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JoiDegn

562 karma · joined July 24, 2011

Economist, programmer, founder.

Currently working on subledger.app

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JoiDegn··on What Is Powering AI?
What is actually powering AI data centers right now? Very interesting to see what power sources are actually being used on the ground right now.
JoiDegn··on Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet
What are some of the features you are looking for?

Just curious because Im working on a Quickbook replacement probably with a different focus but I'd still love to hear what you need.

JoiDegn··on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
I'm bootstrapping https://subledger.app until I can raise funding for it.

It's a more efficient accounting ledger targeted at in-house finance teams of post Series A type startups.

JoiDegn··on Vladimir Putin says the world’s energy infrastructure is at risk
That is what I thought as well and I similarly discounted the likelihood that Russia did this but I have changed my opinion on this particularly because I don't think Germany is actually going to run into (a lot of) trouble this Winter and probably also not next winter. And if Russia agrees that this is likely to be the case and also that there is not likely going to be gas deliveries through North Stream in the coming years then destroying it could at least serve the purpose of increasing doubt and creating uncertainty especially if it could be pinned on other actors (i.e. the US).

Here is why I think Germany will be relatively ok:

German source on Zeit.de showing gas deliveries from other countries making up a big chunk of Russian deliveries and German gas reserves being almost full and gas demand being ~25% under the average demand in the past years (probably largely due to the price of course). https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/energiemonitor-deutschland-ga...

Additionally LNG terminals are due to come live in December (if there won't be delays).

JoiDegn··on Nocodb: Turns Any MySQL, Postgres, SQLite into a Spreadsheet with REST APIs
I am working at finn.auto. We are using Nocodb extensively and are a big contributor to the project. We have a lot of open tech positions and some of our engineers focus on contributing to Noco directly. Check out https://www.finn.auto/careers

Let me know if you are interested and I can tell you more or put you in touch with our team working on this.

JoiDegn··on Complete GoPro of my first mission in Ukraine – Kherson and Mykolaiv
A couple of international volunteers fighting for the Ukrainian army. The video contains no fighting footage but gives a feeling for what it is like on the front line.

What strikes me the most is the amount of confusion and the lack of information on what is happening that these soldiers are living with while continuing with their mission.

JoiDegn··on Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?
Just logged in to tell you that I am working on an alternative to Xero and you just validated one of our UI designs.
JoiDegn··on Lessons from my first 18-months of Angel Investing
I really enjoyed reading about Eddy's thoughts on angel investing. This is one of the few cases where an angel investor actually thinks deeply (and correctly I think) about the value they are bringing to a company they invest in.
JoiDegn··on Jupiter CEO Quits $68B Firm to Sit at the Beach and ‘Do Nothing’
This is still the case? My mother told me she used to take a bottle of some alcohol to drink with them and after spending an hour or two with them she would usually get what she needed. That was in Andalucia which I guess might be a special case even in Spain...
JoiDegn··on Only essential services to operate from midnight
We just moved our little family of four from Sri Lanka where we planned to make a home. My wife is Sri Lankan but has not lived there in the last 10 years. It was a rough decision because her family is still there. The situation on the ground is "stable" but food, medicines and of course fuel are becoming scarce. The crazy part is that the government seems to have no real plan but refuses to step down even though the public clearly wants them to.
JoiDegn··on Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues
Senator, they take a subscription fee.
JoiDegn··on Distributed locking with Postgres advisory locks
Im not sure why the author excludes row level locking.

    SELECT ... FOR UPDATE
Should work here. Lock the table when the balance is confirmed, then append to the ledger, then commit the transaction. All following transactions then need to wait for the FOR UPDATE lock to be released before they can read from the ledger.
JoiDegn··on Learn accounting for free
I am working on a product led alternative to Quickbooks which does the split between being more user-friendly (i.e. less confusing reconciliation, faster interface, easier to navigate, fewer options, fewer ways to shoot yourself in the foot) but also geared towards power users (keyboard shortcuts, automations, integrations with productivity tools).

It's fascination that Quickbooks is the go-to tool for almost everyone doing small business accounting when their product is mediocre in so many ways.

JoiDegn··on Saturday Night’s All Right: The invention of payday
As far as I'm aware European companies usually pay monthly so the pile of cash is even bigger there.
JoiDegn··on Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?
I am doing the odd contracting job for a company that deploys and manages edX for clients. It's not fun. Bloated and outdated..
JoiDegn··on Why did modern humans take so long to settle in Europe?
That's not a sufficient explanation because Neanderthals faced the same conditions but were outcompeted eventually. The question is: if Neanderthals were going to be outcompeted, why did it take so long for homo sapiens to establish themselves in Europe. What changed so that they would become the dominant humans
JoiDegn··on Ask HN: Is it worth it to invest in learning TypeScript?
I've found that the only real downside to typescript is that you are adding yet another layer on your at times unstable JavaScript environment.
JoiDegn··on Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners
Yeah I think this is not really surprising. Why would bitcoin be any different than e.g. wealth more generally.
JoiDegn··on Pop OS – System76
Yes, kind of. Works fine using pipewire for me. You can't share the entire screen, only individual windows which is my preferred option anyways.
JoiDegn··on Singularity – Microsoft’s Experimental OS
One of the biggest reason I find teams not usable for teams. And so easy to fix, just assume when the user does not want to overwrite the first file that they don't want to overwrite consecutive files.
JoiDegn··on Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?
I just left Kenya which has a couple of things going for it:

- $1k allows you to comfortably live a upper middle class life-style

- It has a thriving tech scene, lots of interesting startups coming up (I know because I just had to close mine) and lots of techies looking for work.

- $1k also pays the salary of a decent developer there

- It is culturally very different to the US and offers interesting perspectives

Things I did not enjoy:

- A quite "negative" post-colonial mind-set. I struggled to deeply connect with locals because there is a big divide. This is a complicated topic imo.

- Traffic in Nairobi is bad

JoiDegn··on The rise of the one-person unicorn
we are looking for additional product validation. Would you be interested to tell me a bit more about your situation and what you would consider useful in a call?
JoiDegn··on The rise of the one-person unicorn
Yes that's right. Almost none of these people have built everything themselves. Design, copy writing, marketing, development, accounting are just some of the things that can be outsourced easily.

Source: myself building https://subledger.app

JoiDegn··on The GameStop Fiasco Proves We’re in a ‘Meme Stock’ Bubble
This is not great coverage imo. It focuses on retail investors when arguably the big wall street guys had more of a role to play. By overshorting the stock (140% of outstanding stocks were shorted) they made themselves vulnerable to what happened afterwards. The GameStop shares had a couple of things going for it: - Ryan Cohen who previously sold Chewy.com invested heavily and joined the board - Higher than expected sales of (legacy) games on discs - Strong cash position

So WallstreetBets picking up the stock does not come completely out of the blue. I would say the 'Fiasco' has as much to do with Melvin and other short sellers making mistakes as it has to do with retail investors.

JoiDegn··on European Union Debt by Country
Can you please explain the reasoning behind your statements better? The way they stand it seems like you say it is impossible to repay the debt because the interest rate is zero. Why would that make it harder to repay?

Finally, why do you follow that the EU is doomed?

JoiDegn··on Ask HN: How do you manage SSH keys and SSL certificates in your company?
Do you know how the sysadmin organizes himself? Is there a process where he gets notified of leaving engineers to remove their keys?

edit: typo

JoiDegn··on Google's Vint Cerf Warns of 'digital Dark Age'
That reminds me of the Encyclopedia Galactica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Galactica. I wonder if this is a scheme to get comp scis to a remote Location and eventually start a new galactic empire.
JoiDegn··on Four Banks, Including JPMorgan, Fined in Europe Over ‘Cartel’ Behavior
Why does the money not come from the pocket of the offender? If banks don't control what their employees do and are forced to pay a hefty fine as the result of that employee doing something wrong, dont you think they will try to control what their employees are doing in the future?
JoiDegn··on I'm 25 years old and I am lost
I love that first line. In my opinion it neatly sums up a few things about human behaviour.
JoiDegn··on Terminal – Virtual computers that start, resize, and scale in seconds
make that 320,000%
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