Hacker News: taklimakan

New comment by taklimakan in "Anthropic bans orgs without warning"

taklimakan — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:56:13 +0000

The same thing happened to us too. Fresh company account, banned right away. Two weeks later we get an automated email stating that our appeal was reviewed but they could do nothing about that. I can’t even begin to describe how ridiculous this is.

New comment by taklimakan in "New site design and philosophy for Stack Overflow"

taklimakan — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 06:08:29 +0000

The previous role of the current VP of Community for Stack Overflow was at Wikipedia. Did it work then? Will it work now? I found SO useful because I could find working answers in minutes from search results. Threaded replies are going to make that much harder. But hey, mods won’t close my crappy questions any more, that’s a win right? Right??!?

New comment by taklimakan in "Show HN: Inamate – Open-source 2D animation tool (alternative to Adobe Animate)"

taklimakan — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:06:19 +0000

Why Rust?

New comment by taklimakan in "Ask HN: How do you find the "why" behind old code decisions?"

taklimakan — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:07:56 +0000

It’s either documented or it’s not. When I modify code in a way that isn’t immediately obvious by looking at the code itself plus the immediate surroundings, I write a two-or three-lines code comment. It takes me ten seconds and does a big favor to my future self. I fail to understand why this isn’t standard procedure.

To actually answer your question, do a git blame, check the commit messages and anything linked in commit messages. Do some search in the company’s internal knowledge base, architecture documents, specs, whatever you have available. Even if you don’t find a direct answer, understanding some more context might eventually lead to one.

If you have no documentation at all anywhere, then you have to analyze the code yourself. It’s part of your job. When you’re done be sure to document your findings.

New comment by taklimakan in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

taklimakan — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:27:35 +0000

Yes nice but also very naive. Most developers do not have that level of ownership, nor know how their users interact with the software. Their job is precisely to complete tickets from the product manager. The product manager is the one who should be in charge of UX research and “build a software that solves users problems.” Sure, in abstract that is the mission of the developers too, but in any structured (and hopefully functional) team, product strategy is not what the software engineer should be concerned with.

New comment by taklimakan in "Cerebras: The AI hardware giant facing imminent collapse"

taklimakan — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 13:51:25 +0000

It might be a new account for privacy reasons. Folks can choose whether to believe them or not. If the company is really doomed, we’ll know soon enough.

New comment by taklimakan in "When Profit Overshadows Community: A Look at Golang Conferences"

taklimakan — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 08:18:08 +0000

This unfortunately resonates with my experience. I used to attend GoLab, the event held in Florence, Italy.

Over time, as the event gained in popularity, speakers shifted from developers to developer advocates.

Last time I attended (2023 edition, IIRC) one of the talks was from some Intellij dev-relations person: the talk was about the importance of unit testing or something like that, completely devoid of any value for anyone who hasn’t started coding yesterday. The speaker was obviously not a technical person and gave a strong impression they were presenting content they barely knew anything about. I seriously doubt the slides deck was put together the night before. It was an utter disappointment. That was it for me. That’s a glaring example of what the OP is talking about but other talks I had listened to were only marginally better or on par with that one. That’s when I decided the thing was so much not worth the (hefty) ticket price + cost of transportation + accommodation.

It’s a sad state of affairs but not unexpected.

New comment by taklimakan in "Ask HN: Dealing with Vibe Coding Depression?"

taklimakan — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:44:29 +0000

I don’t get it. Is anyone forcing you to vibe code? If you don’t like vibe coding, don’t do it. The time you save when vibe coding is offset almost 1:1 by the time you need to verify the AI’s output for all but the most trivial applications. And even then, were you happy writing trivial code?

New comment by taklimakan in "Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text"

taklimakan — Sat, 24 May 2025 04:56:19 +0000

I was under the impression mermaid is a wrapper around graphviz dot.

New comment by taklimakan in "Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)"

taklimakan — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 23:33:39 +0000

This is all very interesting, but is complete fiction for most readers. 99% of job seekers aren’t going to receive competing offers from multiple companies conveniently at the same time.

New comment by taklimakan in "Ask HN: Companies that reject Agile cultism?"

taklimakan — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 13:53:32 +0000

In my experience many organisations do Agile even if they don’t call it that. Agile is just a series of sensible principles to get stuff done. The problems start when people mistake the process for the goal.

New comment by taklimakan in "Tell HN: Check fraud schemes abound in "remote work" opportunities"

taklimakan — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 20:38:13 +0000

I don’t get how this “scheme” works. If I’m getting hired why am I supposed to pay them for anything?

Ask HN: Recruiters, do you get many cover letters written by an AI?

taklimakan — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 20:06:07 +0000

Do you? I’m curious to see how many people reply “never”.

If you do get AI cover letters, how does that affect the applicant?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38942462

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Are all these crypto jobs legit?

taklimakan — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:36:48 +0000

I started to timidly poke my nose in the job market, anticipating a ship jumping within the next year or so. It strikes me that there’s a staggering amount of crypto jobs. Blockchain, NFT, instant messaging, payment, you name it.

Is the crypto space experiencing such a high growth on all fronts that so many crypto startups pop up everywhere or are these just YOLO’ing their way forward until they run out of cash? And by the way, who is funding them? Are investors actually convinced that any random crypto project can become the next unicorn?

It all seems like a giant scam to me, and I’m very wary of applying to these companies. Am I being overly conservative?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37484693

Points: 1

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New comment by taklimakan in "Moonbit: Fast, compact and user friendly language for WebAssembly"

taklimakan — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 07:56:22 +0000

That’s not how you’d implement fibonacci in Go

New comment by taklimakan in "Ask HN: What If Russia Wins?"

taklimakan — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 11:12:42 +0000

They already lost, isn’t it obvious?

New comment by taklimakan in "DRPC, a Replacement for gRPC"

taklimakan — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 12:32:49 +0000

> Where gRPC needs improvement: Let’s just get out here and say what not enough people are saying—in a nutshell, gRPC has feature creep, bloat and is trying to solve too many problems. It’s overcomplicated and has become a dumping ground of features, tangled in a standards body-based web of crap.

It sounds like they deemed more cost-effective to rewrite the protocol than learning how to use `grpc.Dial`

New comment by taklimakan in "Ask HN: What’s with all the job applicants who ghost the company"

taklimakan — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 21:13:04 +0000

You are right. Though when hiring remote, time zones might be an obstacle.

New comment by taklimakan in "Ask HN: What’s with all the job applicants who ghost the company"

taklimakan — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 17:56:48 +0000

I’m admittedly lumping candidates who don’t reply at all with those who ghost the first interview. I view it as the same kind of behavior, as they quit the process early without an apparent reason.

Ask HN: What’s with all the job applicants who ghost the company

taklimakan — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 16:39:19 +0000

I’m seeing an increasing trend of job applicants who ghost the company after the first contact. For our latest job opening we received north of 300 applications of which a solid 15-20% have been contacted back. Not a single applicant has ever replied thereafter. Some have replied to schedule a first meeting and simply didn’t show up.

If it happened to my company only, I’d start questioning our HR procedure and the approach, or language, of our recruiter. However several of my friends and peers reported the same kind of story.

Maybe I’m just a grumpy old man but... is this the new normal in recruitment? Is it a collective revenge against companies that ghost candidates?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26926202

Points: 3

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