Hacker News: draw_down

New comment by draw_down in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

draw_down — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:54:46 +0000

Hmm, I think you’re not ever supposed to say anything negative about Ukraine.

New comment by draw_down in "UAE to leave OPEC"

draw_down — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:44:23 +0000

Sometimes foreign aid is good, other times it's bad.

New comment by draw_down in "Work with the garage door up (2024)"

draw_down — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:19:48 +0000

Remember that webcomic of the org charts of different companies? Microsoft's was a bunch of separate groups with guns aimed at each other.

New comment by draw_down in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

draw_down — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:02:22 +0000

I was pleased to see Congaree on here. It really does suck that bad.

New comment by draw_down in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

draw_down — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:00:03 +0000

For #1, holding the option key makes the x immediately appear on all of the spaces.

New comment by draw_down in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

draw_down — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:13:16 +0000

Hope they don’t auto-close this one in two weeks

New comment by draw_down in "Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search"

draw_down — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:06:46 +0000

The dystopia of searching for video clips and finding them? What?

New comment by draw_down in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

draw_down — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:46:01 +0000

I’ve worked in two places now with Ruby Sorbet servers. Ruby always drives me nuts how things are just in-scope and we don’t know why or where they came from.

I certainly wouldn’t want to go back to working in dynamic languages without typing on top. That takes too much brain power, I’m too old for that now.

I would say Sorbet seems more “basic” than something like Typescript. It handles function calls matching signatures, potential nulls, making sure properties actually exist, that kind of thing. Whereas TS can get quite abstract, and at times you’re fighting to convince it that a value actually is the type you say it is.

TS is very powerful and expressive, to the point that it’s possible to do computation within type code. I’m not convinced I always need that power, or that it’s always more help than hindrance.

New comment by draw_down in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

draw_down — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:55:43 +0000

Oops you forgot this part:

> Here we account for the influence of three main natural variability factors: El Niño, volcanism, and solar variation.

Whoops! Whoopsies! Oopsy doodles!

New comment by draw_down in "MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings"

draw_down — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:29:36 +0000

Indeed, if only it were as simple as “{n} rows”.

I18n / l10n is full of things like this, important details that couldn’t be more boring or fiddly to implement.

New comment by draw_down in "Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award"

draw_down — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:50:31 +0000

If I may suggest two artists besides the great Fela Kuti: William Onyeabor (try "Tomorrow") and Dizzy K Falola (try "Sweet Music").

New comment by draw_down in "Gas Town Decoded"

draw_down — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:26:18 +0000

I didn’t see the source graph thing, but the Grab episode always seemed odd to me. He wrote these breathless rants about how epic it all was, then quit after a year or so. I just figured the long hours eventually stopped being awesome.

New comment by draw_down in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

draw_down — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:14:20 +0000

Man we better hope the solution to that problem is working code. Otherwise we better start working the fryers or something.

New comment by draw_down in "Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover"

draw_down — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:34:45 +0000

From what I can tell, he was insufficiently enthusiastic about immigration. And, you know. You can't be saying that stuff.

New comment by draw_down in "What Is Blueskyism?"

draw_down — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:09:15 +0000

I can't agree, it's been nice to have these people off Twitter. They don't contribute much and their shrillness got really old.

New comment by draw_down in "This website has no class"

draw_down — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:34:27 +0000

Yeah. I don’t want to see “wow look at how pretty this markup is”. I want to see “look how flexible and easy to change this is, without redoing everything”.

If you’re not talking about change, the other stuff is pointless.

New comment by draw_down in "Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley (1962)"

draw_down — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:47:02 +0000

I gather by the mention of fascism that the correspondent is a bad person. So it makes sense that Russell told him to get bent. But, that is all that he's really saying here.

I can only guess this is noteworthy due to the parties corresponding because it isn't very interesting outside of that.

New comment by draw_down in "The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami"

draw_down — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 08:58:28 +0000

It would only take you a weekend!

New comment by draw_down in "A bug saved the company"

draw_down — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:37:50 +0000

Not only that, but if the trial works that way, you can repeat it any time you need to record something. The app probably dropped a prefs file somewhere (the old-style Mac XML preferences files), delete that and go again.

This would actually be easier than just paying.

New comment by draw_down in "SQL Injection as a Feature"

draw_down — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:13:23 +0000

Hey, if you can know that your users are not adversarial and are capable of writing queries, I say let 'em! The problem is really in that last bit.