Hacker News: cntlzw

New comment by cntlzw in "I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon"

cntlzw — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:50:29 +0000

Absolutely. That is either "Teileinkünfteverfahren" (60% of 1 Million EUR are taxed, 40% are tax-exempt) or "Abgeltungssteuer" (Government takes a 25% cut). Fun fact: there is no tax on winning the lottery in Germany!

New comment by cntlzw in "Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends"

cntlzw — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 15:49:25 +0000

Donated.

New comment by cntlzw in "Oracle is in course to make Larry Ellison the world’s richest man"

cntlzw — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:17:11 +0000

Can't agree more. Imagine you own a resource that every one on the planet needs. Pretty much everyone on the planet is your customer. You have a monopoly. Little to no competition. You control the prices. No need to pay taxes. You are the government, the police and in some cases even the religion.

Ellison can't beat that.

New comment by cntlzw in "Idiot Proof Git"

cntlzw — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:42:42 +0000

...here we go again.

New comment by cntlzw in "COBOL’s youth culture"

cntlzw — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 07:56:08 +0000

> “Logic doesn't deteriorate,” said Bob England, a COBOL developer and president of England Technical Services. “Until the business rules change, that code is as good as the day it was born.”

True, but the business context always changes. I doubt most of the payroll logic from 50 years ago is still in use today. Therefore someone needs to write new code, or change the old code.

> Many COBOL applications are large; rewriting them isn’t cost-effective—or even necessary.

Yes, your IBM sales rep makes sure of it.

New comment by cntlzw in "Show HN: New BucketRateLimiter Python package to rate limit requests to APIs"

cntlzw — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:07:37 +0000

Tricky problem to implement. I tried to compute requests per seconds from multiple threads. Problem gets much harder if you reach a certain threshold. I think it was round 100 requests per second in my case. After this memory contention becomes a problem. Then I learned about LongAdder in Java. It was a really interesting topic.

New comment by cntlzw in "Apple Ends Partnership with Former Design Chief Jony Ive"

cntlzw — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 21:32:54 +0000

He had his time.

New comment by cntlzw in "Battle for Wesnoth 1.16.4"

cntlzw — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 21:26:45 +0000

Oh wow. I played this ages ago. Congrats to the team. This is dedication.

Amazon Linux Hotpatch for Apache Log4j Needs a Patch

cntlzw — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:59:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/corretto/hotpatch-for-apache-log4j2/issues/43

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29650172

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by cntlzw in "Backdooring Rust crates for fun and profit"

cntlzw — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 15:09:27 +0000

How do rust crates compare with something like maven or npm? It looks like some issues for example Typosquatting can be done in all of these dependency managers.

New comment by cntlzw in "Q – Run SQL Directly on CSV or TSV Files"

cntlzw — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 15:36:45 +0000

Where would the world be if we just would stop innovating after the first idea that works?

New comment by cntlzw in "The Boyer-Moore Fast String Searching Algorithm"

cntlzw — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 07:40:56 +0000

These algorithms are such a joy for me to code. Much more fun than the whole enterprise application work most of us 'developers' are stuck with.

New comment by cntlzw in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)"

cntlzw — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 15:44:17 +0000

E2N is developing SaaS for hospitality since 2009. We’re a small team of motivated, committed experts, looking for a proactive candidate to complete our Software Team.

Required skills: German C1, 3-4 years of experience as software developer, self-education

Tech stack: Java, MySQL, AWS, JSF

Benefits and perks: competitive salary, health insurance, company pension scheme, high impact work, modern hard- and software equipment, beach volleyball-, soccer- and basketball court, team events

More details and application: jobs.e2n.de

New comment by cntlzw in "Go standard library benchmarks – Intel vs. M1"

cntlzw — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:12:02 +0000

AWS released ARM instances in 2018. It is already happening in the datacenter.

Not an expert in HPC, but I think you gain the performance from distributing the data across a vast number of cpu instead of having great cpus to begin with.

New comment by cntlzw in "macOS Icons"

cntlzw — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:38:43 +0000

Gnome 2 is back

New comment by cntlzw in "AWS is not offering Austria's TLD .at for registration"

cntlzw — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 09:11:39 +0000

Last time I checked they do not support Switzerland. TLD is .ch. Fun fact: they are opening a AWS region in Switzerland.

New comment by cntlzw in "Software will eat software in a remote-first world"

cntlzw — Mon, 25 May 2020 13:50:48 +0000

Software development is a bit like fashion or music. There is no direction like forward or backwards. Good and bad are often just personal opinions. Some things get out of fasion, just to be discovered years later. Others are are stables.

New comment by cntlzw in "Anger Management"

cntlzw — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 07:41:37 +0000

"38 Years Old", The Tragically Hip.

New comment by cntlzw in "EventReduce: An algorithm to optimize database queries that run multiple times"

cntlzw — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:27:04 +0000

thank you for the clarification

New comment by cntlzw in "EventReduce: An algorithm to optimize database queries that run multiple times"

cntlzw — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 14:58:57 +0000

"EventReduce can be used with relational databases but not on relational queries that run over multiple tables/collections."

Forgive my ignorance, but that is the whole point of working with a relational database. If cannot use JOINS then this solves only a very limited use case.