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New comment by spektom in "Reasons Not to Be a Manager (2019)"

spektom — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:19:31 +0000

I used to think that it's much harder to find a manager job than a dev job. Eventually I learned that this is not the case - quite the opposite. There is obviously lack of good managers. After reading "Peoplewhare" I understood why. There are two main manager objectives: 1) Advance the project 2) Advance the people. I can't even imagine how one finds a symbiosis between people's ambitions and project needs. Someone has to get hurt.

New comment by spektom in "Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?"

spektom — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 18:39:07 +0000

I think FreeBSD code in C is very well organized:

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src

New comment by spektom in "ZX81 Mechanical Keyboard"

spektom — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:35:56 +0000

My neighbor had a custom made keyboard for his ZX spectrum, based on reed switches:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_switch

Mine was manufactured at a tractor plant, and one had to press really hard on switch a to get a response.

New comment by spektom in "I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users"

spektom — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 06:11:17 +0000

What always surprises me is the fear about a company having tools to track you. Yes, there are tools, and yes you can be tracked at your workplace. The bigger question is whether your employer really uses this data to judge your contributions, or there are effective review processes where your work can be evaluated rightfully.

Perl 5.32.0 Released

spektom — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 06:39:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257547.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23597800

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by spektom in "Frameworkless Movement"

spektom — Sat, 30 May 2020 05:18:51 +0000

I wonder whether the following analogy is correct:

Walking - library

Riding a horse - framework

Facebook permanently deletes accounts of NSO Group workers

spektom — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:35:27 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/facebook-permanently-deletes-the-accounts-of-nso-workers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21406456

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

How Companies Turn Your Data into Money

spektom — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 09:58:13 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/pcmag-access/how-companies-turn-your-data-into-money-bfc9f8a086f3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18237609

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by spektom in "GDPR and Google Analytics"

spektom — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 06:38:00 +0000

GDPR is coming really soon, but it's still unclear how "Big Data companies" prepare to it from technical perspective. In addition to "getting consent" requirement there are "the right to be forgotten" and "the right of access", and it's not obvious how implementing these two are feasible or, at least, cost effective.

Show HN: ViyaDB – In-memory analytical database

spektom — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 08:39:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/viyadb/viyadb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16104531

Points: 15

# Comments: 1

New comment by spektom in "A Universe in One Line of Code with 10 PRINT"

spektom — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 06:30:23 +0000

Two favorite programs of my childhood:

  10 REM drawing a galaxy
  20 FOR r=1 to 50
  30 CIRCLE 150, 100, r
  40 NEXT r
  50 ...


  10 REM playing a song
  20 BEEP 1,0: BEEP 1,2: BEEP .5,3: BEEP.5,2: BEEP 1,0
  30 ...

New comment by spektom in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)"

spektom — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 04:49:01 +0000

Looks like they have upgraded the API version, but have forgotten to update the Web page.

Here's the correct API call: https://api.honeybook.com/api/v2/careers/get_careers

Maybe this was done on purpose, so appropriate candidates would reveal the list themselves? https://ibb.co/mSjOyw :)

New comment by spektom in "DuckDuckGo vs Google"

spektom — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:37:04 +0000

People, who downvoted my comment - care to explain? Does downvote button on HN compare to "I don't like what you're saying"?

New comment by spektom in "DuckDuckGo vs Google"

spektom — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:51:18 +0000

I'd like to act as devil's advocate for a bit.

Showing ads according to a search term is totally possible, but having no attribution attached to a "click" or to an "impression" give very little advantage for the marketer who is paying for the ads. There are cost models allowing to pay for the actual action (like installing an advertised application) not just for clicks or views. Re-targeting people who had expressed their interest in a product is a useful tool for marketers as well. Having some kind of link back to the advertising campaign, which your users came from along with their LTV allow you to measure campaign productivity, which helps optimize future campaigns. And much more.

I really like the idea of not being tracked on the Internet, but it's seems like currently it's not feasible to remove a tool many marketers get used to.

Java EE Moves to Eclipse Foundation

spektom — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 18:47:47 +0000

Article URL: http://middlewareblog.redhat.com/2017/09/12/java-ee-moves-to-eclipse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15278432

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by spektom in "Ask HN: What audio resources can improve my technical skills during my commute?"

spektom — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 11:29:28 +0000

Most of Israeli "repatriants" from USSR can

New comment by spektom in "Ask HN: What audio resources can improve my technical skills during my commute?"

spektom — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 07:51:50 +0000

Here's the list of great technical podcasts I've been listening during commute to my previous work:

* Software Engineering Daily

* Software Engineering Radio

* The Changelog

* DevZen (in Russian)

* Reversim Platforma (in Hebrew)

Look for previous shows, most of the great content is there!

PS: It takes about 5 minutes to drive to my new work, and I really miss them now.

New comment by spektom in "Efficient Immutable Collections [pdf]"

spektom — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 07:21:43 +0000

This paper was published back in 2015: https://michael.steindorfer.name/publications/oopsla15.pdf

I wonder why the improvement wasn't adopted yet by the Clojure and Scala communities.

Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into living bacteria

spektom — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:23:42 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/12/harvard-nature-crispr-cas1-cas2-horse-gif/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14760375

Points: 55

# Comments: 55

New comment by spektom in "Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading"

spektom — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 05:51:21 +0000

I wonder how this issue affects cloud providers?