HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

clemParis

35 karma · joined November 14, 2016

submissionscomments
clemParis··on So you want to buy a farm?
How much land does one need? Tolstoï wrote a short story with this title on this topic: https://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2738/
clemParis··on SaaS Financial Model
Hi ! Thanks for sharing, it looks very comprehensive. This seems great, but quite overwhelming for very small companies. Do I need all of that between 0 and 100k ARR ? Do I need any of that in fact ? It seem all the official documents (cash flow statement, profit and loss) are made by the accountant when they are needed.
clemParis··on Visual Explanation of the Conjugate Gradient Algorithm
Thanks ! Are there other great math papers or articles with a similar "without the agonizing pain" approach, for other topics that might be interesting ?
clemParis··on Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
Ouch, I understand that it demoes their solution, but with the autoplay that's very insensitive.
clemParis··on A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack
Well, I have to create a new account every time I join a new group, so I'd say yes.
clemParis··on Curve Detecting Neurons
All the authors are part of OpenAI, and the very first sentence talks about computer vision and a parallel with real neurons. So "This isn't immediately clear" should be read as "I only read the title and didn't even try to understand what the article is about".
clemParis··on Ideas That Changed My Life
You can tidy your room and the mess (that they mistake for entropy) would be reduced. The 2nd law of thermodynamics states that in an isolated system the entropy is always increasing (or at best constant), so the room analogy does not work.
clemParis··on PlantNet – App that helps identify plants from pictures
Thanks!
clemParis··on 6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far
I agree with the "tell the story as if you were telling it over beers at a pub" part but please don't make your page 9Mb like in the first example ;)
clemParis··on I Learned French in 12 Months
Interesting points! Thanks. I didn't know "inscrire" is a transitive verb, so indeed "s'inscrire à" is grammatically incorrect. As often with french it raises the question of "does this rule make sense regarding usage". A quick google search for "s'inscrire à une salle de sport" shows a lot of results, even from people specializing in sport. And many native speakers were fooled by this rule.

As for the "crédit", the dictionnary definition seem to state it is correct (even though "bon" would be a bit better). https://larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/cr%c3%a9dit/20314... Crédit: Autorisation de dépenses accordée par les autorités qui établissent, votent ou règlent les budgets ; somme ainsi allouée : La bibliothèque dispose d'un crédit de dix mille euros.

clemParis··on Writing a Polyglot Script
On a similar topic, PoC||GTFO [0] features files that are valid with multiple file formats. Issue 19 [1], for instance, "is valid as a PDF document, a ZIP archive, and a HTMLpage. It is also available as a Windows PE executable, a PNG image and an MP4 video" (see "technical note"). They are made by Ange Albertini [2] who has a great talk [3] on how he does this kind of things

[0] https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ [1] https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo19.pdf [2] https://github.com/angea/pocorgtfo [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9WnnMJ0RKg

clemParis··on Bayard: a full-text search and indexing server written in Rust
typo: raft-rs is at https://github.com/tikv/raft-rs
clemParis··on Show HN: I created an algorithm to help me achieve Product-Market Fit
product-market fit can never be achieved using this algorithm, since a product is never found: in achieveProductMarketFit.ks, _uncertainty is set to 1.0. It needs to go below the 0.8 threshold in order to get out of the loop, but _uncertainty is never updated anywhere so it can never happen. So achieveProductMarketFit won't ever return any product. QED ;)
clemParis··on The Spaceline: a space elevator alternative achievable with current technology
well… you should read the paper, or maybe a summary like this one[0], before jumping to comment.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20897565

clemParis··on Writing a book in public
Thanks for the work, I enjoyed trying it and loved the fact that indeed, 200 words is really achievable. I even did it twice ;) Do you have any plan for the possibility to publish "privately"? I'd like to write, but I don't want/feel the need to be read. I guess we could consider the drafts are private, but they seem like second-class citizens regarding streaks and so on.
clemParis··on The Game Engine Black Book: Doom
Some people like to share knowledge more than they like (or need, seeing the numbers) to make money.
clemParis··on Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new company?
I had to google that as well. It seems to be an agile practice [0] that consist in gathering a developer, a product owner and a QA tester in order to produce acceptance tests using the format given/when/then.

[0] http://jonkruger.com/blog/2012/01/04/the-three-amigos/

clemParis··on The Corpus Christi Prime
The first paragraph of the articles says "The top left corner encodes my initials, JRH, in ASCII. The bottom right corner is my date of birth."
clemParis··on How Seth Godin would launch a business on a $1,000 budget
The interesting thing being that he didn't do any of the things he says he would do (so, maybe despite all his best undercover efforts, things would fail !), yet people listen as if the messiah was talking.
clemParis··on Ask HN: Is TDD or BDD used in AAA gaming industry?
A high proportion of web development is done using somehow "off-the-shelf" web frameworks, and yet people write unit test/functional tests for the application logic and features. Despite how stable the base this code is written against.
clemParis··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2017)
SEEKING WORK (CONTRACT) – Based in Paris, FR

Remote OK

My email on https://www.keiruaprod.fr (in french only right now).

I’m an experienced (5 years professionally) full-stack web developer. I've in particular worked with PHP/Symfony, for startups and big companies. Experience with scaling issues, microservices, continuous integration

I also like to use Postgres, Python, AngularJS/React, Varnish, Redis, Nginx...