Hacker News: Colex

New comment by Colex in "The First HTML LSP That Reports Syntax Errors"

Colex — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:58:28 +0000

Except that DNS does not mean Domain Name Server, but Domain Name System. So DNS Server makes sense (Domain Name System Server).

New comment by Colex in "Google Bard blocks all European Union countries"

Colex — Fri, 12 May 2023 13:19:54 +0000

Just to clarify, I'm not commenting on whether it's a good strategy or not, or whether they are doing a great job or not. I just find it weird some comments in this topic accusing of being "malignant" or feeling like Google owes them to have released in the EU.

I guess they might just want to launch something as quick as possible as a response to OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership. And this knee-jerk reaction left them with gaps they haven't had the time to fix without being very late to the party. All speculation though.

New comment by Colex in "The Epic Stack"

Colex — Fri, 12 May 2023 13:12:07 +0000

I believe a framework like Bootstrap might be a faster approach at the beginning (honestly, it's a fair approach for the whole lifecycle of a project). You get all the building blocks to get a consistent UI working fairly quick with little to no CSS knowledge. Some times removing the unnecessary flexibility may be a boost to get things out there.

But, at the end of day, the best option will be the one you're most comfortable with.

New comment by Colex in "Google Bard blocks all European Union countries"

Colex — Fri, 12 May 2023 12:36:19 +0000

It is a very valid strategy. If you do not have all the controls in place to comply with the burdensome requirements of the EU law (if that's the case), then why should you stop from releasing the service in other markets that do not impose such requirements? A lot of comments here have a sense of entitlement that does not make too much sense to me, especially towards a private company doing a first release of a product. (PS: I live in the EU as well)

New comment by Colex in "Mastodon Has Already Won"

Colex — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 16:56:33 +0000

From the context laid in the article, the author meant the first open source project that succeeded without a push from a big private company.

Not saying anything about the factuality of that, just bringing the context into the thread as it’s being ignored. The author mentions Linux as an example in the blog, but says that they had a strong push from IBM.

Here’s the full quote: > We’ve seen some free products gain tremendous traction, but only after help from big businesses. For example, Linux got a lot of support from IBM; Android is Google-owned, and VSCode is from Microsoft.

New comment by Colex in "Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework"

Colex — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 16:55:56 +0000

Devise does not impose anything on the number of tenants. I run a Rails app with multi-tenancy and SSO support with Devise. As someone has mentioned, although it does a lot of the work and it keeps well organized, you still need to do the UI for configuring and some backend logic.

New comment by Colex in "Mike Perham, Creator of Sidekiq: From Employment to Independence"

Colex — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 14:28:57 +0000

it’s not uncommon to lose jobs in sidekiq if you heavily rely on it and have a lot of jobs running. If using the free version for mission critical jobs, I usually run that task as a cron job to ensure that it will re-try if the job is lost.

I have in the past monitored how many jobs were lost and, although a small percentage, it was still recurring thing.

New comment by Colex in "Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters"

Colex — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 10:50:20 +0000

I think those ideas are great for increasing usage, safety and public orderly. Although I would disagree that this should be something dealt at the EU level. It would definitely be great for all EU cities to work within the same framework and allow me to use a single app between cities, but I do not think EU should be meddling with such regulations. In my opinion, this should be left for each country (even each city/municipality) to decide. Citizens of countries and even the cities themselves - as most cities do not have e-scooters - should be able to have a say on how to run their respective territories without the EU imposing regulations left and right.

New comment by Colex in "Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters"

Colex — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 21:51:34 +0000

Maybe there's other ways of improving the service without outright banning it. I would be surprised if there has not been a lot of innovations that caused a lot of accidents and endangered a lot of people that have been properly regulated and improved without just saying "this is a menace, let's ban it!". I personaly have enjoyed riding around on scooters along many cities in Europe including my own and would support improvements if stats really show they are very dangerous (couldn't find very supportive data for that at least in my city), but I still believe it would be very shortsighted if the solution is just "ban them" because some people don't like this change.

New comment by Colex in "Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros"

Colex — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 14:15:35 +0000

And that's ok. I do not see what tangible effect this really has on anyone. They decided to use a negative term "bro", so what? Is it that bad? Is someone really taking a hit and feeling bad (besides for the sake of feeling bad under this "rigtheous" weather). I feel like there's more people being negatively affected by this word policing than really using such a word. I would be ok either way, tech bros, pub maids - I don't really look so much into words that it would really affect my thought - but that it wouldn't be accepted is not really indication of much. There are always loud voices that will feel upset by everything.

New comment by Colex in "Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros"

Colex — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 12:31:03 +0000

It would take me a huge mental effort to read "tech bros" as a discrimination based on gender - and I'm a man. They are talking about a few selected guys and decided to call them as tech bros - it's not calling for discrimination against men. No need to take it further, censor, ban.

(Note: I don't care if it's "tech bro" or "tech gal" - not everything is about indoctrination)

New comment by Colex in "Nelua: AOT statically typed Lua"

Colex — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:06:37 +0000

Although deviating slightly from the original topic. I find it very interesting and nostalgic that other people here have started, possibly, their programming careers through Open Tibia. I myself have, as you did, started programming with Lua on Open Tibia and used to be very active in the community as a kid sharing scripts and projects (The community was always very supportive and made me feel like I could have a career doing it - definitely a great boost for me). It's great to see that Lua is still so relevant (perhaps even more so than when I started) and that it keeps being pushed forward. Congrats to the author for releasing this project.

New comment by Colex in "Grain, a startup built atop of Zoom for note-taking and video-clip making"

Colex — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 14:27:38 +0000

I have had exactly the same experience in my previous (and in my current) startup. I would never add the logo of a client without their consent. (maybe some don't follow that logic)

New comment by Colex in "Plant trees while you search the web"

Colex — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:18:33 +0000

> And the last one would be a lie considering Bing can see it.

How would that be a lie. They protect from eavesdroppers, as in someone intercepting the connection and trying to extract data being transmitted within a system. Bing is part of the whole system, not a third party trying to eavesdrop. Finally, they say they don't allow anyone between you and them - which is different from allowing between them and a third party, but I'm sure they would use an encrypted connection even when communicating with Bing.

New comment by Colex in "Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost"

Colex — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 19:33:04 +0000

I wonder if lacolhost.com is just an A record pointing to 127.0.0.1, what would be the use-case to use that instead of just using 127.0.0.1? Is it that some systems require a domain to be used/tested?

New comment by Colex in "Speeding Up Rendering Rails Pages with render_async"

Colex — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:11:02 +0000

Browsers usually limit the number of requests to a certain domain (around 8 requests if I'm not mistaken, but it may vary). So I don't think it'd be the cause of a self inflicted DOS. Also, every solution must be used carefully where it makes sense, if it doesn't make sense, then a different solutions must be thought of.

New comment by Colex in "22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks"

Colex — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:41:01 +0000

For windows, you can use .Net (which usually comes by default on windows distributions, so you should be able to send it and run without any issues). C# is a good language that uses it.

So it's not really native (it runs on a VM), but it produces the .exe that can be easily shared.

New comment by Colex in "Show HN: Math Attack – My side project of 3 years"

Colex — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 01:18:34 +0000

What game did you base yours on?

New comment by Colex in "HSBC CEO Says Bankers Generating 20% of London Revenue May Move"

Colex — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 17:50:20 +0000

"Everyone" is a strong word, I know people from Paris that live in London and struggle. I'm sure the number of people that speak english is rising every year, but definitely not "Everyone"

New comment by Colex in "HSBC CEO Says Bankers Generating 20% of London Revenue May Move"

Colex — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 17:32:22 +0000

Just a little (to me, important) correction: You mean 52% of the UK THAT voted. The turnout was 72%. So 37% of the electorate (not 37% of the population, as a lot of young people that would like a saying in such a drastic change that will affect them the most, couldn't get their voice heard either).