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New comment by chunkyguy in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

chunkyguy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:48:33 +0000

> You treat your code as a means to an end to make a product for a user.

This sounds more like a product owner not a developer

New comment by chunkyguy in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

chunkyguy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:09:25 +0000

You need to understand the context. The quote in Gita was to motivate the best warrior of the time at the battlefront facing opponents who were mainly his cousins and uncles.

In that context the quote is about performing the duties you were born to do without overthinking the consequences.

New comment by chunkyguy in "Top Programming Languages 2025"

chunkyguy — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:31:20 +0000

If there is HTML in the list then why not JSON?

New comment by chunkyguy in "Object-oriented design patterns in C and kernel development"

chunkyguy — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 18:01:50 +0000

> This introduces performance issues larger than the typical ones associated with vtable lookups.

Don't know about other programming languages but with Objective-C due to IMP caching the performance is close to C++ vtable

  Name Iterations Total time (sec) Time per (ns)
  C++ virtual method call 1000000000 1.5 1.5
  IMP-cached message send 1000000000 1.6 1.6

https://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2016-04-15-performance-...

New comment by chunkyguy in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

chunkyguy — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:40:48 +0000

This is so true. I switch from iPhone 5s to iPhone SE to iPhone 13 mini. After my current phone dies I don't know what phone would I get next.

New comment by chunkyguy in "Is this the weirdest thing in C?"

chunkyguy — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 15:03:14 +0000

C has many syntactic sugar and [] operator is one of them. -> is another popular one.

New comment by chunkyguy in "Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them"

chunkyguy — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 09:51:32 +0000

> After a formal investigation in 1907, psychologist Oskar Pfungst demonstrated that the horse was not actually performing these mental tasks, but was watching the reactions of his trainer.

Sounds like machine learning

New comment by chunkyguy in "Should JavaScript be split into two languages?"

chunkyguy — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 20:00:55 +0000

> The tooling idea is particularly appropriate for JavaScript since many developers actually code in TypeScript and rely on compilers such as Babel, Webpack or the TypeScript compiler to output JavaScript.

Hot take

New comment by chunkyguy in "Ask HN: How do apps get into Apple App Store pretending something they are not?"

chunkyguy — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:39:59 +0000

Can you not simply use a feature flag that you control remotely to toggle the app between fake and real modes? You just need to toggle the flag on when submitting for review

New comment by chunkyguy in "Göttingen was one of the most productive centers of mathematics (2019)"

chunkyguy — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 18:28:56 +0000

this sounds like a good explanation:

> University of Göttingen had more academic freedom than generations past. They were promised intellectual autonomy and freedom from close religious supervision. Instead, they were recruited solely to advance knowledge and carry out original research. The education of students was also more egalitarian than it had been previously in Europe, as both rich and poor were admitted and trained.

New comment by chunkyguy in "C-Macs – a pure C macOS application"

chunkyguy — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 21:26:07 +0000

There's also `clang -rewrite-objc` that "Rewrite Objective-C source to C++" which does the same trick of mapping objc code to `objc_msgSend`

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangCommandLineReference.html#c...

New comment by chunkyguy in "Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 1: Intro and Value Types"

chunkyguy — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:41:44 +0000

Here you go https://whackylabs.com/swift/cpp/languages/2021/01/03/cpp-fo...

New comment by chunkyguy in "Ask HN: Does it cost more to build an iOS app than a web app?"

chunkyguy — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:33:10 +0000

> While it does cost $99 to get in the store, the app can be used by millions for no additional cost. Hosting fees for a web app will grow along with the user base. Even without users, a domain plus a basic hosting plan will easily be more than $99/year.

$99/year is just to host the 'client-side'. Most likely you still the backend so that cost is still the same.

New comment by chunkyguy in "Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside"

chunkyguy — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:20:10 +0000

Piracy isn't a new buzzword but ever since Apple made it a selling point everyone is hopping on the train.

Also when it comes to privacy there's a thin line between collecting data and selling it to partners.

New comment by chunkyguy in "App store to be 'split in two' ahead of EU iPhone sideloading deadline: report"

chunkyguy — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 07:10:12 +0000

Also real security issues should be tackled on the os level. If the app sandboxing is actually robust then I don't see what is the problem.

New comment by chunkyguy in "Salesforce and Slack to pause all hiring in technology and product"

chunkyguy — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 07:47:40 +0000

> Thirteen. Instagram had thirteen employees when acquired by Facebook.

But then Instagram was mostly just a simple photo editor app without the social graph complexity. Sure you can still build and maintain such an app with thirteen people.

New comment by chunkyguy in "Microsoft overtakes Apple as most valuable company"

chunkyguy — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 07:23:11 +0000

Apple Stock Falls In Minutes After 'Vision Pro' Announcement"

https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/apple-wwdc-2023/card/ap...

Also Microsoft is still selling HoloLens but for selected audience.

New comment by chunkyguy in "Is Objective-C BOOL a boolean type? It depends"

chunkyguy — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 20:03:06 +0000

This is the best way for having a objc and c++ in same project.

New comment by chunkyguy in "Sweden (Not Switzerland)"

chunkyguy — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 13:21:22 +0000

As a kid I was more confused between Sweden and Sudan

New comment by chunkyguy in "iOS 17 is available today"

chunkyguy — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 19:14:49 +0000

I miss no access control for speaker. There is global default. I turn on speakers for one music app and at next launch another social media app plays their ads on full volume.