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New comment by traviscj in "Keeping a long shell history"

traviscj — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 11:06:00 +0000

I’ve done this enough times I chain the desired command and the cd together:

    cd ~/x/y/z && my-command

So that when I CTRL-R for my-command it automatically reminds me.

New comment by traviscj in "How to burnout a software engineer, in 3 easy steps"

traviscj — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:49:22 +0000

I used to feel this was true for me, and to a large degree still do. But lately I’ve been wondering to what extent this is a self-limiting belief, and how much I can train myself to remain productive in the face of interruptions. My life is more complicated now than when my career started, and the interruption causers seem to be multiplying, so I’m seeing it as something I need to learn to deal with if I’m going to be able to stay in the field.

New comment by traviscj in "Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common"

traviscj — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 10:39:34 +0000

Database indices.

New comment by traviscj in "Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it"

traviscj — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 06:13:12 +0000

Possible, yes, and frequently used I’m sure, but entangles the retirees financial future with the business’s future — the retiree loses if the new owners make bad decisions, overleverage, and end up defaulting / bankrupting themselves. I don’t think it’s reasonable to force all businesspeople to retain this risk after disposing of the business concern.

New comment by traviscj in "Terrible real estate agent photographs"

traviscj — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 17:03:35 +0000

Building inspections are not really the same as purchase inspections, or at least don’t seem to me like they should be. Purchase inspection generally might not see a partially-constructed building or blueprints or otherwise be able to verify the engineering plan is being followed—They’re looking for broken/nonfunctional appliances/mechanicals/systems, clear fire hazards, mold, infestations, and the like.

The outcome of a building inspection is a certificate of occupancy where the authority is stating the home is safe to live in, the outcome of a purchase inspection is a report of things to ask for a discount on, part of the purchase negotiation.

The Chatham County thing is crazy, I’m hoping the family manages to find someone accountable in that mess — clearly either the original architect, the builder, or the county let them down somehow. I’m just not sure it’s really an indictment of the “inspector” profession as discussed in this thread.

New comment by traviscj in "Ask HN: Is GitHub down?"

traviscj — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:00:07 +0000

found the neteng guy

New comment by traviscj in "Github.com is down"

traviscj — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 17:58:39 +0000

maybe they used gitops

New comment by traviscj in "Please don't be spooky"

traviscj — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:12:52 +0000

I had a manager — who I basically loved — that loved to say “assume positive intent”, perhaps from teammate $T

And I tried!

But my priors were that teammate $T has rejected ideas from most of my design documents for (imho) inconsequential reasons — Eg there were framework scalability concerns of using a framework that handles 1x-1000x the projected growth of the current project.

Telling me to “assume positive intent” from feedback saying it wouldn’t work “because scale” (when we were comfortably 4-5 orders of magnitude away from those problems) felt pretty empty.

More honest pushback would essentially be “this solution didn’t need this scale yet”, or “we can afford to re-architect this right now” — “finding deals” becomes a rent payment from someone figured

New comment by traviscj in "If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever"

traviscj — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 03:16:41 +0000

I read as “only one person on the team I was interviewing for”, not “only one person was swe”

New comment by traviscj in "Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store"

traviscj — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 02:33:20 +0000

I use a similar setup to store code snippets (certain Java annotations for integration/unit tests, various things like that), vehicle license plate/vins, internal (but nonsensitive) ids for test accounts, tons of things like that.

Honestly a password manager would probably be technically better—or a bunch of flat files lol—but there was a certain charm to having it displayed / function exactly as I like it, and lightning quick with nothing I didn’t need.

IDE would be another natural place for a lot of my usages, but I kept finding I needed to leave it in a pull request review or slack conversation or similar, not necessarily programming myself.

New comment by traviscj in "Show HN: PocketBase – Open Source realtime backend in one file"

traviscj — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 05:02:41 +0000

Really neat! I’ve been wanting to make something similar for _years_ to be a standardized data modeling testbed as I explore/experiment/prototype some new feature or problem space or even doing ad-hoc fixes. I think this is a much better starting place than spreadsheets/similar.

Good luck with the project! Seems like you’ve got some good interest :-)

New comment by traviscj in "Ask HN: Codebases with great, easy to read code?"

traviscj — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 13:30:26 +0000

I’ve learned a TON from the [okhttp3](https://square.github.io/okhttp/) codebase, highly recommend studying it.

New comment by traviscj in "My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll"

traviscj — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 14:12:05 +0000

The original seems to have been designed with different goals in mind. I have no doubt that the new ux better optimized their new goals, I just don’t agree that the new goals were as useful to me personally.

New comment by traviscj in "Radiation spikes in Chernobyl"

traviscj — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 17:43:49 +0000

Seems like GP means it’s noticeable but difficult to interpret?

New comment by traviscj in "Facebook loses users for the first time"

traviscj — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 15:00:44 +0000

BYOC :-(

New comment by traviscj in "Settings are not a design failure"

traviscj — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:39:02 +0000

Gotta love military-grade pragmatism.

New comment by traviscj in "Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019)"

traviscj — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 02:18:56 +0000

I am SUPER worried about this when it affects something really important, like getting the client/customer/merchant/cardholder their money. It seems like the world has moved on without me —- “ohh, three nines is enough”… “hrmmm maybe?…”

New comment by traviscj in "The growth of command line options, 1979-Present (2020)"

traviscj — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 19:05:16 +0000

I have the same problem with textmate :-(

New comment by traviscj in "Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux"

traviscj — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 21:06:26 +0000

Probably not, but could emulate SNES on a Linux!

New comment by traviscj in "Ritalin and similar medications cause brain to focus on benefits of work (2020)"

traviscj — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 15:47:00 +0000

Really interesting. I've been on Adderall for almost 10 years and am constantly accused of being overly optimistic, which sounds a lot like the "the brain to fix its attention on the benefits, rather than the costs, of completing difficult tasks." from the first paragraph.