Hacker News: pietrrrek

New comment by pietrrrek in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

pietrrrek — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:28:54 +0000

> In my experience, once the issue is framed as 'Google will decide what you can do with your phone' every single person is immediately outraged.

I've had a lengthy debate about this (in the context of right-to-repair) with a friend of mine who's outside tech and he genuinely held (still holds?) the opinion that the manufacturer has the "right" to decide how their products are used. I'm willing to bet that this is a common viewpoint of people outside the tech sphere, they just want a device that "works", which for them is essentially just "I can use apps from the App store".

New comment by pietrrrek in "Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?"

pietrrrek — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 05:33:22 +0000

> The person could be doing their job to survive, or they could be working a few hours on a fun job on the weekend for a bit of extra cash.

Your statement makes it seem as if these populations are of equal size, but in reality the vast majority works to survive.

An item should not have a minimum price as it is just an item, meanwhile every person is, well, a person, and should be able to sustain themselves.

New comment by pietrrrek in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

pietrrrek — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:16:37 +0000

I don't think that Elon Musk can be singled out as the source of these changes, he's didn't just magically appear lur of nowhere and start doing what he's doing.

New comment by pietrrrek in "I do not want AI to "polish" me"

pietrrrek — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:43:22 +0000

A story is just a sequence of events, it does not necessarily have to be fictional (i.e. inauthentic).

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

pietrrrek — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:52:01 +0000

Thank you for bringing up the Korean struggle; the main difference seems to be that South Korea has since acknowledged the injustice and brutality exercised by the military and brought those responsible to "justice" (in quotation marks as many were pardoned "in the name of national reconciliation").

While the events are quite similar, the continued suppression of the events on Tiananmen Square justify the "obsession" that you comment on.

New comment by pietrrrek in "User Interface Typography"

pietrrrek — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 09:00:21 +0000

On desktop it looks more like a footer than a ToC

New comment by pietrrrek in "Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget"

pietrrrek — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 10:27:43 +0000

The results that you get in Google also depend on your location

New comment by pietrrrek in "Coconut: Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming"

pietrrrek — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 12:08:10 +0000

My personal experience from working with functional languages at my university is that there is a certain familiarity-floor which has to be reached before you start to see the language as elegant. This doesn't even translate between languages - I've now worked with F#, Haskell, LISP and Erlang and all of them have required some practice before their elegance was visible to me, even though certain solutions seem to have a similar "shape" across these languages.

New comment by pietrrrek in "Juul bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal"

pietrrrek — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 14:28:47 +0000

Since is not about finding "the truth" as you put it, but it is about finding the current, most fitting truth. As circumstances change "the truth" also changes, as such science will never be able to find anything but "the current best bet".

Show HN: Reactodoro a simple pomodoro timer

pietrrrek — Sat, 15 May 2021 14:03:11 +0000

Article URL: https://reactodoro.herokuapp.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27165337

Points: 2

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Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

pietrrrek — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 15:04:15 +0000

Article URL: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26956871

Points: 5

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New comment by pietrrrek in "Why Governments Fail"

pietrrrek — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 20:37:21 +0000

One could argue that subscription based news orgs are incentivesed to provide you news which would ensure that you stay subscribed. For some people these news would have to be factual, but, for IMO most people news which are either not fully factual, or omit some information would be "preferred" as long as they (the news) conform to the opinion of the subscriber.

New comment by pietrrrek in "Muboard: Mathematics Chalkboard with LaTeX and Markdown Support"

pietrrrek — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 11:01:50 +0000

From understanding this is not supposed to add anything to existing workflows. The idea seems to be that the presenter can "live-code" the mathematical expressions during presentation, much like mathematics is taught at universities.

New comment by pietrrrek in "Photographer Sues Kat Von D over Miles Davis Tattoo"

pietrrrek — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 22:46:58 +0000

> I mean, who made "photography" an "art" anyway that deserved to have such protections? I mean, come on, all you did was be at the right time at the right place and took a fucking picture, with a camera no less.

If that were the case, everyone would be a great photographer. Being able to envision a shot and then also being able to execute it (prepare for it, shoot it and process it afterwards) is not as simple as "being at the right place and right time".

New comment by pietrrrek in "Context switching costs more than we give it credit for"

pietrrrek — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 13:39:53 +0000

I mostly agree based on my own experience, I rarely get distracted by the lyrics alone, what gets to me is bass. Whenever a bass-havy song comes on I feel like my focus breaks, which is also why I started to listen to more jazz and similar, more easy going, genres while working and needing my focus.

New comment by pietrrrek in "Ask HN: How should I proceed at work?"

pietrrrek — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:50:11 +0000

This stereotype is the reason why I wrote this post, i.e. to avoid starting a rewrite only based on my own, very limited, experience.

Seeing the contents of sister comments, I see that a full rewrite is likely a _very_ bad idea.

Ask HN: How should I proceed at work?

pietrrrek — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:50:24 +0000

I started working (part time as a student) at this small [1] company back in April when the virus just hit which lead to a rocky introduction to the systems that are in place. The other developer is going into retirement in about two months and, thus far, the company has had trouble finding an appropriate replacement.

The system is a large website built with AngularJS and SailsJS. The codebase is very large (at least in my unexperienced eyes) which would not be an issue had it been properly documented, most components do not have a single comment in them (except for code which has been commented out) and also lack any external documentation. To add on to the mess, the code style is also not very reader friendly (cryptic variable names, unnamed constants etc.).

I see the fact that the above mentioned employee is going into retirement as an opportunity to "do things right" and start over by rewriting/porting the website, writing proper documentation along the way, and upgrading certain technologies (e.g. JS -> TS and SVN -> Git) but I feel that I'm in way over my head. I'm about to finish my Bachelors this summer and plan on starting on a Masters immediately.

I feel competent enough in writing software but not in creating a feasible architecture for such a large project, so my question is; how should I proceed? I think that the changes that I've come up with would be a net positive for the company and would make the life of future developers at the company easier (that is if the implementation is good enough). Could you point me to any ressources that might be of help in my situation?

[1] There are no more than 4 IT employees where only I and another one are developers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25729521

Points: 4

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