Hacker News: madebylaw

New comment by madebylaw in "Doing Rails Wrong"

madebylaw — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:53:47 +0000

I’ve done all those updates at real companies with millions of users. They took from an afternoon to maybe a week of single dev time. If you keep your garden tended, weeding it becomes less of a chore.

New comment by madebylaw in "Doing Rails Wrong"

madebylaw — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:49:07 +0000

What complex thing were you trying to do with it?

New comment by madebylaw in "Doing Rails Wrong"

madebylaw — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:45:50 +0000

AMIs were still pretty novel at the time I started (around 2007 like the GP). The standard deployment in the blogs/books was using Capistrano to scp the app over to like a VPS (we did colo) and then run monit or god to reboot the mongrels. We have definitely improved imho!

New comment by madebylaw in "Careless People"

madebylaw — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:43:03 +0000

Where is it “thoroughly debunked” in that link?

New comment by madebylaw in "Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)"

madebylaw — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 03:08:58 +0000

Classic banker tactic, I love it. “Overwhelm them with data”

New comment by madebylaw in "Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)"

madebylaw — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 03:03:22 +0000

This is good advice. As a technical founder I have been through many offer ceremonies and I would always make 2 versions of an offer, one equity weighted and the other base salary weighted. The math should be easy if you’ve already had a priced round and you should be telling the candidate the price and fma of your equity anyway. I would say 90% took the higher base. And I wouldn’t up both unless they were a truly great candidate.

New comment by madebylaw in "Subway crime plummets as ridership jumps significantly in congestion pricing era"

madebylaw — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:10:08 +0000

I lived in NYC < 7 years and saw all kinds of crimes. Fistfights, public urination, I’ve been threatened with a box cutter, multiple female friends groped.

New comment by madebylaw in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

madebylaw — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:04:39 +0000

Why does the ban need to be reactive for you to understand it?

New comment by madebylaw in "Sitters and Standers"

madebylaw — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:50:26 +0000

The source is the actual FA dude.

New comment by madebylaw in "Remember When You Named Your Girlfriend as a Beneficiary? He Didn't Either"

madebylaw — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 11:33:37 +0000

There wasn’t a will. The guy wrote his GFs name in some form in 1989 and probably never thought about it again.

New comment by madebylaw in "Show HN: Bloom – A shadcn like UI library for Elixir and Phoenix"

madebylaw — Sat, 04 May 2024 11:14:14 +0000

Franken UI is an HTML-first, open-source library of UI components based on the utility-first Tailwind CSS with UIkit 3 compatibility. The design is based on shadcn/ui ported to be framework-agnostic.

New comment by madebylaw in "Marlon Brando Was a Secret Tech Geek and Photoshop Ace (2015)"

madebylaw — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:04:18 +0000

They weren’t all willing https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/04/actors-disgust-...

New comment by madebylaw in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

madebylaw — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:58:30 +0000

Well FF is too, so not sure that’s relevant to TFAs claim that we are discussing in this thread.

New comment by madebylaw in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

madebylaw — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 16:47:04 +0000

Apple makes money from ads in their App Store. Do they make ad money from Safari? I couldn’t find that info.

New comment by madebylaw in "Alles Mesh Synthesizer"

madebylaw — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 19:17:50 +0000

Very cool! I have no idea how these projects compare to each other on a technical level, but I'm reminded of the wooden doll choir by teenage engineering:

https://teenage.engineering/products/choir

New comment by madebylaw in "20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience"

madebylaw — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:57:16 +0000

Maybe domestically? Toy Story 2, Monsters University, and I'm sure others outperformed the original when you compare their global box office numbers. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=monstersinc2.htm (nb foreign BO is 64% of the haul).

New comment by madebylaw in "Payday loans are coming for everyone"

madebylaw — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:06:41 +0000

I am the technical co-founder of a company in the earned wage access space (link in bio). Happy to answer any questions. The main takeaways are:

- We are paid back by the company on payday so the credit risk is on the company not the consumer.

- Many (most?) of our users do not have access to consumer credit and would be classified as underbanked / unbanked. This is a great book for more background: https://www.amazon.com/Unbanking-America-Middle-Class-Surviv...

- We charge a fixed fee per transaction, no interest is accrued or carried.

- Philosophically, every day you work and are unpaid for it, you are selling your employer an interest-free bond of your labor whose term is payday.

New comment by madebylaw in "Enough with the dead butterflies"

madebylaw — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 22:29:45 +0000

You can actually go visit the sets used for the Alamo movies here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_Village. Stick hot and sticky though :-D

New comment by madebylaw in "Washio on-demand laundry service shuts down operations"

madebylaw — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 00:22:48 +0000

Does Netflix or Amazon count ;-)

New comment by madebylaw in "Uber Turns to Saudi Arabia for $3.5B Cash Infusion"

madebylaw — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 02:05:49 +0000

This investment didn't change their valuation.