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Antoninuson Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

Alternative, cheaper air defense for Europe.

Antoninuson Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems.

Antoninuson Tell HN: Educative.io auto-renews without warning, refuses to provide refunds

The same happened to me a few years ago with educative. Scumbag company.

Antoninuson Ask HN: What laptop are you using to daily drive Linux?

I'm still using a T480, keeping my eye out for the T14 G5.

Antoninuson John Carmack on shorter work weeks (2016)

I'm good for about 3-4 hours of focused knowledge work a day before I need a break or change in context. In the evenings when things are much quieter in my environment, I can squeeze in another 1-2 hours if its necessary.

I do agree with the "go to the gym" part of his spiel.

Antoninuson Ask HN: Advice from people who strength train from home

definitely checkout

https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Gravity-Systematic-Gymnast...

and the corresponding subreddit

Antoninuson The scourge of job title inflation

Agreed, when I was at SAP a in the late 2000's we were all developers (SD1), no senior or juniors too.

Antoninuson Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?

read christine.website for a while! keep it up!

Antoninuson Ask HN: When did tech stop being cool?

There is plenty of great tech today. You're either not working on it or not aware of it.

Antoninuson Covid Pass in Lithuania: How vaccine mandate laws have upended my family's life

I'm also in LT, you can get the vaccine and passport; even if you think its unsafe for wife to get it.

Antoninuson Linus Torvalds was paid $1.6M in 2018

Underpaid TBH.

Antoninuson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2021)

Remote Yes Yes Go, TS, Terraform, Jira Exp: 6 as an engineer, 2 as a Producer Manager nico@skubos.com nicoflojo.com

Antoninuson Ask HN: What things that tech recruiters do, annoy you the most as an engineer?

Offering roles outside of my experience and current knowledge stack. Lowball salaries.

Antoninuson Show HN: We wrote a book about building business applications in Go

Big Threedots guy.

Antoninuson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2021)

  Location:PST/EEST
  Remote:Yes
  Willing to relocate:No
  Technologies:Go, JS, Docker etc.
  Résumé/CV: nicoflojo.com
  Email: nico@skubos.com

Software Engineer, 8 years exp. looking to transition to techical product management.

Antoninuson Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards

Agreed, this is my experience as well. Like most things, find 1 that you like and use it for a long time. For me it happened to be the HHKB Pro 2.

Antoninuson CSS is no longer a core skill

Was it ever after bootstrap released? Most frontend work can easily be done offshore for half of what you pay a 'frontend developer' in the West.

Antoninuson Are APIs Elitist?

No.

Antoninuson Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale

This the template for a clickbait headline on HN.

Antoninuson Why I Became a Software Engineer

I like computers, sweatpants and the pay is nice.

Antoninuson Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics

This but thinkpad keyboard.

Antoninuson Ask HN: What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN?

You get to see what the average developer thinks.

Antoninuson The Two Classes of Software Engineer

This is a rehashed generalization of degree vs non-degree engineers. If you write code long enough you'll work with both brilliant people who take pride in doing the uninteresting work and idiots who talked their way into big projects.

Antoninuson Ask HN: How to stay focused and motivated working from home?

I have bills to pay and dependents to feed.

Antoninuson Reading Candidates’ GitHub Profiles

Hiring is broken bro.

Antoninuson Ask HN: Is it crazy that software developers have to study for interviews?

I highly agree with this. When I was in position where I had to interview candidates this is was the 2nd half of my technical interview. Read a piece of code and going through it with me like you're pairing with Jr. Dev. I still think algorithm problems serve the purpose of filtering out the bottom of the barrel.

Antoninuson Chris Sacca's Act 2: Lowercarbon Capital

We should give him the death penalty or life with no parole. We can't rehabilitate these types of monsters.

Antoninuson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2021)

Location:Vancouver, BC Remote: Yes Willing to relocate:Yes Technologies: Go, Typescript Java Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoflojo/ Email:nico@skubos.com

Antoninuson Are We Really Engineers?

I agree, the overlapping difference in quality software production is diligent security and testing.

Antoninuson Why Do We Keep Reading the Great Gatsby?

After not reading for a few years I felt both within and without.