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hekker

311 karma · joined May 25, 2012

You can contact me at hello@month17.com
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hekker··on Ask HN: How to Vibe Design as Engineer?
I would be curious as what you would consider an example of good design, then I can see how far an agent gets with that. In any case, contrary to what you might believe, this landing page does convert pretty well.
hekker··on Ask HN: How to Vibe Design as Engineer?
So I had this problem while I was designing the landing page for month17.com (disclaimer: that's my domain). What worked to not let it look like complete AI slop was using other landing pages that look good as "inspiration" for the model, through providing screenshots which yields sufficient results, in my opinion.
hekker··on Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
Shoot me a message, I am VP of Engineering at large European software logistics company, where I had exactly the same challenge (outsource vs insource). Email is in my profile.
hekker··on Ask HN: What's Your Side Project?
https://handoff.design - Import from Figma, author and export to Vue/HTML + CSS
hekker··on EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document
If that’s true why would be this obstructionism be there? It does not make any rational sense if we can use nuclear to win us time until we have working fusion and/or wind/sun/etc energy implemented.
hekker··on EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document
Curious, I am pro nuclear as well, looking at the technological benefits, but how are we practically going to handle nuclear waste that will be there for thousands of future generations to handle?
hekker··on Ask HN: Annual or Monthly billing, which is better?
Not tested them both: I work with annual billing for my SaaS. The pricing page shows monthly prices, which works well for me. Customers buy a contract for a year which they can cancel at any moment. Obviously the remaining months within that contract year will not be refunded. Note that the SaaS is only 300 euros a year so your mileage may vary. (B2B market)
hekker··on Identify Plants with an App
This landing page might just be a way to discover if there is any traction on the market without needing to build the actual product.
hekker··on DHH answers: What makes Rails a framework worth learning in 2017?
What's wrong with conventions? It seems to me that code conventions would make code more maintainable.
hekker··on If you don’t finish then you’re just busy, not productive
In my experience being productive is more a matter of setting a clear scope of goals on which I'm going to focus on the next X months. Other than the strict necessary tasks that might interrupt activities related to these goals, no extra goals may be added until one is finished. After that, at the beginning of each day I decided what micro-tasks I want to do (write paragraph X of paper, fix bug Y in project Z) and I don't go home until I am done. Everyday it seems like I am only doing small tasks but after time these tasks add up and I finish big projects. Big projects/goals are not finished over night, you need time. It's easy to get demotivated when there are big tasks ahead. The key is to chop them into do-able, reachable tasks and you hold yourself accountable to fix these tasks no matter what.
hekker··on Even my mother can run Linux
Strong story
hekker··on A recruiter sent me a message in code. I fixed it
Strong story.
hekker··on The Best Jobs Now Require You to Be a People Person
Exactly the reason why I did a Bachelor in International Business Administration and a Master in Computer Science (Embedded Systems)! I feel that the gap in between is a good niche to be in. I have to say that there are some education programmes where the focus is on IT management that try to fill this niche too although I have some doubts about how effective it is to study IT management in itself.
hekker··on Python web scraping
Thanks for creating Scrapy, I have used it before many times and it is a great tool!
hekker··on Blackphone
It would be nice to order Chinese food anonymously with this phone. Looking forward to the release!
hekker··on What is everyone's startup resolution for 2014?
1280 x 1024
hekker··on How Much to Charge as a Freelancer
Je verwacht ut nie!
hekker··on Coffee shops look to oust 'laptop hobos'
A simple solution to this problem would be to replace the seating in the coffee shop with less comfortable ones.

A while ago I had to work from a coffee shop for one day and while the chair I was sitting on was comfortable for 3 to 4 hours, my back and arms really started to ache after that time. The next day I still felt it.

This would solve the problem: regular laptop hobo's will not use your shop because it will not be comfortable to work there, while customers that are there to socialize are there for a short amount of time anyway.

hekker··on Django 1.5 released
Increase the price of cpu's and memory.
hekker··on Why you shouldn't do what Aaron did
Beware, there are no respawn points in RL.
hekker··on Convince Me Why I Should Ditch PHP for RoR
Things you can do in RoR you can't do in PHP: - Search through its documentation to find it's badly or incorrectly documented - Use crappy gems such as Devise which give you hours and hours of fun Googling how to customize it - Wait for 30 seconds for your development server to start

Have used Rails for 2 years, PHP for 5 years and Django for 3 years. My advise: go for Django. Awesome documentation, a fast booting development server and Python libraries are documented really well. All batteries included and it beats RoR performance easily.

hekker··on Why critics of Rails have it all wrong (and Ruby's bright multicore future)
I use Django for my projects and I don't share this opinion on the maturity aspect. Can you explain your statement a bit more? What aspects of Django are immature?
hekker··on I keep typing "www.hackernews.com"
http://hekkernieuws.nl/ for the Dutchies :)
hekker··on Career.fork() - How To Thrive As A Freelance Developer
I bought it, although I still have to read it. A quick glance tells me it contains the aspects it should have as a freelance book.
hekker··on Rails version 3.2.7 has been released
Why not? Can anybody explain why this is unsafe?
hekker··on [dead]
What is this, Reddit?
hekker··on 12 new universities join Coursera
This is awesome! Signed up for Computational Investing and Dan Ariely's class on Behavioral Economics.
hekker··on The Anatomy Of A Pass, A Quantitative Analysis On Why A VC Passes
With an r^2 of 0,5 this model only explains 50% of the variations in the dependent variable. In other words, this model is not that reliable.
hekker··on Ask HN: How do I become SAP programmer/consultant?
ABAP sounds interesting ( if I'm not mistaken it's a programming language to customize SAP software ). What does MM mean?

Thanks for your answer by the way :-)