Hacker News: codeape

New comment by codeape in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

codeape — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:53:40 +0000

I have never been able to understand the Slack fetish most tech people have. IMO MS Teams is feature-wise better in most cases. Especially functionality for formatting posts is far better in Teams.

New comment by codeape in "I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst"

codeape — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:42:09 +0000

Imagine the rapid advancements we could make in those fields if researchers stop wasting time on a baroque, outdated typesetting system.

New comment by codeape in "I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst"

codeape — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:35:34 +0000

Using a word processor (MS Word, Apple Pages, LibreOffice Writer) is nearly as bad as using LaTeX (in some cases, worse).

Using a plain-text format like Markdown, ReStructuredText or AsciiDoc is likely better in almost all cases.

New comment by codeape in "I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst"

codeape — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:30:17 +0000

No, I like Markdown.

New comment by codeape in "I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst"

codeape — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:06:51 +0000

From https://www.latex-project.org/about/:

"LaTeX is not a word processor! Instead, LaTeX encourages authors not to worry too much about the appearance of their documents but to concentrate on getting the right content."

IMO, the only people that use LaTeX are people who are willing to trade the convenience and productivity of using a sane document authoring format for the warm and fuzzy feeling you get when you use an outdated piece of typesetting software that is a) hard to configure, b) hard to use and c) produces output for the least useful reading platform available (paged pdfs).

And the pronounciation is stupid.

New comment by codeape in "It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)"

codeape — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 08:37:59 +0000

I always recommend "The Pragmatic Programmer" (Hunt, Thomas) and "Code Complete" (McConnell).

New comment by codeape in "It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)"

codeape — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 08:34:53 +0000

Joel Spolsky's (harsh) comments on SOLID, from a 2009 episode of the Stack Overflow podcast (https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/01/22/podcast-38/ https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?pg=pgWiki&comm...):

"And, when I was listening to them, they all sounded to me like, to me, extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly."

New comment by codeape in "Ask HN: Best examples of software documentation that you've come across?"

codeape — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:39:36 +0000

https://docs.python.org/3/

New comment by codeape in "Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks"

codeape — Tue, 03 May 2022 22:22:18 +0000

Of the modern front-end frameworks: What is the best framework to add some front-end interactivity to a existing server-side-rendered application (Flask, Ruby on Rails etc.), without going all SPA?

New comment by codeape in "Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains"

codeape — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 15:06:12 +0000

I wish there was benchmarks for IDEs/editors, just like there are benchmarks for web frameworks (https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ https://web-frameworks-benchmark.netlify.app/).

For instance, given some Java program/project:

1. Clock time from selecting "Run" in the IDE to first line written to stdout (to measure startup time)

2. Clock time from selecting "Debug" in the IDE to breakpoint hit and debugger able to inspect stack (with breakpoint on line N)

3. Total memory used with open project, with single editor window open.

4. Total memory used when breakpoint hit.

5. Clock time from selecting "Run tests" in the IDE to test results are displayed

6. Clock time from selecting "Debug tests" in the IDE to breakpoint hit and debugger able to inspect stack (with breakpoint on line N)

New comment by codeape in "Asynchronous Programming in C#"

codeape — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:30:07 +0000

I hope the author at some point adds the section on ConfigureAwait. I've seen code bases where the devs have added .ConfigureAwait(false) to all invokations "just to make sure".

New comment by codeape in "Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs (2017)"

codeape — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:21:28 +0000

Found this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41550727/how-does-docker...

And:

https://dockercon.docker.com/watch/U7Bxp66uKmemZssjCTyXkm

New comment by codeape in "Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs (2017)"

codeape — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:14:14 +0000

I do not understand docker on windows.

If I understand correctly, when I run a docker image on Linux then the dockerized processes's syscalls are all executed by the host kernel (since - again if I understand correctly - the dockerized process executes more or less like a normal process, just in isolated process and filesystem namespace).

Is this correct?

But how does docker on windows work?

New comment by codeape in "Announcing .NET Jupyter Notebooks"

codeape — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:53:27 +0000

Are there any plans for implementing code completion/intellisense?

New comment by codeape in "The Horror of Microsoft Teams"

codeape — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 21:39:06 +0000

IMO, MS Teams works pretty well. Not as good as Slack, but not horrible.

New comment by codeape in "A guide to difficult conversations"

codeape — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 15:31:35 +0000

So if I understand the article, one should use the communication pattern:

When ____[observation], I feel ____[emotion] because I’m needing some ____[universal needs]. Would you be able to ____[request]?

For instance:

When [you're acting like a dickhead], I feel [the urge to punch you] because I'm needing some [fking professionalism]. Would you be able to [stop acting like a dickhead]?

New comment by codeape in "Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library"

codeape — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 12:56:06 +0000

On a Windows PC, what (free, open source) drawing program would I use to create illustrations using these pieces?

New comment by codeape in "SSH Examples, Tips and Tunnels"

codeape — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 10:41:14 +0000

Is the first "Using a Configuration File" example a bit misleading? The example is:

... Host remoteserver HostName remoteserver.thematrix.io User neo Port 2112 IdentityFile /home/test/.ssh/remoteserver.pub

IdentityFile typically (always?) specifies a file with a private key, right?

New comment by codeape in "Reasons Python Sucks"

codeape — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:58:21 +0000

Totally agree. The author needs to read the Python docs.

New comment by codeape in "Show HN: Egeria, a multidimensional spreadsheet for everybody"

codeape — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:39:36 +0000

Hi, just curious: could you say a bit more on the the backend and frontend tech in use?