---- My poem about sacrificing Engineering Best Practices on the Altar of AI Efficiency. First, they made CI/CD pipelines to automate the builds and deployment - and I said nothing because I didn't want to watch the…
Shit. Found this at 8:30am, happy to click a few times before starting work... Suddenly its 10am? Huh? Also, minor spoilers, but it looks like making a crazy OP cell form does nothing once you evolve. I had some crazy…
I've said "code was always the easy part" recently so I should probably explain where I'm coming from. I think the practice of software engineering includes that "understanding of the relationship between code,…
My brain stores it away in a magic database that cannot be queried in any useful way. If I say say "brain, give me a list of learnings from projects you have worked on" - it returns an empty set. But if I'm reviewing…
LLMs moved the moments of despair to PR reviews for me. It used to be that you could check on a junior dev occassionally throughout the day to make sure they're on the right track. Now you step away for 2 hours and…
Pretty interesting stuff. Although in New Zealand we had our first cyclone properly hit land this year and it absolutely obliterated whole communities and disrupted our biggest agricultural region - so I'm not sure if…
I resigned from my current role because the office culture is terrible, and I hate being around pretty much all the people outside of the IT team. I was offered 6 figures as a counter offer for the first time in my…
As a kiwi it blows my mind how bad your broadband is over there. My cousin recently moved to some rural Aussie town and will be getting 25 megabit, tops. Here in NZ we're rolling out 4 gigabit connections nationwide…
One of my favourite series, Bojack Horseman, had an episode where you hear his internal monologue. It was scarily eye opening, because I've often found my inner monologue saying the exact same things, and I can't even…
Bonus fun fact: kumara is a loan word taken from kumar, which was it's native name in South America.
The keto generator needs a bit of work. It was suggesting waaaaay too many carbs. Throwing in things like oranges where bacon would be the better keto option
Being born brown, I'm thankful for my white names that get me into interviews where I can prove I'm a good developer.
The most viewed game at the time I post this comment: Leisure Suit Larry 6 A huge archive of playable games from a wonderful era, and everyone rushed for the 8 bit tiddies.
Is there an opposite version of this, with links to companies that stick it to China? EDIT: Found my answer literally 2 seconds after posting this. Its in the same repo…
I'm the same! I like to plan things, so if something doesn't allow me to fit it into my plan easily I will discard it as not an option. Unknown costs, talking to other people, negotiating; these things produce trace…
Sheesh, imagine being the sucker who was 401st wealthiest and paying tax like the rest of us schmucks.
The only place I've worked where Agile was like this was, surprisingly, one of New Zealand's major banks. The buy-in for Agile started at the executive level, and they made a call that everything was Agile. Obviously,…
Makes sense. He founded a tech company with his brother, got super rich, reversed his balding, got super sexy, and now builds rockets and fancy cars.
This must mean aliens are real, and the Storm Area 51 meme was started by the government. They can't tell the public that aliens exist because there is an ancient contract. But, if the public were to storm Area 51 and…
Wow. They didn't put the LackRack in. Homelabs mustn't be photogenic enough. https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack
What the hell I don't come on HN to cry. WHAT IS THIS?!
Aside from: clearing cookies, having to reopen news articles you've already half read in incognito, or adding an additional '.' (like "nytimes.com./blah"); what are some of the other ways people are getting around…
As a software engineer early enough in his career to change tack, how would I go about venturing into this space? Cybersecurity is something that has always interested me, but it seems like such a massive feat that I…
This looks really cool, but I must admit - when I saw the name I hoped it was a HoloLens AR gamification of tidying up my house that gives me points for each dish washed or item of clothing folded. But hey, data is cool…
Pro-tip for anyone that finds themselves in this situation when trying to steal another company's data - say you bought the shirt for 50c at a second hand store. That, or don't wear your company polo on an espionage…
---- My poem about sacrificing Engineering Best Practices on the Altar of AI Efficiency. First, they made CI/CD pipelines to automate the builds and deployment - and I said nothing because I didn't want to watch the…
Shit. Found this at 8:30am, happy to click a few times before starting work... Suddenly its 10am? Huh? Also, minor spoilers, but it looks like making a crazy OP cell form does nothing once you evolve. I had some crazy…
I've said "code was always the easy part" recently so I should probably explain where I'm coming from. I think the practice of software engineering includes that "understanding of the relationship between code,…
My brain stores it away in a magic database that cannot be queried in any useful way. If I say say "brain, give me a list of learnings from projects you have worked on" - it returns an empty set. But if I'm reviewing…
LLMs moved the moments of despair to PR reviews for me. It used to be that you could check on a junior dev occassionally throughout the day to make sure they're on the right track. Now you step away for 2 hours and…
Pretty interesting stuff. Although in New Zealand we had our first cyclone properly hit land this year and it absolutely obliterated whole communities and disrupted our biggest agricultural region - so I'm not sure if…
I resigned from my current role because the office culture is terrible, and I hate being around pretty much all the people outside of the IT team. I was offered 6 figures as a counter offer for the first time in my…
As a kiwi it blows my mind how bad your broadband is over there. My cousin recently moved to some rural Aussie town and will be getting 25 megabit, tops. Here in NZ we're rolling out 4 gigabit connections nationwide…
One of my favourite series, Bojack Horseman, had an episode where you hear his internal monologue. It was scarily eye opening, because I've often found my inner monologue saying the exact same things, and I can't even…
Bonus fun fact: kumara is a loan word taken from kumar, which was it's native name in South America.
The keto generator needs a bit of work. It was suggesting waaaaay too many carbs. Throwing in things like oranges where bacon would be the better keto option
Being born brown, I'm thankful for my white names that get me into interviews where I can prove I'm a good developer.
The most viewed game at the time I post this comment: Leisure Suit Larry 6 A huge archive of playable games from a wonderful era, and everyone rushed for the 8 bit tiddies.
Is there an opposite version of this, with links to companies that stick it to China? EDIT: Found my answer literally 2 seconds after posting this. Its in the same repo…
I'm the same! I like to plan things, so if something doesn't allow me to fit it into my plan easily I will discard it as not an option. Unknown costs, talking to other people, negotiating; these things produce trace…
Sheesh, imagine being the sucker who was 401st wealthiest and paying tax like the rest of us schmucks.
The only place I've worked where Agile was like this was, surprisingly, one of New Zealand's major banks. The buy-in for Agile started at the executive level, and they made a call that everything was Agile. Obviously,…
Makes sense. He founded a tech company with his brother, got super rich, reversed his balding, got super sexy, and now builds rockets and fancy cars.
This must mean aliens are real, and the Storm Area 51 meme was started by the government. They can't tell the public that aliens exist because there is an ancient contract. But, if the public were to storm Area 51 and…
Wow. They didn't put the LackRack in. Homelabs mustn't be photogenic enough. https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack
What the hell I don't come on HN to cry. WHAT IS THIS?!
Aside from: clearing cookies, having to reopen news articles you've already half read in incognito, or adding an additional '.' (like "nytimes.com./blah"); what are some of the other ways people are getting around…
As a software engineer early enough in his career to change tack, how would I go about venturing into this space? Cybersecurity is something that has always interested me, but it seems like such a massive feat that I…
This looks really cool, but I must admit - when I saw the name I hoped it was a HoloLens AR gamification of tidying up my house that gives me points for each dish washed or item of clothing folded. But hey, data is cool…
Pro-tip for anyone that finds themselves in this situation when trying to steal another company's data - say you bought the shirt for 50c at a second hand store. That, or don't wear your company polo on an espionage…