Hacker News: pschlump

New comment by pschlump in "Show HN: I'm betting everything on this. No plan B"

pschlump — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 17:19:29 +0000

You only get resistance from other people when you have a good idea. Persistence (Grit) is the key to success.

New comment by pschlump in "Ask HN: New web service idea that you would pay for?"

pschlump — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 16:20:56 +0000

Please contact me. My Background: founder of successful VC backed company with a successful exit. Professor of Practice at University of Wyoming (now) retiring at the end of this semester. I teach full stack development and database. My product company was a database performance tuning and storage management tool. pschlump@gmail.com

New comment by pschlump in "Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?"

pschlump — Fri, 22 May 2020 11:03:44 +0000

No - Postgres is faster and it has JSONB. (It also has tables and SQL and GIS and ...)

New comment by pschlump in "The Tragedy at Tofino, B.C.: Inside the Sinking of Leviathan II"

pschlump — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 14:47:43 +0000

I (with my family) lived 5 years on a 13 m sailboat. I added AIS and EPIRB to the boat as we had many off-shore passages. AIS (class b) costs about $500 (US $). EPIRB is about $400 with a $200 every 24 month cost.

New comment by pschlump in "Ask HN: Raw SQL vs. ORM?"

pschlump — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:57:13 +0000

I have had a number of contracts where my entire job was to fix the performance problems introduced by using a ORM. ORMs add a layer of complexity to your code and a huge risk of really bad SQL.

New comment by pschlump in "Mistakes in Hiring"

pschlump — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 18:14:41 +0000

Amazingly informative and well written - clearly lays out some of the really silly things that companies often do.

New comment by pschlump in "Redis might run slower after patching Meltdown"

pschlump — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 17:40:31 +0000

Be aware that Redis runs on OpenBSD and OpenBSD fixed this problem 10+ years ago. See: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631&w=2

New comment by pschlump in "Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10"

pschlump — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:49:46 +0000

I quit using Windows as my primary desktop because of lack of SSH support.

New comment by pschlump in "Impressive graphics editor for programmers: Shadron"

pschlump — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 04:12:11 +0000

I have watched the videos and it actually look useful.

New comment by pschlump in "ORM is an anti-pattern (2011)"

pschlump — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 21:08:18 +0000

My experience is that ORMs fail at dealing with reports, searching data and all large data updates. If all your application needs is a single row of data tied to some other set of single rows of data then an ORM might be of limited benefit to you. I have had multiple contracts to fix the performance problems introduced by ORMs. In the test database the ORM was good - in the real world not so good.

New comment by pschlump in "‘Employment crisis’ for new Ph.D.s is an illusion"

pschlump — Mon, 23 May 2016 13:18:39 +0000

paywall; would love to read but can't

New comment by pschlump in "Blisk – a browser for web developers"

pschlump — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:46:25 +0000

Most of my development is cross platform. I switch every day from Windows, to Mac, to 64 bit Linux, to Linux on ARM and then back around every 4 days of work. I also test every day on iPhone, iPad and 3 different Android systems.

New comment by pschlump in "Rootkit infects Linux web servers"

pschlump — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:49:56 +0000

Just in case this is a real problem I have put together some quick scripts that check for and can remove this. The code is up on github.com as https://github.com/pschlump/linux-rootkit-expunger.git

New comment by pschlump in "Apple's New Pinch-To-Zoom Monopoly is Bad News"

pschlump — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:31:48 +0000

I can imagine what he is saying. In a Cherokee 180 4 person airplane you do steer on the ground with your feet and control the throttle with your hand. In a Gulfstar 50 you steer on the ground with a dial for your left hand placed off on the left. You need training to use each machine. The world has not come to a screeching halt just because not all airplanes have the same controls.

Use the SOPA as a weapon to destroy competitors

pschlump — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:12:33 +0000

If somebody in some other country fails to figure out how to weponize these bills, then those of us that are hurt by SOPA should figure out how to weponize the bills and use it against the very supporters of that bill.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3464474

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New comment by pschlump in "Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?"

pschlump — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:46:02 +0000

Every single person that reads HN should talk in person to two people that don't read HN and explain SOPA/PIPA and why they should contact congres and complain about SOPA/PIPA. Phone calls and letters are better than email.

New comment by pschlump in "Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor"

pschlump — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:34:58 +0000

Tomorrow I will swim with fish. Today it is stormy and we are safely tucked in a protected harbor. I program when the weather is bad and swim when it is good.

New comment by pschlump in "Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor"

pschlump — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:28:09 +0000

Right now I am sitting on a Sailboat in the Bahamas.

New comment by pschlump in "Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor"

pschlump — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:08:26 +0000

That world is not completely gone! I use VI to connect to amazon AWS servers over a satellite link. It is faster than 1200 baud but with horrible latency. VI is the only editor that works.

New comment by pschlump in "How BrowserID differs from OpenID"

pschlump — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 02:21:25 +0000

I just finished implementing BrowserID in an application that I am building. It is quick and easy to use. Perhaps 20 minutes to get it to work. I used OpenID before. OpenID is annoying and difficult. I spent 3 full days working on it.