svisser | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: A curated list of insecure Python packages
This can detect when a CVE vulnerability is fixed but how would you know the version number at which it was introduced?
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svisser | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to quantify that a team is overworked
Would adding structure help in managing the work better?
It can become difficult to convince management of hiring (paying) more people when there are improvements that should be made first.
svisser | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to quantify that a team is overworked
- Determine who you need to convince on this matter
- Find out what metrics they care about (time lost, money lost, potentially employees lost, clients lost).
- Formulate your proposal in a way that emphasises how those metrics will improve by hiring more developers.
svisser | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is taking a job as a Delphi programmer career suicide?
Even if you get paid more, you still spend time learning knowledge and skills which aren't easily transferable to your next employer.
You can't get that time back so long-term it's probably better to develop software in a more modern ecosystem.
Having said that, I don't know your local market or industry.
svisser | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How would you “monetize” this site?
You've already identified that it may not get much traffic and it isn't monetizable with two big ad networks.
It's worth experimenting with a few things but you may just need to move on to another project that has better chances.
svisser | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What amazing successes started with a “Show HN”?
svisser | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Spending my free time in video games. It's eating me. Suggestions?
It is essential to balance work with play. So you should not feel bad to play video games from time to time.
But if you're always doing things that involve a lot of thinking (work, study) it may be good to balance that with exercise or creating things with your hands.
If your work is not very exciting and it's unlikely to change then you may need to consider changing jobs.
svisser | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you generate changelogs for repositories?
The changelog should be a document written by humans for humans.
So you manually maintain the changelog while working on fixes / features and you add any remaining notes just prior to each release.
svisser | 9 years ago | on: Moving Away from Python 2
You can automatically remove six from your codebase after you're Python 3.x only. So six can be a possible solution (provided you have automated tests).
svisser | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has technology benefited the classroom?
This may be relevant watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEmuEWjHr5c ('This Will Revolutionize Education').
svisser | 10 years ago | on: Handcuffed to Uber
Uber specifically does not allow this (mentioned halfway the article).
svisser | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Dealing with the anxiety of startup work
You could be burning out. Anxiety is one of the symptoms of burnout, in particular chronic anxiety.
You should asses whether burnout could be the case and take steps to recover.
svisser | 10 years ago | on: Defold: 2D Game Engine by King.com
You need a Google account to use Defold?
Right off the bat things are heading in the wrong direction.
svisser | 10 years ago | on: Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS
This is probably done for security: if a package gets removed it can't be replaced by something potentially malicious. In addition, people that have tied their version numbers would get alerted this way.
svisser | 10 years ago | on: PythonJobs.com
If you're looking for Python jobs, there are plenty of alternative job boards - including Python's very own: http://python.org/jobs/
svisser | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: What was your biggest regret about learning programming?
Postponing to learn SQL.
This should be done sooner rather than later.
svisser | 10 years ago | on: Code that will break in Python 4
Version checks are also the reason why we have Windows 10 and not Windows 9 because people checked whether the OS version started with "Windows 9" (for Windows 95 and Windows 98).
svisser | 10 years ago | on: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing
Also for Command & Conquer: http://openra.net (currently C&C (Tiberian Dawn), C&C: Red Alert, and Dune 2000 with Tiberian Sun on the way).
svisser | 10 years ago | on: Why Python 3 Exists
Removing the GIL is a difficult problem: http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python3/...
svisser | 10 years ago | on: Why Java? Tales from a Python Convert
No true Python programmer would switch to Java?