Hacker News: Alekhine

New comment by Alekhine in "Ask HN: Niches Underserved by Programmers?"

Alekhine — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 12:48:41 +0000

Underserved how? What software do they use that could be improved?

Ask HN: Niches Underserved by Programmers?

Alekhine — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 21:47:10 +0000

I'm thinking about starting a company that does programming work for areas of society that normally don't have the best software to work with. I've read stories of code in science labs running orders of magnitude longer than it should because of bad algorithms, for example. What other niches are there like this, which could be served by a business that seeks them out? Currently I'm thinking of science and medicine, though the latter has the additional hurdle of certification and other bureaucratic obstacles.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41745859

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by Alekhine in "[dead]"

Alekhine — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:53:19 +0000

It is a purely ideological fork. Some people really didn't like that the Godot twitter account was posting explicitly leftist games (gamedevs with leftist politics? what a shock.) and then they started harassing the devs on github, got blocked, and then forked the engine. It's embarrassing that this is near the top of HN.

Ask HN: Can anyone recommend a Windows Systems programming book?

Alekhine — Tue, 28 May 2024 04:41:03 +0000

There's a hundred of these and I want something well-written. I'm primarily using Nim but a C/C++ book wouldn't hurt. Ideally it would have lots of exercises.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40497383

Points: 123

# Comments: 78

New comment by Alekhine in "Flaubert's letters are as hilarious and humane as his best fiction"

Alekhine — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 07:18:03 +0000

I'm not. Texting as a form does not lend itself to the kind of high thought letterwriting does.

New comment by Alekhine in "Randolph Bourne"

Alekhine — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:25:37 +0000

Bought a collection of his essays recently.

New comment by Alekhine in "Ask HN: Released games built on FOSS engines?"

Alekhine — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:32:42 +0000

Cruelty Squad. Made with Godot.

New comment by Alekhine in "Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web"

Alekhine — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 22:20:05 +0000

I mean, that was kind of the idea behind the JVM, wasn't it? It's not a terrible idea.

New comment by Alekhine in "Show HN: I automated half of my typing"

Alekhine — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 23:43:57 +0000

What editor are you using to do this? I assume it's vim or emacs.

New comment by Alekhine in "Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome"

Alekhine — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:18:14 +0000

For certain games it's still borked. Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines is among my favorites and it's unplayable.

New comment by Alekhine in "Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered during a hiring process?"

Alekhine — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:57:05 +0000

Not the OP, but it's extremely rude and unprofessional. Nitpicking a guy's college transcripts from 20 years ago? Come the fuck on. His experience and skills should have been enough, asking those dumbass questions is an insult, one that he didn't have to take.

New comment by Alekhine in "Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’"

Alekhine — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:50:36 +0000

January 6th.

New comment by Alekhine in "The Military Recruiting Crisis: Even Veterans Don’t Want Their Children to Join"

Alekhine — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:29:24 +0000

The article you post just says some gen z were able to take advantage of low mortgage rates in 2020. And in cheaper parts of the country. It doesn't mean anything for the overall socioeconomic condition

New comment by Alekhine in "Try: run a command and inspect its effects before changing your live system"

Alekhine — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 23:04:01 +0000

No, it doesn't. It just sends 1 ECHO_REQUEST packet. If this was sarcasm I could not detect it

New comment by Alekhine in "PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model"

Alekhine — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:41:39 +0000

I have no idea why that isn't standard practice in every codebase. I should be able to figure out your code without having to ask, or dig through issues or commit messages. Just tell me what it's for!

New comment by Alekhine in "Modern Life Is Rubbish: Tao Lin’s Taipei (2013)"

Alekhine — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 04:26:05 +0000

The author is a woman.

New comment by Alekhine in "OpenMW: Open-source TES3: Morrowind reimplementation"

Alekhine — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 23:45:32 +0000

Part of the fun is figuring it out yourself. It can feel oppressive at times, but I personally really enjoyed it.

Ask HN: Did Anyone Else Here Simply Not Do Well at School?

Alekhine — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 14:53:47 +0000

Despite being a smart person, I've never been the kind of A type personality who does well at school. The environment just doesn't suit me. I don't know why. I've been told I have ADHD, but I do fine and manage time well when I'm in an actual job setting with stakes.

I'm in college now and have just been told I won't be receiving my CS degree. I came in as an English major because my grades weren't good enough to enter the competitive CS program at my school, so I just took CS courses on override. But here too, my grades were not good enough and I won't be allowed to transfer into the major. I'll have to settle for an informatics degree, and after graduation get a CS degree from WGU or something like that.

I suppose I'm looking for validation from anybody else who had a tortured academic path. I'm a little sick of being told I am not good enough because I don't meet the metrics.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36177166

Points: 64

# Comments: 104

New comment by Alekhine in "Growing Up Alyssa"

Alekhine — Mon, 22 May 2023 18:12:41 +0000

Asking to not be oppressed is a manifesto?

New comment by Alekhine in "Toronto restaurant caters to neurodivergent diners"

Alekhine — Sat, 13 May 2023 23:50:44 +0000

It's a catch-all term for people who are not mentally ill, but have different neurological characteristics from the norm. The most obvious example is autistics, but this would also include ADHD, people with sensory issues, etc.