peteridah's comments

peteridah | 19 days ago | on: What Is an AI Decision Engine

I've been thinking about the gap between analytics and action in software systems.

Most companies have dashboards and analytics tools, but someone still has to interpret the information and decide what happens next.

This article explores the concept of AI Decision Engines - systems that convert data, rules and reasoning models into operational decisions such as approvals, routing actions or recommendations.

Curious whether people see this emerging in real systems.

peteridah | 1 month ago | on: Claude Code for Infrastructure

Conversely, good developers can now leverage LLM’s to master any domain.

peteridah | 2 years ago | on: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

I just want to say thank you for your python courses. I learned a lot over the years from your teaching style.

peteridah | 2 years ago | on: System Initiative: Second Wave DevOps

I feel you – I had heard a _lot_ about dark launching and never actually worked at a company that actually did it until I worked at Hashicorp. Now in my mind it seems mainstream. I truly am in a bubble.

peteridah | 3 years ago | on: Our conscious experience of the world is a memory, says new theory

this 100%. I have experienced flow as I watch with awe as my fingers move on the keyboard to play chords/keys that my conscious mind could not have conjoured up. I later stop and use my conscious mind to learn the new thing that `I` just played.

peteridah | 4 years ago | on: Is Web3 anything?

I understand your context 100% as I am an African currently living in Europe. It is almost impossible for anyone who has grown all their lives in the western economic system to fully grasp what is wrong with the status quo and the need to engage in a plausible alternative. Heck even I get so comfortable sometimes here and forget the context I grew in and question the need for change.

peteridah | 5 years ago | on: Margaret Mitchell fired from Google

naive is an understatement

peteridah | 5 years ago | on: I can’t work the hours I did in 2020 again yet struggling to see how to avoid it

As a POC, I find this comment and line of thinking demeaning, and out of touch with the reality we face daily.

peteridah | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: First hire offered to work part-time – what should I do?

If you are unable to hire elsewhere the skill-set that your ex-colleague brings to the table, what happens to your startup in the short to medium term ? i.e would that set your MVP back by x months ? I would try to frame the question in those terms and balance it against the commitment/culture fit concerns.

peteridah | 6 years ago | on: How Men’s Bodies Change When They Become Fathers

This has been a very useful thread.I have struggled with weight for many years. I have sufficient motivation to exercise and I am normally able to keep a disciplined schedule. But with our 2yr old daughter, sleeplessness has kind of messed me up and I struggle to keep any form of discipline now. It's hard. I am just glad to know that I am far from the only one :)

peteridah | 6 years ago | on: I completed Ultimate Go, took good notes and commented directly on source code

I attended the ultimate go course last year. I loved the in-depth nature of the curriculum... oh and yes, Bill is simply the best :)

peteridah | 7 years ago | on: Red Hat Satellite to standardize on PostgreSQL backend

I am quite surprised that companies still use Red Hat Satellite Server. In 2010 while I was still at Red Hat, deploying and managing it was the mainstay of the consulting business, and it was based on Oracle RAC. It was to my mind already legacy software at that time.

peteridah | 7 years ago | on: K3s: Kubernetes without the features I don't care about

The pod abstraction can be implemented as a vm. Take a look at clear containers

peteridah | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?

This resonates with me so much. I am currently trying to do the same.

peteridah | 7 years ago | on: Why Sitting May Be Bad for Your Brain

I second this, I have no idea why it's been downvoted.

peteridah | 10 years ago | on: Governments deterring businessmen and tourists with cumbersome visa requirements

LOL, I thought for a brief moment that my brain must be replicating things.

peteridah | 10 years ago | on: Defensive BASH programming

I find this useful https://github.com/progrium/bashstyle

peteridah | 10 years ago | on: Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production

containers provide a reasonable level of abstraction/isolation for applications, and have been used in production for some years now. Docker may be shiny, but containers not so much.

peteridah | 10 years ago | on: Afrostream (YC S15) Is Netflix for African and African-American Movies

Congratulations Ludovic! I just want to echo that this is absolutely an underserved market. Yes there are definitely challenges, but also great opportunities. African content is just really beginning to emerge; Nollywood and the like are just scratching the surface and yet to unearth the richness of 1000's of years of heritage. Kudos also to YC buying in :)

peteridah | 10 years ago | on: Kubernetes: The Future of Deployment

Thanks for this, it cleared up some confusion in my mind. A blogpost capturing these thoughts would be great.