<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: SarahC_</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SarahC_</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:58:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=SarahC_" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>WinForms - It just works.<p>Any system that needs a straightforward UI for kicking things off, stopping them, logging them, and dragging data files into them..... WinForms.<p>Bugfree, hardened by the test of time, works on Windows X, Y and Z.<p>Everything else is just consumer silver sprinkles, and involves faffing around with multiple config files and obscure layout issues.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:25:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662152</link><dc:creator>SarahC_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662152</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love how entire cohorts of students across a country are used in education experiments!<p>America dropped the "phoneme, sound it out" of decades past and taught students to recognise word "shapes" and learn what they said. It was a complete, and total failure. Children did not learn to read.<p>What never comes up in the news is the absolutely crazy approach to rolling this out..... "Amazing new education idea is here! We're all doing it!"...... 8 years later, school graduates fail at X, Y, Z BECAUSE of that amazing idea.<p>There's no accountability, no recompense. Just a news article saying "5% graduate this year! Oh no! Education is terrible!".. papering over the accountability.</p>
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<p>That's EXACTLY what the blanks for!  It lets you see what to expect with "All things being the same - just not with the sample in place."<p>You sure you're a coder?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:04:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598156</link><dc:creator>SarahC_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598156</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Shouldn't have bothered....</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:03:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598149</link><dc:creator>SarahC_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598149</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seeing people squish at a young age - and I am not being flippant here - helped reduce my teen "I'm immortal! I'm unstoppable!" phase.<p>I saw very quickly that what separates a live person from a very deceased flat person was a moment of sillyness/forgetfullness/stupidity. "I didn't SUSPECT that is even possible to happen to a person!" - "We're....fragile?!" - "Ah, bike helmet... I think they're REALLY GOOD idea...."<p>PSA's just aren't listened to by teenagers. But something that's real - that happened, with the security camera timestamp in the corner... kids learn safety.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:42:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474540</link><dc:creator>SarahC_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474540</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IMAGINE A WAR.<p>Now - wouldn't a government LOVE to know who's saying what? Rather than shutting down the entire $$$$$ international corporate internet.<p>Money concerns as usual.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:37:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474518</link><dc:creator>SarahC_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474518</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gullible to believe its about kids - especially when there's a million options to limit the internet on devices already.<p>IMAGINE A WAR.<p>Now - wouldn't a government LOVE to know who's saying what? Rather than shutting down the entire $$$$$ corporate internet.<p>Money concerns as usual.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:37:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474516</link><dc:creator>SarahC_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474516</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I look forward to the sweet kiss of death to solve the retirement funding issue, and forever declining health while working struggle. Working for "The man" takes everything someone has.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:43:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46524801</link><dc:creator>SarahC_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46524801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46524801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "What makes you senior"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn't a comp-sci degree the barely relevant "license" in IT?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 07:43:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46373379</link><dc:creator>SarahC_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46373379</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46373379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "What makes you senior"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Always been a "Dev"..... "Senior" is often a trap for longer hours, less pay, and more responsibility for nothing.
I do like helping other people out with their code, and giving them ideas for alternative easier/better to maintain code. I love talking to our end users about their experience and needs. So often the Jira ticket isn't matching the users "Vison" (however rare users having vision is.... if you ask the right questions, they DO often know what they want, just not how they want it)<p>I've given lots of help in the past but my name never appeared on tickets. My green boxes were few and far between. Sadly when the redundancies came - my boxes were mostly white. Axed. So be careful!<p>I think "Senior" is a massive extent of skills - and most people aren't on the same page of its meaning.<p>Some would even say "Senior" is that grumpy old guy that over-engineers everything and shouts at the youngsters if they say he's making stuff 9/10 other dev's can't maintain even with the documentation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 07:32:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46373318</link><dc:creator>SarahC_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46373318</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46373318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "Researchers seeking better measures of cognitive fatigue"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not in the UK. We get to email a problem. Wait all day for a reply.
It works! Before a reply comes back - people self triage. It gets better - no problem! It gets worse - A & E.</p>
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<p>The coming of Satan is foretold!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 07:49:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45090501</link><dc:creator>SarahC_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45090501</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45090501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They could always foster some gay kids.... obviously being gay they won't be having gay kids via sex.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 06:13:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44680110</link><dc:creator>SarahC_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44680110</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44680110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With this new gene information, we may be able to make every Down's. The world would be a much nicer and happier place.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 06:10:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44680090</link><dc:creator>SarahC_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44680090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44680090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>PROXOMITRON!<p>Local proxy filter that is like a Pi-hole, but locally!<p>It's OLD, and became obsolete when browser plugins were invented, but now more relevant than ever!<p>Because it's between the server and the client - it can do what it wants!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2025 09:25:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44548820</link><dc:creator>SarahC_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44548820</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44548820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Bullshit jobs" are the rubbish required to keep the paperwork tidy, assessed and filed. No company pays someone to do -nothing-.<p>AI isn't going to generate those jobs, it's going to automate them.<p>ALL our bullshit jobs are going away, and those people will be unemployed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 08:07:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142763</link><dc:creator>SarahC_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142763</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>something humans have done since before recorded history<p>Inuits would leave their old out in the snow, and walk away. Just saying.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 05:52:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44094367</link><dc:creator>SarahC_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44094367</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44094367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Far right talking points!<p>They'll be as Danish and any other Danes, just choosing to live life as they see fit.<p>>"And as a result, they won’t be nearly as economically productive as Danes, ", how does someone with a different religion, or choice for music make them less economically productive? Are you suggesting they don't know white collar skills? Or are less intelligent due to were they were born?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 05:49:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44094350</link><dc:creator>SarahC_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44094350</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44094350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250525195310/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/05/23/denmark-raise-retirement-age-70/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20250525195310/https://www.teleg...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 05:39:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44094297</link><dc:creator>SarahC_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44094297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44094297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SarahC_ in "Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I bet it streams the video like a protected HDMI movie... so the video stream isn't part of the WDDM's Team's Window - but placed on top of it.<p>Interestingly that can be overcome by moving the video just a little between two screens, which reverts it back to a WDDM surface. =D<p>Or TWO monitors, with "Duplicate" selected, and a camera recording the second monitor under the desk.</p>
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