Hacker News: ThaJay

New comment by ThaJay in "Goodbye, Clean Code (2020)"

ThaJay — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 15:35:06 +0000

I agree Agile steers a team towards hastily bodged together code.

New comment by ThaJay in "Goodbye, Clean Code (2020)"

ThaJay — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 15:26:34 +0000

The abstraction is the standard case and should invite custom behaviour to be added dynamically. This extra behaviour should be added by the caller / user of the abstraction.

Especially in a CRUD situation, every custom procedure will probably have a few basic steps that stay the same. All you usually need is a pre and a post hook.

New comment by ThaJay in "Goodbye, Clean Code (2020)"

ThaJay — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 15:20:30 +0000

>just happened to be the same >MUST be the same

This difference is something important to stress.

New comment by ThaJay in "I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old"

ThaJay — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:50:52 +0000

You mean "Start Menu"?

New comment by ThaJay in "Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy"

ThaJay — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 15:16:09 +0000

I don't think it works like that. Letters are shapes but keys just are a relative position. The software is reading gestures, specific keypress motions seems much less data to work with.

New comment by ThaJay in "How Industry Weaponizes Science and Sows Doubt to Serve Their Agenda"

ThaJay — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 16:22:05 +0000

China has big pharma too and they pivoted from authoritarian socialism to authoritarian capitalism, they're just making money now and don't care about their poor any more.

New comment by ThaJay in "Dropbox Sync does not natively support Apple Silicon"

ThaJay — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 15:28:20 +0000

Apple messed up and that makes me happy

New comment by ThaJay in "I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own"

ThaJay — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 15:10:55 +0000

cademy is not a word though. code cademy.

New comment by ThaJay in "I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own"

ThaJay — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 15:10:11 +0000

I always have issues spelling it

New comment by ThaJay in "Windows 11 Pro: about 11% slower than Linux on Intel Core i9 11900K"

ThaJay — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:33:48 +0000

:sadface:

New comment by ThaJay in "Windows 11 Pro: about 11% slower than Linux on Intel Core i9 11900K"

ThaJay — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:27:36 +0000

Windows 10 was supposed to be the last Windows and I'm sticking with it forever.

New comment by ThaJay in "Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners"

ThaJay — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:54:37 +0000

I think it's a bit more complicated. We just arrived a little while ago in late-stage capitalism (around 2007 I reckon?), so now looking forward it's either revolution or back to feudalism.

New comment by ThaJay in "Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners"

ThaJay — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:51:06 +0000

There will be (and is) some movement, but it's mostly around the middle class. Up and down.

Poor people can't get in and fat cats dominate so the more you zoom out the more you're right.

New comment by ThaJay in "Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catalogue Eyeballs'"

ThaJay — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:48:48 +0000

The oppurtunity was never equal. It's directly related to net worth which is one of the most unequal things we have.

New comment by ThaJay in "Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)"

ThaJay — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:05:52 +0000

That's a really cool article. The wording could be a lot simpler but the important part is that it does not abstract the concepts. They don't need to be abstracted because they are really simple. Situations can become very complex, especially when someone does not know what they are doing. Developers need to learn the priciples without lies and overzealous simplifications. If you know what's going on it's a lot more doable to not end up in a super complex situation, but not a lot of people have a really good explanation of git even if they understand it very well themselves.

New comment by ThaJay in "Worn-out nurses hit the road for better pay, stressing hospital budgets, morale"

ThaJay — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 13:12:58 +0000

It's not expensive because of nurse wages. It's expensive because of top manager wages, dividents and bonusses.

New comment by ThaJay in "Harbormaster: Anti-Kubernetes for your personal server"

ThaJay — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 12:28:00 +0000

One of them should fork it on their personal account and work on it during bussiness hours. No liability and all the benefits. Don't tell legal obviously.

"Someone forked it so now our fixes can get merged! :D"

New comment by ThaJay in "Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft"

ThaJay — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 11:10:57 +0000

A good carpenter never complains about his tools. He works around their limitations or uses something else.

The quality of the product is down to the skill of the worker either way.

New comment by ThaJay in "Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations"

ThaJay — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 12:25:19 +0000

First sensible post on this topic. All others talk about the content like the premise rings true, but Apple will never do stuff like that, same as how the current tech giants don't have a place in this world post capitalism.

New comment by ThaJay in "Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)"

ThaJay — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 17:05:44 +0000

Google maps is actually bloody good at just being a map. It's extremely convenient to zoom in and out, click around, view locations, add them to your route, etc. Yes you can up the productivity by using more tabs and that is the standard nowadays because we humans are being trained to be multitasking monsters. Forgive me for ending my read there because to me it just sounds like a rant from a bitter old person that doesn't understand this brave new world any more.