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andraganescuon Why I No Longer Use MVC Frameworks

<< As a veteran MDE practitioner, I can assure you that you are infinitely better off writing code than metadata, be it as a template or a complex query language like GraphQL. >>

Reading it is worthwhile if only for this phrase.

andraganescuon Basic Income: Unintended Consequences

Yes, indeed it's not inflation I fear, but the collective mentality people have. Markets in poor communities are not as competitive as we'd think. Not to mention big retailers who are not that many to make coordination impossible.

andraganescuon Basic Income: Unintended Consequences

Would basic income still register in the collective mindset as “help”? Because if it registers as “free money” I fear prices will go up. I understand that since BI correlates with income tax no inflation should be created. Yet people have particular ways to understand how welfare happens. In a poor community, when you know for sure that everyone there can afford some stuff, wouldn’t that be an incentive to collectively raise prices, just because you know there is definitely new money to be spent.

andraganescuon VCs, don't compare me to your wife

jesus christ! what are these comments? there is a valid point here. i don't even like how the author writes but the point is this, taken from a response: >> Imagine how many opportunities this firm has walked past because they’re old school. Shouldn’t their LPs be concerned?

What do you mean "old school?". I am from the other side of the planet than the US and i am statistically flooded with stories of the problem of under funding women, with discrimination based on sex and with the pregnancy issue as a roadblock to career for women. how can a manager in a VC have an "old school" opinion in 2016? these days you either have one opinion or the other, there is nothing "new school" in realizing that women are less funded because their biologic life is seen as a liability by the males of the species who have all the money. Jesus!! Old school??

Your wife? You are someone who should be smart enough to predict success and you bet other people's money but you know so little about a woman's determination that your best answer is by proxying to your nearest women.

This is like me having a billion dollars explaining that i believe rockets are not funded as easily as dating apps because I am old school and i think all physicists are nerdy introverts and they'll never be good at running a business because they rather stay and read science fiction books all day long, and i know that because my physicist cousin who is also a drunk is exactly like that.

And quotas? Who is even talking about quotas? Amazing!

andraganescuon The end of El Dorado

An answer to Ev about the apparent end of startups.

I like how Ev compares the Internet with TV, radio or cars as an industry which will devolve into a slow behemoth entrenched in legacy corporations.

But i believe we could learn and prevent a systemic problem before it happens, had we any interest in doing so :)

andraganescuon Visual, multi-language XKCD-style password generator

this sounds like a good idea for those folk who are walking poetry references

andraganescuon How to replicate ourselves

Finally closed the series of posts about AI and the mind :)

andraganescuon Show HN: Raster PHP a framework for websites

Yes I have. I still hover over this approach, considering I am implementing the same pattern in js now with node, so an even greater opportunity for it.

One thing I did want was for this framework to be as friendly as possible to designers and junior frontend-ers and I fear xpath is not easy to grasp ...

andraganescuon Ask HN: Why So Irrational

It is because you are passion driven. It's normal and you should continue to do it. In my free time I work on abstract software things that bring no money at all and still have half my brain there :)

andraganescuon Show HN: Raster PHP a framework for websites

Just in case you don't fancy the spice girls here is a more proper introductory article

http://draganescu.github.io/raster/specs/php/2014/06/29/intr...

andraganescuon Computer Programming is a Trade

This is so bad. I fail to believe that the world will get out of the paradigm of social stratification in the next dozen years or so. Making computer programming a "trade" is basically putting computer programmers on the same social and intellectual level with locksmiths, plumbers you know the folk the this definition of trade:

<< An occupation, especially one requiring skilled labor; craft: the building trades, including carpentry, masonry, plumbing, and electrical installation. >>.

Perhaps i push the snob alarm in some but i do not mean it like this. The problem i am talking about is that we _should_ have higher education for being a programmer. The reason to skip it now is because their academic rhythm and notions are late and incomplete not because programming is not school worthy.

I really think that, at least for serious programmers and developers, this trade business is a bad thing.

andraganescuon Mojolicious – Perl real-time web framework

Well, which is it more probable to to go unnoticed: a hack of the install script you fetch via http or an entire github commit infesting the software while it still lets it work as designed so no contributor notices?

It is not a problem with mojolicious at all. Its a nice helper that should be carefully used.

andraganescuon Show HN: Storylike – Discover amazing stories

What is the difference between this and a medium collection then? Just the UI?

andraganescuon Show HN: Storylike – Discover amazing stories

Ah! Great idea but is this manually curated? I'd see it as a great alternative to medium's machine telling me what to read next.

andraganescuon How to win the lottery or have an IPO-ing startup

I've been reading these blogs about working startups and hit this poker metaphor so many times i got sick of it.

I have worked with startups since year 2001 and have been involved both directly - as in putting my ass(ets) on the line - and indirectly as a team member in other people's startups. In all this time obsessing over tactics, strategy, recipes, advice of the ones that made it and so on, "obsessing" in general killed half of the experience.

I don't like this poker metaphor. It involves rooms full of smoke and sleep deprivation. It involves poker faces and bluffing strategies. It also involves obsession. All these make starting your own thing less fun than sticking with the cubicle you had before, and i think this hurts the point of doing it anyway.

I believe a better metaphor about startup success is the lottery simply because it is way more random than any strategy can defeat.

andraganescuon [dead]

The best headline i've seen in a while. No SEO terms in there. Not counting lizard sex.

andraganescuon Why finding great people to work with is SO hard

Hi HN, this is an analysis i made on how the careers of talented people tend to evolve - and also why finding great talent gets harder and harder, as your requirements become more and more abstract.

andraganescuon Ask HN: Anyone have a really smart way to organize css?

http://andreidraganescu.info/blog/1

I use this system for about 4 years and am still delighted on how easy it comes to me. In brief:

- Split up your style sheet according to rule types.

- There are three main rule types that help when split: grid, decorations and fonts.