neeleshs (u/neeleshs)

neeleshs commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

neeleshs · a month ago

Syncari | Remote (US only) | Full-time | Director, Solutions Engineering

We are an all-in-one modern data integration, management, workflow and analytics platform.

VC funded, small team. Hiring for Director, Solutions Engineering team, to run our onboarding, implementation including PS and support functions.

Apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4276895381/

Comp: $175k base + bonus + equity + 95% healthcare contribution (medical+dental+vision and some life insurance)

We don't sponsor visas at the moment

neeleshs commented on How I use LLMs as a staff engineer seangoedecke.com/how-i-us... · Posted by u/gfysfm

foobazgt · 7 months ago

The author says they do the literal opposite:

"Almost all the completions I accept are complete boilerplate (filling out function arguments or types, for instance). It’s rare that I let Copilot produce business logic for me"

My experience is similar, except I get my IDE to complete these for me instead of an LLM.

neeleshs · 7 months ago

I use LLM to generate complete solutions to small technical problems. "Write an input stream implementation that skips lines based on a regex".

Hard for an IDE auto complete to do this.

neeleshs commented on Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes publicdomainreview.org/co... · Posted by u/prismatic

kaon_ · 7 months ago

Interesting read. Maybe a replica, high-quality poster or glass print would be a cool ornament in the kitchen or dining room :)

neeleshs · 7 months ago

Or a tapestry! (I have one in our dining room)

neeleshs commented on Moving on from React, a year later kellysutton.com/2025/01/1... · Posted by u/yakshaving_jgt

wruza · 8 months ago

My experience with it is, one there’s no decent templater for nodejs, two this web1 like architecture really makes no sense as a developer. Everything is a subpage transfer rather than a meaningful operation/update. I came from desktop ui background (delphi, vb, gtk, qt, appkit), not from web. The web is all fucked up, tbh, it’s not only htmx. But at least spas vaguely resemble how normal apps function.

neeleshs · 8 months ago

I see. HTMX and others target the browser, which is primarily an HTML renderer. So there is nothing inherently bad about page transfers. That's what hypermedia is about.

React et al try to create a different paradigm on top of this. And that makes it like building a desktop UI AND a server app

To me, this is not in anyway better than building something for the browser - pages and html.

neeleshs commented on Moving on from React, a year later kellysutton.com/2025/01/1... · Posted by u/yakshaving_jgt

htmxsucks · 8 months ago

HN is not real world, just like how Reddit is not real world.

I am a FE with 10 years of experience, and has tried, and tried really really hard and multiple attempts to make HTMX works well.

Doesn’t work. UX is much worse, code discoverability is much worse, slower to code in, everything is messier than just plain React SPA with JSON data. Terrible, terrible DX and UX.

Seriously, there is a reason why despite all the rage in going back to multi page Django/Rails app, very very few people actually take it seriously. You just don’t hear the negativity because most folks just tried it, saw that it is worse, and moved on without writing a blog post.

neeleshs · 8 months ago

Can you say more about what didn't work with HTMX? What parts make terrible DX?

I also think HTMX is meant mostly for backend developers to be more productive in frontend.

neeleshs commented on Moving on from React, a year later kellysutton.com/2025/01/1... · Posted by u/yakshaving_jgt

ec109685 · 8 months ago

Server rendered HTML is all well and good until you want to add native apps or a first class API layer. At that point, it makes more sense to have the web be just another client and move as much business logic into the API layer as possible.

neeleshs · 8 months ago

Even with react, we have found that having a separate API layer was more ergonomic.

Maybe with graphql it is different

neeleshs commented on YC X25, the spring 2025 batch ycombinator.com/blog/anno... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

neeleshs · 8 months ago

B25 for Bloom would've been nicer

neeleshs commented on So you want to build your own data center blog.railway.com/p/data-c... · Posted by u/dban

danpalmer · 8 months ago

Yeah, I'm a little biased here as I now work at Google, but I joined in part due the positive experience we had migrating from bare metal to Google Cloud.

We went through two rounds of migration. First placing our data warehouse, where BigQuery was just so far past Redshift it was almost a joke. Then we wanted to move to a cloud provider with good container orchestration and GKE was obviously better than AKS and all of Amazon's proprietary orchestrators. It was pretty good.

Customer support varied between excellent and ~fine. Amazon customer support throughout that time (we had a few small bits on Amazon) was fine, but less enthusiastic about winning our business.

Not long after a friend of mine reported a security incident to AWS, something that looked like Amazon privileged access to their data, and it took months to get a response from them, and it was never an adequate explanation for what looked in all ways like a hack.

neeleshs · 8 months ago

Yep. BQ,GKE, and at a metalevel the simpler project structure -all have been great. I cannot still fully understand the org hierarchy that AWS has yet.

neeleshs commented on So you want to build your own data center blog.railway.com/p/data-c... · Posted by u/dban

motoboi · 8 months ago

I’m my experience and based on writeups like this: Google hates having customers.

Someone decided they have to have a public cloud, so they did it, but they want to keep clients away with a 3 meter pole.

My AWS account manager is someone I am 100% certain would roll in the mud with me if necessary. Would sleep in the floor with us if we asked in a crisis.

Our Google cloud representatives make me sad because I can see that they are even less loved and supported by Google than us. It’s sad seeing someone trying to convince their company to sell and actually do a good job providing service. It’s like they are setup to fail.

Microsoft guys are just bulletproof and excel in selling, providing a good service and squeezing all your money out of your pockets and you are mortally convinced it’s for your own good. Also have a very strange cloud… thing.

As for the railway company going metal, well, I have some 15 years of experience with it. I’ll never, NEVER, EVER return to it. It’s just not worth it. But I guess you’ll have to discover it by yourselves. This is the way.

You soon discover what in freaking world is Google having so much trouble with. Just make sure you really really love and really really want to sell service to people, instead of building borgs and artificial brains and you’ll do 100x better.

neeleshs · 8 months ago

I'm probably an outlier here. My experience with GCP support has been nothing but stellar, like I described in another comment down below

neeleshs commented on So you want to build your own data center blog.railway.com/p/data-c... · Posted by u/dban

cj · 8 months ago

AWS support in general is extremely good in my experience. (We pay for whatever the tier below Enterprise is called, I think it costs 10% of your spend)

I’ve been on 4 hour screenshare with AWS engineers working through some infrastructure issues in the past, and we only spend $100k/yr.

Even at the $100k/yr spend level, AWS regularly reaches out with offers to try new services they’re launching for free. We’ve said “sure” a couple times, and AWS shows up with 4-6 people on their end of the call (half of them engineers).

In the past 10 years, we’ve had maybe 2-3 emergency issues per year, and every time I’m able to get a really smart person on a call within 5 minutes.

This is the #1 thing I’d be concerned about losing if we did colo or bare metal with cheaper providers.

neeleshs · 8 months ago

I've had similar experiences with Google as well. Reaching out with new services, hours with some of their technical people, invites to meetups, free credits, an extremely pleasing and responsive account manager. We spend a few hundred thousand dollars a year with them. The actual software is top notch. Most haven't been just turn it on and forget it.