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New comment by 708733454927516 in "Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later"

708733454927516 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:17:33 +0000

Just fwiw, it built and ran ok on windows 10, with tcc. 64 bit exe...

New comment by 708733454927516 in "A better build system for OCaml"

708733454927516 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 02:28:26 +0000

Indeed.

"He who controls the [build system] controls the universe."

New comment by 708733454927516 in "Do Your Passwords Meet the Proposed New Federal Guidelines?"

708733454927516 — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:22:08 +0000

Archived...

https://archive.is/eiEMA

New comment by 708733454927516 in "Do Your Passwords Meet the Proposed New Federal Guidelines?"

708733454927516 — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:20:51 +0000

New federal security guidelines are taking sharper aim at the terrible passwords we all create. The guidelines instruct organizations to stop requiring people to change their passwords so often, to stop mandating that they be complex and, at the same time, to permit a wider range of special characters in passwords-including emojis.

In its latest digital-authentication guidelines, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the federal agency whose security standards shape practices across government and industry, is leaning on organizations to simplify password requirements for users. The draft guidelines-a final version is due in 2025-strengthen many positions the standards institute first took in 2017.

Do Your Passwords Meet the Proposed New Federal Guidelines?

708733454927516 — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:20:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/passwords-proposed-new-federal-guidelines-2ba177d8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312235

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by 708733454927516 in "Rider is now free for non-commercial use"

708733454927516 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:01:49 +0000

Activation required. Still a nice deal.

Also looks like an online account is required.

New comment by 708733454927516 in "HTML-first, framework-agnostic implementation of shadcn/UI – franken/UI"

708733454927516 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 03:09:15 +0000

Thanks for that. Good to know I wasn't the only one...

New comment by 708733454927516 in "The demise of coding is greatly exaggerated"

708733454927516 — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:03:20 +0000

I don't know what the future holds, but I do know that Junior devs are cheaper than senior ones. I could envision many junior devs coding (with the help of AI) and a few senior devs doing mostly code reviews.

I don't use AI, but I know an IT manager that uses it with code snippets and prompts like: "explain what this code does". He says it works great.

That seems to play into the kind of tools that would help junior devs become senior devs. But again, I really don't know. AI may fade away like pet rocks...

New comment by 708733454927516 in "Compiling Rust is testing"

708733454927516 — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 20:31:59 +0000

(non-Rust user; dum question warning...)

I think the article makes an excellent point. But it begs the question:

Are there compiler flags to disable the 'tests'? If not, it would sure be nice to have them to get the fastest 'make a change -> run test' loop. It would be the best of both worlds. (Unless the developer forgets to run the tests once in a while...)

New comment by 708733454927516 in "Microservices are hard"

708733454927516 — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:19:29 +0000

(1x engineer looking for help from a 10x engineer)

Q: Hey, do you have a microsecond? A: I did...

New comment by 708733454927516 in "OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop"

708733454927516 — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 13:10:07 +0000

That was my first thought too. Why so many partitions?

New comment by 708733454927516 in "Using the Free Pascal IDE for a Week"

708733454927516 — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 02:24:24 +0000

>I'm going to try and restrict myself to just using this IDE for the next week to see if I can still use it for my hobby project.

So how did the test week go? (Just curious; I couldn't find an update...)

New comment by 708733454927516 in "Apple’s Space Ambitions Are Real(?)"

708733454927516 — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 17:51:12 +0000

...Apple might announce its satellite plans at next week’s World Wide Developer Conference OR at the iPhone 14 announcement...

Apple’s Space Ambitions Are Real(?)

708733454927516 — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 17:51:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cringely.com/2022/06/03/apples-space-ambitions-are-real/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31611527

Points: 48

# Comments: 11

It's time for a new approach to saving daylight

708733454927516 — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 03:24:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.startribune.com/its-time-for-a-new-approach-to-saving-daylight/600154868/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30635776

Points: 7

# Comments: 6

New comment by 708733454927516 in "Do Dev Careers Die at 35?"

708733454927516 — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 13:04:09 +0000

65 and retired 2 years now. Worked as a developer for the last 35 years before that. I lived for the times I could get into the zone or flow state. Maybe 60 to 70 percent of the job was other things, and did not enjoy those parts nearly as much. Still tinker at home now, hoping to move from windows to linux someday...

New comment by 708733454927516 in "Show HN: Burst – start a cloud server, run your code, turn it off"

708733454927516 — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 20:36:11 +0000

here are a couple: https://app.terra.bio/ https://support.terra.bio/hc/en-us