HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

bastijn

1,210 karma · joined August 26, 2010

Principal Architect at Philips. HealthSuite Platforms department.
submissionscomments
bastijn··on Show HN: Conduct a Step-by-Step Risk Assessment, Together with Your Project Team
Your landing page should have some indication of what the product is or what to expect.

Closed it as there is no hints on what the product actually is.

Is this about doing a structured risk assessment for e.g. Security risks, safety risks etc? Like a design FMEA, security FMEA try to bring up?

bastijn··on Show HN: rtwatch. Watch videos with friends via WebRTC, perfectly synchronized
Congrats on making something that you are able to share.

> Only the current audio/video frame is being sent to the viewers, there is no way they can download/cache the videos either for future usage.

In the end, if the video ends up at the viewer there is a way to capture it.

bastijn··on AgileFall – When Waterfall Sneaks Back into Agile
Coming from the other side we have Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) [0]. Which introduces some waterfall to Agile instead of the other way around. 3 month planning events, commitments, etc. Not bad perse if you work in an environment where not everybody is agile or every process can be agile.

[0] https://www.scaledagileframework.com/

bastijn··on Show HN: Statistical tool for analyzing a Git repository
Was hoping to find an opensource alternative to codescene [0]. A tool using Predictive Analytics to find hidden risks and social patterns in your code, all from your git repo (and some manual mapping of teams). Unfortunately not the case.

Codescene was built on top of an opensource tool by the way. But the UI is nice to have.

[0] https://codescene.io/

bastijn··on Wordpress Alternatives List
This article for me fails to provide the number one key comparison why I use wordpress. The availability of plugins for nearly everything, almost always free. The community aspect is the most important factor for most people selecting wordpress I feel. Especially in the non-commercial context.

WordPress gives me the perfect mix of control and easy extensions on demand, without effort.

bastijn··on Show HN: Radialmenu.js – A highly customizable radial menu that's easy to setup
We actually use a radial menu in one of our newer products. You can see it in this movie [0] at 0:34. We have multiple rings as well where the first ring will open a second ring to show the submenu. I believe it was pretty well received for the shorter mouse travel times.

[0] https://youtu.be/xwqpfQoUOZU

bastijn··on Show HN: Open-Source Dashboard UI Kit
I think what was meant is if only UI was the bottleneck of creating great dashboards... We would all have fancy dashboards in no time. Unfortunately, the real work is in talking to your hellish backend and make it cough up the data and then convert that in a format the beautiful frontend understands.
bastijn··on Skills Poor Programmers Lack
Writing code that is well designed but not over-designed is a great skill.

It is in every engineer to write the gold plated car, as it is in marketing and sales to always need the future tomorrow to gain competitive edge.

The number of times I wrote beautiful code are quite numerous, the number of times it is still not used to its potential as well. In the end I spent too much time over engineering for a disastrous moment or extension that never happened, or was never requested by a customer.

I have written godforsaken shortcuts that are used so frequently it made me feel proud and ashamed at the same time.

Now, I have come to believe that knowing when to stop is the greatest skill of all.

bastijn··on Twitter was down
Obligatory to watch with this comment:

"Let's deploy to production" https://youtu.be/5p8wTOr8AbU

bastijn··on Launch HN: Sqreen (YC W18) – Securing Web Apps
The very first thing I see on the Sqreen landing page is an animation that gives me an idea of what the product looks like. When I scroll down I see the supported languages that tell me if my environment is supported. Images are large enough to understand, even on my phone. When I browse to their product page I get more screenshots of the product annotated with the functionality Sqreen brings. Again images are properly sized.

When I land on Bitsensor I see a bunch of text so I have to start actually parsing and understanding that text. Everything is very bright and images don't say a lot. When I browse to their product page I see a lot of white space and only a tiny actual product image that is hard to see. The remainder are not product images which make it harder for me to parse how this content is offered to me, which is a big deal when choosing a product.

bastijn··on Launch HN: Sqreen (YC W18) – Securing Web Apps
Congrats on the launch! Impressive product.

Seems to be a minor issue on your website when accessed from a mobile device. On my iOS + chrome the pricing page, detailed features tabs all show only the stats for the first (free) tier.

bastijn··on Launch HN: Sqreen (YC W18) – Securing Web Apps
I'm blown away as well. I actually know a company here in NL that runs the same product (more or less) but their website landing page [1] would make me choose sqreen. Their product page [2] is somewhat better but on mobile still not much compared to sqreen. Shows the power of a proper landing page.

[1] https://bitsensor.io/

[2] https://bitsensor.io/product/

bastijn··on Show HN: GoalStream – Visual project planner with Vim-style key bindings
Sure. Anything you think is important for us to understand the product.
bastijn··on Show HN: GoalStream – Visual project planner with Vim-style key bindings
Tip: add an option to try this out without registering. "!4-day free trial" is completely different from "demo".

I'll pass for now (but I think I like the idea).

bastijn··on Hackers make money from your stolen medical data
The title would not misfit a public newspaper shouting for attention at the kiosk.

Most of the article goes on about stolen MD identities used to pose as a doctor, making false claims. Your stolen data is only worth pocket money it seems. Not to say the danger is real and your data should be protected and in your control at all times.

The interesting part is I suspect older systems pose a greater threat than new systems centrally storing information in cloud-on-premise or cloud environments. The lengths we go these days to separate actual observations or data from the PII bits in fear of a hack make it so the hacker has to hack at least two, but more likely three or more separate systems these days. Two of which typically should not be exposed outside the VPC/DMZ. I sure hope this article, or similar ones, will not be used by parlements and countries to slow down innovations even further. There is already enough trouble slowing down innovation in Healthcare as it is today.

Let's not fear this but see it as motivation to do our utmost best to protect your data forcing innovation to get rid of all the legacy systems that still live in the world. And while we are at it, use your anonimized data (with consent) to improve the quality of care, lower cost of care and improve patient experience and outcomes.

bastijn··on Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mountain of books?
That is only fun because they already cataloged them for you. They made a little collection "used books for sale" with just the right size for you to enjoy browsing through. Now imagine you run into a barn full of books, a couple of containers outside, unsorted, all labeled "used books for sale" and no way to tell which were there last week and which weren't. At best you can visit 1% of the books this week, and next week the same 1%, or maybe another. That's what the issue is here.

Most people do not enjoy that more then once or twice.

bastijn··on Show HN: Hacker Feed – An iOS app for reading Hacker News
Personally I do not like feeds that take 1/2 page or more on my mobile to cover one item. Drawback of showing pictures for feed items.

HN is super nice because it is so condensed (for me).

bastijn··on Show HN: Hacker Feed – An iOS app for reading Hacker News
No, articles just open in the browser. Either the embedded boreal browser, embedden safari, or safari.
bastijn··on Show HN: Hacker Feed – An iOS app for reading Hacker News
Boreal is pretty good. Has dark mode and light mode. Allows to fold comments and reply. Nice and clean UI.(https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/boreal-a-hacker-news-client/...).
bastijn··on Show HN: Just launched my product on PH (+80.000 course catalog). Any feedback?
So you got to PH#1 the first time with your product v1, now worked a year and try again. What are you hoping to achieve? You already had it the first time, what is it that you hope to gain this time that you didn't get the first time?

50% to charity sounds like a lot to me. Makes me see a risk your service goes down at some point in time. If anything I'd rather see a lower number and know more money goes into the product. That might just mean your service is not for me, there might be plenty who see it as a unique selling point. I see it as a risk.

Other then that, well, it is still the same thing as last time right?

bastijn··on IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery
Advise you to read the comment again :).

Spoiler: (s)he learned React.

bastijn··on Show HN: Postman/Gherkin tests generator from swagger spec
The sample on the github is a bit counter-intuitive. I understand why it generates it, but the result does not make sense.

You post the same request to the /health endpoint. Normally this returns 200 but in case of an internal server error it can return 500. However, reporting this in Gherkin as:

  Feature: Test service v1.0.0


  Scenario: /health returns: undefined
  Given I have "unauthorized" request
  When I submit to "/health" using "get"
  Then I should receive "200" status code


  Scenario: /health returns: undefined
  Given I have "unauthorized" request
  When I submit to "/health" using "get"
  Then I should receive "500" status code
Is not really expected. How does this work when you have a swagger that has all the possible responses listed? E.g. 200, 400, 401, 404, 405, 406, 500. Which all can occur based upon the input you give and the status of the server.
bastijn··on Show HN: Find relevant tech books
Fair enough. I hope you find good product/market fit and a business model that works.

Sounds like a terribly hard space to succeed in when we life in an era where you get personal recommendations on sites like HN in minutes and Google already seqrches the entire space on every possible review that is public.

In addition the internet is pushing back on books via companies sharing their experiences via sites backed by OpenSource projects.

Books still have value though, and finding good ones is a nice feature. Your tagging and suggestions really need to be top notch for users to really want to pay for that but if you get it, who knows.

Best of luck!

bastijn··on Show HN: Find relevant tech books
Sounded interesting. Wanted to try. Had to signup. Closed the page.

Would advice the authors to have a demo/sample as there are many that claim similar functionality but as a user you want to get a feel this one actually works.

Unless this is one of those “landing page only” startup ideas to see if the idea would work and enough are interested to make the product. In that case I wish them good luck.

bastijn··on Show HN: A particle-animation Christmas greeting card
Give you a unique link you can email around?
bastijn··on Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary
I wouldn't buy dolls, and after, their clothing either. Yet my daugthers love them and I love my daugthers. I wouldn't buy expensive jewelry, yet my wife loves it everyday still.

There is so much you wouldn't do for yourself but do for the ones you love. That doesn't make it insane or just to not disappoint. You do it because it makes you happy to see them happy. If you would do the same if you were alone is not the thing that matters here.

bastijn··on Ask HN: Is there a better way to document complex software architectures?
I like to link our source code to enterprise architect so the sources you pull in a view are automatically populated based upon the source code. The eap can be checked in with the source to have an additional trigger to keep it updated. Also EA. can work with relative source code paths so others can use the same file. There is also a versioning system build in which works quite well. Some things I still dislike:

- Enterprise Architect is a great tool but produces diagrams that look dated. This means I sometimes copy in another tool for certain types of meetings that require fancy powerpoints (pitch like presentations, customers, ex. Management etc.

- if the source isn't there I create from scratch. I have to link post-source creation to update and link my diagrams to source code. I do not generate source code from enterprise architect because we do not work model based and usually my diagrams that I create in advance are not detailed enough to generate the source. (Nor should they be)

- Sometimes the right diagram type is just not there in EA. I created my own templates for our department with all AWS logos and services, Azure, docker, and many others. That's a pain..

* I work in a global enterprise. Size of source about 6 million LOC. EA does handle that without hickups.

bastijn··on Show HN: Glorious Demo – Create animations for your code samples
This was my thought exactly. Also thought seeing 6 lines being typed was too much, got the feeling I wanted to close the page. Animation went too slow and didnt really add anything anymore at that point. The power of gif-based samples is for the range 1-3 sec gifs I'd say.
bastijn··on Why Doctors Reject Tools That Make Their Jobs Easier
Can't resist to at least provide some response here.

1) Having CT scans, and paying for them, does not really objectively lead to the conclusion that followed. Let's feel that tumor inside your lungs.

2) CT scans can also work without contrast agents. In addition they typically do not register everybody for a CT scan nor pump them full with contrast agents. There is a process. In US some hospitals are trigger happy as they get paid per case, blame the system not the technology. If anything an algorithm will fix that nasty human behaviour.

3) Having biased humans enforce decisions is not always a guarantee for success either. Every human sees only a fraction of the total amount of cases an algorithm processes within seconds. There are several fields where AI already outperforms elaborate test panels of MDs. Though it is hard to introduce these algorithms for the same reasons Tesla is having issues. Who is responsible when a mistake is made?

3.1) you would be amazed how often MDs do not agree when the same problem is put in front of them. 50/50 and 60/40 are very common cases. AI is typically more in the 80/20 90/10 range which is a huge improvement.

Now, all of this does not mean we do not need MDs anymore. An important aspect often neglected due to time bounds is the interaction of a patient with the doctor. With algorithms saving time more could go to the patient. That's a win.

bastijn··on The Dutch Reach: A No-Tech Way to Save Bicyclists’ Lives
Indeed. They can turn around or the driver signals to wait. Anyway, point is, Dutch reach is despite its name not a common thing in NL.
← PreviousPage 5 of 16Next →