Hacker News: ralphael

New comment by ralphael in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

ralphael — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:00:28 +0000

this - I'm wondering why this isn't getting picked up more in the analysis? Its an accounting trick, which is not sustainable. Time will tell.

New comment by ralphael in "Observability 2.0 and the Database for It"

ralphael — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:30:49 +0000

Thanks to all who commented, I learnt a lot from just reading the comments.

New comment by ralphael in "SimCity 4 was released 20 years ago"

ralphael — Tue, 23 May 2023 08:01:17 +0000

I love SimCity, never forget the first time I played it on an Amiga 500.

Then one day my friend lent me his 512KB ram upgrade and it was a different game :-)

New comment by ralphael in "Grasshopper – An open-source Python library for load testing"

ralphael — Wed, 03 May 2023 15:07:32 +0000

I love locust.io and looking at the features that this adds, I look forward to adding it to my toolbox.

New comment by ralphael in "Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs, after CEO predicted no more layoffs"

ralphael — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:03:16 +0000

It actually produces the exact opposite, my observation from experience is:

Some people will now work the system and want to be made redundant, by doing the minimum possible.

Good people will leave for other opportunities.

This takes months/years to fix/heal. The fixing process is reset every time you do a new round of lay offs.

New comment by ralphael in "My network home setup – v4.0"

ralphael — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:50:10 +0000

Anyone who uses Grafana to monitor their home setup, thats +1 from me.

Appreciate the commitment and dedication to detail.

New comment by ralphael in "Modeling and Analyzing Lambda vs. Fargate Breakeven"

ralphael — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 16:19:17 +0000

Really appreciate this! great food for thought and highlights the answer is often ... "it depends!" :-)

New comment by ralphael in "Someone is pretending to be me"

ralphael — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 06:43:40 +0000

highly recommend that podcast too!

New comment by ralphael in "I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free"

ralphael — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 04:47:36 +0000

No need to apologise, a polite "I ran X which solves Y" related to the post is encouraged. Helps the rest of us learn about other solutions out there :-)

Will checkout OpenContext, thanks for the link

New comment by ralphael in "Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?"

ralphael — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 09:41:04 +0000

I've found that candidates have little or non appetite for take home problems.

If they are busy interviewing, putting aside 2-3 hours (which is not much really) per interview, limits how many they are willing to do per week. As its still a candidate driven market.

Keep in mind, people have to find the spare time while doing their jobs and living life. If they have a family - good luck finding spare time :-)

The best win/win I've found is to pair with someone for about 30 minutes. You help each other, just like you do in real life.

New comment by ralphael in "Email Is Async"

ralphael — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 15:27:53 +0000

Its called "Instant Messaging" :-) So I think the expectation is built into the name, even if you don't agree.

Robinhood to lay off 9% of full-time employees

ralphael — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:12:23 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/robinhood-to-lay-off-9-of-full-time-employees/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31181842

Points: 1

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New comment by ralphael in "Hard to work with"

ralphael — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:59:52 +0000

"Success is finding a path forward among the options that actually exist."

..just so simple and elegant, particularly given the rise in hindsight and purely principle focussed cultures, that are developing in tech.

New comment by ralphael in "Show HN: Open-source UK fuel availability tracker"

ralphael — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 12:19:25 +0000

...actually, its people who did not fill up last week and now have no choice.

New comment by ralphael in "Snowden Dunks on 'The Get-Rich-Quick Real Estate Investing Conference"

ralphael — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:33:43 +0000

Coffeezilla does a great job at exposing these scams too: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFQMnBA3CS502aghlcr0_aw

New comment by ralphael in "Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel"

ralphael — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 18:36:23 +0000

..this right here. No error checking, inadequate testing, no reconciliation process.

Excel is used extensively in many industries. Any file could be cut off in processing by any number of reasons, one off errors for e.g.

So the solution is to "fix" the process by using the existing broken process and smaller files....

New comment by ralphael in "Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?"

ralphael — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 12:20:57 +0000

love this product, looking to purchase a subscription to ensure it stays around

New comment by ralphael in "When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number"

ralphael — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 07:27:49 +0000

I couldn't stop laughing.

His skills at hacking are only matched by his wit at writing.

New comment by ralphael in "Show HN: Clouddraw – draw cloud architecture diagrams with ease"

ralphael — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 16:21:16 +0000

http://draw.io

New comment by ralphael in "Why Write ADRs"

ralphael — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 21:03:11 +0000

so what would the experience be for someone new joining the project, particular if you have many repositories? having to search across numerous repositories? In practice I've found this (source control commit messages as ADR's) doesn't work. Unless I have mistaken what you have said? I just keep a repository for ADR's, which can then be published to a wiki or else where.