Hacker News: fexecve

New comment by fexecve in "Hackintoshing as a sustainable environmental practice"

fexecve — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 05:59:10 +0000

Seems AI-written. Doesn't give any justification for MacOS being better for older hardware than Linux or even Windows. You won't be getting updates for your Intel hardware on MacOS, so you're right back where you started with Windows 10 going EOL.

Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2023 edition

fexecve — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 04:29:10 +0000

Article URL: https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35663337

Points: 5

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New comment by fexecve in "CircleCI says hackers stole encryption keys and customers’ source code"

fexecve — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 23:28:19 +0000

Web software is incredibly simple. Having someone's ruby code doesn't really help you much. Hackers just try a few SQL injections, stuff script tags into all of the form fields, and call it a day. More advanced hacks on webapps are virtually unheard of. Certainly custom-designing a hack for some company isn't going to happen. It's a waste of time, because chances are you won't find some complicated hack that wasn't already exposed through the spamming techniques I mentioned above. And most larger, "worthwhile" companies tend to run their own in-house CI and not use Circle.

New comment by fexecve in "CircleCI says hackers stole encryption keys and customers’ source code"

fexecve — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 23:23:49 +0000

Most people will just update their keys, so I doubt anyone is going to burn botnet cycles on trying to use the keys.

New comment by fexecve in "Programmer salaries in the age of LLMs"

fexecve — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 23:21:14 +0000

Who said I was scared? I'm just pointing out that the phrase you used it very vague and some interpretations can be scary. It pays to be specific, especially in tech and medicine, you know? Winkyface.

New comment by fexecve in "Lisa Source Code Release"

fexecve — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 23:18:56 +0000

I'm not sure why it took so long, but I think that lawyers dragging their feet probably wasn't it. I'm guessing that they would have never announced the release, unless the lawyers had already signed off on it. I think instead, it took them 5 years to make the landing page (something like this would normally take two years, but the pandemic wasted three years of that time.)

New comment by fexecve in "Why to start a startup in a bad economy (2008)"

fexecve — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 20:25:05 +0000

Then you just need to find an angel investor. The capital has to go somewhere. The wealthy aren't just going to leave their money in publicly-traded stocks, they want some risk in their portfolio.

New comment by fexecve in "Why to start a startup in a bad economy (2008)"

fexecve — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 19:59:09 +0000

This. People underestimate how much technological progress has been slowing every decade. 2008 was even slower than 1998, which was even slower than 1988. Meanwhile almost nothing new has happened since 2013.

New comment by fexecve in "Lisa Source Code Release"

fexecve — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 19:44:44 +0000

> You may not and you agree not to:

> publish benchmarking results about the Apple Software or your use of it

Damn, there goes my Apple Lisa vs Amiga comparison video! I was going to get so many YouTube views! Meh, maybe I'll make it anyway. So sue me!

> the Apple Software may not be exported or re-exported (a) into any U.S. embargoed countries

I'm sure keeping Iran from getting this valuable software from 1983, which runs on a completely dead CPU architecture that Linux doesn't even support anymore, is very important!

(But seriously, as a license geek, and not a lawyer, the wording of this license is really interesting. It seems to have completely different disclaimers than you usually see in open-source licenses...)

New comment by fexecve in "Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages"

fexecve — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:39:51 +0000

I was there in those days too. VB was a very beginner-friendly language, more akin to what we call today "low-code" than other languages. Those developers didn't have to "re" learn software development, as you think, instead they probably never knew software development well enough to use languages like VB.NET (which is what all of the VB devs I worked with ended up on). "C# and .NET" is equal to any language you can think of in terms of complexity, so C# devs are going to be just fine.

New comment by fexecve in "No Start Menu for You"

fexecve — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:11:31 +0000

What? The comments here are very on-topic as far as I can tell.

New comment by fexecve in "No Start Menu for You"

fexecve — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:10:39 +0000

Source availability.

New comment by fexecve in "No Start Menu for You"

fexecve — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:10:00 +0000

The Windows team probably has laptops with high-speed SSDs, and tons of RAM, a fast CPU, and a fast internet connection. So now already with that, 13 seconds is probably down to 3 seconds, and they are probably also okay with (sometimes) waiting 3 seconds while the search box opens after pressing the windows key.

New comment by fexecve in "No Start Menu for You"

fexecve — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:07:36 +0000

Woah woah woah, who said this is "secret"? Were you expecting a big red skull and crossbones to take over your screen whenever a phone home occurs?

New comment by fexecve in "Show HN: Otterkit – COBOL compiler for .NET"

fexecve — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 08:37:13 +0000

ChatGPT thinks it knows everything, god.

New comment by fexecve in "Programmer salaries in the age of LLMs"

fexecve — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 05:10:43 +0000

This is correct. This also excludes contractors, which there are tons of in the Bay Area, and they make a lot less than a regular employee, even at places like Google.

New comment by fexecve in "Programmer salaries in the age of LLMs"

fexecve — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 04:55:31 +0000

> There is research [1] that suggests using GPS navigation could impact your brain function negatively.

Wrong, that research only shows that when you use a GPS, you don't learn routes as quickly. That is only equal to "impacts brain function negatively" in a narrow sense, which you should specify rather than use such a broad and scary-sounding phrase!

New comment by fexecve in "Ask HN: Why do companies use terrible job application portals like Workday?"

fexecve — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 04:18:25 +0000

Workday is cheaper, right? I think that's the ultimate answer.

New comment by fexecve in "Windows 98 icons are great (2015)"

fexecve — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:24:30 +0000

> navigate a ridiculous start menu tree

That's not true, the start menu tree was usually relatively clutter-free until the XP era, where companies went absolutely insane and started putting things like manuals and links to the website inside of the start menu tree... yuck!

New comment by fexecve in "Faster than the filesystem (2021)"

fexecve — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:22:33 +0000

Interesting, I suspected some of those things. Thanks.