Hacker News: mountaineer

New comment by mountaineer in "Rust, C++, and Python trends in jobs on Hacker News (February 2025)"

mountaineer — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:57:11 +0000

Yeah, I found the percentage of job posts with the keyword in https://www.hntrends.com when I was publishing it, was effective.

New comment by mountaineer in "Software Folklore"

mountaineer — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 06:13:38 +0000

previous https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005140

New comment by mountaineer in "Show HN: Bring phone calls into the browser (SIP-to-WebRTC)"

mountaineer — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 15:55:41 +0000

> Lastly, we’ve decided to end-of-life (EOL) Twilio Programmable Video as a standalone product. Given it’s such a niche area and a relatively small part of our portfolio, we believe partnering with video industry leaders is the best way to ensure long-term product innovation for our customers. Removing Programmable Video from our portfolio will also allow Communications to more effectively focus on our pillar products - Messaging, Voice, and Email.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1447669/000119312523...

mentioned in https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/04/twilio-layoffs-company-to-cu...

New comment by mountaineer in "Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says"

mountaineer — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:03:04 +0000

For the "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" monthly trends, the data shows similar trends. [1]

* Remote positions have been consistently 60%+ this year

* Onsite peaked at about 23%.

* Hybrid peaked at 15%.

[1] https://www.hntrends.com/2023/november.html?compare=Remote&c...

New comment by mountaineer in "Advent of Code 2023's new AI/LLM Policy"

mountaineer — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 00:38:08 +0000

Agreed, that was the sentiment I was aiming for, separating the competition aspect from the getting better at programming aspect. The policy with respect to competition seems fine. The follow-on in parens to the policy was the part I was referring to:

> (If you want to use AI to help you solve puzzles, I can't really stop you, but I feel like it's harder to get better at programming if you ask an AI to do the programming for you.)

New comment by mountaineer in "Advent of Code 2023's new AI/LLM Policy"

mountaineer — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 17:18:16 +0000

Right, the policy seemed fine to me until it got to this part. AI can be a way to get better at programming too. When I was learning Elixir, I watched José Valim work through the AoC puzzles[0] and followed along, typing in what José had and then working to understand it. José was doing the programming but it helped me get better at programming I think.

[0] https://www.twitch.tv/collections/YDM6eKu6bhV1Nw

New comment by mountaineer in "Rails 7.1 Released"

mountaineer — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 04:56:46 +0000

A friend of mine joked a couple weeks ago that if a Rails release is announced but I hadn't submitted a PR (to upgrade), has it really happened?

Well, here we go, PR coming up. Even if it has to stack behind the 7.0 one that's been sitting there for months.

New comment by mountaineer in "Executive Function Theft"

mountaineer — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 04:44:10 +0000

This hits home as I sit here submitting FSA receipts tonight.

New comment by mountaineer in "Things I wish I’d known before fulltime RVing (2017)"

mountaineer — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 18:53:37 +0000

Campnab is a must have for the RVers/campsers I know. https://campnab.com/

New comment by mountaineer in "Agile soccer skills for a bipedal robot with deep reinforcement learning"

mountaineer — Thu, 04 May 2023 03:35:36 +0000

Looks like the same team that was shown on 60 Minutes the other week?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-artificial-intelligence-...

Drops in total and remote jobs on Ask HN: Who is hiring?

mountaineer — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 14:54:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hntrends.com/2023/march.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35315087

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by mountaineer in "I bought back my acquihired startup"

mountaineer — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 23:06:20 +0000

This is great, I love to see these work out. This type of re-acquisition can be difficult to see through to completion. The acquiring company has moved on and doesn't want to spend resources on dealing with it. I had tried to do this too at one point but then then newish CEO of the company we were trying to buy it back from was gone and we sorta gave up.

New comment by mountaineer in "“Who is hiring?” job postings continue to lag"

mountaineer — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 03:34:26 +0000

November follow-up to October's discussion[0]

October ended with 491

November has 555

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33083279

“Who is hiring?” job postings continue to lag

mountaineer — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 03:33:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hntrends.com/2022/november.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33688406

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by mountaineer in "Web automation: Don't use Selenium, use Playwright"

mountaineer — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:46:11 +0000

> The Puppeteer team essentially moved from Google to Microsoft and became the Playwright team.

https://blog.logrocket.com/playwright-vs-puppeteer/

EnCodec: High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression

mountaineer — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 03:35:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/facebookresearch/encodec

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33446674

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mountaineer in "Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months"

mountaineer — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 18:41:42 +0000

Leading indicator of the (overall) tech job market is a better way to put it. The job postings in The Who Is Hiring? threads are a small sliver of the overall industry.

New comment by mountaineer in "Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months"

mountaineer — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 17:59:19 +0000

I believe the intent is to share as a possible leading indicator. I don't know the OP's exact reasoning, but I have tracked this data for years at hntrends.com and it was my original thesis that this thread is a leading indicator of the tech job market at a minimum.

New comment by mountaineer in "Pronunciation Guide for Unix"

mountaineer — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:43:06 +0000

Where is the pronunciation guide for daemon?

New comment by mountaineer in "Twenty years of my blog"

mountaineer — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 17:43:03 +0000

Thank you Simon, truly an incredible job creating, learning, and sharing with the world. Definitely one of my biggest inspirations as nearly every day there is a new discovery in the feed or on twitter.