Hacker News: slim109ya

New comment by slim109ya in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

slim109ya — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 09:55:14 +0000

I love this! This is the kind of interesting stuff I thought I'd be working on before I became a software developer and got disappointed by the day to day CRUD, JS framework nonsense, Agile cesspool it turned into.

New comment by slim109ya in "Design of This Website (2021)"

slim109ya — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 09:48:52 +0000

I didn't find the right alignment of text to be easier to read, but though it was a mistake on your part. Of course, now I know it was intentional. Good job though.

New comment by slim109ya in "Britain being forced to go cashless 'against its will'"

slim109ya — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 09:46:51 +0000

I quit carrying a wallet several years ago and have never looked back. I just carry my driver's license, debit/credit card, and any cash I have in a pocket. It works well for me.

New comment by slim109ya in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

slim109ya — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 01:33:46 +0000

This feels kind of shallow. Much like the BLM support thing, where they would attach a slogan to their website. "Let's get some social points" is what this amounts to.

I think businesses need to stay out of politics and social issues. You're, in effect, punishing people who have nothing to do with what the Russian government chose to do.

New comment by slim109ya in "Full consensus for disconnecting Russia from SWIFT achieved, process has begun"

slim109ya — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:49:40 +0000

I agree. The risk of war is too great.

New comment by slim109ya in "Full consensus for disconnecting Russia from SWIFT achieved, process has begun"

slim109ya — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:46:19 +0000

Exactly. This situation was highly thought out and I'm sure he has at least one ace up his sleeve. Most likely in the form of controling natural resources to europe.

New comment by slim109ya in "On the removal of Come Back Alive"

slim109ya — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 13:44:54 +0000

If China really wants Taiwan then now's the time to do it. North Korea might as well take South Korea while all this is going on. Now I'm starting to think the world is descending into chaos. Or has it always been that way?

New comment by slim109ya in "Game Boy Wordle clone: How to compress 12972 five-letter words to 17871 bytes"

slim109ya — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 09:42:13 +0000

Yeah, me too. Mainly D&D character generators.

New comment by slim109ya in "State of JavaScript 2021"

slim109ya — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:42:32 +0000

I think I might try Golang, I would love to just code again. I'll look into Svelte as well.

New comment by slim109ya in "Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case"

slim109ya — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:12:57 +0000

Absolutely true. I only have weird smells sometimes, while my wife still suffers loss of appetite and a reduction of energy levels. It's been 6 months since we recovered.

New comment by slim109ya in "The Story of Maxis Software (1999)"

slim109ya — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:28:45 +0000

Do you have to personally attack Brendan Eich?

New comment by slim109ya in "The Story of Maxis Software (1999)"

slim109ya — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:26:19 +0000

I agree. Personal activism is obviously what it was and it's sad that we can't say as mutch without being down-voted.

It would be much better if the gay people defending this would do so for the right reasons and not simply because they are 'rooting for the team.'

New comment by slim109ya in "Myths about cooking steak that need to go away (2013)"

slim109ya — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 10:01:34 +0000

I'm going to try this one night when I'm on my last 2 beers. Might just time out perfect!

New comment by slim109ya in "Show HN: My 486 Server"

slim109ya — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:28:40 +0000

You sir, are my hero. I keep telling myself when I retire I'll have time for such things. I think I'm kidding myself...

New comment by slim109ya in "Do success stories cause false beliefs about success?"

slim109ya — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 12:07:07 +0000

Many guitar gods use drugs, Walt Disney and Bill Gates did not stay in school, and people like Mike Tyson and Kevin Mitnick were successful after comitting crimes.

There's just too many variables in life that make success more about luck than following general guidelines.

New comment by slim109ya in "Train burglaries in LA"

slim109ya — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 07:42:08 +0000

Yes, if they deserve to be in prison and aren't.

New comment by slim109ya in "I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now"

slim109ya — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:45:52 +0000

Exactly. And many of us have a hard time getting a single opportunity and feel lucky when we get a job.

New comment by slim109ya in "I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months"

slim109ya — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 15:58:27 +0000

Leetcode is more about learning pattern recognition of the problem category than it is critical thinking.

What started off as "write a binary search" has turned into a massive gate-keeping process to try to select candidates who fit a profile. I'm not sure what that profile is, but I know I don't fit it. I grinded Leetcode for 2 months and failed Google, Facebook, and Amazon. I thought there was some luck involved and decided not to put any more time into it. But, I don't fault others who do.

I do think the large pay increases the candidate pool, so there has to be some form of testing. I just don't think as a senior developer, it assesses my skills.

New comment by slim109ya in "I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months"

slim109ya — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 13:57:04 +0000

What's an example of a 'simple python question that someone failed?' And was it something that truly showed incompetance?

In my experience, it turns out to be some dark corner of the language, or a keyword that's not in common use today. Examples are: 'void' in JavaScript and 'boxing' in C#