Hacker News: other_herbert

New comment by other_herbert in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

other_herbert — Sat, 09 May 2026 04:53:45 +0000

No that kind of critical data would be sent to pendo so it could be reported on or shown in a dashboard!

New comment by other_herbert in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

other_herbert — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:42:00 +0000

Comic Code Ligatures for me :D

New comment by other_herbert in "iPhone Pocket"

other_herbert — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:40:22 +0000

I checked the url a couple of times to make sure it really was legit... I was certain there'd be like 3 p's or a non visible character in there...

New comment by other_herbert in "DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming"

other_herbert — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 01:50:37 +0000

The key thing they aren't saying is how much power it took to "send" 800 watts 5.3 miles...

New comment by other_herbert in "ZEUS – A new two-petawatt laser facility at the University of Michigan"

other_herbert — Thu, 22 May 2025 04:12:39 +0000

Choose how ablated you want your chicken

New comment by other_herbert in "SQL style guide by Simon Holywell"

other_herbert — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:14:34 +0000

You can always alias to a singular … like

join users as user on user….

Then do as you please without the that if you are dealing with a user or leave it plural if multiple…

And if we’re talking personal preference I really dislike caps in reserved words in sql, even before highlighting was everywhere it still just feels archaic for no good reason

New comment by other_herbert in "Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)"

other_herbert — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 22:42:50 +0000

Ha re: audio cues for debugging… your pc speaker is truly an underused tool when debugging something infrequent… for example our system processes a lot of xml data and usually it’s fine but for our test suite hearing beeps and knowing there are server side issues immediately is a great thing

New comment by other_herbert in "Show HN: What Beats Rock – AI Rock Paper Scissors"

other_herbert — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 04:54:48 +0000

lol

Fire Bucket Hose Candle Power failure Welder Shovel Scissors paper rock

New comment by other_herbert in "Addition with flamethrowers – why game devs don't unit test"

other_herbert — Sat, 25 May 2024 05:39:58 +0000

As a corollary to 2, management tends to love graphs… whatever your using to build should have a plugin that could show unit test success counts and generate even a simple line graph… that alone might be enough incentive to add more testing

New comment by other_herbert in "Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in TypeScript's type system"

other_herbert — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 22:21:55 +0000

Just a ui bug, the presentation layer doesn’t match the data layer

New comment by other_herbert in "The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill"

other_herbert — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 23:05:29 +0000

You’ve talked me into running some load tests around and before these times… around thanksgiving I’ll give it a shot too… I wonder though if it’s just a redirection of traffic… if regular business sites are less busy because people are shopping it would just slightly shift the load from one “side” to the other

Hmmmm….

New comment by other_herbert in "Squeeze the hell out of the system you have"

other_herbert — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 23:54:38 +0000

Lotus notes is wide… I imagine their scope creep checker was just a sticky note that said Absolutely!!

New comment by other_herbert in "Squeeze the hell out of the system you have"

other_herbert — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 23:53:01 +0000

That’s awesome …. I’ve gotta remember this when our PO’s want to add things that have absolutely no business being in our software…

New comment by other_herbert in "Analysis of whether unit testing obviates static type checking (2012)"

other_herbert — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 03:00:34 +0000

This exactly… I’ve had several devs come to me with things like “react won’t let me do this” … which is really typescript and really it’s that they are doing something wrong in any lang and it is just good news that the type system caught it

New comment by other_herbert in "Is ORM still an anti-pattern?"

other_herbert — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 06:24:50 +0000

It’s unlikely that you would be using different db vendors.. not different databases for different environments, that you absolutely should be doing … but pgsql in one and mssql in another is super unlikely

New comment by other_herbert in "Ask HN: What's your favorite software testing framework and why?"

other_herbert — Mon, 22 May 2023 00:21:28 +0000

Came here to suggest the same.. great fast running all the things you want a front end text to be

Also can run coverage reports that are usable in ci (I think it exports to clover format but whatever it is there is a Jenkins plugin that works with it)

New comment by other_herbert in "SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue"

other_herbert — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 03:02:02 +0000

I snorted at the Jenkins suggestion… and you’re right… spooling an agent all that nonsens… lol I imagine telling “the business” that your customer requests are handled timely by a jenkins job queue

New comment by other_herbert in "Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The evolution of .NET into .NET 7"

other_herbert — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 04:04:21 +0000

Not my project/not affiliate but Evolve is wonderful for handling db migrations

New comment by other_herbert in "Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)"

other_herbert — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 17:17:44 +0000

Ok that’s it then it’s time to run doom on my toaster, rendering onto bread… input will be tough though

New comment by other_herbert in "Blip: A tool for seeing your internet latency"

other_herbert — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 02:52:41 +0000

It’s more of a cargo check, you fly all the way there to see if they’ll let you take some cargo back with you

*cargo isn’t really the right analogy… but close enough