Hacker News: progrocks9

Ask HN: Why does HN's minimalist design work?

progrocks9 — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 16:17:16 +0000

I had always thought that HN was too plain, but with almost of 2 years reading it daily I think that it's perfectly designed to come back everyday. Do they ever had UX design sessions for creating this or was unplanned?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14671677

Points: 8

# Comments: 10

New comment by progrocks9 in "Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family"

progrocks9 — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 00:43:51 +0000

Love it. This seems to be the answer to a question that Facebook forgot completely. To help you improve your social life with the people you really care about. Not just distract you with irrelevant information. Keep it up!

New comment by progrocks9 in "Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I read?"

progrocks9 — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 19:26:38 +0000

How is this related to programming?

New comment by progrocks9 in "Jacque Fresco has died"

progrocks9 — Fri, 26 May 2017 21:23:35 +0000

While I really thought that Venus Project ideas was interesting but a little bit naive, there is something going on with cryptocurrencies. They can save us from eternal deflation of our money as the Zeitgeist documental expose. That means that our central banking system (in every country) would have troubles trying to produce more money over thin air (causing inflation). An inversion of control could happen here. Who knows.

New comment by progrocks9 in "Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?"

progrocks9 — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 16:40:11 +0000

The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond. It's inspiring for embrace Open Source collaboration and also very useful for manage projects. In Guy Kawasaki's quote "The most important book about technology today, with implications that go far beyond programming"

New comment by progrocks9 in "India’s Telescope Detects Crack in the Earth’s Magnetic Shield"

progrocks9 — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 18:47:42 +0000

Interesting. I use AdBlock on this page and the ads keep popping. Have they a way to bypass AdBlock? (maybe with websockets I dunno). I can't really read the article.

New comment by progrocks9 in "“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)"

progrocks9 — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:54:20 +0000

NodeJS works great as a simple web or network container, if you're trying to create a complex enterprise app in Node, basically you're doing it wrong. Simply it's difficult to design complex nested logic or algorithms in a clean manner. It's possible but it's harder than other languages.

New comment by progrocks9 in "NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?"

progrocks9 — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 14:28:55 +0000

I just removed the tilde and caret of all my dependencies (in my package.json) and maybe that's the way to go. Seal a local version of your packages and don't update unless is completely needed. But I'm still worried about the fragility of the package environment.

New comment by progrocks9 in "Which countries are mentioned the most on Hacker News?"

progrocks9 — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:26:16 +0000

I've done something similar with programming languages, and that comic got me thinking a lot :) By the way if anyone want to check it and have some feedback would be cool. http://nkittsteiner.github.io

New comment by progrocks9 in "What should I learn next as a programmer?"

progrocks9 — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:42:34 +0000

Totally agree. The motivation for learning a tool starts trying to solve a related problem. In me case I want to explore which programing languages are more relevant today so I made a little experiment at nkittsteiner.github.io for measure more popular languages but without the context of the problem we are trying to solve it's irrelevant

New comment by progrocks9 in "What should I learn next as a programmer?"

progrocks9 — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:35:14 +0000

That's right. Also watch Chef's Table at Netflix for a pinch of inspiration.

New comment by progrocks9 in "Flip-side of Startup Chile"

progrocks9 — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:11:25 +0000

I think one of the biggest problems is to find good local developers. I think that the local market is very small and also not many locals are fluent in english. Getonboard is a good place to start but maybe the startup program should look at this training local students / devs for make them useful for startup ecosystem.

New comment by progrocks9 in "Is it time to rethink recycling?"

progrocks9 — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:27:22 +0000

Yes, for example this startup is doing something interesting in latam. http://algramo.com/en/

New comment by progrocks9 in "Is it time to rethink recycling?"

progrocks9 — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:06:31 +0000

Packaging is the problem. We should only use goods that can be recharged or refilled. Otherwise, the problem goes on and on.

New comment by progrocks9 in "Show HN: Lightweight Microservices Architecture for the Internet of Things"

progrocks9 — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 19:54:05 +0000

In some IoT scenarios you could afford losing a little bit of data. For instance this component does it with MongoDB https://github.com/telefonicaid/fiware-orion

New comment by progrocks9 in "iPhones 'disabled' if Apple detects third-party repairs"

progrocks9 — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 13:45:51 +0000

This type of move can't work now, because Apple is losing its mojo in a very fast pace.

New comment by progrocks9 in "The Sad State of Web Development"

progrocks9 — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 19:15:08 +0000

I was working the last year on a Django app. First I hated it, but slowly I started enjoying programming with it. This year I worked mantaining an app with all of this http://teropa.info/blog/2015/09/10/full-stack-redux-tutorial... This supposed to be a simple Web app but, it's a complete mess. I miss Django so much right now.

New comment by progrocks9 in "Zen Photon Garden"

progrocks9 — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 02:25:51 +0000

A stupid question, how this is related to zen?

New comment by progrocks9 in "Show HN: Lightweight Microservices Architecture for the Internet of Things"

progrocks9 — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 02:22:49 +0000

I'm wondering if using Apache Kafka and Hadoop Stack, would be a better approach for IoT.

New comment by progrocks9 in "Show HN: Lightweight Microservices Architecture for the Internet of Things"

progrocks9 — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 02:21:34 +0000

Why is that bad? Mongodb is great for data ingestion.