romankolpak

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by romankolpak 3mo ago
What’s the alternative? How do you solve the problem of not allowing children into online spaces where they shouldn’t be allowed in?
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by romankolpak 6mo ago
It's all relative. When I was 20, I'd consider myself old at 36. Now when I am 36, my definition of old has shifted and it's now somewhere past 50. I guess "old" for a person is just that person 10+ years older :)
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by romankolpak 7mo ago
Hire excellent programmers who spent their lifetime learning how to write good code and build systems, and then the code is easy. Hire some bad ones and watch them struggle and fail and learn why maybe coding is not that easy. AI doesn&#x27
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by romankolpak 10mo ago
The scope and complexity of the change is crucial here. There is a sweet spot where spec-driven agent offers great value: the change is small and simple enough that you can describe it reliably with a spec (i.e. you have complete understand
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by romankolpak 11mo ago
Comes to germany, does not like it, makes a picture of a middle finger to Bundestag. This smells like ragebait low effort content I come to HN in order to avoid!
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by romankolpak 1y ago
When I was younger I had a few different sources for finding music - a couple of friends who were really into music and I knew they were investing time and searching for it, so I always wanted to hear what they recommend, even if it didn’t
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by romankolpak 1y ago
How do you make money by developing a web browser? You build this immensely complex piece of software and then have no choice but to distribute it for free. It seems like with the current browser landscape the only viable business model for
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by romankolpak 1y ago
because of MCP and langchain?
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by romankolpak 2y ago
i think we need to come to terms with the reality of coding challenges in the interview process. i know i hate them personally, and dread having to interview again because i'll need to open leet code and remember how to do stupid shit
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by romankolpak 2y ago
The stories of geniuses suffering from depression and other mental illnesses sure make remarkably interesting reads. It’s a pity he didn’t get psychiatric help, this could have been a boring story of an aging scientist taking care of his pl
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by romankolpak 2y ago
I’m sorry if this is a stupid question, but I want to ask it because I see the same sentiment across HN and other forums and I’m legitimately confused. If we don’t hijack privacy in messaging, how do we fight crime happening on a message pl
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by romankolpak 3y ago
this resonates strongly with me because i just had to nuke an abstraction invented by my colleague, which solved a small DRY issue but introduced a big change difficulty issue. All we had to do is do some repetitive work for values of a dic
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by romankolpak 3y ago
i get the benefit of offloading the admin costs onto your consumers, but, as always, the devil is in the details. i've met both cases where a library should've been a service, and vice versa. this advice is way too broad and abstr
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by romankolpak 3y ago
I'm at my best at writing (code, text, everything) when I'm working remotely. The option to sit down and focus in the apartment all to myself has done wonders to my code and ability to solve problems. However I'm still a bit
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by romankolpak 4y ago
"too fucked" sounds a bit too extreme, but I agree. it's an interesting problem that we need to learn how to solve - what do you do with people whose jobs have been automated? capitalists won't do shit, so governments ne
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by romankolpak 4y ago
this generalizes more broadly in fact and applies to not just parsing and validating data. very often you want to reject all problematic states so you can conveniently code the happy path assuming all preconditions are met (inputs are corre
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by romankolpak 4y ago
if you worked all day but the output of that work is nothing, you can talk about whether it was work or not all day, but that's not what matters.
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by romankolpak 4y ago
> Use your complexity budget wisely Well said
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by romankolpak 4y ago
I don't think the industry was supposed to create this magic environment where everybody gets to be a hacker and have good, artistic fun programming. Unfortunately it seems like integrating with as many ready-made solutions as possible
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by romankolpak 4y ago
I like your take and it resonates a lot with me. But companies splitting up to remove the need of middle management - has that ever happened to anyone? A more realistic advice is probably to get a different job once you see managers start p
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by romankolpak 4y ago
this is insanity
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by romankolpak 4y ago
Related personal anecdote: I am experimenting with Tinder subscription at the moment, and it feels incredibly exploitative. When you make a profile, matches are frequent and you can tell that you show up for people. However it gradually fal
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by romankolpak 4y ago
Larger and more well-known companies do leet-code style programming challenges. I recently interviewed for a job in a ride hailing app company and they directly recommended practicing leetcode problems, even sent me examples of leetcode pro
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by romankolpak 4y ago
I have experienced this first hand, so this article resonates a lot with me. I worked with a manager who prioritized work which was easily measurable, so he could report the good numbers to leadership and get career points out of this. Unfo
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by romankolpak 5y ago
How would quantitative easing affect the next crash? It seems like a thing that distinguishes this time from all other ones. Governments have more control over the economy with QE: they can inject liquidity into markets and boost spending w
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Clean Architecture Book Misunderstands Microservices(romankolpak.github.io)
3 points by romankolpak 5y ago|0 comments
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by romankolpak 5y ago
That seems utopian. Norway is among the happiest nations in the world, yet a guy once decided it’s a good idea to go to an island fully armed and kill a bunch of teenagers
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by romankolpak 7y ago
Daily standups while being mostly useless on the surface, have an implicit value of enforcing a daily face to face communication between team members who work remotely. In remote teams I often find that people who don't interact face t
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Ask HN: Why did you transition from an engineer to a manager?
8 points by romankolpak 7y ago|7 comments
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by romankolpak 9y ago
Replace Poland with Ukraine and you’ve described my situation as well, with uncanny precision. I’m thinking about continuing my education in US after a 6 years break from academia. I’m a bit anxious no one will want me, a 28 y/o guy wi

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