Hacker News: mdgrech23

New comment by mdgrech23 in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

mdgrech23 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:45:32 +0000

I can't say I know the AI research community well but I'd imagine OpenAIs alignment w/ the military would not align w/ the the personal philosophy of many.

New comment by mdgrech23 in "Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock"

mdgrech23 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 22:34:30 +0000

typical tech bro - they don't want any government regulation and want all the federal dollars they can get for nothing in return. we shouldn't be giving tax payer money to any private or public profit driven corporation ever. Mind you that's also a libertarian principle but tech libertarians always leave that part off.

New comment by mdgrech23 in ""Normal" engineers are the key to great teams"

mdgrech23 — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:44:13 +0000

when people talk about a players I feel like a lot of times it's really just the person who knows the project best or maybe they wrote a lot of the original code so they have the best idea of how it works. My point being who's an A player in my opinion is not reflective of actual skill per se but rather other factors.

New comment by mdgrech23 in "Most people don't care about quality"

mdgrech23 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:44:07 +0000

Since OP mentioned quality to me that's almost always synonymous and things like TDD and Agile which I view as a false prophet to quality.

Ask HN: How do you personally plan to handle Elon's scam to drive down wages?

mdgrech23 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:40:18 +0000

Elon has plans to double the number the H1B visas driving down the price of labor. H1B workers are also easier to exploit and less likely to unionize which is currently the tech sectors biggest fear. More American devs are waking up to the reality that despite being salary workers they should not be consistently working nights and weekends for free. It will be easier to force H1B workers to work long hours for less. I know many on this forum have been around for a while, likewise we're seeing mass layoffs in tech by many companies who've received large government subsidies. What are your personal plans?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42574796

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New comment by mdgrech23 in "Software Design Is Knowledge Building"

mdgrech23 — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 20:26:38 +0000

knowledge is power and people don't always want to share. Maybe it's more reflective of my company culture but I've seen knowledge effectively hoarded and used strategically as a weapon at times.

New comment by mdgrech23 in "Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'"

mdgrech23 — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:34:57 +0000

yea this is the sad shitty answer - it's just a private company w/ a government contract gathering data on us

New comment by mdgrech23 in "AI makes tech debt more expensive"

mdgrech23 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:20:30 +0000

100% hear this and I know as a developer at a big company I have no say over the business side of things but there's probably something to be said for we should all push for clear logical business processes that make sense. Take something like a complicated offering of subscriptions, it's bad for the customer, it's bad for sales people, it's bad for customer support, honestly it's probably even bad for marketing. Keep things simple. But I suppose those complexities ultimately probably allow for greater revenue as it would allow for greater extraction of dollars per customer e.g. people who met this criteria are willing to pay more so we'll have this niche plan but like I outlined above at what cost? Are you even coming out ahead in the long run?

New comment by mdgrech23 in "The decline of the working musician"

mdgrech23 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:37:06 +0000

wow oh wow what a great comment. I think the reason dance went away is a lot of men engaged in predatory behavior while drunk, that is that would approach the woman from behind and "grind" himself on her which is really just sexual assault.

I often think about how we replace things with technology and say it's better. Bread is another example in my opinion. Towns used to have bread makers, well respected and well paid. Now, at least here in the USA we replaced the bread makers with machines. We got rid of the bread makers and ultimately replaced them with engineers who design the machines and repair men. Even they've been replaced, once designed there's no need for the engineer and it's often cheaper to buy than repair so the repair man too went away. What we're left with is subpar bread. How is any of this progress?

New comment by mdgrech23 in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

mdgrech23 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:54:20 +0000

honestly feel like we're actively being lied to about how "good" the economy is.

New comment by mdgrech23 in "Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price"

mdgrech23 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:47:45 +0000

this isn't why people buy Bitcoin. they buy it b/c they don't have confidence in the power of the US dollar or want to hedge their bets. It's the equivalent of gold, that is people turn to it when they think shit may hit the fan but it doesn't have the downsides of physically holding gold.

New comment by mdgrech23 in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

mdgrech23 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:29:48 +0000

If you think we're currently a democracy you're very wrong. Being a democracy means you actually get to vote on things like whether or not we should go to war, whether we should have national health care. We have 0 say in things that matter. That's not a democracy.

New comment by mdgrech23 in "A change of heart regarding employee metrics"

mdgrech23 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:18:06 +0000

This is exactly why deadlines in tech are such bullshit. It's my personal experience that more times than not I'm told the deadline as opposed to us reaching some kind of agreement. It's reasons like that that I have hard time taking it seriously when I'm told we're late. It's more like you're "estimate" was wrong or you demanded completion date was too aggressive.

New comment by mdgrech23 in "Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI"

mdgrech23 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:32:09 +0000

large application codebase - consistent - have you worked in the field? I feel like usually there are 3 or 4 patterns from different people/teams at different points in time that spearheaded a particular ideology about how things "should" be done.

New comment by mdgrech23 in "How to Learn Things by Yourself"

mdgrech23 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 01:53:03 +0000

I learn a lot of stuff of my own but I have to admit for almost everything in hind sight I probably would of been better off doing it the proper way. There is no better setting than a classroom, that meets regularly, with an experienced professional who takes the art of teaching seriously showing you how to do something and being surrounded by other beginners and watching their mistakes.

New comment by mdgrech23 in "New Architecture is here"

mdgrech23 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:32:39 +0000

Reddit does a lot better of job bringing good relevant comments to the top.

New comment by mdgrech23 in "Ask HN: Why aren't you solving real problems?"

mdgrech23 — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:43:46 +0000

unfortunately in the current system it mostly takes money to move the needle of change and if you don't have money how do you move the needle?

New comment by mdgrech23 in "Ask HN: Why aren't you solving real problems?"

mdgrech23 — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:39:59 +0000

so how can we put pressure on the people running this country to start fixing root problems?

New comment by mdgrech23 in "Ask HN: Why aren't you solving real problems?"

mdgrech23 — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:39:16 +0000

Obesity is a lifestyle issue bc people have to work multiple jobs and don't have time to cook. They have long commutes and don't have time to cook. Both parents have to work and don't have energy after work to cook. The grab and go food you can get on the road or even at restaurants in trash. In France if bread is machine made rather than by hand it has to be marked as such. There has to be some regulations we could put in place here to better the situation but I agree that as individuals we can't do much but why do you have to act alone? Wouldn't that just make the first problem to solve getting a group together before you can solve subsequent problems?

New comment by mdgrech23 in "Ask HN: Why aren't you solving real problems?"

mdgrech23 — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:35:25 +0000

All of that is 100% true and like you said we could choose to allocate resources in a way to certainly fix the hunger problem and the housing shortage but we actively chose not to. In my opinion it's because here in the US our politicians have been bought by capital and largely represent the interests of capital owners. If your fed and have a roof over your head you're way less desperate and ultimately less likely to have to take a job that pay scraps. A large number of Walmart employees are on welfare for example. We, the people are effectively paying for Walmart employees so the billionaires can have even more money.