Hacker News: luord

New comment by luord in "“Who Should Write the Terraform?”"

luord — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 00:57:10 +0000

I've thought for a while that sysadmin, operator, "devops engineer" and sre were all more or less the same job, but always felt like saying it would be silly of me.

In the future, I'll just link to this piece.

New comment by luord in "No More “Insight Porn”"

luord — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 01:59:19 +0000

Well, how sad. I have liked what Jakob wrote quite a bit but not only does this article betray a lack of self awareness as it describes quite a few of his own posts—not that there's anything wrong with that as he has published truly insightful things too and the fluff I still liked for the positivity—but then he used an essay by PG as an example of this.

And now I'm not one of those people who think that everything PG writes is gold, but it's hardly "insight porn". In fact, if that particular essay is "advice", it's the advice to not even try as it's likely just not for you, so it almost seems like Greenfeld misrepresented it just because of a single sentence.

Inertialization Transition Cost

luord — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 17:50:00 +0000

Article URL: https://theorangeduck.com/page/inertialization-transition-cost

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31623227

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Fibery 2.5 hours downtime post-mortem. The Drama

luord — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 21:05:37 +0000

Article URL: https://fibery.io/blog/2-hours-downtime-postmortem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30962513

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by luord in "Things we did not do while reaching $2M ARR"

luord — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 14:17:19 +0000

Well, that's good news to me because I have no interest in doing any of that, with two caveats:

- On type checking, I like type hints and gradual typing, but am not big on strict static typing.

- I'd like to do A/B testing, but only for fun and for learning/applying data analysis.

New comment by luord in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

luord — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 01:33:10 +0000

https://luord.com

I post articles on what (I think) I know. Just a static blog generated by Pelican.

New comment by luord in "Wish HN: Happy Holidays"

luord — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:22:34 +0000

Merry Christmas everyone!

Feliz Navidad a todos!

New comment by luord in "An oral history of Bank Python"

luord — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 02:16:56 +0000

I have been a developer for eight years and yet I still get shocked about the places where Python will be used. I mean, it is my favorite language, but in the communities I gravitate towards (basically communities like HN) it has so many detractors for being dynamically typed, not being functional enough, being slow, etc, that sometimes I'm tempted to think maybe it's actually a guilty pleasure of mine, and that I should look for better pastures.

Then I read articles like this and I remember why I like it: it gets the job done, and quickly (for the developers at least). It's why it's so widely used and keeps climbing. Of course, nothing wrong with learning other languages and I do try to keep up, but Python will remain my go-to for the time being.

New comment by luord in "Debian's Which Hunt"

luord — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 20:55:00 +0000

Duly noted: get used to `command -v`

Better to follow standards anyway.

New comment by luord in "Slow Down, Finish Faster"

luord — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 22:00:03 +0000

While I believe there's value in the mentality that "you don't know what you're building until you're building it", I also agree with a lot of this, as long as it means more asynchronous communication anyhow. The write-up itself was a bit focused on if it all happened in meetings, but a lot of this could also be accomplished over email or collaborative editing, RFCs, etc.

But back to the idea of many applications being emergent and/or not at all (or not entirely) what their creators intended. Maybe there's room for both approaches depending on the situation.

Avoiding the pitfalls of iteration-based development, in 5 pull requests

luord — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 22:23:33 +0000

Article URL: https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/avoiding-the-pitfalls-of-iteration-based-development/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28487571

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Latency Sneaks Up on You

luord — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:27:49 +0000

Article URL: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/08/05/utilization.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28326932

Points: 135

# Comments: 25

New comment by luord in "Strange domain names that developers bought"

luord — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:46:00 +0000

I wish I were this creative; I've mostly bought domains that are variations of my name/last name, and the only one I haven't let die is my usual username luord.com

Strange domain names that developers bought

luord — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 03:25:52 +0000

Article URL: https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/11/the-strange-domain-names-that-developers-bought/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28151482

Points: 118

# Comments: 162

Latency sneaks up on you

luord — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:42:04 +0000

Article URL: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/08/05/utilization.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28117502

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Conti ransomware goes rogue, leaks “gang data"

luord — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 14:41:29 +0000

Article URL: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2021/08/06/conti-ransomware-affiliate-goes-rogue-leaks-company-data/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28107051

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The difference between software and hardware projects

luord — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:27:25 +0000

Article URL: https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/12/the-difference-between-software-and-hardware-projects/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27813428

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Encoding Events for Neural Networks

luord — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 01:08:06 +0000

Article URL: http://theorangeduck.com/page/encoding-events-neural-networks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27805882

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How to start up (Accidentally)

luord — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 02:27:03 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@jakemor/how-to-start-up-accidentally-abf7f05f602e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27798049

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by luord in "Containers are tents"

luord — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 15:15:12 +0000

I've seen the problems of treating containers as houses, primarily during development: Multiple different processes inside a single container, with a wrapper around them (inside the container) that makes it even more difficult to debug.

So, assuming I understood correctly, treating them like tents is infinitely the better choice.