Hacker News: dejaime

New comment by dejaime in "Unity patents ECS"

dejaime — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 00:37:44 +0000

But that is exactly what an archetypal ECS is! It is used to determine an optimal memory layout with whatever combinations you throw in!

New comment by dejaime in "The Amazon Is Not the Earth’s Lungs"

dejaime — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:12:06 +0000

This feels like a simple strawman. The problem is called global warming, not global deoxygenation.

New comment by dejaime in "Presidio: Customizable data protection and PII data anonymization service"

dejaime — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:26:32 +0000

What a horrible name

New comment by dejaime in "Ultra marathon runner earns awards for both first place woman and overall winner"

dejaime — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:57:52 +0000

Title should be "50K ultra organization failed to manufacture a 'male' trophy.", clickbait 100

New comment by dejaime in "How to Pay Programmers Less (2016)"

dejaime — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 12:50:26 +0000

Do it during the friday happy hour, and then blame the free drinks

New comment by dejaime in "Show HN: Procrastinating? Take a 5min break without leaving your computer"

dejaime — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:27:17 +0000

Discipline is the first answer that comes to mind... but say it out loud and... yeah, it's a non-answer.

New comment by dejaime in "Flutter looks good, but is painful"

dejaime — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 15:31:55 +0000

Even though my experience is basically the same as the author's (8y using java/kotlin toolchain), the article still seems to be written by someone with a hammer frustrated with screws for not working properly. His points can be summed up as "Flutter isn't as stable as the java toolchain that has existed for over a decade" and "I want Flutter to work the way I am used to work".

New comment by dejaime in "Panic – Nova Private Beta"

dejaime — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 23:33:20 +0000

++ for Insomnia

New comment by dejaime in "Firefox Local Files Theft – Not Patched Yet"

dejaime — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 15:13:09 +0000

I have never seen anyone saying HTML files are harmless, and would definitely never say it myself.

New comment by dejaime in "Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy"

dejaime — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 14:48:03 +0000

> Intel CPUs across the world can almost painlessly be swapped for AMD CPUs right now and only a small fraction of users would have to change anything.

I beg to disagree here, swapping CPUs would definitelly prove to be extremelly costly in every possible way. Not only do the MoBo + CPUs themselves have a cost, but they also do not exist. That would mean a huge spike in AMD (or whatever vendor) demand, one that they don't even have the capacity to manufacture. On top of that, all the kernel optimizations over the years, which have a big impact in the overall costs of a cloud service, would be lost. All that ignoring the logistical side of swapping motherboards and CPUs, transport, risk and everything.

> SQL is a very high level of abstraction, to the point where the argument is a bit absurd when compared to a very concrete example of COBOL. Yes, if we had to rewrite everything that utilized SQL then it would take an incalculable amount of effort.

You're right. Let me swap that with OracleSQL or MySQL, that'd make more sense.

> I feel like you're kind of hitting the nail on the head with the Linux kernel bit though -- yes we could replace all uses of the Linux kernel with one of the many alternatives available, but it would take a long time. More likely we'd see a major transition to one of the other available kernels. This is exactly the situation COBOL is in.

Imo the Linux kernel position is not the same as COBOL. COBOL is mainly being maintained, whereas Linux is the current standard for new projects and will remain so for the foreseeable future. If we create a new project running on COBOL, or a new project running on a Linux server, those are two completely different situations.

> All this though -- and I think we're just talking about a semantic difference on the use of "%1 powers the %2". Arguably C, SQL, and Javascript provide the value to users which encourages them to spend their money which encourages further development. So okay, I think I follow where you're coming from. COBOL doesn't power the economy, it's just the most common form of infrastructure for us to extract value from the economy. That sound a bit more correct?

Yes, exactly my point. The economy is not "powered" by banks, it is powered by those who create economic value, and they do not use COBOL all that much.

New comment by dejaime in "Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy"

dejaime — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:49:33 +0000

My point is, COBOL is responsible for a really small % of said value per value transaction between me and said services. Linux, [Oracle/My]SQL, Java, JavaScript, C, anything from router firmware to Intel cpus powering the VMs is more relevant than said COBOL code.

So saying COBOL powers the global economy is indeed a stretch. Want to say Linux powers it? True, Intel powers it? True. COBOL... not so much. Imagine rewriting every COBOL system in the world, now change that into replacing all Intel cpus, ~~SQL~~ OracleSQL or MySQL databases or Linux kernels...

Edit: saying "SQL Databases" makes as much sense as saying "procedural programming languages", updating it to make more sense

New comment by dejaime in "Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy"

dejaime — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 12:11:02 +0000

I hate how the title says "powers the global economy" when it should be "powers banking systems". I spend a lot of money on many things, my smartphone, gsuite, slack, Netflix, Amazon, Dropbox, games, tools, hardware, and I would guess most of that stuff never touched Cobol. Meanwhile I pay 1usd monthly for my bank (which, btw already migrated). So saying it "powers the global economy" is definitely a bit of a stretch.

I am sure there's a lot of it running still, mission critical stuff, also that there are still a few teams creating new projects with it. So it is not dead by this definition. But if I'm honest, I can't name one single language that is.

New comment by dejaime in "How to Remove Bixby from Samsung Phones"

dejaime — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 17:44:45 +0000

@gif thank you

New comment by dejaime in "Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time"

dejaime — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 17:47:48 +0000

If that is a problem, I'd rather have it sync with something like nextcloud instead of just another flavor of untrusted proprietary service.

New comment by dejaime in "Firefox Local Files Theft – Not Patched Yet"

dejaime — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 03:14:43 +0000

If someone is knowledgeable enough to not open a shady exe file, they'll probably not simply open any shady files, including doc, ppt, and html

New comment by dejaime in "A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”"

dejaime — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 03:21:44 +0000

What goes around, comes around. Stealing code is on Microsoft records, as a simple "Microsoft admits stealing code" search shows. One can only wonder how much code the company stole that did not come to public knowledge.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2522017/microsoft-admi...

New comment by dejaime in "An artificially intelligent, open-source bionic leg"

dejaime — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 12:44:36 +0000

Transhumanists are coming. As are bionic cyberterrorists. The future is both amazing and scary!

New comment by dejaime in "Self-Driving Cars Have a Problem: Safer Human-Driven Ones"

dejaime — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:43:26 +0000

Automatic emergency breaking and other "safer human-driven" cars is not making the human-driven aspect any safer, but rather putting the working and stable parts of autonomous vehicles as a tool for unsafe human-driven vehicles. That said, it will obviously fare better than fully autonomous vehicles, but it is still just a part of autonomous vehicles in general. In this sense, these cars are not "a problem self-driving cars have" as the title implies, they are actually a stepping stone for self-driving cars.

New comment by dejaime in "Less Processed Meat, More Plant-Based Foods May Boost Longevity"

dejaime — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 13:55:06 +0000

We just have to make sure we are not swapping super processed meats with super processed plant-based foods. Avoiding processed foods is what makes up for most of this difference.

New comment by dejaime in "Why aren’t more companies remote-first?"

dejaime — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 15:54:43 +0000

This. That's one of the reasons. Here anything between 22 and 5h is also considered night work. If your work is nocturnal (e.g. a security guard) you receive a "night time bonus" on top of your hourly rate. If it isn't though (e.g. a programmer), in theory one would need to receive double hourly rate to work those hours. This does not apply to contractors here, but is an issue when hiring someone as a formal employee.