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New comment by dimaaan in "Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran"

dimaaan — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:03:45 +0000

How about ReflectiveProcessorBeanFactoryInitializationAotProcessor?

New comment by dimaaan in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

dimaaan — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:40:51 +0000

I respect the honesty. Curious, though: would you say that in a job interview too?

New comment by dimaaan in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"

dimaaan — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:40:11 +0000

And don't forget about Manifest V2/uBlock Origin removal!

New comment by dimaaan in "Java 27"

dimaaan — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:54:26 +0000

It says: "Status - Draft"

New comment by dimaaan in "Java 27"

dimaaan — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:03:18 +0000

Go has null pointer dereference problem.

Rust is too low-level for typical enterprise app where requirements changes twice a day. You end up spending time and tokens fighting with borrow checker.

C# is MS product, which is no-go for some folks.

Kotlin probably would be the answer.

New comment by dimaaan in "Java 27"

dimaaan — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:56:53 +0000

Null pointer dereference problem. Solved for greenfield C# projects and Kotlin

New comment by dimaaan in "Startup Anti-Patterns"

dimaaan — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:16:54 +0000

You don't need network boundaries for good architecture. Split monolith into modules with an interface

New comment by dimaaan in "Htmx 4.0"

dimaaan — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:51:38 +0000

If you want a prototype fast, don't you use an LLM?

And if you do, why start with a simpler framework?

New comment by dimaaan in "AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds"

dimaaan — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:35:25 +0000

From my experience.

There is a reason why youngest developers are more productive. They accept everything Agent suggests. They don't understand or care. They rely on your review of the Agent output from prompt they copy-pasted from JIRA. So you spent your time reviewing it instead of your own work.

From study titled "The Widening Gap: The Benefits and Harms of Generative AI for Novice Programmers" https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3632620.3671116

>> Without building this solution, and instead just taking what ChatGPT generated, they had skipped crucial steps in the programming problem solving process, and were now lost

When you skip the problem-solving process and take the LLM's first output, you're not building the cognitive framework needed to debug or maintain that code.

New comment by dimaaan in "AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds"

dimaaan — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:00:31 +0000

Honestly, that is way too much for a junior.

I'd side-eye that list as senior .NET dev full stack.

You're asking one person to do frontend/js/css, backend/databases/Redis/MQ, and Python with all that math behind data-science, but i doubt he can understand and review all of this

New comment by dimaaan in "AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds"

dimaaan — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:48:03 +0000

That resonates me.

When I was in high school, I lied to girls about what I was planning to major in just so I wouldn't sound like some antisocial nerd.

Nobody back then thought coding was cool. It was just the thing the weird kids did in the computer lab.

New comment by dimaaan in "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering"

dimaaan — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:11:31 +0000

>> Nil and partially constructed structs

C# has "nullable reference types" and "required" keyword for that

New comment by dimaaan in "Ask HN: What is the job market like?"

dimaaan — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:10:01 +0000

RTO - Return to Office

New comment by dimaaan in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

dimaaan — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:09:36 +0000

Don't call them rockstars - call them "resume-driven developers."

We had one on our team in the past.

A bunch of microservices built on an in-house RPC framework he wrote, RabbitMQ, half-baked "monads" in an OOP language, esoteric naming, and no comments (the code should be self-documenting!), no docs.

Management adored him.

Once we started to grow, the problems started to appear: bad orchestration, uninformative logs full of PII, poor error handling, edge cases that were nearly impossible to fix within the existing abstractions, dependency hell, etc.

At that point, he moved on.

It took years and many hundreds of pull requests to clean it up.

New comment by dimaaan in "JOPA: Java compiler in C++, Jikes modernized to Java 6 with Claude"

dimaaan — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:29:48 +0000

Don't forget NPM packages Mocha and Chai (Pee and Tea)

New comment by dimaaan in ".NET 10 Preview 6 brings JIT improvements, one-shot tool execution"

dimaaan — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:55:08 +0000

MIT license: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn

New comment by dimaaan in "Never write your own date parsing library"

dimaaan — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:21:03 +0000

No. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...

New comment by dimaaan in "'Russia's Google' exits the country"

dimaaan — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 23:49:20 +0000

And "Search by picture"

New comment by dimaaan in "Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?"

dimaaan — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:25:12 +0000

Right, fixed such test today

New comment by dimaaan in "Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?"

dimaaan — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:29:17 +0000

And standard library design errors also.

Properly designed date/time API invented relatively recently.

System.DateTime (.NET) - 2002 | System.DateTimeOffset - 2005

Joda time (JVM) - 2005 | java.time - 2014

Temporal (JavaScript) - still experimental