Hacker News: dinga

New comment by dinga in "Muse Spark 1.3"

dinga — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:13:00 +0000

This comment aged very quickly

New comment by dinga in "Muse Spark 1.3"

dinga — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:05:28 +0000

I dislike meta so much.. I try to avoid that company as much as possible.

New comment by dinga in "Don't Paste the AI, please"

dinga — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:24:30 +0000

uff.. HN is degrading rapidly. (Yes, also all your comments about "AI SLOP SPOTTED, AI;DR". Regurgitating the same crap over and over again.... pff...)

New comment by dinga in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

dinga — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:52:40 +0000

Indeed. But also some things that were harder at the small company were easier at the large one. You have processes in place, were things in the small company are all done ‘by hand’.

So I think it is hard to compare small and big. For one company things are easy that are hard for the other and vice-versa.

New comment by dinga in "Monday – A personality experiment"

dinga — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 23:10:56 +0000

boring af. what a waste of time.

New comment by dinga in "Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?"

dinga — Tue, 27 May 2025 13:16:53 +0000

Yes, I've also donated to NVDA... I use interactive-brokers to donate. Which apps do you use?

New comment by dinga in "I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC"

dinga — Mon, 12 May 2025 10:08:20 +0000

This is literally Hacker News :)

New comment by dinga in "Richest 10 Percent Responsible for Two-Thirds of Warming"

dinga — Wed, 07 May 2025 13:37:20 +0000

Yes!

New comment by dinga in "Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?"

dinga — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:49:51 +0000

Changed default search-engine on my laptop and cellphone. I still use google but rather as a fallback and I have to actively type in google into the address-bar.

New comment by dinga in "Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?"

dinga — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:47:48 +0000

It is not only about a US-boycott for me, but also about an increase in consciousness about how our choices _do_ have influence. It _does_ matter, which products I buy and I use.

I hope this gains more momentum!

New comment by dinga in "Ask HN: Is programming a “young person's game”?"

dinga — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 09:19:29 +0000

You can teach programming

New comment by dinga in "How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012)"

dinga — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 13:17:24 +0000

Well.. it's not like your comment bursts with cleverness either. But yeah, I clearly overdid it... I just got triggered by that presumptuous comment. I'm really sorry, but I have to work with code written by these "pragmatic, quick 'n dirty"-people everyday. Yeah, the kind of guy who is liked by the management because "they get things done"... IMHO people like that can go and write a poc.. or something that can be thrown to the garbage, but not something that has to be maintained over many years by a lot of different people. Please keep them away from anything serious. Their short-term pragmatic and profitable solution doesn't come for free - it is based on the debt left for others to pay in the future... I am not saying there isn't such thing as overengineering. There is a lot of that too, rest assured that I've seen it more than enough. But overall, I've seen 10x more code that is hard to maintain because it was written by a "cutting-the-crap" guy compared to a something that is problematic because it was overengineered... anyway, that's just my opinion.

New comment by dinga in "Thirty-three Miniatures: Applications of Linear Algebra (2012) [pdf]"

dinga — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 15:21:10 +0000

Ah yeah and of course at least a bit of Borsuk Ulam. In my own words: "for every continuous function from the n-sphere to R^n, there exists a pair of antipodal points on that sphere that will map to the same point in R^n". Example in 1-D: in a heated a metal-ring with some heat-distribution on it, there are to points exactly opposite from each other which have the same temperature.

New comment by dinga in "Thirty-three Miniatures: Applications of Linear Algebra (2012) [pdf]"

dinga — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 11:05:45 +0000

Yay! I had a course with Prof. Matoušek: Topological methods in combinatorics and geometry. It a was mostly about using Borsuk Ulam theorem to prove other theorems in different areas. Can't remember a whole lot, except it was fascinating and beautiful.