Hacker News: zarkov99

New comment by zarkov99 in "Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO"

zarkov99 — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 14:40:29 +0000

I do not see it that way. I was born in Europe and immigrated to the US. In my mind the differences is that the US attracts more ambitious and talented people than Europe.

New comment by zarkov99 in "BlazingMQ: High-performance open source message queuing system"

zarkov99 — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:33:20 +0000

This is not right in finance at least. Messages updates are typically incremental just like in TCP. The reliability problem is dealt with with careful network stack tuning, core affinity and out of band recovery.

New comment by zarkov99 in "Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation"

zarkov99 — Tue, 23 May 2023 00:52:32 +0000

They are clearly not politically neutral, unfortunately, whether by accident or design. And I say this as someone who has been a supporter for years.

New comment by zarkov99 in "Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco"

zarkov99 — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 23:42:46 +0000

The videos you see are curated to showcase police brutality. In a country with 300 million people and as many guns, its not hard to come up with a video a day depicting things going wrong. That is not the norm though. No one is going to post videos of polite, professional interactions, even though those are, obviously, the vast majority of cases.

New comment by zarkov99 in "ChatGPT sends shockwaves across college campuses"

zarkov99 — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 01:15:10 +0000

Is it not feasible to simply raise the bar on what is expected in a graded essay? Or is the human/chatgpt combo no better than just chatgpt?

New comment by zarkov99 in "Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls"

zarkov99 — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:37:26 +0000

I have a 13 year old who just got a phone. I do not think things are as hopeless as you seem to believe. My daughter mocks social media (including my own use of it) and, so far, wants no part of it. That is, I think, largely because her mother and I have been educating her since she could use a computer on how stupid and vapid social media is. As far as I know, none of her friends has any social media accounts either, I believe for similar reasons.

New comment by zarkov99 in "Is it time to replace TCP in data centers?"

zarkov99 — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 01:06:09 +0000

TCP is rarely used in HFT data centers except as required by exchanges.

New comment by zarkov99 in "Tesla Market Cap falls below $500B"

zarkov99 — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 18:29:34 +0000

People who hate Elon musk, which includes almost all of media, have no qualms about lying about Tesla in order to hurt it/him. In fact they might think is the right thing to do, for the sake of, well whatever.

If you are interested in the ground truth, check the videos by owners, talk to people who use FSD and best of all see if you can rent and drive a Tesla yourself.

Its sad to say, but even in tech we swim in an ocean of ideologically driven BS and not all of us have realized it yet.

New comment by zarkov99 in "Why hasn’t technology disrupted higher education already?"

zarkov99 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:25:00 +0000

That is exactly right. In terms of knowledge acquisition the disruption has occurred. Any motivated young person can get a world class education free of charge, without ever stepping into an ivy. But it turns out the main purpose of college is to sort people not educate them and we are only now realizing that.

New comment by zarkov99 in "Layoff spree in Silicon Valley spells end of an era for Big Tech"

zarkov99 — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 13:35:22 +0000

What would you replace leetcode with? For all its faults, and I agree there are many, leetcode is at least more or less objective and (for employers) very cheap.

New comment by zarkov99 in "Eglot has landed on master: Emacs now has a built-in LSP client"

zarkov99 — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 19:07:39 +0000

With eglot and lsp-mode emacs, for me, has feature parity with vscode for c++ local development. Unfortunately for remote work tramp is still a nightmare and vscode far ahead.

New comment by zarkov99 in "Why Rust is a great choice for startups"

zarkov99 — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:07:15 +0000

The problem with this idea has been the same for 40 years: unlike in other fields of engineering in Software there is no bedrock of empirical science from which we can derive objective, reasonable standards. It is all opinion in CS and no doubt the most obnoxious, useless methodologists would be the ones with the strongest opinions about how others should build things.

New comment by zarkov99 in "How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum"

zarkov99 — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 18:21:49 +0000

That is a fantastic analogy, it captures exactly the pros and cons and the context dependency of methodologies.

New comment by zarkov99 in "A dev's thoughts on developer productivity"

zarkov99 — Tue, 17 May 2022 20:09:43 +0000

Man, I have seen this everywhere, there is so much low hanging fruit for organizations that take developer productivity seriously. It is insane the amount of friction (leading to burnout, disengagement, and ultimately turnover) that developers deal with, every day, just because no one in the organization can see past their quarterly OKRs and fix basic things.

New comment by zarkov99 in "Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open letter"

zarkov99 — Tue, 03 May 2022 18:35:14 +0000

Of all the arguments against RTO the ones the signatories chose were racism, agism and sexism. Because everything, absolutely everything one does not like must somehow be linked back to white maleness. God, this stuff parodies itself.

New comment by zarkov99 in "Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour"

zarkov99 — Tue, 03 May 2022 18:27:51 +0000

This is obvious nonsense to anyone that breeds, owns or even regularly interacts with dogs. But gas lighting has always been a preferred tactic of those proselytizing "the message".

New comment by zarkov99 in "Jump Trading sues 79-year-old Carl Sagan fan over wormhole.com domain"

zarkov99 — Sun, 01 May 2022 23:53:31 +0000

Are you jealous? What is wrong with being 25 year old and figuring out how to lead the company you interned at to unlock 1 billion in revenue? Seems like a pretty good start to me.

New comment by zarkov99 in "When your “public square” is a private company, any sulky billionaire can buy it"

zarkov99 — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 16:21:55 +0000

He was not born in the US. Like Arnold, unless the law changes he won't be able to do it. Unfortunately.

New comment by zarkov99 in "Tell HN: Turned 44 today and I'm lost"

zarkov99 — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 17:06:20 +0000

Do something physically hard, hard enough for you to slightly fear it. Martial arts, in particular BJJ would be a great option. You need to let your body command your attention, urgently and forcibly, so you get out of your own head and can appreciate comfort and safety again.

New comment by zarkov99 in "Walmart truckers to start at $95k a year"

zarkov99 — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 02:01:41 +0000

Good. Nice to see blue collar jobs offer a decent living.