Hacker News: thoman23

New comment by thoman23 in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

thoman23 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:41:18 +0000

> instead of random parasites nowadays

Maybe MAHA will bring this back, like they did measles.

New comment by thoman23 in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

thoman23 — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:54:16 +0000

Programmer: "What is this slop that I found in your code?"

AI: "I LEARNED IT FROM YOU, DAD!"

New comment by thoman23 in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

thoman23 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:34:02 +0000

This is ridiculous click-bait, and it wouldn't surprise me if the main point was to just come up with a headline that would go viral and drive people to their website which conveniently has an option to donate to their "legal fund".

I mean, come on. Do I like that they are making use of browser fingerprinting? Not really. But to make it sound like they are "illegally" scanning my computer is ridiculous.

New comment by thoman23 in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

thoman23 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:21:41 +0000

Does this mean my prime virtual real estate next door to Snoop Dogg's house isn't going to work as my retirement plan anymore?

New comment by thoman23 in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

thoman23 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:44:49 +0000

Where "many cases" all involve a team of 2 to 5 people working together in the same room and never bringing work home.

New comment by thoman23 in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

thoman23 — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 18:18:16 +0000

lol, he's so reminiscent of Trump. He can't help but make it all about himself. "I was the prime mover behind OpenAI". Everything is always all thanks to him.

New comment by thoman23 in "NY State Assembly Bill A416"

thoman23 — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 17:00:37 +0000

> "I specifically went over on Christmas to get infected and get it over with if I did not already have it"

Logical!

>"That's how much I'm not scared of this virus."

You're like a real life Liam Neeson.

New comment by thoman23 in "The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer"

thoman23 — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 23:09:03 +0000

A few people have touched on it here, but I'll add my voice. I firmly believe that there are programmers who are better described as a "1 vs. 0" programmer. Some programmers have a creative talent in them that leads them to create elegant solutions that literally a team of 50 average programmers would not.

New comment by thoman23 in "The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer"

thoman23 — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 23:05:27 +0000

All you have to do is look at someone like LeBron. He single-handedly makes a team a championship contender.

New comment by thoman23 in "Ask HN: Do you know any good audio books for developers?"

thoman23 — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 17:44:51 +0000

I completely understand that you need to start with epub books. But do you have longer term plans to partner with the proprietary ebook providers? There are a lot of older Kindle eBooks without audio versions that I would love to listen to during my commute.

New comment by thoman23 in "Java's Cover"

thoman23 — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 21:40:11 +0000

Hmm...he was wrong while not being wrong.

New comment by thoman23 in "A Manager’s Guide to Kubernetes Adoption"

thoman23 — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 01:57:33 +0000

God, HN can be so cynical at times. (I'm not really directing this at just you, scarface74, but the overall tone of responses here). Docker and Kubernetes are not just about padding your resume. Why would I not want to use a solution for orchestration, availability, and elasticity of my services?

New comment by thoman23 in "Hiring Is Broken?"

thoman23 — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 01:49:47 +0000

How much hiring and interviewing have you done? I've seen countless resumes with 25 years of stated glorious achievements, and they couldn't write a for loop.

New comment by thoman23 in "You don’t want a child prodigy"

thoman23 — Sat, 25 May 2019 15:04:19 +0000

Thanks for the reply. I will admit I live in a bit of an atheistic bubble, so it’s interesting to hear a different perspective, especially from someone as incredibly accomplished as you.

New comment by thoman23 in "You don’t want a child prodigy"

thoman23 — Sat, 25 May 2019 14:39:25 +0000

I took a look at your Wikipedia page. Are you actually a practicing Quaker? I know it’s none of my business. It’s just so unexpected to see from a UC Berkeley PhD, computer science prodigy, that I find it fascinating.

New comment by thoman23 in "Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)"

thoman23 — Sun, 19 May 2019 01:35:21 +0000

2 things I'm not seeing in the article or in the comments so far:

1) The virtual DOM is an abstraction that allows rendering to multiple view implementations. The virtual DOM can be rendered to the browser, native phone UI, or to the desktop.

2) The virtual DOM can, and should, be built with immutable objects which enables very quick reference checks during the change detection cycle.

New comment by thoman23 in "Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO"

thoman23 — Thu, 09 May 2019 06:58:09 +0000

Thanks for the advice! Is there one opinionated offering that has solid Windows Server support? It looks like OpenShift is working towards it, but it’s not ready yet.

New comment by thoman23 in "Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO"

thoman23 — Wed, 08 May 2019 19:28:21 +0000

As someone who wants to pitch containerization at my enterprisey company, what is the takeaway message here? Do I still assume Docker/kubernetes is the way to go? Sounds like I don't want to stake my reputation on Docker Swarm? Is there another container platform this community recommends other than Docker?

New comment by thoman23 in "To ORM or Not to ORM"

thoman23 — Wed, 08 May 2019 06:09:38 +0000

I get that you're talking about Typescript, but I just want to say that Scala excels in this area as well. I found Slick to be a pleasure to work with once I embraced not trying to map directly from a relational model to an object model, but instead to just use Scala's ability to manipulate and reshape the relational model as needed.

New comment by thoman23 in "Killer Rabbits in Medieval Manuscripts"

thoman23 — Sun, 05 May 2019 22:23:03 +0000

Would it...help to confuse it if we run away more?