HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

aaccount

84 karma · joined July 30, 2020

submissionscomments
aaccount··on What Is Machine Learning Anyway?
Statistics
aaccount··on DRY is an over-rated programming principle?
WRONG. OOP is the most over rated
aaccount··on Ask HN: If Kubernetes is the solution, why are there so many DevOps jobs?
Kubernetes isn't a solution. It just pushes the problem down the line. Fundamental problem is most software developed these days aren't packaged properly. The devs just ship the code to production. The hacks that they used to get the development going stays in production.

For example, you don't need a docker container to deploy Mysql, although you can deploy Mysql inside one. But most development processors are so badly managed that one product has many conflicting libraries and dependencies. Eventual requiring each component to be isolated within its own container. Finally leading to an unmanageable number of containers requiring Kubernetes to manage the mess.

aaccount··on 37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home
Most jobs done need to exist to begin with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kehnIQ41y2o

aaccount··on Why Does the CDC Keep Screwing Up?
Careers, credentialism and metrics
aaccount··on Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on less powerful machines?
I've been thinking the same thing. Considering how good discord is
aaccount··on Ask HN: How do I stop being exploited by my company?
Companies will always exploit you. That's the point. What you have to do is exploit the company.
aaccount··on Ask HN: Has Anyone Seen a Driverless Waymo in SF?
LOL, I always thought self driving is a scam. Its just hyped up driver assist.
aaccount··on It’s not still the early days of blockchain
A rare article on the realities of blockchain
aaccount··on Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing?
newer tech allows lower skilled developers to build programs. Which in turn leads to more tech to dumb things down even more. Resulting in more inefficient programs overtime.
aaccount··on Is Web3 a Scam?
Yes! and so is anything based on blockchain
aaccount··on Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs without anything planned. How did it go?
I did it once. Did absolutely nothing of value for 8 months and went back to work. I had savings so I was ok financially. Mostly played games and watched movies. Traveled a bit. Didn't realize I needed it until I was doing it.

I think I will do it every 5 years of work.

aaccount··on Adam Smith and Inequality (2014)
Everyone who is even remotely interested in economics should read "Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber"
aaccount··on Disinformation-for-hire in Kenya
missed the opportunity to call it Disinformation As A Service
aaccount··on Ask HN: Do you have plans for staying fully remote?
Going back to office as soon as possible. I hate working from home. There is no separation between the two now
aaccount··on Now that machines can learn, can they unlearn?
LOL, I think a better question is can people unlearn?
aaccount··on Ask HN: Do You Use a Debugger?
nothing better than some well place printfs

If anyone is interested gdb has a visual mode. Eg: gdb ./a.out

then while inside gdb ctrl+x, a

so press ctrl+x at the same time, let go and press button 'a'

aaccount··on Who will win the self-driving race? Here are eight possibilities
none of these are self-driving. They are just driver assist feature rebranded and marketed well.

Tesla can't even get their cars to drive in an empty tunnel

aaccount··on Improved C syntax highlighting for Vim
Cool, thanks
aaccount··on Major study of Ivermectin finds 'no effect whatsoever'
https://covid19criticalcare.com/ https://bird-group.org/

Take a look at these 2 sites

aaccount··on Whatever Happened to Six Sigma?
I was just about to say the same thing
aaccount··on An old hacker's tips on staying employed
should have titled it "An Old Hacker's Hacks on Staying Employed"
aaccount··on What areas are the smartest developers working in?
Staying far away from hyped up areas like crypto and AI
aaccount··on Difference between DevOps, SecOps and DevSecOps
These are temporary job titles since most of the IT work these days comprise of gluing things together. I think these types of jobs will vanish with in the decade due to platforms like Microsoft's power platform or dynamics 365.
aaccount··on AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them helped
Most people working in the AI field are completely ignorant to the underlying mechanisms. They just hack together some code from github and feed some data in. Just because you get an output doesn't mean its even remotely accurate.

Anyone who does understand the underlying mechanisms are probably still trying to clean the data sets.

aaccount··on CDC Internal Delta Variant Presentation
Those values are for a 100,000 people, If you do the calculation for the people not affected

99.9785% of vaccinated are not infected 99.8714% of un-vaccinated are not infected

99.9999% of vaccinated are not hospitalized 99.9975% of un-vaccinated are not hospitalized

99.99996% of vaccinated are not dead 99.99904% of un-vaccinated are not dead

This is such a small difference.

aaccount··on Docker in Production: A History of Failure (2016)
Any sort of containerization is for people who don't know how to properly package software.
aaccount··on Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?
Nope. Only use a TKL with Vim and Tmux. I don't actually use the mouse during coding now that I think about it
aaccount··on 14,000 scientists warn of “untold suffering” if we fail to act on climate change
Can I just point out that the number of scientists saying something in science doesn't mean much
aaccount··on EU plans to make Bitcoin transfers more traceable
how can it be made more traceable? Everything is already in the ledger.
Page 1 of 2Next →