Hacker News: lulznews

New comment by lulznews in "Ask HN: Is Clean Code a waste of time?"

lulznews — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 17:18:06 +0000

Yes, if your code is worthless and no one (including yourself) will read it again.

New comment by lulznews in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

lulznews — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:26:08 +0000

long term consequences of running an H1B gulag and underpaying relative to industry

New comment by lulznews in "Ask HN: I have $5k to spend on a local AI machine, what should I get?"

lulznews — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:40:43 +0000

More info needed but for 5k you can get a near maxed mbp that should be able to handle most models, perform pretty well, and also serve as your laptop so it’s not a pure AI box. Then if you have heavier needs go to the cloud.

New comment by lulznews in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

lulznews — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:10:03 +0000

Trump haters in absolute shambles here.

New comment by lulznews in "Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years"

lulznews — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:09:25 +0000

Someone remind me what value business people add to society?

New comment by lulznews in "Did my coding lead to colleague's death?"

lulznews — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 16:37:20 +0000

This would be (and essentially has been) a good sci fi premise.

New comment by lulznews in "Ask HN: Junior dev in charge of rewriting 500k line PHP app. Looking for advice"

lulznews — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 02:19:34 +0000

Best option quit and join a real company.

New comment by lulznews in "Ask HN: Is It Wrong to Use My Personal Laptop for Work?"

lulznews — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 02:17:02 +0000

Not wrong, but dumb. Your company now probably legally owns everything on your laptop.

New comment by lulznews in "Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?"

lulznews — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:09:33 +0000

Anything that keeps the code monkeys in line is legal.

New comment by lulznews in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market That Bad?"

lulznews — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 01:07:42 +0000

Yes quite bad clearly worst since 2008 if not worse.

New comment by lulznews in "Is 'No tax on tips' a distraction from the fight to end sub-minimum wages?"

lulznews — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:54:36 +0000

It’s clearly a dumb gimmick for a dumb and gimmicky country.

New comment by lulznews in "Ask HN: Are hackathons anything more than a lame distraction?"

lulznews — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 17:38:26 +0000

It’s a way to “keep to code monkeys happy” that doesn’t involve paying them more or actually making them happy.

New comment by lulznews in "Ask HN: Is a 6 Day Work Week the new norm?"

lulznews — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:33:44 +0000

Lmao no what a clown show company.

New comment by lulznews in "Ask HN: What are the most underrated skills in tech?"

lulznews — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 08:50:05 +0000

Communication.

New comment by lulznews in "Ask HN: How to deal with memory/cognition slowing down as an engineering leader?"

lulznews — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 22:47:56 +0000

Time for a promotion!

New comment by lulznews in "Ask HN: What do Engineering Managers do at your company?"

lulznews — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:05:43 +0000

Absolutely nothing. (In best case scenarios.) They’re the lowest IQ people in the org, so let’s put them in charge. “Which company do you work for? A major one.”

Sadly this seems universal in Big Tech.

New comment by lulznews in "Ask HN: Widespread Apathy?"

lulznews — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:07:19 +0000

The incompetence level in the industry has increased. In the past perhaps more people were close to being technical. Now there is a deluge of nontechnical positions and management layers that contribute nothing. This increases cynicism.

New comment by lulznews in "Ask HN: Why React?"

lulznews — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:55:33 +0000

It just works and is closer to programming than writing god awful html.

New comment by lulznews in "Ask HN: Does last job experience 4 years ago make my application unattractive?"

lulznews — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:50:48 +0000

Yes just make up something to fill the time.

New comment by lulznews in "HSBC Writes Down Byju's, Once $22B Indian Edtech Giant, to Zero"

lulznews — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:37:01 +0000

$22B to $0 for what should have been a high margin business is bad. What’s the story here?