Hacker News: damagednoob

New comment by damagednoob in "Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler"

damagednoob — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:08:52 +0000

>Andre has previously maintained that he owns a trademark on Bundler and he will enforce it against Ruby Central.

Well,

1. He's not fighting Ruby Central anymore, he'd be fighting the Ruby core team.

2. He's going to have a tough time asserting copyright on a name he didn't come up with on a project which shipped v1 before he joined.

3. If he believes the trademark belongs to the community, the right thing to do would be to transfer it to Ruby Core then, right?

New comment by damagednoob in "Why I'm not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiasco"

damagednoob — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:10:57 +0000

Seems like a few old scores are being settled during this drama. It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people on the side of RubyGems are avoiding commenting in case any legal disputes play out.

New comment by damagednoob in "Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover"

damagednoob — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:13:46 +0000

To be consistent, then the same goes for Shopify.

New comment by damagednoob in "Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover"

damagednoob — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:28:57 +0000

Just to echo those sentiments, Mike Perham has appeared on a panel discussion recently with his 'competitors', including Solid Queue.

https://www.rubyevents.org/talks/panel-the-past-present-and-...

New comment by damagednoob in "A Library in New Zealand Replaces Dewey with System Rooted in Māori Tradition"

damagednoob — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:02:44 +0000

I think the thrust of the point is that it's not 'traditional'.

New comment by damagednoob in "We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails"

damagednoob — Sun, 04 May 2025 06:06:07 +0000

One might suggest that you may not be the only target demographic of Amazon.

New comment by damagednoob in "What the hell is a target triple?"

damagednoob — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 03:03:54 +0000

When developing a small program for my Synology NAS in Go, I'm sure I had to target a specific version of glibc.

New comment by damagednoob in "The Guardian flourishes without a paywall"

damagednoob — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 22:02:25 +0000

Or The Guardian supporting the Confederacy[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian#History

New comment by damagednoob in "WordPress.org bans WP Engine"

damagednoob — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:02:52 +0000

Should Automattic be compelled to subsidise their competitors?

New comment by damagednoob in "Ask HN: UK based blogs on freedom and surveillence?"

damagednoob — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 06:48:20 +0000

Free Speech Union - https://freespeechunion.org/

New comment by damagednoob in "Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand"

damagednoob — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 17:06:06 +0000

> If nobody or barely anyone used Megaupload, he wouldn’t have been in as much trouble.

In a world where opportunity costs exist, as they do for law enforcement, this makes sense?

New comment by damagednoob in "Ten Years and Counting: My Affair with Microservices"

damagednoob — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 19:33:35 +0000

Did I miss the justification for the switch to Java? That decision seemed to come out of the blue.

New comment by damagednoob in "Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects"

damagednoob — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 11:43:57 +0000

Something I've observed as an English speaking immigrant is that in general, the US/UK is very forgiving when it comes to foreigners trying to speak English. Where certain types of phrasing and harsh words would not be tolerated with first language English speakers, the benefit of the doubt is given to 2nd/3rd language speakers because they

1. Might not have the vocabulary to express themselves correctly

2. Not understand the nuance and connotations that their word choices imply

I've seen my colleagues get frustrated in meetings while simulatenously having to assume good intent.

Choosing names like the bad actor(s) did gives them an advantage in this scenario.

New comment by damagednoob in "Don't Invent XML Languages (2006)"

damagednoob — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 07:00:02 +0000

I think the reason that JSON won was that at least on the client-side, it was much easier to turn the response data into a Javascript object to interact with then XML.

New comment by damagednoob in "DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching"

damagednoob — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 13:40:39 +0000

I have a KVM switch[1] and it's double middle mouse click to switch outputs. Works well with Mac, Linux or Windows.

[1]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08GBXTW2Q?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_sh...

New comment by damagednoob in "How to unit test code that depends on time"

damagednoob — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 04:38:00 +0000

None of the scenarios you listed above are unit tests, which I believe is what the OP and the post was referring to.

New comment by damagednoob in "Ruby 3.3's YJIT: Faster While Using Less Memory"

damagednoob — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 04:54:23 +0000

From the blog post, it sounded like their benchmark relied heavily on a gem with a C extension (nokogiri). It's hard to imagine a performance improvement on code that YJIT has no control over.

How are zlib, gzip and zip related?

damagednoob — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:39:15 +0000

Article URL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20762094/how-are-zlib-gzip-and-zip-related-what-do-they-have-in-common-and-how-are-they

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38432127

Points: 300

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New comment by damagednoob in ""Useless Ruby sugar": Argument forwarding"

damagednoob — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 18:50:43 +0000

This type of problem seems to be the exact reason why Object Orientated programming was developed in the first place. Whenever I'm repetitively passing arguments from one method to another, I usually find an object hiding in plain sight.

New comment by damagednoob in "Jezebel to shut down after 16 years as parent company lays off staff"

damagednoob — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:04:48 +0000

What I can't understand is that The Onion's YouTube channel[1] has 2.5 million subscribers and a billion views. You'd think they be able to do something with that amount of eyeballs.

[1]: https://youtube.com/@TheOnion?si=WyE-hvhrR6cRpFFT