<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: sobren</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sobren</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:39:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sobren" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sobren in "We will never have enough software developers (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It feels bad too have a ton of structure, but the opposite is worse IMO.<p>Single line tickets from the CEO that turn into months long projects with no guidance on the functionality. Engineers that burn down entire features because  "it's bad code." Secret projects where you get berated for asking stakeholders to to clear up requirements because "you're scaring them."<p>It's easy to look at a rigid structure and assume it sprang wholecloth from Zeus's head - but most of the time it's an overcorrection. Being burned by a company where Freedom is just an excuse to make employees to work overtime will make anyone go a little overboard.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:44:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31742093</link><dc:creator>sobren</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31742093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31742093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sobren in "Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's bad for the people living there for the same reason city councils don't allow hotels to be built anywhere.<p>Short term rentals aren't a bad thing in of itself, but the purpose of zoning is that different locations serve different needs better. When you live in a neighborhood you expect there to be elementary schools near your house, and that there's quiet hours so that you can sleep during the night. ect.<p>Hotels and by extension air bnb's disrupt this balance. If the five condo towers surrounding the school suddenly become short term rentals overnight, either the school needs to move or kids have to travel farther. And no amount of police presence is going to make tourists not party during 1 am. You tell one group to stop, well the next is coming in 3 days.<p>And it goes the other way too. Having night life congregated together makes it easier for public services to their job. You can have more paramedics prepared for overdoses - enhanced police presence because drunk people are stupid, ect.<p>Even if air bnb's aren't a net negative on the economy, skirting of local regulations have qualitative effects on the the city that shouldn't be discounted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2022 17:41:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31208396</link><dc:creator>sobren</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31208396</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31208396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sobren in "Man given genetically modified pig heart dies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here's a  2015 article from the Journal of Thoratic Disease. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4387387/.It" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4387387/.It</a> doesn't calculate the exact average, but 21% of patients are alive after 20 years. Survival rates have  definitely rapidly increased over the last two decades.<p>> Survival after heart transplantation is excellent, particularly if it is compared with the natural course of end-stage HF. The most recent data of the registry of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation indicates a current 1-year survival of 84.5% and a 5-year survival of 72.5% (5). This has significantly improved as compared to the 76.9% 1-year survival and 62.7% 5-year survival in the 1980s. The development of new immunosuppressive drugs which allow a variety of immunosuppressive regimens, tailored to the individual patient, has contributed to this success, since rejection and the adverse effects of immunosuppression could be better controlled. After 20 years, ca. 21% of patients are still alive, according to the international registry (5). In some experienced centers, long-term survival is reported to be even higher (6-9). The University Hospital Zurich has achieved a 20-year survival rate of 55.6% (10).<p>>The improvement in outcome over the decades is related mainly to an increase in survival over the first year. After this period, the attrition rate of ca. 3-4% per year has remained similar over the different eras. This might be attributable to the fact that it was not possible to reduce the incidence of long-term complications after heart transplantation, such as chronic allograft vasculopathy (CAV) and malignancies, which account for ca. 35% of all deaths after 10 to 15 years (5).</p>
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