Hacker News: colund

Europe will not be part of Ukraine-Russia peace talks, US envoy says

colund — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 15:58:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/europe-will-not-take-part-in-us-russia-talks-ukraine-kellogg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43059449

Points: 29

# Comments: 14

New comment by colund in "Ask HN: What is your favorite podcast?"

colund — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 06:34:56 +0000

Rustacean Station, Startups for the Rest of Us and Programming Throwdown.

New comment by colund in "Ask HN: Recommended monitor for a small desk"

colund — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:07:20 +0000

There are reports of blurry text on monitors with resolutions around 1440p or less than UHD. macOS doesn't always scale fonts optimally on these, which can make coding feel straining over time. My recommendation is to look into a 4k or higher monitor for sharper text rendering on macOS, even on a smaller screen size.

"Dirty stream" attack: a common vulnerability pattern in Android apps

colund — Sun, 12 May 2024 21:06:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/05/01/dirty-stream-attack-discovering-and-mitigating-a-common-vulnerability-pattern-in-android-apps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40337587

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by colund in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"

colund — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:30:22 +0000

I find that Jonathan Blow ranting about Rust game development here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk. He adds interesting perspectives to the discussio, how the language makes the Rust game developer resort to arrays and their so called Rust point of views.

New comment by colund in "I love programming but I hate the programming industry"

colund — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 13:13:51 +0000

Out of curiosity, how did you support yourself financially while creating the game? Did you also do freelancing or did you use savings etc?

The EDPTB GDPR guide for small business

colund — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 12:02:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.edpb.europa.eu/sme-data-protection-guide/home_en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40105008

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by colund in "Ask HN: C/C++ developer wanting to learn efficient Python"

colund — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:14:28 +0000

There's also a fun option to use PyO3 to easily generate a native Python module from Rust.

A Full Stack SaaS Template with Loco

colund — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 19:09:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/02/29/fullstack-loco-rust

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39962963

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by colund in "Interview with a blind developer on how he works (2017)"

colund — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 22:54:22 +0000

Very interesting article and it was interesting to see his desk without a display and mouse.

I posted a long and very moving story the other day about a software developer who was getting blind on an eye in six hours. https://elye-project.medium.com/i-became-blind-within-6-hour...

It made me think about how much time we spend in front of screens these days and that eyesight can't be taken for granted.

This article was a nice contrast describing the possibilities to do work as a blind developer.

Velotype Keyboard

colund — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:59:48 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velotype

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39934455

Points: 17

# Comments: 1

I Became Blind Within 6 Hours

colund — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:18:24 +0000

Article URL: https://elye-project.medium.com/i-became-blind-within-6-hours-e2ccebb71dcc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39930024

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by colund in "Do be do be do (2017) [pdf]"

colund — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 08:23:04 +0000

Baloo's doo bah dee doo song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqV_xW8CdFQ

New comment by colund in "Ask HN: Why would you ever use C++ for a new project over Rust?"

colund — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 21:40:36 +0000

I would use it for cross platform native ui development with wxWidgets

New comment by colund in "Ask HN: How can I block promotional SMS from contacts without numbers(ex:DPROM)?"

colund — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 14:53:37 +0000

If you mean Flash SMS https://help.seven.io/en/flash-sms there are instructions online on how to disable them. Or do you mean normal SMS messages?

New comment by colund in "Ask HN: Starting as a techlead in a non tech org: What should I watch out for?"

colund — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 21:49:08 +0000

People will perhaps not be used to using JIRA and have no idea about processes like Scrum sprints and the purposes of demos and retrospectives. They could try to micromanage your work and make top down decisions with little autonomy and set your deadlines without asking you first. I would suggest you try to educate them about development best practices including some degree of freedom/trust for developer teams and the value of feedback loops and some involvement from the business and good requirements.

Good luck!

New comment by colund in "Ask HN: How worried are you about being replaced by an LLM"

colund — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 20:19:27 +0000

While I agree that LLMs can be useful for coders, and productivity can be increased, coding blindly based on ChatGPT code without understanding concepts could result in very serious bugs. How can you be sure that the code does not have vulnerabilities for example, or solve things in a non-idiomatic way, if you just copy paste code without an understanding.

As long as an understanding of the domain and problem is required a skilled person is required between the codebase and the LLM.

Even if we get to a point in the future where a programmer can be replaced by an LLM, we'll have businesses where they want someone to use the LLMs to create software.

New comment by colund in "Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?"

colund — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 13:17:31 +0000

Don't give up! The job market is tough, but I'm sure there are jobs out there that would be a good fit for you. For example, check LinkedIn for job postings. It's just much harder to land a job these days, but I think it's temporary until companies realize they need to hire again.

Some tips: Reach out to recruiters who have contacted you in the past. Sign up for online CV databases. Use your network and contact former colleagues to see if their companies are hiring. Work on a side project that excites you and makes you proud to change your mindset, or take an online course. Try to get excited about the challenge instead of thinking about giving up. I just watched a YCombinator video which, among other things, talks about not giving up too soon: https://youtu.be/al-15mMAS18.

Also, try to get feedback when you're rejected. Are you showing genuine interest in the job? Do you ask insightful questions, and do you submit take-home assignments without bugs?

New comment by colund in "Meta outage"

colund — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:34:39 +0000

That's such a beautiful comment I would almost consider printing it and putting it on my wall

New comment by colund in "Should I learn C++ or Rust?"

colund — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 16:58:02 +0000

Rust is still lacking good GUI libraries and C++ and there are lots of libraries out there written in C++. Rust is more up and coming. That said in my opinion Rust is a nicer and better language since you get cargo and a modern safe efficient language. In my opinion Cargo is great and CMake and similar tools for C++ are not nearly as nice.