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New comment by coneonthefloor in "AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share"

coneonthefloor — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:44:18 +0000

“Accidentally recording” sensitive data is happening pretty much everywhere. Last year I was tasked with removing sensitive payment information that had been stored in an insurance company’s database as “call transcripts”. The automated system would state that the payment information would not be stored. It was in fact always stored…

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Having Kids (2019)"

coneonthefloor — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:23:31 +0000

Men that make sacrifices to serve.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Having Kids (2019)"

coneonthefloor — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:22:32 +0000

I'm sorry for your loss.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Having Kids (2019)"

coneonthefloor — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:37:24 +0000

You exist solely to procreate.

I could not imagine an emptier life, than one without children.

Big Time Burnout

coneonthefloor — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:24:26 +0000

I am totally burnt out.

I am a “software engineer” I am great at making things and solving problems with code. I love to code. I am an expert in my domain.

But I am employed to sit in meetings. Where my voice doesn’t matter. I am one dev to 6 middle managers with various lofty titles. They do not respect me. I am the bottom wrung of the ladder. But I am also the only member of the team who delivers anything. Without me the “developer” the product doesn’t exist. They hate me for this. So they lock me down. My computer is near unusable in its locked down monitored state. I have to ask permission to do the simplest things. They don’t want me thinking or being productive. Now they have me writing “prompts” so a robot can make me redundant. My confidence is zero, my skillset unappreciated.

It’s time to start again, find a new way to provide for my family.

The software engineering career that I loved has burnt out.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45412815

Points: 3

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New comment by coneonthefloor in "A safe, non-owning C++ pointer class"

coneonthefloor — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:56:32 +0000

I’ve recently read the third edition of Bjarne’s “A tour of c++” (which is actually a good read). I feel the author of this post could benefit from doing so also.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "This website has no class"

coneonthefloor — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:05:44 +0000

I really like the concept of this. I'd love a html reference guide (pattern library?) with plain html no CSS or JS to document the basic building blocks of the web.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments"

coneonthefloor — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 22:51:37 +0000

I’d rather be explicit. If the value is null then it should be explicitly handled.

I feel like this is another step in the race to add every conceivable feature to a language, for the sake of it.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Just Use HTML"

coneonthefloor — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:10:11 +0000

The server rarely has to render/build the html. It will do it once and then cache it. 99% of websites don’t have real time data. They are just boring webpages.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Just Use HTML"

coneonthefloor — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:34:37 +0000

> What seems wasteful to me is to have the server spend CPU cycles rendering data into JSON, only to have the front-end decode from JSON into internal JS representation, then back into HTML (which is then decoded back into an internal browser representation before being painted on the screen). Seems better to just render it into HTML on the server side, if you know what it's going to look like.

Well put. I think the main issue is that we have a generation of "front end engineers" who have only ever worked with javascript apps. They have no experience of how easy it is to write html and send it via a server. The same html works now, worked 20 years ago, and will work 20 years from now.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "macOS Tahoe"

coneonthefloor — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:13:45 +0000

The GUI of an OS has never concerned me. Seems like a red flag when the main selling point is a slight bit of transparency.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"

coneonthefloor — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:08:41 +0000

I use html and server side rendering. The whole react thing has passed me by. If I need to use a js framework to add interactivity it’s Alpine. But then I just ask myself the question? Is this bad design? And if the answer is yes, I look for a vanilla html approach. Bye the way... the answer is always yes.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Tufte CSS"

coneonthefloor — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:01:56 +0000

How many times will Tufte CSS be reposted?

I feel like I see this every year. Unfortunately I like it less every year too.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Developer's block"

coneonthefloor — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 14:49:16 +0000

I suffer from this. I even get as far as nearly finishing a project, and then just decide to abandon it as the last 20% is just mentally exhausting, and I should have written the whole thing in language X using framework Y…

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first"

coneonthefloor — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:30:46 +0000

Well said, Zed could be great if they just stopped with the AI stuff and focused on text editing.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file"

coneonthefloor — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 13:30:02 +0000

Wait until they find out about PHP. Mind blown.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "150 years of Hans Christian Andersen"

coneonthefloor — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 05:12:44 +0000

> he requested one of Dickens' sons to shave him on a daily basis — a custom performed by hosts to male guests in Denmark.

https://www.grunge.com/617197/the-truth-about-hans-christian...

New comment by coneonthefloor in "150 years of Hans Christian Andersen"

coneonthefloor — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:47:25 +0000

About a decade ago I was at a museum in Odense, Denmark. I vaguely remember a comical story about him and Charles Dickens. In that Andersen would regularly visit Dickens and stay with him and his family. The gist was that Dickens found this to be quite irritating, as he was not enthused by Andersen's company, finding him to be much too emotional and having "strange" Danish customs.

New comment by coneonthefloor in "DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components"

coneonthefloor — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:01:16 +0000

Tailwind has the Bootstrap problem, in that I can tell straight away that a website uses Tailwind, and for some reason that is off putting.

Making a StringBuffer in C, and questioning my sanity

coneonthefloor — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 10:48:34 +0000

Article URL: https://briandouglas.ie/string-buffer-c/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44569819

Points: 46

# Comments: 55