Hacker News Reader

> - Avoid NIH: There's a very good chance that the code you're writing could instead be imported from libraries/frameworks that already offer it. Avoid the overhead of reinventing the wheel and focus exclusively on business logic (and sometimes even that might already exist in some oss projects you can use).

I partially agree. Sometimes it's better to reinvent the wheel: you got better control and less risks.

(How can I properly quote someone on HN?)

nouneyon Paris Will Make Public Transportation Free for Kids

Lille's subway is "driverless".

nouneyon Announcing unlimited free private repos

No they don't.

nouneyon Two years later, I still miss the headphone port

I guarantee bluetooth headsets suck, all of them.

nouneyon Show HN: Mapping 11M points with Tile38 – Mapbox/Geonames

I've been using Tile38 for over a year now. It is amazing.

nouneyon Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serving Platform with Go

It will lock you down, as it's very hard to migrate from go-kit.

IMHO, it only brings problems.

nouneyon Go: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Just another guy speaking subjectively of something he barely know.

nouneyon Ask HN: Which stack do you use at your startup?

Backend:

  - Go, NodeJS
  - Redis, MongoDB, Tile38, Neo4j
  - GKE
  - Traefik

Frontend (mobile app):

  - React-Native

nouneyon Root partners with Standard Bank South Africa to offer programmable bank account

And for the rest of the world? I always wanted such a kind of service, can't wait to use it.

nouneyon Revert the GitHub dark header

I don't like the dark header. But StackOverflow changed its header from dark to white and I don't like it either.

That makes me so confused about my likes.

nouneyon Mux – A lightweight, fast HTTP request router for Go

From the README: "mux is a lightweight fast HTTP request router [...] It also scales better."

Where can I find the benchmarks?

nouneyon Have: a new language that transpiles to Go

No I wouldn't. I can't see any reasons to use Have.

nouneyon [dead]

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=boycott%20docker&sort=byPopula...

nouneyon A go library for tokenizing text

TL;DR: This is an implementation of strtok() in Go ...

nouneyon On the irony of programmers who don't like abstraction

"ActiveRecord is hardly "the depths". After ActiveRecord, your data will probably go through Ruby's I/O system, TCP stacks, IP stacks, low level kernel I/O, firmware on network cards, a database management system (itself comprising multiple layers of semantics), and will ultimately move some electrons around somewhere."

What are "the depths" according to him then?

nouneyon Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry

"How many people can actually write BFS on the spot, without preparing for it in advance?" A lot of people. You should too, even if you're just a front-end.