Hacker News: dilandau

New comment by dilandau in "We Can Do Better Than SQL"

dilandau — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 12:24:49 +0000

>sql alternative #1427904 that absolutely nobody will ever use

Love it or hate it, sql is a standard and there is a ton of knowledge (stackoverflow answers, books, tutorials) and tooling (query builders, orms). This is either hopelessly naive, or hopelessly arrogant.

New comment by dilandau in "Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees"

dilandau — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 23:30:03 +0000

Doesn't understand the difference between free-lance software engineer and indentured gypsy cab driver.

...not going to make it.

New comment by dilandau in "Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A"

dilandau — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 12:58:12 +0000

Rightful king of the top comment.

I got a phone that is just usb-c. Carrying around the adapter sucks, and Bluetooth is an even bigger pain in the ass.

New comment by dilandau in "Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot"

dilandau — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 10:29:25 +0000

It's easier to pull out a soapbox and make ridiculous speeches like these, than to actually make a gui application.

If you're making something for free or for fun, then let curiosity guide you. Bureaucrats like yourself can comment all you want. I'll be making applications.

New comment by dilandau in "The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free"

dilandau — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 12:01:14 +0000

Great point. You could say that the "lies" are propaganda, as much as the advertisement that they are the vehicle for. Inundated with this much propaganda, which points to the impotence of the individual, no wonder we're seeing so much mass unrest.

New comment by dilandau in "Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac"

dilandau — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 11:55:07 +0000

Ah yes, the "computer as glorified typewriter" blog post. Needless to say, I think these appeal to people because:

Encourage consumption (of old/novelty hardware)

Promise of "productivity" (the holy grail for hn commenters)

A pip on your shoulder for being different/special

Deflect from the hard problems internet addiction and procrastination, to "hey do this instead"

New comment by dilandau in "Perl7 is a fork of values"

dilandau — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 14:50:55 +0000

Love to see the Perl team discussing these issues in such a thoughtful way. Over the years I have learned to value stability and backwards compatibility, through hard lessons (which were often quite expensive to my employer). But no one value is good or bad, per se, rather they should be selected carefully: and that is the point I took away from this article.

New comment by dilandau in "GTK 3.99"

dilandau — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 11:27:52 +0000

When 1 company is responsible for the most cancerous, complicated, baroque, developer-hostile libraries? I think it's fine to ask these questions.

Would you create a new open-source desktop application using gtk4? Would you want to package and maintain systemd/pulse/etc?

Also: why are you responding to all the critical comments in the thread, and writing dismissive replies?

New comment by dilandau in "GTK 3.99"

dilandau — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:41:45 +0000

I still use tcl/tk and it's still the best choice for apps of modest requirements, in my opinion.

It's stable (unlike gtk), and truly free (unlike qt, which is also a c++ behemoth). It's utterly simple and elegant.

New comment by dilandau in "GTK 3.99"

dilandau — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:34:37 +0000

This is the comment I wish I had made. The transition from 2 to 3 was terrible for end users, distros, and app developers. I wonder if redhat is trying to embrace/extend/extinguish because it's impossible for me to see gtk (and gnome) teams actions as anything less than overtly hostile.

New comment by dilandau in "GTK 3.99"

dilandau — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:30:48 +0000

StatusIcon and AppIndicator is extremely annoying.

Clientside decorations, ridiculous headerbar, button+hamburger menus, etc, etc. They are trying their absolute hardest to copy Mac os, and making sure everyone's stuff breaks in the meantime.

New comment by dilandau in "GTK 3.99"

dilandau — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:27:06 +0000

GTK is openly hostile to 3rd party developers and theme makers, ever since gtk became synonymous with gnome (around 3.0). This is going to be a nightmare for open-source developers and distros, which will likely be forced to support both for a long time to come.

Me? I'll keep writing tcl/tk applications. It's stable, cross-platform, and did I mention it's stable?

New comment by dilandau in "Does Having an Anime Profile Picture Make You a Better Programmer?"

dilandau — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 19:57:36 +0000

Lain is certified midwit tier. It appeals to the r/iamverysmart types.

New comment by dilandau in "Does Having an Anime Profile Picture Make You a Better Programmer?"

dilandau — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 18:19:51 +0000

If you want to 10x, I suggest an anime username as well.

New comment by dilandau in "A new funding model for open source software"

dilandau — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:38:56 +0000

For fucks sake if you are trying to make money, why are you doing open source?

Or, to put it another way, if you are doing open source, why are you so hung up on getting paid for it?

New comment by dilandau in "Del.icio.us"

dilandau — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:12:01 +0000

You left out the worst of them: Twitter.

Slot-machine of the internet. rage, outrage, xenophobia, name-calling, name-dropping, celebrity, manufactured 140 chars at a time. It's a culture killer.

New comment by dilandau in "Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores"

dilandau — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 17:07:21 +0000

I think it's a factor of these systems being cheap. Cheap software, cheap cameras, cheap storage, cheap compute. It's a shame we don't have a better use for all that stuff.

New comment by dilandau in "Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores"

dilandau — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:22:57 +0000

(triggered)

I mean, I carry my phone around in my pocket, so I kinda expect at least big Google is watching me. And probably the cell network. And probably the government, passively.

But RITE AID? What the hell, a fucking pharmacy? I mean: the customer is typically just buying whatever their doctor prescribes them. I guess they have aisles of cosmetics and cold medicine and stuff, but still, this seems remarkable for its banality and at the same time invasiveness. It's the worst kind of evil: stupid evil.

New comment by dilandau in "Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores"

dilandau — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:15:50 +0000

What companies are behind the development of these camera+software solutions? I reckon it's just a couple?

New comment by dilandau in "New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases"

dilandau — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 01:30:41 +0000

Strawman. And a weak one at that. Fuck off with conflating the minimum amount of competency needed to secure the data you needlessly collect with that kind of naivete.