Awesome product!
Readit Newsmrfumier commented on Launch HN: Nao Labs (YC X25) – Cursor for Data · Posted by u/ClaireGz
Natural selection
Can't wait they also get rid of these "destination fees" billed by nearly all hotels in NYC.
mrfumier commented on No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda switowski.com/blog/no-hel... · Posted by u/tybulewicz
No, chat is not asynchronous. It's a dialoge, it is synchronous.
If you want people to write "Hello, my problem is xxx" just close your chat box and ask for emails.
Moreover there are studies showing that if people socialize and get to know each other a bit before working together, there are more chances to collaborate and to reduce conflicts.
mrfumier commented on The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020) kitze.io/posts/saddest-ju... · Posted by u/thunderbong
There's massive caveat with all of these "and then the story ends because we didn't just ship it :(" stories: sometimes the value of the "app" you're working on is in the technical details that cannot really be "hastened" and you can't "just ship it".
Also, and this is something a lot of the managerial class people don't want to hear:
Your job as a sw engineer/architect is to resist the "just ship it" pressure from the management as much as possible. So unless you own what you're coding and you really need it out of the door for your own benefit, if more time makes your work more professional, then take more time. Anyone telling you otherwise is a 100% hack. You are not an automaton that takes in JIRA tickets and spits out hacky code as soon as possible. Or at least you shouldn't be. Not to mention that not taking time (doing things properly) is incredibly taxing on your psyche and you WILL burn out. There are only so much garbage tasks you can take.
It's worth repeating: Unless you have a stake in the company, it is NOT your job to make sure the company is the most profitable it can be. Your job is to create great software. What's great software? The kind you'd be willing to put on your resume without feeling bad. This is the thing that will ultimately make you feel good about the work you're doing. Hitting that arbitrary deadline for a 1425474th time may feel like a relief but it's short term and a form of negative motivation - and in the workplace, those NEVER work over a long period of time. So RESIST that pressure from the top and do your work properly. If they fire you, then who cares, the only way up these days is job hopping anyways.
Why are you developping?
Is it a hobby for passing time? For pleasure? For the beauty of the code?
Could be. But most of the time, you develop in order for the software to perfom a task someone needs.
And that should be your first focus: to develop something that brings value for its user, and develop it as efficiently as possible. After all, what's the point of a software if nobody uses it? So no, your job is not to create great software, your job is to bring value to users.
In my career, I've mostly seen the developers pleasuring themselves with overengineering, bloating code with features nobody needs, and writing lines to anticipate future developments that never came. Rather than the opposite.
So I think the challenge is to remain minimalistic, that's hard, and that's what the original post is about.
mrfumier commented on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US businessinsider.com/elect... · Posted by u/NN88
Enjoying it has nothing to do with it. It's better for you and better for taste even if you don't like it. I don't like brushing my teeth but I do it because it's better than not doing it and because I'm a functioning adult. I'm better at brushing than I was the first times I did it, and I'm also better at cooking than I was 20 years ago, because even if I don't enjoy it, I know I'll enjoy the flavor and the nutrition is good for me. This is basic "live your life" stuff.
Imagine lecturing people about saving the planet while defending going out to eat in restaurants or ordering all your meals.
It's probably more carbon-efficient to eat at restaurants since they are cooking in larger quantities.
But... why? WHY??
Why would I run a docker container, a webserver, start a browser, navigate webpages... just to do some operations on a pdf locally?
A few KiloBytes native program like PDFtk (https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/) does the job perfectly.
I don't understand what is the point of bloating softwares like this. Not even speaking of the very bad consequences for the planet.
mrfumier commented on How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time nytimes.com/2023/12/12/wo... · Posted by u/mikhael
I'm not surprised. I'm from Quebec. I am more comfortable speaking English with anyone than I am speaking French around French people. They just can't get over the accent, like I'm some sort of curiosity at the zoo. There are so many YouTube videos of French people mocking us. It's not curiosity but a distinctly French superiority complex.
My friends who learned French had similar struggles in France versus elsewhere.
Do you realize that, we are used to hear Quebec french only through singers and comedians you send us to France?
Send us serious people instead, and it will stop sounding funny.
I would have guessed more HN readers would attempt to understand the desired outcomes, how the implementation attempts to achieve them, then take the good from the bad as a source of constant improvement.
The tone on this thread has that jaded and defeatest "management sucks" attitude that I find most often in the least productive engineers regardless of how they work.
I'm also very surprised by what the overall thread is saying.
Scrum and the agile movement in general have been a revolution for the better in management and organization, in my point of view.
mrfumier commented on Longest-lasting incandescent light bulbs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon... · Posted by u/Vigier
Technology Connections talked a lot about this and the supposed planned obsolescence of light bulbs
TL;DW: (if I rember correctly) Bulbs with shorter lifespans are generally more energy efficient. There was good reasons to not making bulb that last forever.
"The Phoebus cartel was an international cartel that controlled the manufacture and sale of incandescent light bulbs in much of Europe and North America between 1925–1939. The cartel took over market territories and lowered the useful life of such bulbs, which falsely claimed to raise their efficiency and output."