Hacker News: spaetzleesser

New comment by spaetzleesser in "Why I Left Rust"

spaetzleesser — Sun, 28 May 2023 16:45:28 +0000

That’s actually very good

New comment by spaetzleesser in "Why I Left Rust"

spaetzleesser — Sun, 28 May 2023 16:42:12 +0000

The previous generations didn’t exactly set a good example for healthy, impersonal and professional argument.

New comment by spaetzleesser in "Why I Left Rust"

spaetzleesser — Sun, 28 May 2023 16:39:36 +0000

Are there any communities that are really based on merit?

New comment by spaetzleesser in "Most people don’t finish online job applications"

spaetzleesser — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 09:58:40 +0000

“Do these people not realize how annoying their process is and how talented people don’t have to put up with crap like this?”

Easy. They select for compliance, not skill.

New comment by spaetzleesser in "Most people don’t finish online job applications"

spaetzleesser — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 09:57:21 +0000

“ Qualities like duty, loyalty, initiative and industriousness are deemed weaknesses.”

Wherever you look, loyalty is for suckers. Be it as employee, car insurance or cell phone plans. Only the new guy gets respect.

New comment by spaetzleesser in "My dad's resume and skills from 1980"

spaetzleesser — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 05:58:59 +0000

The current implementation of Agile in most cases is pretty much the opposite of agile as described in the agile manifesto.

In my team we have reduced the process to having a simple backlog which we work through. But I have seen other teams where you spend enormous amounts of time on planning but it’s frowned upon if you think any further than the next sprint. Just check off tasks without any thoughts about long term architecture or strategy. Basically just a sweatshop with replaceable “resources” (the company doesn’t hire “people” anymore but “resources”)

New comment by spaetzleesser in "NY Supreme Court reinstates NYC's fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay"

spaetzleesser — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 05:52:37 +0000

I have been to New York and I have also seen Paris during a strike of garbage collectors. It gets ugly very quickly once collection stops.

The number one thing I have noticed in New York was they seem to make trash collection as loud as possible ideally at 3 in the morning :)

New comment by spaetzleesser in "NY Supreme Court reinstates NYC's fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay"

spaetzleesser — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 05:49:57 +0000

“I used to wonder how on earth nazis and communists and the like were able to seize power and control of a population, and now I've seen it”

That’s how the US has worked for a long time. See the war on drugs and mass incarceration, laws against black people and extreme political polarization. There was always a group of “others” that people wanted to get punished.

I bet if Trump had been a little smarter he would have got away with a lot more while people cheering him on. But it seems a lot of political institutions are eroding so maybe the next strongman will be able to go way further.

New comment by spaetzleesser in "NY Supreme Court reinstates NYC's fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay"

spaetzleesser — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 05:45:10 +0000

A small hardware store in town went out of business because they were forced to close. Same for a lot of other small stores. I could understand reducing number of people in the store but closing totally while keeping others open simply didn’t make sense. I think the exceptions had more to do with successful lobbying than with health reasons.

New comment by spaetzleesser in "Employers should prioritize retention over hiring, study suggests"

spaetzleesser — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 01:41:22 +0000

“ That said, companies are often wrong to hire externally as they misattribute their problems to their employees instead of to their own leadership. It is easier for them to blame others instead of themselves.”

After talking to a lot of managers it really seems that a lot of them are deeply skeptical of the people they themselves have hired.

New comment by spaetzleesser in "NY Supreme Court reinstates NYC's fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay"

spaetzleesser — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 01:37:43 +0000

The same happened in CA with some stores being open and others closed. Why was Home Depot open? It made no sense in terms of spreading the disease . It was just arbitrary BS.

Closing the beaches was stupid too. If there ever was a safe place then it was the beach or state park wheee uou are in the open and the window blows.

New comment by spaetzleesser in "NY Supreme Court reinstates NYC's fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay"

spaetzleesser — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 01:35:31 +0000

Why do firefighters have no effect on tourism? Without them you can not run a city. Same for many other jobs like garbage collection.

New comment by spaetzleesser in "My dad's resume and skills from 1980"

spaetzleesser — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 18:21:16 +0000

I enjoyed programming in the 90s and early 2000s but I feel it’s turning again into tedious grunt work with scrum, agile, yaml configuration files and needlessly complex systems.

New comment by spaetzleesser in "Ask HN: How to show a not “so perfect” MVP to potential customers?"

spaetzleesser — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:01:33 +0000

You need to nail one use case really, really, really well and impress people. When they ask about other things you can then state that they are in development.

New comment by spaetzleesser in "Plastic recycling remains a 'myth': Greenpeace study"

spaetzleesser — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:59:02 +0000

There was a thing on NPR a while ago. It basically claimed that plastic recycling was invented as PR strategy by the oil/plastic industry. When you look at the facts it makes sense.

New comment by spaetzleesser in "California Poised to Overtake Germany as World’s No. 4 Economy"

spaetzleesser — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:55:12 +0000

CA prefers to lead on insane housing prices, inequality and number of billionaires. They have played a pretty good role in environmental protections though.

Not sure how I should think about homelessness in CA. I think the problem is that the climate attracts homeless people.

New comment by spaetzleesser in "98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs"

spaetzleesser — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 04:13:38 +0000

The port of VS to WPF was definitely not a showcase for WPF capabilities. Pretty much everything was worse or slower after the port. And a ton of features was missing. Even now the customization of toolbars is not as elegant as it was on 2008. Not a surprise that they didn’t use XAML for any other big application

New comment by spaetzleesser in "27 years ago, Hoover offered free international flights with any £100 purchase"

spaetzleesser — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 17:02:16 +0000

I wrote my first web app to track my rebates :). Even had some sign ups. Vbscript with an Access database. Worked pretty well.

New comment by spaetzleesser in "27 years ago, Hoover offered free international flights with any £100 purchase"

spaetzleesser — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 17:00:26 +0000

I bought a lot of stuff with rebates and I almost always got a check after a very long wait. Sometimes you had to call the number to make them send it out. It was fine when I didn’t make much money but after a while it was too much hassle.

New comment by spaetzleesser in "Ask HN: Is it possible to have a structured work day in software dev?"

spaetzleesser — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 17:29:06 +0000

And the offshore team should be large to perform autonomous work. We often get only one or two guys from India or China who need to work closely with the US team . So it ends up with the offshore guys sacrificing their nights or the US people have to sacrifice.

It looks cheaper on paper but this way you get all the overhead of offshoring but bad productivity. It’s terrible.