great software quality collapse or, how we normalized catastrophe"

kilbuz — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:18:53 +0000

This is exactly the right way to think about it.

New comment by kilbuz in "Joint Book Review: Class, by Paul Fussell"

kilbuz — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 05:41:18 +0000

A classic if there ever was one, have read several times and will do again. After reading, I self-identify as high-prole.

New comment by kilbuz in "A Tongue-in-Cheek Look Back at Broderbund's 'The Print Shop'"

kilbuz — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 01:13:04 +0000

I remember the Print Shop as a kid! Yah I guess specialization won out. We don't even have to see our holiday cards now. Upload a photoshopped picture and mail merge and start getting compliments from friends and family a week later.

New comment by kilbuz in "Watch carved from meteorite that hit Earth a million years ago"

kilbuz — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:58:35 +0000

wait do you have one of the 12 Cellini Principias?

New comment by kilbuz in "Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity"

kilbuz — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:45:45 +0000

You don't start there, but you can get there as you level up. A lot of that would be because the stock on your RSU grants goes up while you work there though. I don't think many SWE have 7 figure targeted comp (highest levels, yes). But plenty get there with refreshers and stock appreciation.

New comment by kilbuz in "Data will not tell you what to do"

kilbuz — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 05:52:38 +0000

Much of A/B testing is far deeper than the color of buttons.

How much faster can we process payments through provider A versus B in different countries around the world?

If we offer insurance after checkout, do we convert more than offering it before?

What ranking algorithm of skus leads to the highest conversion?

New comment by kilbuz in "Sora: Creating video from text"

kilbuz — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:54:56 +0000

This is like seeing the first packets ever sent on the internet and noting that latency is high, lol.

New comment by kilbuz in "Sora: Creating video from text"

kilbuz — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:48:58 +0000

I can respect that.

New comment by kilbuz in "New pill helps Covid smell and taste loss fade quickly"

kilbuz — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:25:33 +0000

I was cooking tacos for my family knowing I had COVID (we all had it at the time). I remember not smelling the seasoning, and threw a small handful of chopped raw onions in my mouth to confirm the bad news...

Luckily it came back in about a week. Beer and wine tasted awful for a few weeks, and I am a fan of both. Luckily a year on, and all seems well for now.

New comment by kilbuz in "Ask HN: 20% of LinkedIn's recent layoffs were managers"

kilbuz — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 04:27:37 +0000

Why don't you just tell me when you want it done? (said in Kramer MoviePhone voice)

New comment by kilbuz in "Where does my computer get the time from?"

kilbuz — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 20:52:24 +0000

every NTP story needs a link to the Netgear/UW-Madison fiasco: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/

New comment by kilbuz in "Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing"

kilbuz — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 14:43:40 +0000

The global pandemic may be affecting their behavior.

New comment by kilbuz in "Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote"

kilbuz — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:00:27 +0000

haha found your comment with your recipe.

New comment by kilbuz in "What makes something an heirloom?"

kilbuz — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 05:58:12 +0000

Nice, which watch you thinking? Something a bit off the beaten path? Vacheron, Journe, Laurent Ferrier perhaps?

New comment by kilbuz in "What makes something an heirloom?"

kilbuz — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 05:56:38 +0000

A high-quality mechanical wristwatch.

New comment by kilbuz in "Even when we know they’re “fake,” placebos can tame our emotional distress"

kilbuz — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:36:59 +0000

The book "Bad Science" has wonderful discussions and examples of the placebo effect as it relates to medical research. Highly recommended.

New comment by kilbuz in "ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the sidebar"

kilbuz — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:28:58 +0000

I use it to write data-driven shiny apps and JS frontends.

New comment by kilbuz in "The Right to Be Lazy (1883)"

kilbuz — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 23:23:45 +0000

What accomplishments are you most proud of this year?

New comment by kilbuz in "I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you"

kilbuz — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 13:56:07 +0000

Possibly less than 0.

New comment by kilbuz in "Tech CEOs are quietly asking employees to step it up or risk getting fired"

kilbuz — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 04:13:47 +0000

Well not necessarily pay... but conditions? Definitely.