Hacker News: dkns

New comment by dkns in "What Wikipedia Did"

dkns — Sun, 14 May 2023 08:34:04 +0000

Because world is binary and the only two choices are capitalism and communism, right?

New comment by dkns in "Hey, GitHub – Waiting list signup"

dkns — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 11:30:16 +0000

I think this is great for: a) people who are visually impaired or have issues with their hands/fingers b) people who aren't programmers; if you could make it more Scratch-like then this is amazing tool for showing off power of programming

New comment by dkns in "Ask HN: When did tech stop being cool?"

dkns — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 13:54:15 +0000

It's never going to be over. All the easy interesting problems were solved years ago. Now you have to work really hard to come up with something technology related that hasn't been done before.

New comment by dkns in "Ask HN: Do you pull and run code as part of code review?"

dkns — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 15:10:21 +0000

Have you tried using git worktree?

New comment by dkns in "Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?"

dkns — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 21:33:10 +0000

I agree 101% on Kindle. Bought mine (Oasis 2) 3 years ago and since then the amount of books I read skyrocketed. Absolutely worth every penny.

New comment by dkns in "How Did Vim Become So Popular?"

dkns — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 08:41:05 +0000

Stack Overflow survey (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#development-e...) has Vim at ~25% while Emacs is at 4.5%.

New comment by dkns in "Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory"

dkns — Thu, 21 May 2020 05:48:17 +0000

Waste/garbage created by humans is probably an easy source of food for them.

New comment by dkns in "Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, universities, highschools"

dkns — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:22:58 +0000

Are grocery shops considered critical?

New comment by dkns in "Ask HN: Do you ever truly use your revision history?"

dkns — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 16:21:58 +0000

You might find some weird hack in codebase that isn't obvious what it does at the first glance. This isn't something that people document in official documentation but even finding a JIRA ticket that is linked with that specific commit can help tremendously.

New comment by dkns in "Economists study what happens when people stop using Facebook"

dkns — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 08:34:10 +0000

There is a great plugin for browsers called 'news feed eradicator'. It's great because it turns facebook into messenger with notification center when somebody mentions you or there is event coming up.

New comment by dkns in "Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side"

dkns — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 14:32:58 +0000

I reckon Microsoft can be even worse considering how much data they gather about you through telemetry built in Windows. Imagine if you're web dev using windows and edge along with vscode. Oof.

New comment by dkns in "WoW streamer hires YouTubers who leeched off his stream to run official channel"

dkns — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 18:20:34 +0000

But this is for top 1% streamers. Average streamer makes nothing close to what average programmer makes and it's much, much easier to be average programmer. Plus 1% programmers are probably better compensated than 1% streamers.

New comment by dkns in "Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO"

dkns — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:17:57 +0000

It absolutely is. That's what we do at company I work for. We use free gitlab mintues and when it runs out we use runner running on one of our own local machines.

Google Feedback on TypeScript 3.5

dkns — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:29:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/33272

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20916211

Points: 396

# Comments: 145

New comment by dkns in "South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry"

dkns — Sat, 18 May 2019 21:08:50 +0000

My guess would be that it's easier to get tech support for windows than linux.

New comment by dkns in "Mozilla and Google Chrome Refuse to Support Gab’s Dissenter Extension"

dkns — Tue, 07 May 2019 15:54:54 +0000

Nazis started with just saying bad things as well.

New comment by dkns in "Amazon's warehouse worker tracking system can automatically fire people"

dkns — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 12:17:00 +0000

Exactly. One package that costs 5 cents more? 10? 100? Not a big deal.

50 millions packages that cost 5 cents more? Kind of big deal.

New comment by dkns in "AMA: Steven Pruitt, a Wikipedian with 3M edits"

dkns — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 19:08:40 +0000

Turns out the guy who wrote Baba Yetu (civilization 4 theme song which won grammy) is in the comments too, thanking Steven https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/au2rjb/i_am_steven_pr.... What a small world we live in.

New comment by dkns in "Basic income in Finland did not lead to finding work, researchers said"

dkns — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 17:05:43 +0000

> Finland became the first European country to test out the idea of an unconditional basic income.

Isn't unconditional, you know, unconditional? As opposed to "From January 2017 until December 2018"?

New comment by dkns in "A Year-Long Undercover Plot to Blow Up Eve Online's Most Notorious Space Station"

dkns — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 16:58:59 +0000

I like to think about Eve vs. other MMOs as in Eve is an unsupervised sandbox without any adults where all the kids from neighborhood come to play and other MMOs are more like going to a theme park with your parents.