HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

egor2820

4 karma · joined December 3, 2020

submissionscomments
egor2820··on The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software
The fundamental understanding is vague. I bet half of the people don't understand what we're talking about. And 90% of the people don't understand how they think, I guess. Moreover 90% of people 80% of time probably don't really think logically but do routine in a rudimentary thinking mode.
egor2820··on Credit markets look increasingly dangerous
the money gets seriously devalued once these reserves get ditched https://reserves.n0us.top
egor2820··on Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?
...not sure, gold is illiquid, you cannot sell it en masse, which you can do with currency, and China has tremendous non-gold reserves right now: http://reserves.n0us.top/
egor2820··on Ask HN: Is Java in Decline?
Yes, I see no new interesting projects for years started in Java. I've been working with Java for a long time. At first it outperformed C++ in ease of development. Large enterprises created software of humongous complexity with that but Docker emerged and Java fell out of favour as it's startup slow and it couldn't never fullfill low-latency needs with its GC magic. And eventually, it fell in a trap of any long-living tech - it became complex, with snobbish communities, no easy way to adapt to new realities, though it tries but it fails: failed to integrate itself with browsers, failed with computing graphics, failed with scientific libraries, low-latency servers and now it starts to lose ground in general computing. The only argument in its defense is that it's widespread - well, yes, but it's a miserable argument for a prefessional.
egor2820··on PostgreSQL: Foreign Data Wrappers
Interstingly, why cloud solutions don't adopt Sql/med standard (ie risingwave, snowflake), they all have their specific sql syntax for that, as well as inroducing addional 'connector' and 'source' terms, not sure if sql/med have that (as i cannot read standard right away as it's not free).
egor2820··on Ask HN: Why isn't distributed scraping used on social media sites
The problem is to become popular enough so scraped data become a sufficient represenation of all users. The app needs to be useful. At this point why ruin your reputation instead you can continue to gain new users.
egor2820··on Robot dogs don't look as cute with night-vision sniper rifles on board
I wonder will it cost less to produce and maintain than to train and maintain a soldier. How fast and accurate is it at dispatching multiple targets , possibly moving , compared to a human sniper .
egor2820··on Squats can boost brain activity [video]
It can also burst a spine disc for older people
egor2820··on Show HN: Peer to Peer Recruiting?
But AI can weigh connections too, if reqruiters use outdated AI systems doesn't mean AI cannot solve the current problem.
egor2820··on Quora Monetization
Not all countries supported.
egor2820··on Microsoft deletes all comments under heavily criticized Windows 11 upgrade video
You can play games using geforce now
egor2820··on When will programmers grow up? (2014)
Electricity, building houses is based on hard science, code quality is base on opinion
egor2820··on Tell HN: I love programming but am sick of the software industry
Programming, at least what is called programming when we like to do it solo without constraints, and corporate software engineering (what we do for payment) are completely different things. I like programming actually and corporate programming is necessary evil for money which somewhat distantly resembles what you like. If you separate those things you won't have a confusion. Corporate software engineering is somewhat boring and frustrating indeed, it's still better ratio of boredom/comfort/payment than any other speciality for me and my skills.

About misconceptions in community, indeed there are a lot, and they are too deep to overturn it singlehandedly in a reasonable time, they are established by a ton of smart/intelligent people and learned like a dogma by other normals. There's no hard proof of those patterns, paradigms so it's some kind of religious belief you'd better not argue with or will be burned at the stake. Be happy it's only a metaphor.

egor2820··on Ask HN: Do you regret choosing Java?
No, I have much experience in Java, there's some cons but other languages have cons either, and I certainly can code faster with good knowledge of general pitfalls.
egor2820··on FLoC Away from Chrome
It doesn't convince me, and I'm highly technical user, I just don't want to jump to an unknown browser every time someone thinks my browser tracks my history, anyone's history is so over exaggerated this time.
egor2820··on All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)
I actually fall asleep before that moment comes
egor2820··on Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
My experience having US<->Europe<->India comms and 10 guys everyday - video always starts to glitch and then goes to a complete freeze irrelevant whose country the video from. 1 times in 10 someone's audio gets lost completely.