HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

robertwt7

1,300 karma · joined April 30, 2021

Software Eng
submissionscomments
robertwt7··on Python 3.11.0 final
> Python 3.11 is up to 10-60% faster than Python 3.10.

Horrayy!!

Does anyone has any experience with working with python in a very large scale?

Most of the big tech companies I worked with use Java, I remember when working with large scale JS projects it was nightmare to debug, TS came along and really saved the working experience and scale of JS/TS projects. I've seen TS adopted almost everywhere in big tech companies, some even create microservices with node.

When choosing tech stack for a very small projects I tend to use Django, but when I want to create my own large scale business one day I'm quite afraid to use it because of the typing problems, I might choose node/nestJS, but just wonder how does it work in large scale businesses that use python mainly? Is it a nightmare to debug?

robertwt7··on Asdf – language tool version manager
I love asdf, switched from nvm, jenv, pyenv to one tool

Sadly this is not available in windows so i had to use WSL to run everything. Development in windows is so wonky once you switched from unix based system

robertwt7··on Tell HN: Getting Ready for Unemployment
you're desperate, but like you said, most of us have experienced the same thing, some even worse than others. Don't take action based on your desperation or emotion right now.

We're all here because we made it through those times, believe it or not it will all pass if you fight through. Persistency is the key, go to the gym or a long walk every day, that helps you clear your mind. After that just keep applying, in the meanwhile try to work for hospitality or something just to cover the bills.

You're way ahead than those who just started learning to code, and they don't give up, many of them made it, so should you!!

robertwt7··on 87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone
Even if people said that apple lacks innovation after Jobs, what they have done here in market penetration, branding, and ecosystem is brilliant. I don’t even know how they did it, they just keep creating new stuff in the ecosystem that makes it so hard to switch out once you’re in it

The visionary should be rewarded. Maybe that’s Tim? He does a far better job compared to the other ceo of big tech companies..

robertwt7··on Valve Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf]
huh, wait is this not supposed to be confidential?

Thanks for sharing, I guess this won't last long, really interesting to see how they operate though!

robertwt7··on Day.js – Fast 2kB alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API
I love dayjs! I’ve been using it for the past 4 years in most projects and I have no issue at all. Current company used moment, but recently they also changed to dayjs as well. Love to see the author being very active in github as well :)
robertwt7··on Musk's trial hasn't stopped, no matter what he told Twitter, says judge
It should be a win for twitter, although Elon has done some great stuff, a person like him shouldn't be allowed to just tweet random stuff like that then cancel. isn't that manipulating the market as well? I feel bad for the twitter employee and stakeholder at the same time tbh. One day out of nowhere a billionaire just talk some random stuff about buying twitter, plunging the stocks, then cancels, then drama..
robertwt7··on Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees
Yeah that make sense, but still a developer tooling aspect is huge and they can surely branch to cloud and other stuff as well across the stuff that they had found?
robertwt7··on Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees
I’m not an expert at how facebook diversifies its income, but their R&D has produced a lot of insanely good outcome in engineering area. Meta ML, React, React Native, etc, howbare they not building income over these tools? Vercel or laravel seems to be making huge amount of money by building dev tools around their frameworks.

Regardless of what they have done, I hope everyone affected is okay

robertwt7··on Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months
This is actually quite scary, we know that the economy is going down. We're just not sure when will it recover
robertwt7··on YouTube locks 4K playback behind Premium subscriptions in latest test
Curious if any of the creator are actually getting something out of the premium if they're locking this...
robertwt7··on Ask HN: How to find what I am really good at?
I think you need to find what motivates you. I am in the same way right now, working on personal project is fun, but when it becomes a career it gets boring after a while. However I keep pushing to pay the bills, mortgage, and of course twice a year of traveling. Find a good company to work with that gives you least stress, my current one keeps working a bit more fun at least
robertwt7··on Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs
Sounds like blackberry and nokia back then when iPhone was released? If they're not on board the train for the future trend right now, won't they get left behind?

I'm not a management guy so I don't know, probably there are a lot of consideration happening and they surely have some strategy, whether it's right or not we'll see

robertwt7··on Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
This is quite interesting to see because Jack has plenty of stock in twitter obviously? So it kind of shows that he doesn’t really care about profits, instead he wants to do more interesting thing, what a geek, just like all of us lol. Or the other way to see it is that he felt that twitter can’t be saved and he wants to create a new profitable thing.. who knows about how billionaires think
robertwt7··on 9M Australians affected by Optus data breach
> Information which may have been exposed includes customers’ names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, and, for a subset of customers, addresses, ID document numbers such as driver's licence or passport numbers. Payment detail and account passwords have not been compromised.

Geez, ID document numbers is such a big thing. Now hackers can basically call most institution and impersonate victims. this is quite huge

robertwt7··on Learn how to unleash the full potential of the type system of TypeScript
Really interesting articles, will definitely have a look at night.

After so many years of JS programming, moving to a company that uses TS extensively (in a huge scale) feels life changing. You don't even know the effect until you use it daily. Even so, daily usage of typescript at a large web application doesn't seem to be using its full potential. I feel like libraries creator and maintainer use them more in the definitions that they created (i.e redux toolkit type is mind blowing).

Thanks for creating this lesson, it will definitely teach me a lot

robertwt7··on U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech
I agree with what you said mostly

> And who exactly should have the authority to decide which ideas are allowed and which are not?

This is the scariest part, because in the end everyone has their own bias.

However, don’t you agree that things like speech can soon become an ideology at some point? Which we already blocked anyway i.e communism, nazism

It is indeed a hard problem to solve and hard decision for the leader of big tech companies tbh

robertwt7··on U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech
I don’t really understand the law, and I agree that big tech shouldn’t be able to regulate online speech. However one thing that I’m confused is, what about some dangerous stuff like radicalisation which then will produce terrorists or extremist? Other than that, I agree that no one should be censored for any reason

I guess it is a hard topic to define which one is the limit of freedom of “speech”

robertwt7··on Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business
in AU, we have something called Financial Ombudsman Service by Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA), I had similar issue with paypal (with a much smaller scale), then support didn't want to help me. I complained to AFCA, scared the shit out of them, then got all my money back.

I assume US has something similar to address issue like this where financial platform is acting like this?

robertwt7··on Apple.com Is Down
works for me, but none of the assets/media are loaded
robertwt7··on A development process to ship features fast
From my own experience, weiting test is a huuge advantage for a small time trade off. I didn’t write much in the previous company and we regret it every single day. New dev won’t write any as well because there’re just no discipline.

Also tbh feature branch is not really bad? How long does it take for one to create branch and open PR for reviews? It was a nightmare for everyone to merge in 1 branch then merge back to master when we want to lol.

FF 100% helps, but we shouldn’t compromise tests and PRs I believe (it also helps when we need to rollback stuff obviously)

robertwt7··on AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)
What are you talking about dude. Invention and compatibility is a different thing, you sound line a hater
robertwt7··on AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)
Airpods is one of the invention that you don’t know you need it but when you buy it, you know it’s good and it just works seamlessly

It mentioned in the page that it’ll support high fidelity audio? Does this mean that they came up with new encoding for wireless transmission? Possibly something better than AAC?

robertwt7··on Yak Shaving: A Short Lesson on Staying Focused (2018)
I thought that I have ADHD, but apparently I just need to stop shaving the yak..

distractions are real, at some point I pomodoro technique helps, however when I get interested/distracted with something else at the code then it's pointless

robertwt7··on Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services
they can be sued for this right? i'm surprised that no one has done this already. this is life and death situation from a trillion dollar company, how are they still getting away with this is just amazing.

Like where's the ticket sitting on the jira board right now? what priority is it? does the product team know about this and just ignores it? they should be held accountable

robertwt7··on Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark
It does sound confusing. Just like the different versions of java and distributions that we have now as well.

I don’t think they’ll ever do it though, given the history of oracle

robertwt7··on Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
huh!?? don't they have amplitude to check how many users click that page? I click on that every day to see interesting projects when I'm bored and I have starred so many cool projects from there..

the product people is insane, it's an insane decision

robertwt7··on Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protesting Israeli contract
Who doesn’t do surveillance these days? Seems pretty naive from a Google employee. A company that tracks user as one of the main business model.
robertwt7··on LastPass: Notice of Security Incident
there might not be an impact straightaway, however gaining access to source code means that it's easier for hacker to find loophole is it not?

lastpass has to be ready for some sort of attacks I guess, it's good that they identified this early

robertwt7··on Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers
huh this seems like a combination between asdf and docker. looks nice, will definitely try, congrats!
← PreviousPage 4 of 11Next →