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New comment by silvertaza in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

silvertaza — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:22:18 +0000

Not around the sauna per se, but sauna is often built first because it serves as a place to live while you're building the house!

New comment by silvertaza in "How Wristband got its first 10 paying customers (multi-tenant auth platform)"

silvertaza — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:01:48 +0000

Was the multi-channel approach deliberate? Would you have done something different other time around?

New comment by silvertaza in "S3 is files, but not a filesystem"

silvertaza — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 11:51:18 +0000

With every alternative, the prevailing issue is the fact that your data is as safe as the company your data is with. But I think this can be remedied by doubly external backups.

New comment by silvertaza in "Text UIs != Terminal UIs"

silvertaza — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 11:29:13 +0000

I feel like we're in the extremes in both cases, where general customer interfaces are all super information sparse, and terminals are heavy on text.

Having more visual terminals and more text UIs elsewhere would be best of both worlds.

New comment by silvertaza in "Google Mars (2005)"

silvertaza — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 15:19:00 +0000

If the visible map here is gray, why is it red-ish in the sky looking at it with the naked eye?

New comment by silvertaza in "My Failure Resume"

silvertaza — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:59:47 +0000

I love the spirit!

Practically speaking, having a backlog of vast amounts of similar data to you, the true way to get out of the loop is to try something different. To do the things that wouldn't fit as a data point in that list format.

New comment by silvertaza in "Ask HN: Main things to consider when building an app for business/enterprise?"

silvertaza — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 19:00:14 +0000

Hi there, I just wrote about it here: https://silvertaza.com/product-market-fit/

I am sure that at the very least you'll get some ideas on how to approach this. I have aggregated different sources on that, but I am not an expert myself at this point in time.

New comment by silvertaza in "Ask HN: What is your go to idiot-filter question in interviews?"

silvertaza — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 07:49:48 +0000

Yes, but the OP asked for an idiot-filter first.

We end up applying multiple filters throughout the process, but try similarly to keep them as simple as possible not to too strongly bias for one thing.

New comment by silvertaza in "Ask HN: What is your go to idiot-filter question in interviews?"

silvertaza — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 22:41:26 +0000

I even go as far as avoiding writing code in the first place. You can give a very simple imaginary problem to solve and see how they think. I believe good software engineers are essentially problem solvers, the code just happens to be the tool for it.

I have asked to estimate the amounts of skittles in a litre cube box.

New comment by silvertaza in "YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads"

silvertaza — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 23:14:12 +0000

It's probably apt to ask yourself what sort of revenue model you prefer to support for the value provided. YouTube is a rare case where they offer multiple options.

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

silvertaza — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 07:39:14 +0000

Depending on n, oftentimes nested loops are more readable and maintainable than the optimal solution.

Of course too many levels of nesting is inherently a code smell that indicates other issues.

New comment by silvertaza in "I killed my startup"

silvertaza — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 17:33:35 +0000

It's the same as Default Dead, see http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html

New comment by silvertaza in "Why have a blog? (2020)"

silvertaza — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 12:58:56 +0000

In terms of tech, I just started one that allowed me infinite customizability, but still leveraged good solutions to common needs, so I went with Gatsby. It is a static site with a lot of potential functionality.

https://silvertaza.com/startup-paths/

It is still more convenient to do blogging in Substack, but for potential dev content it is too limited in terms of what you can post there. One of my posts has a computer vision based game that leverages the webcam, and that would not have been possible there.