Hacker News: krony

New comment by krony in "Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis"

krony — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 16:20:46 +0000

yeah, surely if 60 Minutes or someone does a large scale report on this it would cave a16z into taking care of the mess they helped cause

New comment by krony in "How I ship projects at big tech companies"

krony — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:43:23 +0000

Every project has a role of Release Manager. Some teams are small enough that this role is filled by a team lead, project manager, architect, etc. some teams rotate this role to spread the pain and knowledge. Large teams have a defined employed role with title of Release Manager that could even include a team (think shipping large DoD contractual projects)

There’s whole books on this subject. I think this blogpost does a great job of summarizing the goals for large tech company shipping — well written — nicely done

New comment by krony in "Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays"

krony — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:41:11 +0000

Thank you indeed! While I have fond memories of working holiday pager support early in my career, especially before marriage and kids to cover for those with families, I’m very grateful for those able to cover for all of us now! Cheers to you all

New comment by krony in "Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?"

krony — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 01:31:03 +0000

The side project of a comp sci degree worked out pretty well TBH

New comment by krony in "Old man yells at cloud"

krony — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 02:48:52 +0000

GoldenEye on Nintendo 64 was peak “play video games with a group of friends”. Now, it seems like every game is single player per console. So if my son has buddies over, they all haul their own Xbox’s and monitors (or scrounge my old ones from the basement closet). It’s considerably more difficult. Even though the TV screens now are so much larger! Craziness. I solidly agree.

New comment by krony in "Amazon Alexa is on pace to lose $10B this year"

krony — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 04:50:48 +0000

Echo makes for a simple family “phone” for kids before they’re old enough for their own mobile.

I also created a free skill for kids to hear the daily school lunch menu. Such a morning time saver! https://github.com/jeffsheets/alexa-papio-lunch-menu

But yeah it’s still mostly a hardware solution looking for a problem

New comment by krony in "Nobody wants to teach anymore"

krony — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 18:42:08 +0000

That depends on where you live. In the Midwest, most (if not all) parochial private schools pay teachers substantially less than the public schools pay teachers. And it isn’t like the public school teachers are making enough either. But to say private school teachers get paid well is very incorrect for the large midwestern cities

New comment by krony in "Nobody wants to teach anymore"

krony — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 18:30:09 +0000

Great opinion piece. Much agree. My wife works as a middle and high school substitute teacher across 6 districts in a large metro. All schools need subs so badly. But only 1 even raised their sub pay rate this year. Some try to offer higher rates for working more days in their district. But when one district pays $25 more a day than the others, they still don’t increase it. Teachers deserve more money. Also boggles my mind that the teachers unions are supposedly so powerful in this country, but if so then why are they paid so poorly?

New comment by krony in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone"

krony — Tue, 17 May 2022 16:50:00 +0000

Agreed. I love my 12 Mini, and my SE's before that. I'm also anti-case so the phone looks extra small compared to most. Fun to have someone take our photo with the phone, cause they always ask how ancient it is and are shocked to hear it is newer than the phone they have! Non-existent marketing doesn't help

New comment by krony in "The optional chaining operator, “modern” browsers, and my mom"

krony — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 18:41:44 +0000

Reminds me of how we bought a Chromebook in 2016, and specifically got a version that was "planned" to be allowed to run Android apps (which was a new thing at the time).

Fast forward to 2022, and the ASUS C201 support for Android is still "planned" and unsupported. https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-suppo...

Feels like a big con just to get people to buy chromebooks in 2016 at this point.

Also, a reminder to not trust Google if they "plan" something like the upcoming Chrome "Lacros" decoupling

New comment by krony in "Parents built a school app. Then the city called the cops"

krony — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 22:50:57 +0000

Oh yeah, for sure possible, I just meant doable in the “easily extend the current pattern in an evening or two” kind of way, ha!

But hey, if a district or school menu software company wanted to sponsor it, it could absolutely get done

New comment by krony in "Parents built a school app. Then the city called the cops"

krony — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:52:44 +0000

Ha, maybe! We got lucky that Papillion’s menu has a json feed. If Elkhorn does too then it’s doable. But seems most districts are stuck in pdf files

New comment by krony in "Parents built a school app. Then the city called the cops"

krony — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:14:49 +0000

On a much smaller scale, a bad school app experience is the main reason why I built an Alexa app for anyone in our district to easily ask Alexa for the lunch menu daily https://github.com/jeffsheets/alexa-papio-lunch-menu/

Pretty common for school district apps to feel antiquated and hard to use. Definitely a disruptible space.

New comment by krony in "McDonald’s unreliable ice cream machines reportedly under FTC investigation"

krony — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 19:52:27 +0000

The joke in college was that our dorm snackbar icecream machine was always "broken" on the night when my friends worked there. I just assumed McDonald's had the same issue where the manager on that shift just didn't want to deal with cleaning it later and marked it broken.

New comment by krony in "If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job?"

krony — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 17:30:46 +0000

Coding interviews should just:

- review your recent resume

- have some conversations around coding topics that dive in enough to know if you generally know what you're talking about

- focus on things you really expect them to do on the job

- if you really love giving algorithm riddle programming tasks, only use them on recent university grads who are used to such things. it has zero (ZERO) usage for experienced devs in our industry

- basically much of the US already interviews conversationally with little or no coding exercise. but for some reason big tech and the valley fail to change (which is funny since they are usually on cutting edge of other aspects of our industry)

TL&DR: don't do live coding interviews, they are a waste of everyone's time