Hacker News: optimusclimb

New comment by optimusclimb in "Is this the end of the Cannonball Run?"

optimusclimb — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 14:37:41 +0000

Live in Salt Lake City now. Blowing red lights is like a sport here it seems.

New comment by optimusclimb in "Google may cut pay of staff who work from home"

optimusclimb — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:23:44 +0000

Apparently chat around the water cooler was the real source of all of their innovation. It’s worth $600 an hour.

New comment by optimusclimb in "What does 100% mean in CSS? (2020)"

optimusclimb — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 06:12:57 +0000

This is why I knew how to be a frontend engineer at one point in life but never pursued it past the early 2000s.

The brainpower wasted on web layout is immense.

New comment by optimusclimb in "Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22-1/2 years in murder of George Floyd"

optimusclimb — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 02:05:26 +0000

Many in America get life sentences for drug offenses.

This happened recently - https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/989822872/supreme-court-rejec...

This does not feel like enough.

New comment by optimusclimb in "Why are so many unprofitable companies the best performing stocks this year?"

optimusclimb — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:38:47 +0000

The ads on that site made me give up on the article.

New comment by optimusclimb in "Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university"

optimusclimb — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 07:01:14 +0000

> Speaking from my perspective as a prolific FAANG interviewer

That's interesting, and somewhat rankling - as both times I interviewed at the G in FAANG, not a single interviewer gave a nickel about any of my experience, or projects I had worked on.

It's such a joke that the keys to a golden line on your resume and a giant salary are gated by the luck of which 7 people get picked to grill you that day, how busy they currently are, and what their pet question is.

New comment by optimusclimb in "California Approves Statewide Rent Control"

optimusclimb — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 06:31:44 +0000

> The building was purchased, "refurbished" and the rent was reset to a very high number.

And if someone was willing to pay that number, then that's what the place was worth.

New comment by optimusclimb in "The Elite Club That Rules the Diamond World Is Starting to Crack"

optimusclimb — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 04:28:24 +0000

If their opinion of you is dependent upon that, that fact just might be worth its weight in gold.

New comment by optimusclimb in "Achieving 100k connections per second with Elixir"

optimusclimb — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:21:11 +0000

This would be too heavily influenced by confounding factors.

For instance:

* Are the teams that use certain languages comprised of more experienced people?

* How mature is the company and project? I.e., a faster moving startup cutting more corners, where time was decided to be of the essence (rightly or wrongly) will likely produce more on call incidents than a slower, more established company that can takes its time

New comment by optimusclimb in "What you need to know before you join a startup"

optimusclimb — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 08:24:21 +0000

Additionally, the vast majority of startups I've worked for, and am aware of, will not file the paperwork to let you 83b. AND, if you bring it up, they will probably tell you politely they're not going to bring up your request to the board and go through all that hassle just to hire you.

New comment by optimusclimb in "Chariot is shutting down"

optimusclimb — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 22:44:51 +0000

This service was a godsend when I lived there, due to how abysmal Muni was. Sorry to hear it didn't work out for them.

New comment by optimusclimb in "Burnout, stress lead more companies to try a four-day work week"

optimusclimb — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 22:11:39 +0000

Not with those income levels that get everyone talking.

New comment by optimusclimb in "Burnout, stress lead more companies to try a four-day work week"

optimusclimb — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 07:46:17 +0000

... if you want to live in the Bay.

New comment by optimusclimb in "Stop Datamining Me"

optimusclimb — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:28:08 +0000

Emergency situations. "Sir, we found your wallet...", etc., etc.

New comment by optimusclimb in "Ask HN: Is it normal for VC to take a fee on exit?"

optimusclimb — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 16:35:32 +0000

> Why is the latest generation constantly trying to solve injustice with more injustice?

Why is this a generational thing?

New comment by optimusclimb in "Show HN: Websites in 2018"

optimusclimb — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:42:11 +0000

Charge me money, for content. Ala NYTimes, WaPo, Wall Street Journal, etc.

Also, I'd say it's a false dichotomy of "monetize" vs. "use every dark pattern and brings-browsers-to-their-knees script".

Countless times I've clicked on a link/article, only to go through this crap, and/or have it bring my browser on a most recent generation iDevice to a crawl, and given up/closed. I'm still happy to look at ads on free content (and yes, every now and then, click on one), provided I can actually see them.

New comment by optimusclimb in "Show HN: Websites in 2018"

optimusclimb — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:26:01 +0000

Since pretty much every engineer under the sun knows this experience sucks, how can we attribute this to anything other than the rise of MBAs running the show?

New comment by optimusclimb in "Python 3 is now available on App Engine standard environment"

optimusclimb — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 22:34:19 +0000

If you're an existing AppEngine standard user/customer, it's pretty likely that that means you will not be able to take advantage of PostgreSQL, as the new runtime does NOT give you access to a ton of their existing services that you are probably already using (such as datastore.)

New comment by optimusclimb in "Python 3 is now available on App Engine standard environment"

optimusclimb — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 20:13:28 +0000

Then they should update their docs.

New comment by optimusclimb in "Python 3 is now available on App Engine standard environment"

optimusclimb — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 19:43:56 +0000

It is not possible to access Postgres based CloudSQL from Python on AppEngine standard. See here:

https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/connect-app-engin...

Note that only node and Java are listed under non-Flex.

I got burned by this and had to start over with MySQL.