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New comment by majikandy in "Show HN: Cobble – A hard daily word game"

majikandy — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:36:19 +0000

I liked it and got a 7 space 4.

Is this the max score? How can I know? It wants me to login for a reveal… which is unfortunately where I bounced. Maybe I would sign up after a fews days if I got hooked because I found it really annoying when I lost my wordle streak.

New comment by majikandy in "Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s"

majikandy — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 08:09:42 +0000

Now I feel old, lol

New comment by majikandy in "Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s"

majikandy — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 01:16:45 +0000

You mean the full internet experience in one window thing like the aol browser? I’m pretty sure I used to use it, light blue thing and hotmail a more seemless integration?

New comment by majikandy in "Northern Lights in the UK"

majikandy — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 21:55:51 +0000

Mildly visible even in London. Better with camera phone but definitely just visible after you let your eyes adjust

Northern Lights in the UK

majikandy — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 21:55:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lwerxge8ro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41803987

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by majikandy in "Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture"

majikandy — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 11:40:01 +0000

I can imagine that if we ever reach a point where the interviewers are prepped with the useless corporate answers to these reversed interview questions, it means we’ve done a great job in pushing to get the right information and gets right to the crux of their issues and possible red flags, one of which might even be a “corporate culture cover up stock answer”. Then surely just a follow up question asking “is that also you personal experience here?” And if you still get a corporate answer then you know for certain it is a red flag. Ultimately it sounds like these sort of questions could work well.

New comment by majikandy in "Xwax Is an Open-Source Digital Vinyl System (DVS) for Linux"

majikandy — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 22:06:48 +0000

From what I’ve read on Wikipedia, mixxx apparently uses the xwax source code. As does PiDeck. It would be really interesting to know what else uses it.

New comment by majikandy in "Xwax Is an Open-Source Digital Vinyl System (DVS) for Linux"

majikandy — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:20:08 +0000

Xwax is amazing. But what was more amazing to me was that the magic external box with Final Scratch was actually just a sound card and the rest was all software. Dunno if I am over simplifying but it was amazing to see that the time coded record and the software like xwax was all that was actually needed.

New comment by majikandy in "Code reviews do find bugs"

majikandy — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 06:41:31 +0000

This is quite good advice, I feel the “we have to do this anyway” line is more like… “so we might as well make it easy for ourselves”… eg write code that works, you self tested it through tests and manual if needed, so the reviewer doesn’t have to get bogged down in actually running it (start by adding screenshots for this but graduate to not needing them). Keep PRs as small as possible, aka multiple PRs streaming after each other for a single feature card, get the PRs in as soon as valuable and don’t block for nitpics but the shared expectation you start to agree on things that are better and they happen with the next changes.

The general mantra being that “if it works then it shouldn’t be blocked” and developer can choose to improve the maintainability there and then or delay it to next or later PRs at their discretion. After all you trust each other.

New comment by majikandy in "Code reviews do find bugs"

majikandy — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 06:31:02 +0000

That reminds of codebases littered with Todos… where I like to Yoda it… do or do not, there is no todo.

New comment by majikandy in "UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look"

majikandy — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 04:53:59 +0000

Ah that makes sense now. I nearly said it was like excalidraw, which is really nice for architecture diagrams more than for ui/ux I find.

New comment by majikandy in "UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look"

majikandy — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 04:51:24 +0000

Perhaps more like Tekton, which was like a classier crisper comic sans

New comment by majikandy in "Show HN: Peanut Butter Spinner"

majikandy — Sat, 18 May 2024 21:36:13 +0000

Same here. Never even thought of the fridge or what cold peanut butter would be like. I just can’t imagine it and have never needed to. Weird. In other contexts too I’ve never experienced it. Work breakfasts, hotels, I really can’t ever recall fridge temperature peanut butter. Not to mention the size pots we buy would be annoying.

New comment by majikandy in "Show HN: Peanut Butter Spinner"

majikandy — Sat, 18 May 2024 21:31:56 +0000

Why upside down?

New comment by majikandy in "Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count"

majikandy — Sat, 18 May 2024 08:14:58 +0000

Aaaah, remove and the re-add (maybe) makes a bit more sense..

So if it is not in the list you just add it, right? Actually is that right? Won’t the list fill up to the max again at some point like this?

So if so, I add Bernardo. Now the very next word is Bernardo so I remove the last Bernardo and maybe re-add it based on a 50% chance.

New comment by majikandy in "Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count"

majikandy — Fri, 17 May 2024 11:47:15 +0000

I had the same problem with the same paragraph and still don’t quite get it.

Unfortunately I struggle to follow the detailed explanation you gave… since you seem to understand it… can you confirm that they really do mean to throw away the word in the list they just found?

ACT I SCENE Elsinore A platform before the castle FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him

If buffer max is 16, I am supposed to randomly half it first?

Act Scene Elisnore Platform Before The His Post

Now what? The next words are “Bernado Bernado who’s there”

New comment by majikandy in "Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora"

majikandy — Sat, 11 May 2024 08:34:50 +0000

In my back garden in london initially it felt like maybe I was just seeing remnants of having looked at a lightbulb and then looking at the sky. After a bit of eyes adjusting the pinks were very clear and the white streaks like rays of light you see in those kind of beams from heaven type pictures. The green was more on the horizon and initially needed the camera to show it at all, and then again after a while I could see feint green with the naked eye. Yes the camera showed it more, but the naked eye experience was also magical and I feel very lucky to have seen it on bbc news website by chance before going to bed. I watched it from 11:15pm to midnight when it seemed to vanish as if it was never there in the first place. I feel like I caught the ISS in a photo too but I can’t find definitive information it was overhead at 11:51pm uk time, so it probably wasn’t.

New comment by majikandy in "Show HN: I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I built at work for E2E tests"

majikandy — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 06:29:32 +0000

Until you trust every part of the mock behaves the same as every part of the real database you use… most often the db is your boundary with nothing further downstream. At that point it really is just a faster disposable database, and totally is valid acceptance tests for the e2e system.

Also nothing stops you from using a mock for some tests and a real database for others. It just comes down to trust.

New comment by majikandy in "Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?"

majikandy — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 22:27:50 +0000

The ones who didn’t pay me.

New comment by majikandy in "Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?"

majikandy — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 22:22:41 +0000

I feel there is something missing in this story… what was implied by your email about cancelling your flight home the agreement to only log 40 hours? Sounds like you were just saying “affirmative”… what is the stunt he thinks you were pulling? And what is the second email about which you mention gmail and taking him off.

It was a great story until that point and I want to know what happened next, I feel I’m missing something.