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sippndipp

324 karma · joined May 19, 2010

Loves Rails and React. Founder of 9elements.com
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sippndipp··on Thoughts on thinking
I understand the depression. I'm a developer (professional) and I make music (ambitious hobby). Both arts heavily in a transformational process.

I'd like to challenge a few things. I rarely have a moment where an LLM provides me a creative spark. It's more that I don't forget anything from the mediocre galaxy of thoughts.

See AI as a tool.

A tool that helps you to automate repetitive cognitive work.

sippndipp··on I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language
I've always loved the Z80 and felt home with the 68k.
sippndipp··on Designing a Timeline for Mobile Video Editing
Quick Questions out of curiosity: What ideas have been rejected during the design process?
sippndipp··on Designing a Timeline for Mobile Video Editing
Great insight for everyone who wants to design more complex UIs.
sippndipp··on Acreom 1.0 – a lightweight Markdown editor with tasks for developers
Awesome app. Love it.

Tightly integrates with my calendar. Easy, keyboard driven divide and conquer for my documents into tasks. Way better than all the other knowledge base apps.

sippndipp··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
We're doing an newsletter dedicated for Android developers:

https://androidweekly.net/

- it was four years without making any money

- with ~100k subs it's generating money

- everything grew organically

sippndipp··on WSL for Development in Windows 10 Is the New Kool-Aid. Still Not Using It?
I wonder I've done almost the same writeup (a little more detailed if you want to do machine learning) - and no one cared: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24197884

This one here is frontpage HN :-)

Feel free to look at my post as well:

https://9elements.com/blog/developing-a-week-on-windows-with...

sippndipp··on Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still worth learning?
I think you should give it a try. Rails made me a better software architect and showed my the importance of writing expressive elegant code. It might have lost some market share to other techs (Node / Elixir) but it's still the original.
sippndipp··on Ask HN: What's a good algorithm to distribute data in a P2P network
I have found a paper about CRUSH maps so far (from the Ceph project): https://ceph.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/weil-crush-sc06.... but I think there is more.
sippndipp··on Ask HN: Best tech for a web site 2018? (PHP, Rails, Django, Node, Go, etc.)?
I personally would never use PHP. But if you have to: Go with Laravel - it's the best Rails clone around.
sippndipp··on Ask HN: Best tech for a web site 2018? (PHP, Rails, Django, Node, Go, etc.)?
In my opinion your requirements are a little fuzzy. If you're developing a website (no hard database requirements) you could go with something easy as jeykill, middleman or gatsby. If you're developing a web application I would try to evaluate my future needs:

Need #1: Since I don't know what my users will do I need to be agile and quickly adapt to business changes. Tool #1: Rails - the flexibility of RoR is still unbeatable. Especially if you're a startup this is really a timesaver. Furthermore it's no rocketscience to develop a decent frontend on top using React or Vue.

Need #2: Shitload of people will use my site. Tool #2: Elixir / Phoenix has kick ass performance and language and framework are well written and thought through.

Need #3: My whole team are frontend devs who just know JavaScript. Tool #3: Maybe Node.js is for you. In the past I've rarely seen a good Node.js backend project but if you're really disciplined (aka writing a lot of tests) it should be doable.

Need #4: My project is a FinTech and I need to talk to banks. Tool #4: Java/Scala/Clojure since you'll might talk to these services directly and all of the have JVM based SDKs.

Need #5: I'm a microsoft consultant. Tool #5: Well then go with C#/F#.

sippndipp··on Ask HN: Who's running a profitable newsletter?
We're running http://androidweekly.net and http://swiftweekly.com?

It was roundabout 5 years just editing and making no money. Now it's making money - but just a side income.

1. Content is king! 2. Start to build a community (if you link someone in your newsletter just ping him on twitter). 3. Go to community events.

Doing ads on Facebook and Twitter actually didn't work that well.

sippndipp··on Ask HN: How much hours of People / Meeting time does your day have?
Thanks all for the feedback.
sippndipp··on Ask HN: How much hours of People / Meeting time does your day have?
1 hour
sippndipp··on Ask HN: How much hours of People / Meeting time does your day have?
2 hours
sippndipp··on Ask HN: How much hours of People / Meeting time does your day have?
3 hours
sippndipp··on Ask HN: How much hours of People / Meeting time does your day have?
4 hours
sippndipp··on Ask HN: How much hours of People / Meeting time does your day have?
5 hours
sippndipp··on Ask HN: How much hours of People / Meeting time does your day have?
6 hours
sippndipp··on Ask HN: How much hours of People / Meeting time does your day have?
7 hours
sippndipp··on Ask HN: How much hours of People / Meeting time does your day have?
8 or more hours
sippndipp··on Ask HN: Are top developers just guessing?
There is some truth in there... Too many cargo cult devs out there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming

But to answer your question: It depends on the business you're in and the dev culture your company established.

In the most consulting shops or early stage startups I've seen the situation that you're describing. Cranking out code because visible features / products is the only thing a customer cares about.

But in companies that build a sustainable product that needs to scale things are different. They embrace good architecture TDD/BDD. They embrace time for refactoring. Maybe you should switch your job :-)

sippndipp··on A cross-platform debugger for Go
What an awesome idea to use gopherjs. Just added it to http://golangtoolbox.com/ - if you have more tools that are great please add them here.
sippndipp··on Go in Production
I get your point - but I wanted the article to be more about our experience with Go rather than pros and cons of GC :-P
sippndipp··on As a small-time dev do I have to worry about shellshock?
You should test your sites with these two tools:

http://www.shellshocktest.com/

and

http://shellshock.brandonpotter.com/

There is a well maintained guide at Digital Ocean that explains the nitty gritty details:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-prot...

If a server is vulnerable there is a great guide that helps you to deal even with old systems:

https://dmsimard.com/2014/09/25/the-bash-cve-2014-6271-shell...

sippndipp··on Show HN: Android Weekly - free Android development newsletter
Why not using a name+androidweekly@domain.com tag? Gmail and many providers understand it. PS: We will not send you shit :-)
sippndipp··on Ask HN: What notebook is cool for development (hard/software)?
I always had trouble with their hardware. Random crashes and they needed two repairs until they changed it. Mavericks seems to be very buggy and I have to consolidate my whole dev environment again. Would like to switch to a real Linux (Ubuntu / Debian). I don't want the Retina stuff since for such a high resolution the devices are underpowered.
sippndipp··on Ask HN: What notebook is cool for development (hard/software)?
They look really powerful. What OS do you run on it?
sippndipp··on Poll: Are polls on HN just a social hack to gain karma?
No
sippndipp··on Poll: Are polls on HN just a social hack to gain karma?
Yes
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