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New comment by asimeqi in "What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC?"

asimeqi — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:00:36 +0000

VB the ide was really good but VB the language was not. In particular it didn't support object orientation in any sensible way. While I am not crazy about object orientation in general, I think it is indispensable for UI development. I tried writing an application in Visual Basic. It was quick to start but the 5th time I had to copy the same code in yet another module, I switched to Visual C++. And anytime you needed to do something advanced with Win32, you had to resort to unnatural C like techniques in VB, while the same operation was native in Visual C++. This was 25 years ago and it was the last time I tried VB.

New comment by asimeqi in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

asimeqi — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:49:50 +0000

I am a principal engineer too. In the last 5 months I have been working on a project using the latest LLMs. 5 years ago that project would have required 30 engineers. Now I am alone but need at least 5 more months to have an MVP. You are just not working on projects that are complex and difficult enough. There are so many projects that I have in mind that feel within reach and I would have never considered 5 years ago.

New comment by asimeqi in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

asimeqi — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:54:50 +0000

Since when is "bored" a synonym for "dishonest"?

New comment by asimeqi in "Parametric CAD in Rust"

asimeqi — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:47:08 +0000

If you are using build123d, probably the easiest way is to sketch an ellipse and revolve it.

New comment by asimeqi in "Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms"

asimeqi — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:54:15 +0000

I can barely keep up with one instance of Claude Code. In fact even that one sits iddle half the time as I test its output and try to explain what it did wrong. What are people programming that needs 10 agents?

New comment by asimeqi in "LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]"

asimeqi — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:11:20 +0000

The best coffee stains by far are created directly in Postscript.

New comment by asimeqi in "Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them"

asimeqi — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:57:18 +0000

Yes please I totally agree. Something big must be going on there. I once bought an item through an Instagram ad. For about a month I got fake updates about shipping. Then one day I get an email that itvwas delivered 2 days ago, complete with a different shipping path and an apparently real USPS tracking ID. Of course I received nothing. Complained to PayPal, the complaint was closed within minutes as not valid.

New comment by asimeqi in "If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?"

asimeqi — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:43:05 +0000

AI is making coding so cheap, you can now program a few versions of the API and choose what works better.

New comment by asimeqi in "Wireguard FPGA"

asimeqi — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:07:34 +0000

Not a member of the project but here is my take:

You run the WireGuard app on your computer/phone, tap Connect, and it creates an encrypted tunnel to a small network box (the “FPGA gateway”) at your office or in the cloud. From then on, your apps behave as if you’re on the company network, even if you’re at home or traveling.

Why the FPGA box: Because software implementations are too slow and existing hardware implementations cost too much.

Internal or Internet: Both.

New comment by asimeqi in "The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh"

asimeqi — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:53:57 +0000

When I was in elementary school in the 70s in Albania, we had some older teachers who wrote z as ᵹ. I don't know where that came from, but it was not part of the official alphabet.

New comment by asimeqi in "“Bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production” study might not exist (2021)"

asimeqi — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:01:37 +0000

The 100x also is kind of meaningless. 100x compared to what? I can introduce a bug by being careless for 1 minute, discover it in my own tests and spend the next 2 days to figure it out. That's already 960x compared to the time it took me to introduce it.

New comment by asimeqi in "How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured"

asimeqi — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:05:25 +0000

~relying~ --> relaying

New comment by asimeqi in "Federal Government Detains International Student at Tufts"

asimeqi — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 02:24:44 +0000

I see some very "tolerant" people are downvoting. You support the girl's right to support Hamas, but don't even want to hear from people who think differently.

New comment by asimeqi in "The Nabataeans Are Coming"

asimeqi — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:43:27 +0000

Also this Albanian guy just published a video from the same place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUGbSg3o7p4

New comment by asimeqi in "Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum"

asimeqi — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:51:14 +0000

15 years after MIT made the same switch from Scheme to Python. Since CS at MIT seems to be fine, so will CS at NEU.

New comment by asimeqi in "How to read C type declarations (2003)"

asimeqi — Fri, 17 May 2024 16:52:15 +0000

Why do I remember The C Programming Language book by K&R explaining how to write a version of cdecl? I just checked the second edition of the book and my memory seems to be wrong.

New comment by asimeqi in "Dennis Ritchie on the priorities of && || vs. == etc. (1982)"

asimeqi — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 00:09:44 +0000

I once implemented a logical expression evaluator to be used as filters on a search page. My boss tested it and filed a bug because he expected OR to have higher precedence than AND. I pointed him to a page with the rules and told him that he could use parenthesis if he wanted to modify the order of precedence. He was sort of convinced but never closed the ticket. Every release he would move it to the next release.

New comment by asimeqi in "A Metaobject Protocol for C++ (1995) [pdf]"

asimeqi — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 16:52:25 +0000

There was also Adpative Programming by Karl Lieberherr at Northeastern University (https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/). He had both a C++ and a Java compiler to implement what he called traversals, features that would span many classes but you could implement in one traversal file. His tools were so powerful that in one of his classes I was able to add synchronization primitives to Java as a class project.

New comment by asimeqi in "Math for kids outside of the Calculus Sequence"

asimeqi — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 18:19:57 +0000

My daughter is a student in one of those elite schools. You are allowed to take one of those advanced classes in any year (i.e. Calculus as a freshman) but that doesn't mean that the school will teach it to you. If you take the class you either need to be a genius or use outside tutoring.

New comment by asimeqi in "A non-mathematical introduction to Kalman filters for programmers"

asimeqi — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 16:26:37 +0000

I meant speeds derived from previous position measurements. Using those speeds is not getting something from nothing. It means using previous measurements to estimate where the object might be now then combine that estimate with current measurement to have the "best" estimate for its current position, for some definition of best.