Hacker News: dotopotoro

New comment by dotopotoro in "Why is Snowflake so expensive"

dotopotoro — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:14:23 +0000

So you dont need developers when you use SaaS?

New comment by dotopotoro in "How I learned to stop worrying and love macros"

dotopotoro — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 09:36:09 +0000

That’s harsh

New comment by dotopotoro in "The Low Energy Trap"

dotopotoro — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 08:41:39 +0000

Opposite of “live small” usually means “each year bigger and better”, which kind of means geometric growth, which almost by definition seems unsustainable.

New comment by dotopotoro in "Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (2014)"

dotopotoro — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 18:22:52 +0000

Trimming version does not trim whitespace indentation. I guess point goes to “tabs” camp.

New comment by dotopotoro in "Programming breakthroughs we need"

dotopotoro — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 23:25:57 +0000

You should check out IDEs :)

IDE takes plain old text as input, and lets the coder to interact with the model of the program.

1. Various graphical hints in text (highlighting keywords, selections, …)

2. Visualisation tools (draw database and class diagrams)

3. Navigation capabilities (go to implementation, definition etc)

4. Refactoring capabilities (“rename, “extract variable”, …)

In my view, IDE is already “book with diagrams”. (“Diagrams” can still be improved, but concept is really there)

New comment by dotopotoro in "Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds"

dotopotoro — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 20:06:43 +0000

Would you use a PC without any of keyboard hotkeys?

I’m not fanatical about this, I would use it if I would be forced by circumstances. But I would not be happy about it. And I still would try to educate/convince older colleagues that hotkeys make things quicker/easier/“reliabler”.

From your speculation of source of touchscreen hate, I see that you feel that tesla has superior car touchscreen experience. And I don't doubt that. But however good you can be with touchscreen, you can do even better if you also have bunch of physical buttons (in addition to touchscreen/must look then point device).

New comment by dotopotoro in "Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds"

dotopotoro — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 19:23:05 +0000

Probably we are like linux users. In total, over whole globe, we make up quite a sizeable number, but in each geographic location we are still a rare breed (not enough to get the enough momentum).

New comment by dotopotoro in "Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds"

dotopotoro — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 19:00:00 +0000

For ship, there is probable benefit (tradeoff) of making backup bridge easy - theoretically just a bunch of tablets.

New comment by dotopotoro in "No Silver Bullet (1986) [pdf]"

dotopotoro — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 19:13:33 +0000

True. Though realistically, regarding left-pad, in other languages I would expect left-pad to be part of string formatting package.

New comment by dotopotoro in "Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?"

dotopotoro — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:25:37 +0000

Russia’s relation with China will not be that of equals.

Russia will be just a gas station to China. And China being more authoritarian, will not be such easy target for kgb as Scholz/Merkel/Schroeder were.

New comment by dotopotoro in "Fintech is making credit cards weirder"

dotopotoro — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 22:17:31 +0000

Why? (5 “why”s in total)

New comment by dotopotoro in "C23 is finished: Here is what is on the menu"

dotopotoro — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 11:32:37 +0000

I like to imagine that their goal is similar, yet less ambitious: to keep C alive only for those who really need it.

New comment by dotopotoro in "Embed is in C23"

dotopotoro — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 10:31:17 +0000

Even if they fork the language, standard still provides the common baseline for all, which is useful.

New comment by dotopotoro in "Leaked memo reveals Amazon’s plans to combat the Teamsters in California"

dotopotoro — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 21:36:53 +0000

They seem to be very positive influence on amzn

New comment by dotopotoro in "Vala Programming Language"

dotopotoro — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 05:36:14 +0000

Other reasons for the a bit of noise: speed, simplicity and unambiguity of parsing. (Impacts compilation speed, ease of additional tool development, and ability to continue parsing partially incorrect code)

New comment by dotopotoro in "Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement"

dotopotoro — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 11:42:03 +0000

Was gp sarcastic? Are you sarcarstic? (I need an app for that..)

New comment by dotopotoro in "Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles"

dotopotoro — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 16:33:38 +0000

Edit: If neutron is likely to decay into. Why *neutrons* dont decay while being part of an atom? (Wouldn’t this be example of a structure that prevents decaying?)

New comment by dotopotoro in "Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles"

dotopotoro — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 16:11:30 +0000

If neutron is likely to decay into. Why protons dont decay while being part of an atom?

(Wouldn’t this be example of a structure that prevents decaying?)

New comment by dotopotoro in "Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively"

dotopotoro — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 21:42:57 +0000

It’s not bleeding edge raytracing stuff. “Get better hardware” is far from appropriate response.

New comment by dotopotoro in "A sketch of the biggest idea in software architecture"

dotopotoro — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 07:03:50 +0000

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31778505