Hacker News: foobahify

New comment by foobahify in "PEP 750 – Template Strings (t-strings) have been accepted"

foobahify — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 21:11:12 +0000

The issue was solved by having a rich and Turing complete language. I am not huge on adding language features. This seems like userland stuff.

New comment by foobahify in "What if your website had business hours? (2022)"

foobahify — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:48:43 +0000

A physical business can put up a closed sign. That closed sign has 24/7 uptime. (Sans vandalism, natural disasters)

I guess for a website you could do similar by flicking cloudflare over to an IP serving a were closed.

But you won't be competitive and you will lose customers!

New comment by foobahify in "Garfield Minus Garfield"

foobahify — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:39:08 +0000

Oh my!

Attorney representing a student protester detained by federal immigration agents

foobahify — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:37:21 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/1jw34qx/attorney_representing_a_student_protester/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43647812

Points: 93

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New comment by foobahify in "No Pay, No Work; Early Career Lessons"

foobahify — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:09:28 +0000

Nice. Of course you could have ended with zero too!

New comment by foobahify in "The best programmers I know"

foobahify — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:58:26 +0000

Yes. You weren't wrong. You need to first guess in order to not guess :)

New comment by foobahify in "Show HN: I also built a word game. My mom is indifferent, but I think its ccool"

foobahify — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:54:12 +0000

Feasible in an AI world!

New comment by foobahify in "The best programmers I know"

foobahify — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 10:08:45 +0000

Logs, tests, debugging, ask questions, build a mental model, test that mental model. The more experience I get the less I guess.

New comment by foobahify in "Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?"

foobahify — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:14:07 +0000

Yes for holiday planning. At work we are a massive confluence/rovo user so that is my go to with very occasional search engine use.

Our projects heavily use platform tools so I am looking there rather than Googling.

Migrants who used Biden-era app told to leave US 'immediately'

foobahify — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:11:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg8e4q2p9po

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43626983

Points: 16

# Comments: 2

New comment by foobahify in "Less Htmx Is More"

foobahify — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:08:24 +0000

500ms means a slow connection, high latency or significant bloat.

Optimising the page and using a CDN can help alot.

It is a shame HTML doesn't have rel="swap" in links to "swap" in a new page.

New comment by foobahify in "Less Htmx Is More"

foobahify — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:01:22 +0000

Yes if you click a regular link in a modern browser on a noJS or lowJS reasonable size page it is darn fast.

And the predictability is a boon. Open in new tab, back button etc.

New comment by foobahify in "Don't Make the Mistake of Thinking What's Now Happening Is Mostly About Tariffs"

foobahify — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:33:52 +0000

Pre-trump: Why does China need US debt? They can be paid US $ for stuff then buy US assets like stocks instead? Then they get rich without worrying if they get paid. (Assuming the US doesn't break down basic corporate norms and confiscate assets)

New comment by foobahify in "Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town"

foobahify — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:17:47 +0000

Japanese websites have a great aversion to even 2005 level Web homogeneity, let alone the modern tailstraps.

New comment by foobahify in "Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town"

foobahify — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:15:33 +0000

"Rural Japan" checks notes. Pop 1.7M

New comment by foobahify in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

foobahify — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:14:11 +0000

I have to do a bragsheet now anyway and yeah like gritting teeth. It is documenting your job basically!

New comment by foobahify in "Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends"

foobahify — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:08:49 +0000

Same in 2001. Took 8 months to get my first job. I started the hunt after graduation to avoid job interviews interfering with study (an 1 hr interview would be a 1 day affair with commuting).

Had I got a job before I graduated that company may well have gone bust or laid people off anyway.

Had some bad interviews including being beaten by a other candidate on a job writing access databases for a 1 person business, and a job where they said they interview girls to see what they look like (not a girl but was disgusted... I carried on the process anyway because need $)

New comment by foobahify in "Ask HN: Could tariffs be used as a reverse pump and dump?"

foobahify — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:04:44 +0000

Cross my mind when government tweets were moving entire indices. That is a Midas touch.

New comment by foobahify in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

foobahify — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:59:06 +0000

My memory had held back my career I am sure. I can't regurgitate the minute details of impact I did even 12 months ago, just broad strokes... so I prep as best I can but it probably sounds like I am lying. Now with AI and everyone is suspicious it is worse. Got downleveled to 4yoe level yoe from where I am 20yoe but I needed a job so.

New comment by foobahify in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

foobahify — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:55:07 +0000

This has nothing to do with AI. They lied in an interview like you could have done in 1980. You can prepare with AI and lie and you can prepare with AI and not lie. I have done the latter.