Hacker News: Gorkys

New comment by Gorkys in "Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice"

Gorkys — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 09:42:30 +0000

I asked

> Is a panda or a Clio bigger

Would have thought it was obvious I was talking about cars? Its reply was hilarious:

> A Renault Clio is much bigger than a giant panda. While a panda can be 4 to 6 feet long and 2 to 3 feet tall, a Clio is typically 4.053 meters long and 1.440 meters tall, making it significantly larger in all dimensions, according to Auto Express and CarsGuide.

New comment by Gorkys in "The Consequences of Limiting the Tax Deductibility of R&D"

Gorkys — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 06:10:14 +0000

Is this part of the reason why developer salaries are so much higher in the US? They're being used as tax write-offs, i.e essentially government subsided?

New comment by Gorkys in "Bybit loses $1.5B in hack"

Gorkys — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:11:37 +0000

In crypto, there is the concept of the "fictional reserve" which can be used in situations such as this.

New comment by Gorkys in "Mono Relicensed as MIT"

Gorkys — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 22:35:08 +0000

Could I suggest you take a look at my project, Perspex?https://github.com/Perspex/Perspex - it sounds like it ticks your boxes and we're always in need of contributors!

Systemd:The Biggest Myths

Gorkys — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:31:43 +0000

Article URL: http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9849053

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Gorkys in "Solved by Flexbox"

Gorkys — Fri, 22 May 2015 15:42:59 +0000

Flexbox seems to serve most HTML layouts. Are there any that it doesn't work so well for? What about CSS Grid Layout? I've not heard anything about that for a while. Does that have any advantages over Flexbox?

New comment by Gorkys in "WCF is Open Source"

Gorkys — Wed, 20 May 2015 16:29:38 +0000

To my mind, all of the points you listed as an advantage you can also find with C#/VB.net using WinForms. I've also never found WinForms or even WPF (most of the time) to be sluggish on even reasonably modern hardware.

What specifically do you find easier in VB6 than VB.net/C# when writing desktop apps, in particular in relation to WinForms?

You say "inspect and modify a program as it is running in a graphical way" - do you mean that with VB6 you could alter the UI as the application was running? If so, that's something I don't remember but I agree it could be very handy!

New comment by Gorkys in "WCF is Open Source"

Gorkys — Wed, 20 May 2015 15:33:51 +0000

I'm always surprised by the people asking "bring VB6 back". I'd like to know why - is it because you're stuck maintaining VB6 applications that can't be/haven't been updated to VB.net or C#? I used VB6 extensively back in the day, and I am very glad indeed that it's now dead.

New comment by Gorkys in "Peak car"

Gorkys — Sun, 03 May 2015 10:28:41 +0000

Not necessarily - in America yes that is the way things work at the moment, but not all over the world. There are may suburbs with good public transport where having a car is less necessary.

New comment by Gorkys in "Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity"

Gorkys — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:33:20 +0000

Not the OP, but in our product we have very large binaries that are the output of the product itself. Each time a change is made to the program, the output needs to be compared to the existing output first automatically and if the output isn't byte-by-byte identical then manually (visually).

So essentially, without large binaries in source control we'd lose testing.

New comment by Gorkys in "Sans Bullshit Sans"

Gorkys — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:09:06 +0000

Any way to automatically apply this to techcrunch.com? I imagine not much would be left.

New comment by Gorkys in "Symbols in ECMAScript 6"

Gorkys — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 10:46:32 +0000

Could anybody explain what problems this was designed to solve?

New comment by Gorkys in "What actually happens when you plug in a USB device? (2007)"

Gorkys — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:21:55 +0000

Ok, I', not that young but WTF is a "palmtop" and when did such a thing exist?

New comment by Gorkys in "Surface Pro 3"

Gorkys — Sat, 24 May 2014 00:55:25 +0000

Are you reading the same HN as me? I'd say 70% of the comments here are disparaging towards the Surface.

New comment by Gorkys in "LXQt – The next generation of the Lightweight Desktop Environment"

Gorkys — Fri, 09 May 2014 12:37:39 +0000

Wow! You're the first person I've ever heard of who actually liked CDE. Did you ever actually use it?

New comment by Gorkys in "Results of the GitHub Investigation"

Gorkys — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 04:39:31 +0000

Or maybe there are some men who are aware that things aren't always as easy in the tech industry for women as they are for men.

Because they, you know, listen to the majority of women in tech, who say this is in fact the case.

New comment by Gorkys in "Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992)"

Gorkys — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:04:55 +0000

Dude, that's nothing. Romance languages are much worse. Check out Italian: http://italian.about.com/library/verb/blverb_avere.htm