Hacker News: zimbu668

New comment by zimbu668 in "IBM Bob"

zimbu668 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:45:20 +0000

Printers are just a loss leader for toner.

New comment by zimbu668 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

zimbu668 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:50:02 +0000

Of course lots of AWS services have hidden dependencies on us-east-1. During a previous outage we needed to update a Route53(DNS) record in us-west-2, but couldn't because of the outage in us-east-1.

New comment by zimbu668 in "Let's stop counting centuries"

zimbu668 — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:16:26 +0000

"Most scholars, on this basis, assume a date of birth between 6 and 4 BC"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Jesus

New comment by zimbu668 in "Mimicking the cells that carry hemoglobin as a blood substitute"

zimbu668 — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 18:08:53 +0000

In college the course on Maxwell's equations was taught by Dr. Lord. Every time I walked in to class I thought "Let there be light"

New comment by zimbu668 in "I kind of like rebasing"

zimbu668 — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:03:28 +0000

> nobody would bother re-testing all those n-1 commits after the fix was added

I do.

New comment by zimbu668 in "I kind of like rebasing"

zimbu668 — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:00:14 +0000

You should do this instead:

git push —-force-with-lease repo branch

New comment by zimbu668 in "Solid-state battery with 100x energy density could be used in Apple devices"

zimbu668 — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:11:44 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40706164

New comment by zimbu668 in "Atuin – Magical shell history"

zimbu668 — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 01:34:45 +0000

I would occasionally manage to start a bash shell without executing my profile, which means HISTFILESIZE is not set and bash would truncate my history on the first command I ran. zsh history may have a similar problem.

The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer

zimbu668 — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 04:54:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chief-diversity-officer-cdo-business-corporations-e110a82f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36823414

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

Black Holes might not exist after all, new study shows

zimbu668 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 04:08:49 +0000

Article URL: https://anomalien.com/black-holes-might-not-exist-after-all-new-study-shows/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36442685

Points: 4

# Comments: 10

New comment by zimbu668 in "Agile is people, the rest is commentary"

zimbu668 — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:06:38 +0000

> if a card is in the Done column, you can assume the > code is in version control, deployed to production > and checked to make sure it didn't explode on impact.

I guess you've never seen a team argue over "Definition of Done" for months.

New comment by zimbu668 in "Archive of medieval books and manuscripts discovered in Romanian church"

zimbu668 — Thu, 25 May 2023 17:22:34 +0000

Can't speak for OP, but I've heard snails are a recurring theme in medieval manuscripts: https://justhistoryposts.com/2017/11/13/medieval-marginalia-...

New comment by zimbu668 in "California’s population declines, again, as state grapples with housing crisis"

zimbu668 — Thu, 04 May 2023 14:59:40 +0000

Not quite the same, but you may own CA taxes on stock options if you earned them while living in CA even if you don't live there when you cash them in.

https://www.upstartwealth.com/blog/will-you-owe-ca-tax-after...

New comment by zimbu668 in "Hyundai promises to keep buttons in cars"

zimbu668 — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 03:28:41 +0000

I don’t have one myself, but every time I hear the engine restart at a stop sign I’m tempted

https://www.idlestopper.com/product/idlestopper/1

New comment by zimbu668 in "An ode to that “coffee friend”"

zimbu668 — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 05:07:27 +0000

Careful what you say, you’ll end up with a hundred copies of this

https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Nothing-Patrick-McDonnell/dp/031...

New comment by zimbu668 in "Unity employees ‘mad and stressed out’ amidst unexpected layoffs"

zimbu668 — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 03:55:58 +0000

I didn’t.

New comment by zimbu668 in "Unity employees ‘mad and stressed out’ amidst unexpected layoffs"

zimbu668 — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 17:10:49 +0000

#1 is Klarna, the company that will let you finance a pizza over the next 4 months. Not sure I'd be trumpeting that as innovative.

New comment by zimbu668 in "Cold Showers"

zimbu668 — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 13:32:28 +0000

> The people above you suck.

No, actually they don't. In the time I've been there they've 10x the size of the company. Maintained majority control through multiple rounds of funding. Significantly increased salaries. Provided a great work life balance. Etc.

Why are developers obsessed with how many additional developers they could hire with hypothetical savings?

New comment by zimbu668 in "Cold Showers"

zimbu668 — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 13:23:49 +0000

I know how to multiply by 12, thanks. I asked the previous commenter if the $340,800 actually made a difference and he hasn't replied.

New comment by zimbu668 in "Cold Showers"

zimbu668 — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 05:32:45 +0000

So you saved, $28,400 a month. Did that make a material difference to the company? I often tell people above me I could save us $10k a month at AWS and generally the response is, "Yeaaaaaaah that's great, could you do XYZ instead to help us land an additional $1M in ARR?"