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droobles | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Hybrid or Full EV Car in Flyover States for 2023 (US)

These maps seem to illuminate that I may have underestimated how much charging networks have grown, looks promising! Looks like at least most hotels offer some form of charging. Your anecdote about your friend though definitely drives home that range anxiety for me.

droobles | 2 years ago | on: Switch hacker Gary Bowser will pay Nintendo ~30% income for the rest of his life

Genuine question, not wanting to start a flamewar, how is this any different then products like GameShark? Is the only difference between Gameshark's success and this mod device the current legal climate? Pretty harsh sentence for tinkering with a hardware device users own, but maybe I'm missing the nuance since this group seems to have been selling the devices for profit, or maybe even modified Nintendo Switch units.

droobles | 3 years ago | on: How to be consistent

In my experience as a self-taught programmer who switched careers to software, the first 3-4 years not much time at all to spend with family and friends. After that period you reach a plateau of sorts, the top of the bell curve, where you are "caught up" to traditionally taught peers. The mandatory time spent learning drops significantly and anything new becomes optional since the fundamentals are now ingrained. That's the point where you can take it easy and spend time with loved ones and pursue other hobbies. That 3-4 years is a sacrifice to raise one's earning potential, which could mean a higher quality of life for his family. It's an investment.

My belief is that it would be the same case if today one switched from programming to medicine, or any other specialized field - some years of catching up and then one day, that person is qualified to practice their craft like anyone else in that field who is qualified.

droobles | 3 years ago | on: Things I learned after getting users

What do you think of "micro ORMs" like knex.js, or Dapper for C#? I personally agree with you and my personal projects just use stored procedures, but these micro orms have always piqued my interest since they're just a SQL abstraction for building single queries.

droobles | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which subjects do you plan to learn in 2023? 

  - French - working with a tutor on iTalki
  - Figure Drawing/landscape sketches - Master studying the classics across art history
  - SaaS sales and marketing
  - song composition - mostly master studying music I like and reverse engineering them
  - home DIY projects
  - audio production - goal is to be able to produce quality demos in either Garage Band or Reaper for me and my friends
Edit: Formatting

droobles | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?

I think piracy is born from overcoming economic inaccessibility, and sometimes convenience. In the case of a hypothetical teenager I once knew as well as myself, it was the desire to learn professional tools but they were faced with economic inaccessibility. Subscription services has made that cheaper, but with the volume of subscriptions required one might think we should go back. That hypothetical adult now though doesn't feel they need to do that because the open source ecosystem is amazing with a little technical nohow, but they wouldn't have learned that nohow without pirating professional tools early on.

droobles | 3 years ago | on: Merry Christmas, HN

Happy Holidays! Sad today that my mother has COVID so my wife and I can't go and see her, but we are already planning a badass holiday party for after the new year! Spending the day sending messages and relaxing with my dog. :) OP and the entire HN community, hope you have a great time to spend with friends, family, loved ones, online communities, or just relaxing with some well deserved time off, with hopefully some great food or snacks in the mix.

droobles | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?

I use Firefox's built in password manager and it syncs across all my devices pretty well. The UX is not great because on mobile I have to navigate to Firefox, go to Logins, type in my phone's passcode, then search for and copy the right password, but it's secure and works well enough.

droobles | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?

I think at first thought it's annoying, but it's worked for me since Everquest since I know the company I'm subscribed to will deliver updates forever, and if they don't I just cancel. I think it is annoying that I have to keep track of all my subscriptions, but that's a very minor inconvenience.

Subscription services have almost single-handedly ended the consumer need for pirating software as well.

droobles | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's You Life's Work?

While I have a couple products I plunk along on, thinking on this question, my life's work has always been just to show up everyday. I've helped numerous people from non-traditional backgrounds get tech employment which is really fulfilling and cool. Trying to get back into music, that was my first love and with this post-hardcore revival coming around the corner I'm brushing up on my guitar and singing/screaming skills.

droobles | 3 years ago | on: Tell HN: I asked ChatGPT to build a login form in React and it gave me the code

I put this prompt in:

Write a javascript file using the Express framework in NodeJS containing CRUD routes for a TODO entity that contains a name, a description, and datapoint indicating whether the TODO is completed or not, and connect this entity to the Sequelize module from the npm package manager

And it spat out a full tutorial on how to write an express crud app hooked up to Sequelize with SQLLite with Sequelize types and all crud routes, it's pretty impressive

droobles | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Full-stack _hyperscript Node.js TODO web app (with Htmx)

I am definitely enjoying the language, I think the ideas in htmx + hyperscript have massive potential to shift not only frontend, but some fun scripting in Node as well! For that, I am grateful to you. Would love to get involved anyway I can, might start digging through issues in the repository, I learned quite a bit reading hyperscript's source.

droobles | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Full-stack _hyperscript Node.js TODO web app (with Htmx)

That's awesome! I can't wait to build something more than a toy project with it. It was definitely fun to be able to write some backend endpoints with _hyperscript, one of my favorite features is how the language accesses objects:

  set todo's name to "Do the laundry"
vs.

  todo.name = "Do the laundry"
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