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New comment by mamidon in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

mamidon — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:57:32 +0000

This may be a cynical take, but as someone with 10+ years of experience why should I care if companies are too short sighted to value and train juniors?

New comment by mamidon in "Use boring languages with LLMs"

mamidon — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:22:27 +0000

That's ... an interesting observation. I've found that LLMs work great when they can check their work and have a clear notion of what correct looks like. e.g. a good test suite they can rely on.

I'm sure a REPL helps out with this sort of thing quite a bit!

New comment by mamidon in "Facts about throwing good parties"

mamidon — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:43:46 +0000

I fully agree that most people won't be comfortable if they're the "only" man or woman at the party.

How do you suggest evening genders out? Inviting couples is fine by definition; but I only really know single men. It seems odd for me to randomly invite single women I don't really know.

New comment by mamidon in "OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring overhead costs"

mamidon — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:11:53 +0000

How would you handle the case where you want to trace 100% of errors? Presumably you don't know a trace is an error until after you've executed the thing and paid the price.

New comment by mamidon in "WASM 2.0"

mamidon — Fri, 09 May 2025 15:25:25 +0000

It's more accurate to say those do the boilerplate of memory access necessary for complex types for you. You're still basically limited to integers and floats.

But when you think about it, isn't that basically true for native languages?

New comment by mamidon in "Microservices Are a Tax Your Startup Probably Can't Afford"

mamidon — Thu, 08 May 2025 15:54:27 +0000

Can you elaborate a bit on codeowners, I've not heard of that kind of solution before.

New comment by mamidon in "Capitol Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians"

mamidon — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 02:28:44 +0000

No joke, I used to work there until they went RTO. But I liked the product. It's crazy that our politicians can trade like they do.

New comment by mamidon in "US friendship is in freefall – shredding bonds and cutting lives short"

mamidon — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 03:37:36 +0000

100% I've had great success inviting people to dinner parties and such. This works great for people I already know.

I've tried hosting public groups, with partial success. Have you got any ideas there?

I've tried posting events on local Facebook groups, mostly. But my experience is that very few people are actually active online and willing to physically do something.

New comment by mamidon in "Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)"

mamidon — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:36:54 +0000

To be clear; you're supposed to have a separate shell open where you do these steps?

MM, interesting idea.

New comment by mamidon in "Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds"

mamidon — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:50:52 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by mamidon in "Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds"

mamidon — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:00:58 +0000

What are planets, in this context?

New comment by mamidon in "WebVM 2.0: A complete Linux Desktop Environment in the browser via WebAssembly"

mamidon — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:53:17 +0000

Sounds like cool tech, but why would I want to run Linux in my browser? What use cases does this enable?

Thanks

New comment by mamidon in "Show HN: Numscript, a declarative language to model financial transactions"

mamidon — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:13:52 +0000

I'm living this life right now; except we baked in notions of Assets/Liabilities/Income/Expenses into our ledger logic. Only to realize our customers don't care and just want to do whatever it is they've been doing.

New comment by mamidon in "Ask HN: How do you deal with an off-day?"

mamidon — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:29:16 +0000

Most of the time I've just had a completely sleepless night; I normally just muddle through with a lot of coffee. I've tried taking a sick day for this sort of thing, but I found that puttering around at home just threw me off even further.

Ever since my divorce I feel like I'm just going through the motions, work, sleep, socialize. Without a home life it just feels empty, but what decent woman would want someone like me with my baggage? Even if I found someone, which seems impossible these days, with no-fault-divorce why would it be any different this time around?

New comment by mamidon in "Zed Decoded: Async Rust"

mamidon — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:16:42 +0000

In the FAQ they indicate they raised funds from investors.

New comment by mamidon in "Zed Decoded: Async Rust"

mamidon — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:06:35 +0000

Oh undoubtedly they'll make a nice editor; I just think it's a tough thing to monetize when there's so many 'good enough' free editors around.

New comment by mamidon in "Zed Decoded: Async Rust"

mamidon — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:24:52 +0000

How are these guys funding a startup for the Nth text editor?

If they have the guts to try this full time I suppose there's really no excuse for me not having a go at my own thing.

New comment by mamidon in "How Often Have You Seen Mostly or 100% AWOL Managers?"

mamidon — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 18:50:57 +0000

That sounds like a great manager. Not really the same situation as what I saw.

New comment by mamidon in "How Often Have You Seen Mostly or 100% AWOL Managers?"

mamidon — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 18:49:37 +0000

I suppose this makes more sense, though I feel like if they'd put in even a partial effort they could've dragged it out much longer than they did. Boom, FAANG wages at boring mid-west companies.

New comment by mamidon in "How Often Have You Seen Mostly or 100% AWOL Managers?"

mamidon — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 18:48:27 +0000

Correct, I myself am fully remote.