Hacker News: s_m

New comment by s_m in "Ask HN: Is GCP harder to use than AWS?"

s_m — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 17:24:17 +0000

I find GCP to be easier to use, but that's just me. If you're already productive with AWS I don't think there's much point in trying to get ramped up on Google's PaaS

New comment by s_m in "Hackers Just Leaked the Names of 92,000 ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donors"

s_m — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 19:16:39 +0000

Of course, the person in the hero image for that article has his UK flag upside down.

New comment by s_m in "Foobar2000"

s_m — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 14:53:25 +0000

I loved Foobar2000 back in my Windows days. iTunes just wasn't as fun an experience.

New comment by s_m in "Do not use 'week year': YYYY"

s_m — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 13:55:24 +0000

Fix in one place, and it's fixed everywhere. Allegedly.

New comment by s_m in "Do not use 'week year': YYYY"

s_m — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 13:24:27 +0000

"week year" was the cause of a big Twitter outage during the time I worked there. In the immediate aftermath there was a "see? this is why we need a monorepo" exhortation from leadership.

New comment by s_m in "Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun?"

s_m — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 15:39:43 +0000

My definition of "having fun" while coding is to feel like I'm not struggling to manifest whatever idea it is I have. To that end, right now I find writing for Google Cloud to be fun; it requires almost no backend expertise to stitch products together to make a decently powerful API, which I can easily build a frontend against.

New comment by s_m in "SSH public keys for any GitHub user"

s_m — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 02:44:57 +0000

what do you think "public" means

New comment by s_m in "Getting Started with Reverb Design, Part 1: Dev Environments"

s_m — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 01:37:39 +0000

This is gold. Valhalla's reverbs are the best around.

New comment by s_m in "Rust Moderation Team Resigns"

s_m — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 15:37:34 +0000

Scala's community has a reputation for toxicity. I don't write Scala, so I don't know how deserved this is, but nevertheless the reputation exists.

New comment by s_m in "Ask HN: What is working/living in Japan like as a software engineer?"

s_m — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:16:35 +0000

My understanding is that in Japan, engineers generally make a lot less money than they do in the USA, and that American companies with engineering offices in Japan tend to pay better.

- https://unseenjapan.com/japan-programmers-salaries-poor/ - https://japan-dev.com/blog/software-developer-salaries-in-ja... - https://opensalary.jp/

New comment by s_m in "Ask HN: How do you handle SMS and MMS?"

s_m — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:59:35 +0000

Twilio is famously good at SMS/MMS

(disclosure: I work there)

New comment by s_m in "Why is Git so popular and frequently used?"

s_m — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:58:08 +0000

In the late 00's, SVN was the dominant version control system, but it had lots of pain points (eg reliant on remote server, lots of crappy little .svn directories, branching was difficult, very difficult to make a git repo for small projects etc) that Git resolved. At this time, hg and bzr were also on the scene, but Github quickly became incredible popular, for a few reasons - Sourceforce, the incumbent community home for open source, was a comparatively inferior user experience - Rails, which was a dominant OSS project in that era, was hosted there, and the Rails / Ruby community converged on GH as a result - Heroku was a trendy platform during this time, which at the time you deployed by `git push`-ing, so git knowledge was required to take advantage of it.

New comment by s_m in "“Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”"

s_m — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 18:23:35 +0000

That's exactly what came to my mind too. I think the sqlite folks have similar struggles.

New comment by s_m in "Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it"

s_m — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 19:30:48 +0000

FYI if you set PayPal as your payment method, you can cancel your subscription in a couple clicks. Obviously it'd be preferable to NOT have a ridiculously difficult cancellation process, but that's one way to make it easier.

New comment by s_m in "Ask HN: Are you still using Keybase?"

s_m — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 02:33:36 +0000

I was hardly using it, though I definitely took advantage of the crypto thing when I had the opportunity.

New comment by s_m in "I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet"

s_m — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 21:01:51 +0000

It's just Twitter engineers goofing.

New comment by s_m in "I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet"

s_m — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 20:49:07 +0000

My personal fave. https://twitter.com/SarnatsPointer/status/253602578695344128

New comment by s_m in "Facebook/Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm"

s_m — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 01:37:51 +0000

Yeah but what's its Weissman score?

New comment by s_m in "Won’t Subscribe"

s_m — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:58:30 +0000

Lately I've enjoyed bypassing the NYT paywall using the `Lynx` CLI browser.

New comment by s_m in "Lego Helicopter Kit Cancelled 10 Days Before Release"

s_m — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:58:36 +0000

This would be a reasonable analogy if proceeds from the sales of these sets funded ongoing piracy.