Hacker News: milansm

New comment by milansm in "Archery World Record: Most arrows through a keyhole [video]"

milansm — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 14:08:01 +0000

I assume so that they can break the record again later on.

New comment by milansm in "On Corpspeak"

milansm — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 19:20:23 +0000

I like and see the value of corpspeak. Take “bandwidth”, for example. It’s superior to “time”, because it implies that something else has already filled up all the available time. Plus, by definition, bandwidth = [unit of work] / time. So if I don’t have bandwidth for something, I imply that something else needs to be removed from my workload to be able to do the thing.

Having an arsenal of phrases is not a bad thing per se; as with technology, it depends how one uses it.

New comment by milansm in "Show HN: Find companies with jobs using technologies you love"

milansm — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:39:13 +0000

If I'm a Go developer, or changing jobs because I want to use Go, of course that it is in both mine and my future employer's best interest to set expectations if I'm gonna work on Go or on ASP.NET.

New comment by milansm in "Scientists find microplastics in blood for first time"

milansm — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 16:41:15 +0000

I probably wasn’t clear enough. I don’t feel guilty because of my life style, I feel like I’m in a trap. What would happen with me and my family if power grid goes down for a week? What about a month?

The point is, we can probably have best of both worlds if we accept lifestyle change (IMO simple life close to nature is an improvement, not degradation) where we enjoy the benefits of technology, but not being dependent on it.

Think living in a village, spending very little, eating non processed, locally grown food, working remotely, driving a car maybe a couple of times per month to visit friends and do some shopping and that’s it.

I’d like to do that not because I feel responsible for climate change, inequality or whatever, but for personal security, longevity, and quality of life reasons.

Edit: side effects of this lifestyle are less co2, less pollution, resilient local economy and much more.

New comment by milansm in "Scientists find microplastics in blood for first time"

milansm — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 13:02:08 +0000

This is exactly what I’ll try to change in next 5 years. Have a sustainable baseline: my own food (or at least 50% of it, other 50% locally grown within ~10km) and energy independent (for heating and cooking), and treat everything else as a luxury that can perish any time now. I don’t want to give up my remote work, car and (occasional) luxury vacation, but would love to be able to sustain myself without it. Current life-style (apartment, frequent food orders, total dependency on the power grid) is a ticking time bomb (which might not go off in my lifetime) and feels like all-or-nothing gamble.

New comment by milansm in "Why Big Nations Lose Small Wars (Paper, 1975) [pdf]"

milansm — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:29:22 +0000

I’m from Serbia, and know for sure that during the NATO war against Serbia in ‘99 our military was residing in (some) schools. It makes sense if you think about it. If they were better at information warfare, they would have written “children” on some of the buildings.

New comment by milansm in "How much do founders pay themselves? A European data set"

milansm — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 20:26:44 +0000

Is lowering the salary and receive high dividends illegal in Holland?

New comment by milansm in "Ask HN: How do you deal with lies on the internet?"

milansm — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 14:04:51 +0000

Yes. I have two daughters, and my eyes get wet and my throat closes every time I remember that scene. But then, it turns out that most likely I'm manipulated. I say most likely, because I'm not sure anymore, and I don't want to get invested anymore and research what is true and what is not.

New comment by milansm in "Ask HN: How do you deal with lies on the internet?"

milansm — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 13:52:00 +0000

There’s also the feel of being played and deceived when something you had strong emotional reaction (i.e. Ukrainian father saying goodbye to his daughters) turns out to be propaganda and part of information warfare.

New comment by milansm in "Ask HN: How do you deal with lies on the internet?"

milansm — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 13:45:03 +0000

The more emotionally intensive the news are, the more skeptical I am towards it.

New comment by milansm in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

milansm — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 07:46:46 +0000

That’s how the world works, unfortunately. NATO did the same thing in Yugoslavia back in 99. No one was held responsible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C5%A1_cluster_bombing

New comment by milansm in "What use is mental math in 2022?"

milansm — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:43:40 +0000

It would be great if you could get a correct (or close) answer every time if you made a guess, and where you made an error. I assume you would get better after a while and would be even more fun.

New comment by milansm in "Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant"

milansm — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 17:06:31 +0000

Can someone tell if this would be a good personal/societal strategy: once you had covid, or fully vaxxed, it’s much better to be among other people, to be exposed to the virus and continuously train your immune system.

New comment by milansm in "How far could a spaceship go if we never ran out of thrust? (2020)"

milansm — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 10:57:26 +0000

Which book would you consider his best? I’ve only read House of Suns, and it was great.

New comment by milansm in "Wild birds learn to avoid distasteful prey by watching others"

milansm — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 22:56:50 +0000

Life as we know it.

New comment by milansm in "Surprising Shared Word Etymologies"

milansm — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 08:41:13 +0000

Just wanted to mention that! In Serbian (and most other south Slavic languages) we use a word слон (slon) for elephant. I was always wondering why is that, how can we have native word for the animal we could hardly had chance to see. However, there’s some evidence that (south) Slavic people lived somewhere near India. And India is mentioned a lot in some of the tradional folk poems. There’s even a town in Serbia called Inđija. Really interesting stuff, but not sure how credible that theory is.

New comment by milansm in "The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains"

milansm — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 22:26:44 +0000

One of my most experienced and respected colleagues likes to say: “when it looks like I’m not working at all that’s when I’m working the most”.

New comment by milansm in "We’re all paying for someone else’s 4-hour work week, not ours"

milansm — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 03:47:56 +0000

Good for them. But I guess there will also be some people judging and complaining how it’s not fair that they can afford to follow their dreams.

New comment by milansm in "We’re all paying for someone else’s 4-hour work week, not ours"

milansm — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 13:46:52 +0000

As someone living and working in the developing country I say: please profit from my work! I started my software development career making 2.5EUR per hour. Now, 10 years later, I can find consulting gigs in EU/US market for 40-50EUR which is really great for me, and stl affordable for the clients. Win-win, right? What is wrong with that?

New comment by milansm in "We’re all paying for someone else’s 4-hour work week, not ours"

milansm — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 13:38:45 +0000

So what? I’m putting >50 hours per week so that in 20 years my kids could have more than one shot in entrepreneurship.