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New comment by loquisgon in "Belling the Cat"

loquisgon — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 19:00:13 +0000

Thanks for the reference. Never heard about the "belling the cat" concept before (I am not european/american). However me and another colleague at work always joke/inquiry (sarcastically?) about "who is going to do it" whenever the "team" (in retros, planning, etc) brings up some idea that it would be very nice to execute.

This reference will be very useful to articulate what so far it's been sarcastic comments at best.

New comment by loquisgon in "How to build a coding agent"

loquisgon — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:40:48 +0000

Nitpicking. What the author calls sequence diagrams are not that. They are flowcharts.

New comment by loquisgon in "Sync Engines Are the Future"

loquisgon — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:34:24 +0000

The local first people (https://localfirstweb.dev/) have some cool ideas about how to solve the data synch problem. Check it out.

New comment by loquisgon in "I quit my programmer job to become a chicken"

loquisgon — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 19:49:20 +0000

So funny! Thanks you made my day LOL hard!

New comment by loquisgon in "A software engineer is always wrong"

loquisgon — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 18:33:10 +0000

One of the reasons I loved programming at first is the non-judgemental, objective, feedback from my interpreter or compiler. Also, that I could try to fix a coding issue and if I did not, nothing physical broke. I am so clumsy physically that I truly appreciated that the software profession existed in time for my professional growth.

New comment by loquisgon in "Aging programmer"

loquisgon — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 18:28:03 +0000

Fourty year old programmer aging! Give me a break!

New comment by loquisgon in "Ask HN: Best empirical papers on software development?"

loquisgon — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 20:05:45 +0000

This looked promising, while I browsed the index. Especially the first chapters that discuss human cognition. Since software is still a human creative endeavor cognition is key to understand software engineering. However, continuing to read the index I am discouraged and I expect that this is a difficult read. I was expecting more like a handbook, more succint, that I could use to explain software engineering to non technical leaders.

Also, why in the world somebody would choose R as a vehicle to present software engineering fundamentals? This by itself almost disqualifies the book for me. It would have been much more useful, IMO, to use some imperative or object oriented, more common, language.

New comment by loquisgon in "Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon"

loquisgon — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:43:44 +0000

Are you building it in AWS?

New comment by loquisgon in "Programming breakthroughs we need"

loquisgon — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 18:20:56 +0000

The essential complexity in today's coding is that code is created by humans. Therefore humans, we have to understand existing code bases to modify them and this is non-trivial. We also have to understand "what" needs to be built, that is the infamous "requirements". I think eventually coding will be automated away with artificial intelligence. I did not think like this for a long time in my career (that programming will be automated I mean) but neither I thought that computers would be able to create "deep fakes" and things like understanding & speaking human languages.

New comment by loquisgon in "Super-Structured Data: Rethinking the Schema"

loquisgon — Tue, 17 May 2022 16:10:26 +0000

I got interested when the different spectrum points of json and relational were contrasted. So I read the whole thing. I got lost and disheartened when the new terminology, starting with the super-structured name was introduced and completely went downhill with the other z names. Maybe it's just me and maybe it is like quantum mechanics and any other innovation where new names don't make sense and feel ugly.

New comment by loquisgon in "Open Source Design"

loquisgon — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 16:15:26 +0000

Design can mean many things. I am a backend developer and we also design, but our designs are for abstract structures with certain qualities required for humans, machines, and ilities. I thought that this might be related to backend design. I looked into the website looking for a definition of what hey mean by "design". I did not spend a lot of time but I could not find it. I guess they are talking about UX design. Then suddenly I am not so interested. Not because I feel that UX design is not interesting; it is extremely important. But I think we also need to talk about backend design so much more.