Hacker News: roccomathijnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=roccomathijnHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:55:09 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by roccomathijn in "Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming""]]>The man has been dead for 23 years

]]>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:56:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43569734roccomathijnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43569734https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43569734<![CDATA[New comment by roccomathijn in "Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from?"]]>> Reusing feature flags in a high frequency trading scenario

I think I read about this story

]]>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:18:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42295903roccomathijnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42295903https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42295903<![CDATA[New comment by roccomathijn in "Fair coins tend to land on the side they started: Evidence from 350,757 flips"]]>Let's abandon coin flipping in favour of coin shaking then

]]>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:15:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185798roccomathijnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185798https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185798<![CDATA[New comment by roccomathijn in "Real time passive radar at home"]]>Author gives a nice overview of the hardware and software setup on his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF2n28qoTQM

]]>Tue, 28 May 2024 15:18:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40501559roccomathijnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40501559https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40501559<![CDATA[Real time passive radar at home]]>Article URL: https://github.com/30hours/blah2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40501307

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

]]>Tue, 28 May 2024 14:55:03 +0000https://github.com/30hours/blah2roccomathijnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40501307https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40501307<![CDATA[New comment by roccomathijn in "Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager"]]>I tried Firefly for a year but I could not find a nice workflow with it.

It was a maintainability nightmare. Needed to run 2 instances for my girlfriend and myself. A third instance I think for automatic imports from my bank.

Every 2/3 months whenever the integration with the Spectre API needed to be reauthorized another docker container had to be ran just to hit a reauthorize button. And then it was a battle with duplicate transactions which I could manage to fix but I could never make my girlfriend understand.

Then there was weird philosophy on incoming money in a category. Let's say you have a €200 diner with 3 friends. You pay the whole bill and get €150 back from your friends later. Firefly would tell you you spend €200 euros on restaurants instead of just €50.

Happily back to Ynab now.

]]>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:14:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39398951roccomathijnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39398951https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39398951<![CDATA[New comment by roccomathijn in "Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)"]]>Norwegian coming up with a better translation than other native Dutch speakers.

]]>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:08:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261969roccomathijnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261969https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261969<![CDATA[New comment by roccomathijn in "I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka"]]>Nobody used the word decoupling. They just went from being tightly coupled to being loosely coupled.

]]>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 09:22:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27548708roccomathijnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27548708https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27548708