isakkeyten (u/isakkeyten)

isakkeyten commented on Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn decripto.org/en/arrest-of... · Posted by u/toss1

smt88 · a year ago

> He refuses to implement backdoors as well.

We have no way to know this, and (unlike Signal), Telegram doesn't give us best-effort assurances by doing things like open-sourcing its code.

isakkeyten · a year ago

> (unlike Signal)

Well Tucker Carlson also said he used Signal and his messages were leaked by the government so yeah...

isakkeyten commented on I love programming but I hate the programming industry deathbyabstraction.com/I-... · Posted by u/conquestofdread

halfmatthalfcat · a year ago

It’s not the “programming industry” that OP hates, it’s the “corporate world”. I’ve worked with (and have been) developers who have mismatched expectations on what “the real world” wants out of them.

The corporate world doesn’t give a shit about finesse, abstractions, witty or beautiful code. They care about finding developers who will pump out features to the business requirements. Some human beings in that cog (managers, directors, peers, etc) may allude to enabling developers to actually practice the “art” of programming but the bottom line is if you aren’t moving the needle economically for the company, you’re a liability.

Find comfort in programming outside of the corporate world and practicing the art but don’t expect the “industry” gives a damn about the how or why of programming, mearly the characters we punch onto the screen into cash. Once you come to terms with this, life gets a lot easier, less frustrating and you can actually find fun in the work (albeit, not necessarily “art”).

isakkeyten · a year ago

I wish I had this corporate experience. We focus on finesse, abstractions, witty or beautiful code. I keep being forced to optimise things that we haven't measured, add new lines to places to make the code pretty, rename variables, functions and avoid using Javascript arrays and use the "more performant" sets, etc etc.

All of this at the price of the god damn feature never being able to land and my PR staying in limbo for weeks.

But this is just another end of the spectrum I guess.

isakkeyten commented on Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on? · Posted by u/panqueca

LaserDiscMan · a year ago

I once worked on an in-house ERP system which had been developed over about 15 years by various developers. It was the engine of the entire company, everything passed through it. The CFO and some senior leadership erroneously blamed it for their shortcomings/used it as a scapegoat. When new management took charge, an initiative was started to replace the system with an industry standard solution. Both myself and the CTO (my boss) made it clear that we strongly felt this would not only go way over budget, but ultimately fail as a project.

Having no understanding as to the technicalities involved, the project was given the go ahead by the directors after several meetings with a vendor. After the CTO and I expressed our concerns about the scale of the project and the sheer amount of functionality involved, the vendor gleefully assured us that they were experienced with "migrations of this scale" and were more than prepared, which was music to the ears of the CFO.

Daily 2-3 hour meetings followed (for many months) to define the scope of the project. Within each meeting I sort of zoned out because it became very obvious that no only did the vendor not understand the scale of the work involved, but had started cutting corners everywhere/leaving out crucial functionality, and this was just the scoping stage, no development had even started yet.

I eventually departed the company but kept in contact with the CTO and learned that after 5 years (project was scoped for 2), the migration was abandoned costing multiple millions of dollars with nothing to show for it.

isakkeyten · a year ago

I've been on the other side of this. Big company was under the impression they could ultimately save money by switching from an enterprise ERP solution that costed them hundres of thousands of dollars in licences with an inhouse one. The only problem was the ERP was carrying 90% of the company on it's shoulders and this would've been a horribly large task. I worked on it for 2 years with incompentent managers and slow progress. After I left the company they continued for another 2 and then quit that endevour. Wasting a shitload of money (think 10 devs + managers for 4 years...).

isakkeyten commented on JavaScript state machines and statecharts xstate.js.org/docs/... · Posted by u/stefankuehnel

acemarke · 2 years ago

Hi, I maintain Redux and wrote most of our docs (including our current tutorials).

Can you give some details on which parts of our docs you feel are "incomprehensible"? I'm curious which specific pages you've been looking at, and for what purpose.

We've tried to organize the docs using the "Documentation System" approach described at [0]: Tutorials for teaching step-by-step, Explanations and How-To guides for specific topics, and References for API details.

Generally we want people to go through our "Redux Essentials" tutorial [1] as the primary way to learn how to use Redux correctly. It teaches "modern Redux" patterns with Redux Toolkit as the standard way to write Redux logic (including RTK Query for handling data fetching), and React-Redux hooks in components.

I'm genuinely interested in feedback on what explanations aren't clear and how we can improve things!

[0] https://documentation.divio.com/

[1] https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-1-overview-co...

isakkeyten · 2 years ago

There you are.

isakkeyten commented on Meta plans to lay off 10k employees about.fb.com/news/2023/03... · Posted by u/darnfish

simplotek · 2 years ago

> The scale of absurdity was difficult to measure with that one.

I have been told that one FANG which recently underwent a firing round barely took a break from their hiring rounds, and already started sending emails asking for volunteers for interviews even to teams which have just been decimated.

One more story for the absurdity bucket.

isakkeyten · 2 years ago

I was once contacted for an interview by the company I was leaving during my notice period :)

isakkeyten commented on Why would anyone need JavaScript generator functions? jrsinclair.com/articles/2... · Posted by u/lewisjoe

the_other · 3 years ago

Redux-sagas[0] makes great use of generators. I found it a fantastic tool, if you're already in the redux ecosystem, and have an application that sprawls enough to benefit. It's great when you have to manage multiple process lifecycles. A single "saga" can summaries an entire service lifespan in just a few lines of code. Good candidates include a socket connection, a user session, analytics etc. I desperately want to use it with my current project (streaming video) but our code's too mature to introduce such an architectural change.

The downsides are:

- a quirky syntax that needs learning, and is of the "loose with semantics" style - like Rails-eque REST's play with HTTP methods

- it's hard to test (despite what the documentation claims). It's highly declarative, and such code seems hard to test.

[0] http://redux-saga.js.org/

isakkeyten · 3 years ago

Be careful. You will summon acemarke with this comment.

isakkeyten commented on Drone downed in Zagreb is not Ukrainian – adviser to defense minister ua.interfax.com.ua/news/g... · Posted by u/mudro_zboris

pkage · 3 years ago

Even more confusingly, they're both written "Ярун"—making this the most likely scenario in my eyes.

isakkeyten · 3 years ago

I don't think that's it champ. Croatians don't have the "Я" letter.

isakkeyten commented on “Zero fucks given” in other languages twitter.com/AdamCSharp/st... · Posted by u/damir

isakkeyten · 4 years ago

In Macedonian we say "ne me boli kur" or the more prevalent "me boli kur" which mean "my dick does not hurt" or the latter more ironic version "my dick hurts".

isakkeyten commented on Show HN: Code Hike – More than syntax highlighting codehike.org/... · Posted by u/pomber

ushakov · 4 years ago

lol, people paying money for this?

isakkeyten · 4 years ago

Right? I'm 99% sure this thing uses https://github.com/shikijs/shiki