Hacker News: DashAnimal

New comment by DashAnimal in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

DashAnimal — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:20:04 +0000

https://abc.xyz/investor/board-and-governance/google-code-of...

"And remember... don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!"

Sorry this is one of those things that bugs me - but "don't be evil" was never removed from their code of conduct. It's placement was moved though from the start to the end, and you could argue whether it's less important because of that if you want.. but it is still there.

New comment by DashAnimal in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

DashAnimal — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:01:00 +0000

I always hate the James Damore discussion because it's like the least interesting part. You have a company dealing with internal political mayhem trying to find the least disruptive, not only internally but now externally because this shit has leaked. It's a workplace, and youre trying to keep people effective and working. And some googlers got too comfortable with what they were sharing on a work machine, not just to their coworkers, but tens of thousands of employees.

The support of war efforts is clearly a change in moral compass that is much more fascinating though.

New comment by DashAnimal in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

DashAnimal — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:34:52 +0000

This isn't happening on Google Maps though is it? We're just talking about Apple Maps here.

New comment by DashAnimal in "Android Developer Verification"

DashAnimal — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:07 +0000

I don't necessarily like the idea of a company wiping their hands clean and saying "well - not our problem!" either though.

Companies shouldn't wait to solve issues like this - they should be proactively helping their most vulnerable users. That is the "do no evil" motto.

I don't know enough to say whether this method is the right approach however.

New comment by DashAnimal in "Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025"

DashAnimal — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:50:43 +0000

I think it's more about how using "most" as a measurement, no matter who the audience is that you pool from, is not a good way of producing a valuable list. In the end, having someone learned and well read produce a hand-written list with deeper cuts brings more value.

New comment by DashAnimal in "Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles"

DashAnimal — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:18:12 +0000

He is definitely "online". I saw him tweet about Hasan's dog which - you have to know about streaming political figures and the latest happenings at least a little bit. Maybe not addicted but he knows what is up and still has the views he has.

New comment by DashAnimal in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

DashAnimal — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:59:34 +0000

Well if you're using the standard library then you're not really paying attention to allocations and deallocations for one. For instance, the use of std::string. So I guess I'm wondering if you work in an industry that avoids std?

New comment by DashAnimal in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

DashAnimal — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:32:53 +0000

What industry do you work in? Modern RAII practices are pretty prevalent

New comment by DashAnimal in "John Carmack on mutable variables"

DashAnimal — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:59:44 +0000

Tbh I think it's ok - as much as I also want to avoid Twitter I do encourage original sourcing, especially since these nitter services can also have downtime fairly often. As long as someone jumps in and shares a link

New comment by DashAnimal in "John Carmack on mutable variables"

DashAnimal — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:39:55 +0000

https://nitter.net/id_aa_carmack/status/1983593511703474196

New comment by DashAnimal in "Stealing from Google"

DashAnimal — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:20:43 +0000

This seems problematic to me. Beyond just caching issues, did you ever get permission from users to store their personal data? They gave google permission, but not you.

New comment by DashAnimal in "Rustroid, a Rust IDE for Android"

DashAnimal — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:06:16 +0000

Yes! Recently came across a profilic Neovim plugin developer who used their phone for development:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1hay1z3/develo...

Meanwhile, i struggle to be efficient on my 13 inch screen

New comment by DashAnimal in "The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers"

DashAnimal — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:06:12 +0000

Yes. I'm not for calling out individual people, those who probably had hope and some may be young and didn't have the warning flags going off. I can only imagine they're disappointed and had no malice.

But people who have some level of fame who put their name behind it, and who had some influence in inspiring others down this wrong path most definitely need to address it. If you truly believe the intelligence of tech people over others in every field which led you down this path, follow the proper postmortem process.

New comment by DashAnimal in "Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately"

DashAnimal — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:42:18 +0000

It is absolutely not all major employers. I'm on a visa and have worked for two major tech companies in the US over the last 10 years. I have never been a contractor. I've also compared salaries and know I am doing comparable or better. The majority of my team have always been naturalized citizens.

New comment by DashAnimal in "Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately"

DashAnimal — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:36:37 +0000

Per the proclamation:

"the entry into the United States of aliens as nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), is restricted, except for those aliens whose petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a payment of $100,000 — subject to the exceptions set forth in subsection (c) of this section. This restriction shall expire, absent extension, 12 months after the effective date of this proclamation, which shall be 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on September 21, 2025."

So it applies to all H1Bs. Subsection c is limited (but will be interesting to see how it plays out) so I don't bother sharing.

Actual proclamation here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/rest...

New comment by DashAnimal in "Luau – Fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua"

DashAnimal — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:01:38 +0000

Arseny Kapoulkine is an amazing engineer. Highly recommend following his blog or social media. Other than working on luau and the rendering engine at Roblox, he's also responsible for meshoptimizer which if you're in graphics you've most definitely heard of, and volk, which now comes packaged with the Vulkan SDK.

New comment by DashAnimal in "A new experimental Google app for Windows"

DashAnimal — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:04:49 +0000

Ok gave this a try. Actually pretty handy. I wish I didn't clean up my Windows PC so I could compare indexing of files, but it did a good job of finding most things but the things I searched for Windows was able to find too. But its nice to have an easy shortcut to Google search and also having Google Lens on my PC to translate text, ask questions about a screenshot etc. I love this feature on my android.

The UI is a little annoying at times. Some apps receive the alt+space key so it doesn't always behave like you expect.

Checking Task Manager it used about 43MB of memory whether running as a background process or in the foreground, showing search results.

New comment by DashAnimal in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

DashAnimal — Sun, 11 May 2025 15:36:53 +0000

No more dangerous than somebody photoshopping when we saw the rise of figma, ubering when Lyft just posted a great quarter with stock buybacks, or skyping when, well, the product doesn't exist anymore.

New comment by DashAnimal in "Carbon is not a programming language (sort of)"

DashAnimal — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:18:28 +0000

As someone who uses C++ daily, very excited for Carbon. I really align with the goals they have set. Its a shame communities like r/cpp block any discussion of successor languages but I hope once this language starts gaining more momentum and nearing release, it will begin to market itself and get more attention.

New comment by DashAnimal in "Apple Invites"

DashAnimal — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:46:36 +0000

Why not Partiful? It's already widely adopted, has all the features you need, isn't owned by a big tech company, doesn't require an account, and is multiplatform.

Signed, an Android user