Hacker News: riknox

New comment by riknox in "Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app"

riknox — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:02:25 +0000

To be fair the author of this did found two massively successful businesses so I imagine he does understand tackling a business problem.

New comment by riknox in "Cities need more trees"

riknox — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:36:55 +0000

That applies outside of Scotland as far as I'm aware, whereas in Scotland there is a right to roam on all land as long as you're not disturbing housing/farm activities etc.

New comment by riknox in "I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train"

riknox — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:16:47 +0000

That's not far off the same cost as to get to Glasgow from London, looking for tomorrow it's between £55 and £70. Significantly longer though for yourself, the train here is around 4 hours 45 mins (give or take). It's also generally close to on time, and we have delay repay for anything over 15 minutes.

New comment by riknox in "Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI"

riknox — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 15:31:28 +0000

I meant more it's interesting that they're not a member or signed up to something led by big players in AI and operating for AI safety. You'd think that one of, if not the largest, AI company would be a part of this. Equally though those other companies aren't listed as members, as the sibling comment says.

New comment by riknox in "Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI"

riknox — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 14:47:51 +0000

I assume it's deliberate that they've not mentioned OpenAI as one of the members when the other big players in AI are specifically called out. Hard to tell what this achieves but it at least looks good that a group of these companies are looking at this sort of thing going forward.

New comment by riknox in "Modules, not microservices"

riknox — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 14:50:46 +0000

I think that's a reasonable heuristic, but I'd also say you have to take into account the human readability aspect of it. It sometimes does make sense IMO to split solely for that, if it allows you to "reduce" a complicated/confusing operation to a string name, leading to it being easier to understand at a glance.

New comment by riknox in "Tell HN: Royal Mail Data Leak"

riknox — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 13:38:26 +0000

Interesting how many people go straight to the cache - seems like we've all been there when we're accidentally overwriting keys with the wrong data!

Experience is the best teacher I guess, although we all seem to be doomed to make the same mistakes.

New comment by riknox in "Glasgow council four-day week on full pay moves closer after study agreed"

riknox — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 14:23:15 +0000

The title for this article is misleading. It only says they've agreed to a study to investigate it. There's a world of difference between that and actually approving a 4-day week for all.

New comment by riknox in "The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices"

riknox — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 11:38:36 +0000

Got to justify the absolutely massive campus they've built by the Clyde somehow. In my experience, there's been quite the PR push recently on how amazing this new campus is (I'm not a Barclays employee).

New comment by riknox in "Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)"

riknox — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 10:30:09 +0000

I've not seen Storm being used anywhere sane for a few years at least now, and from a glance at job postings it looks unlikely. Spark, Kafka Streams etc. are definitely used in a modern data platform from my experience.

I think we're seeing a big shift with Hadoop-like workloads being moved onto cloud providers, so BigQuery, Amazon EMR etc.

New comment by riknox in "Misidentifying talent"

riknox — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 14:45:10 +0000

Not just this, but the prevalence of strokes gained being the key metric to focus on for players has opened up a new understanding of what it takes to score well and win tournaments.

New comment by riknox in "Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again"

riknox — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 12:33:32 +0000

AWS Console runs in us-east-1 so that points to at least that region having issues IIRC. I am also having Slack issues in EU.

Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

riknox — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 12:21:40 +0000

Console is flickering between "website is unavailable" and being up for my team. This is happening very frequently just now, reliability seems to have taken a hit.

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New comment by riknox in "Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation"

riknox — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 08:58:50 +0000

I disagree with that. If you go into somewhere as a senior for example, it is not unheard of that a year later you can make a lateral move for 20%+ payrises. I've seen it happen many times in my career (obvious caveat that anecdote != data).

New comment by riknox in "Massachusetts couple suing eBay after employees harassed and stalked them"

riknox — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 10:32:02 +0000

I think Wenig was also pushed out somewhat in relation to his opinion on the sale of eBay Classifieds - the rumour at the time was that he was very much against it while activist investors where trying to push it through.

New comment by riknox in "Stripe Identity"

riknox — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 08:28:09 +0000

Not the OP but I had to do this when opening a bank account in Germany.

New comment by riknox in "Amazon reverses course, expands work-from-home options"

riknox — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 12:31:14 +0000

I think a lot of the skills you learn around how you interact with people in a professional setting, developing a sense of when to ask someone for help vs. work through a problem yourself, and how to develop software professionally. I've found that we have a lot more work taken down a wrong path because it's not as easy to check in on someone remotely without it coming across as micromanagement of more junior developers. I appreciate that a fair portion of that "blame" lays with the more senior members, but I've at least found that some things that would easily be resolved face to face, or with the kind of coffee break chat you get in person, have festered on longer than they necessarily should have.

New comment by riknox in "Amazon reverses course, expands work-from-home options"

riknox — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 08:35:56 +0000

I've started a new job remotely this year with quite a few junior engineers in the team, and I'm definitely finding it's much harder to mentor and make sure that they're taking the right paths while solving a problem than it was in the office. Flexibility is undoubtedly a good thing, however like you I think there is an element of paying your dues that is perhaps missing in the current environment.

New comment by riknox in "Building Self-Managed Teams: A Case Study from Riot Games"

riknox — Thu, 20 May 2021 15:57:38 +0000

That's interestingly the opposite of what I've experienced in the UK. I suppose it depends on what type of company you work for, but in my experience those that realise they are a tech company and truly value technology make ample opportunities for their developers to move forward. My current workplace has both managers (and senior/execs) who have come from a tech career and very high level ICs.

New comment by riknox in "Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System"

riknox — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 13:08:56 +0000

I'm not sure if this is referring to the privacy laws or the internet itself, but the internet connectivity in Germany is dreadful in my experience. Capacity is at its limits, to the point that some flats don't have access to the internet.