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rapfariaon In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022)

What's Wave?

rapfariaon Ask HN: Why aren't smartphones in our dreams?

Saw this question today randomly on twitter, probably that's the source...

rapfariaon My notes on Gitlab's Postgres schema design (2022)

> Having said that, I agree that using a 4-byte type (well, 31-bit, really) for that table is a ticking time bomb for some orgs

A bomb defused in a migration that takes eleven seconds

rapfariaon Enhancing Factorio with SAT solvers

But as an user, why would he/she care about how it works on the background, even if there is an issue? Surely the average Factorio player is perhaps familiar with programming, but isn't working over an abstraction exactly why solutions like these work?

rapfariaon Gamers at risk of irreversible hearing loss and tinnitus, study suggests

What do folks do to prevent these? Set a hard-limit, say 20% of maximum volume? Are there software that help on this?

rapfariaon Spotify attacks Apple's 'outrageous' 27% commission

They'd have to make it 36% more expensive to break even

rapfariaon Cloudflare lays off new hires

Smaller PR hit when bundled

rapfariaon Pixar to undergo 20% layoffs in 2024

Perhaps it's a pivotal moment for those folks to rethink the whole "dream job" shindig, while being in the great position of having a job at Pixar when interviewing in the coming months.

rapfariaon Ask HN: 36 years old, no skills, no job – what can I learn?

> I want to make a similar salary.

That's not the spirit

rapfariaon Ask HN: Would you pay for a clickbait-less YouTube?

Fight the eco-system for $2, with AI generated images, and filtering is more or less still done by myself?

No.

rapfariaon Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff

Don't U.S companies have their fiscal year wrapped around June?

rapfariaon Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself

Perhaps success is not deserved, but with enough anxiety you somehow can miss important milestones and the feeling of progress. So you "deserve" to experience that by making and effort to live in the now.

rapfariaon Day 20: My favourite problem from Advent of Code 2023

What ruins folks these days? Functional?

rapfariaon Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading

Threadripper away, most folks are sent a machine by their company tho

rapfariaon Endurain: Self-hosted Strava like service

> "You are not on Strava!"

What a creepy, american thing to say.

rapfariaon The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets (2020)

Do americans have pizzeria rodizio? They bring slices to your table. Younger folks usually brag like "I had some 20 slices last rodizio"

rapfariaon A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique)

> Unresolved comments represent action items for the change author to definitely address. These can be marked as “resolved” by the code author themselves when they reply to the comment.

I've always told the team that whoever comments is the one that marks it as resolved (we use github). Otherwise they just gotta go and open every single comment again, and sometimes the code author doesn't even it address on big changes.

This assumes the reviewer will comeback later to re-review it, of course.

rapfariaon I skipped to the ending

Yeah, folks here saying they would dedicate time to open-source probably have not been through these landscapes.

"Do nothing for 12 months, you do you" literally means "Don't cause any more trouble, get out of here on your account ASAP, make it easier for me to fire you"

rapfariaon Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise

Current org (thousands of IT folks) has opened an internal issue about alternatives and a migration plan

rapfariaon Ask HN: Getting rejected by HR for cultural reasons?

In 2008 while doing interviews, I had a lady ask me as the final question:

- Do you play any instrument? Say the trumpet, the piano... anything?

I did play the guitar all my life.

- No, I don't.

- Anyone on your family have that "knack" for instruments? Something-something art?

- No mam.

Of course I was turned down.

One thing that I can say about these bullshit questions though, is that to maximize chances, you can go ahead and try to be fun. No funny. Fun.

"Yes, I worked with home-automation, had some clients, I did everything from business to coding..."

instead you can do

"That was a time in my life that I really excited about. You ever had one of those situations where you jump out of bed an you just wanna get to work? Man those were the days... so, home-automation..."

Sucks as an introvert to put with stuff like this, but it only takes an hour, and it's six figures later on.

rapfariaon Ask HN: Would it help to have an extra senior developer for just an hour a day?

Absolutely, I could hold eight positions as "Ultra-low hours mambojambo developer". /s

Can you imagine the context-switching?

Folks that bill by the hour are stuck in the 90s

rapfariaon Ask HN: How do you see Brazil?

Lyn Alden's, just brilliant

rapfariaon Can't be fucked: Underrated cause of tech debt

"Never ask permission to refactor" has caused so much trouble in my career, specially because folks think they - somehow - have an enlightened path to good code. They don't - it's just easier than reading and trying to understand (which they don't)

rapfariaon Amazon Rain Forest Is Drying

Sure but that record +3% GDP looks good, and comes from agro

rapfariaon John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity

Isn't Riccitiello stepping down a standard operation procedure in a situation like this?

rapfariaon Amazon Rain Forest Is Drying

Like Bolsonaro could put a dent on the devastation needed for the trillions of soybeans being exported.

rapfariaon Tell HN: Enterprises spend 10x more to build no-code solutions than coded ones

No code devs surely won't take that much time to deliver something as code devs.

No code devs surely don't need that much expertise (it's no code), so surely they are not as expensive as code devs.

Earlier this week Jack from backoffice asked me if there are any positions in my eng team. I wonder if he can learn no code in a week, since it surely won't be that complex...

rapfariaon Blood pressure should be measured lying down: study

Pain on the back of the head constantly, specially at the end of the day.

Been on Olmesartan since then and couldn't be happier

rapfariaon Laws of UX

Oh but they are. We three don't like it, but they have the data to back it up.

rapfariaon A Case Study on the Uber Alumni Network

What were TK's strengths in this case?