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

I'm working on trying to make code reviews easier, faster, and more powerful. Adding rule based automation to check for common errors.

grazon US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alaska coast

This is an unmanned device so it doesn't have the same safety concern. Also at the cruising altitude there is so little oxygen it's probably as safe as helium at that altitude.

grazon US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alaska coast

Why not hydrogen instead of helium? It's much cheaper and lighter.

grazon Ask HN: Show us your work in progress

That's kind of cool. I'm in Australia so can't sign up. Concerns I'd have before signing up:

1 How good are the toothbrush heads compared to the better ones you get in the shop? I'd be concerned about downgrading.

2 I don't know which frequency option is best. What frequency do dentists recommend? Could you guide people here?

3 Does this work out cheaper than buying them in the store? Is there a saving here, or is it just about convenience?

grazon Ask HN: Show us your work in progress

I'm developing a notification service that lets people sign up to be notified when something they are interested in occurs, and most importantly only when that occurs. The goal is to be agnostic and let people be notified any way they like (email, app notification, SMS, phone call, letter in the post box etc) and for developers to be able to send notifications for a wide range of specific events (e.g. tickets on sale for this band in this city) using an API in their language of choice.

A basic version of the website is up right now:

http://bullhorn.io

I'm really looking for feedback on what to work on next. Is this a service that you could use in your company? If not, what's missing?

The next directions I'm looking at are:

0. Improving the look of the website.

1. Adding API support starting with REST.

2. Adding more notification methods (e.g. SMS).

3. Adding ability to create multiple-fire notifications and parameter based notifications (e.g. notify me whenever the weather in TOWN is > TEMPERATURE).

4. Adding built-in notifications such as weather, stock, etc.

Comments welcome.

grazon Fact and folklore in software engineering

There are some things that some people can solve in a given time frame, which other people could never solve. For example, could you have ever invented calculus or discovered relativity? What about someone less smart than you? That's an even more extreme example than the one given.

Moving back to programming, debugging specifically, I've had people spend weeks stuck on a bug, only for another programmer to find it in hours or days.