Hacker News: minkzilla

New comment by minkzilla in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

minkzilla — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:59:14 +0000

Thanks for responding, I do think you interpreted my comment correctly.

I see size as negatively correlated (maybe as a semi-direct cause) with preserving company mission. Hence why I was confused by you addressing it. It would never cross my mind to argue that size has protected Costco.

I haven’t read your book, just skimmed the post so I don’t know if it’s convincing. But I’d like to argue that those companies failing their mission is proof that they did not have good leadership. however, that makes the argument a little circular.

I’m aware of FedMart (Acquired podcast on Costco is very entertaining). I think Sol Price was a bad leader and selling out to Hugo Mann was putting profit above other things.

New comment by minkzilla in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

minkzilla — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:33:36 +0000

The parent comment didn’t say anything about size or wall street. It said leadership is what has preserved it.

Which it doesn’t seem you have refuted in any meaningful way. You just restated what the parent comment is responding to with no further reasoning as to why leadership doesn’t account for it.

New comment by minkzilla in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

minkzilla — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:19:37 +0000

Certainly not the earliest example and can be interpreted in many ways but one of my favorite ancient examples of “introspection” is the phrase “Know Thyself” inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself

New comment by minkzilla in "How to Attend Meetings"

minkzilla — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:00:17 +0000

To make them stick you have to decline meetings scheduled during that time

New comment by minkzilla in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)"

minkzilla — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:50:54 +0000

  Location: Salt Lake City
  Remote: Yes or Hybrid
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: C#, .NET, AWS, Postgres, TypeScript, React
  Résumé/CV: josephgilmore.com/static/files/joseph-gilmore-resume.pdf

Hello, I am a Full Stack Developer with a focus on backend and performance. I have experience in the healthcare industry. I am looking for challenging work that has a purpose beyond making money.

New comment by minkzilla in "US Intel"

minkzilla — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:31:51 +0000

Maybe instead of all the wealth flowing to a couple huge companies in a couple countries wealth would be distributed more broadly.

New comment by minkzilla in "US Intel"

minkzilla — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:58:14 +0000

Robust and redundant manufacturing spread across the world with more opportunity for innovation?

New comment by minkzilla in "Show HN: Sinkzone DNS – Forwarder that blocks everything except your allowlist"

minkzilla — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:15:01 +0000

nextdns lets you set times when domains are blocked. Originally I had it just for my computer but soon realized I needed it for my phone as well.

New comment by minkzilla in "How to Think About Time in Programming"

minkzilla — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:27:49 +0000

Author covers how IANA handles Königsberg, it is logically its own timezone.

  An IANA timezone uniquely refers to the set of regions that not only share the same current rules and projected future rules for civil time, but also share the same history of civil time since 1970-01-01 00:00+0. In other words, this definition is more restrictive about which regions can be grouped under a single IANA timezone, because if a given region changed its civil time rules at any point since 1970 in a a way that deviates from the history of civil time for other regions, then that region can't be grouped with the others

I agree that time is a mess. And the 15 minute offsets are insane and I can't fathom why anyone is using them.

New comment by minkzilla in "The Grug Brained Developer (2022)"

minkzilla — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:52:20 +0000

  sad but true: learn "yes" then learn blame other grugs when fail, ideal career advice

When I first entered the corporate world I thought this wasn’t true, there was just poor communication on part of technical teams. I learn I wrong. grug right.

New comment by minkzilla in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)"

minkzilla — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:44:17 +0000

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Remote: Yes, hybrid preferred

Willing to relocate: Yes, as long as the location has good access to the outdoors

Technologies: C#, .NET, PostgreSQL, Pulumi, Git, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Tailwind CSS, Many AWS Services, Docker, Bitbucket Pipelines, Bash. Recently interested in F# and more functional designs

Résumé/CV: https://josephgilmore.com/static/files/joseph-gilmore-resume...

Email: career@josephgilmore.com

Hello, I’m an experienced full stack developer with a focus on backend, performance, and technical leadership. I am looking for an opportunity where I can work with customers and stakeholders to solve the right problems, rather than just slinging code.

I’m open to full time and contract.

Verifying F# with the Fidelity Framework Approach

minkzilla — Sat, 31 May 2025 17:41:14 +0000

Article URL: https://speakez.ai/blog/verifying-fsharp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44145813

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Bankruptcy as Implicit Health Insurance

minkzilla — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:17:54 +0000

Article URL: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20131408

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799747

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

New comment by minkzilla in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

minkzilla — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:07:05 +0000

The walled garden is not a walled garden if everyone else has doors in.

New comment by minkzilla in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

minkzilla — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:53:09 +0000

It doesn't have to be the worst possible implementation to be less desirable than the walled garden for me. I get so much spam in whatsapp, groupMe, telegram, and from sms. Some of it is even from legitimate contacts but then they signed up for something or did something and it sends one of those stupid "join me on {thing}" messages. The only place I don't get spam is imessage

New comment by minkzilla in "Lake-harvested cocktail ice is an old business making a comeback in Norway"

minkzilla — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:01:56 +0000

Is that comparable to the energy to run the freezer in the bar?

New comment by minkzilla in "Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code"

minkzilla — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:10:52 +0000

Yes.

New comment by minkzilla in "Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize"

minkzilla — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:59:18 +0000

https://text.npr.org is also a text only version of npr

New comment by minkzilla in "Moving to a World Beyond "p < 0.05" (2019)"

minkzilla — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:28:37 +0000

That is what this article is about, changing the expectations of researchers and journals to be willing to publish and read research without p values.

New comment by minkzilla in "FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions"

minkzilla — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:59:49 +0000

    The "right to privacy" includes the right to medical privacy and privacy over your body. It's not the government's concern to dictate what and how you can treat your own body. The natural extension being that it violates the 14th Amendment for the government to surveil intimate medical decisions.

This puts the cart before the horse. This assumes abortion is already a fine thing to do. Think about the other applications of privacy. Here is a pretty extreme hypo (we could get into a more subtle one maybe but this is the first thing that came to my mind). You are entitled to privacy in your home. In your home you can abuse your spouse and you can drink orange juice. Abusing your spouse is obviously wrong so we would never say privacy covers it. Drinking orange juice is obviously fine so we would say you are entitled to privacy from others to know if you drank orange juice or not. In both cases the police may never know you did either but that has no bearing on their legality. It seems to be the real central question and where a right would need to be grounded is if it is your body or the child's body. A lot of people disagree on this. If you don't think it is your body than the privacy argument makes no sense.

In terms of the history I have not dug into it but there seems to be conflicting arguments based on your priors. It doesn't seem cut and dry enough to just say it was a right then so it is now, if it was why not just do that instead of the whole privacy deal?

From Dobbs majority opinion: "English cases dating all the way back to the 13th century corroborate the treaties' statements that abortion was a crime."

I am also skeptical of origionalism. I don't know how much bearing 13-18th century common law should have on modern day law, especially when there was assuredly a diverse set of opinions on abortion just like today. Why shouldn't the 20th century have the same amount of weight as the 18th?

To me it seems that even if you believe abortion is morally right Roe was legislating from the bench. These things should come from congress not the supreme court.