I used Racket a few times, which is designed to write new languages. Well worth a look: https://racket-lang.org/#easy-dsls
Readit Newshaakonhr commented on Ask HN: In which programming language is it better to make your own language? · Posted by u/Forgret
haakonhr commented on Ask HN: Percent of employees that benefit financially from equity offers? · Posted by u/rickcarlino
He means VSOPs.
They aren't shares, but options. So if the company's valuation skyrocket you hit the jackpot, but if the company growth stales you get nothing.
Of course, RSUs are better, but VSOP has a non-zero chance of making you money, it isn't 100% though.
It's not options either (that would be ESOPs), but actually a kind of bonus structure. If there is an exit event, as specified in the VSOP agreement, you get a bonus that should be the same as what real options would have been worth. They are taxed as normal income, but you do not have to pay tax when you receive them. In the past you would have to pay tax on real options when receiving them even though they'd most likely never pay out.
haakonhr commented on Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior PM? · Posted by u/LifeIsBio
I have never worked as a pure PM, but I have worked with several. I would say that the most important thing is to build trust with your team and to be ready to adapt to the existing process. From there on you can start introducing small changes towards a better working mode, but do not get caught up in process over outcome. Remember why you are there.
haakonhr commented on I failed moving my Google calendar to Proton shilin.ca/i-tried-moving-... · Posted by u/true_pk
> Storage in UTC and converting to a local timezone for display / notification purposes has been the standard practice for a looong time.
All good until summer time kicks in and your recurring 9am meeting now starts at 8am, oops.
But summertime is a (at least here) a separate timezone, e.g., CET vs CEST
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl, a explorer/anthropologist. He and a group of other volunteers sailed across the pacific on a raft built using ancient methods to prove that the pacific isles were settled by south americans (this turned out to be wrong based on population genetics). Great read!
haakonhr commented on Ask HN: In the age of AI, what's the most important thing a dev should learn? · Posted by u/miletus
anything other than ai slop generation... with every muppet diving head first into llm group fap parties, all the real work still has to get done, especially as people are starting to properly understand that the inherent nature of these black boxes is to produce something that looks rational, but which is subtly woven with bugs that will take longer to fix than if you'd just written simple software from the start; forget "ai" taking your job - it's weeding out the useless "coders" and making those of us who treat coding as a craft even more valuable.
I kind of agree, but I would also argue that of those who treat coding as a craft many are in danger as well. Code in the end is just a tool. Deep understanding won't be replaced any time soon, but I have worked with software artisans who were really effective and ones that saw the code and system as an end in itself. If you're in the latter group I'd be worried.
I went from software engineering to navigating people through German bureaucracy. It started as a simple blog, but applied a lot of software engineering knowledge to the problems I face. Simple things like using calculated variables in my content, monitoring German legal texts for changes, and building calculators and letter generators for my readers. I also implement more complex things like a custom static site generator that lints content. It keeps the work varied and fun.
More and more, I also build contacts in and around Berlin's government to effect change at a lower level, instead of building a nice layer on top of a crap bureaucracy.
It has been my full time job since 2020, and it's still going pretty solid. I absolutely love it, in part because the work itself is fun, and in part because I have a kind and grateful audience.
I describe the why and the how here: https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/all-about-berlin
Really cool, but as a foreigner in Germany it also saddens me that there is a need for so many apps and softwares to deal with bureaucracy.
I didn't do it last year, but the years before I used Racket and Common Lisp. I might try Common Lisp again since I really want to rediscover the experience of programming w/ Sly (a fork of SLIME).
I'm also considering trying to solve everything with Z3.