Hacker News: fopen64

New comment by fopen64 in "The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic"

fopen64 — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 18:23:58 +0000

IMHO VB was not respected because you could not write your own components/widgets in VB, you had to resort to C++. Delphi components were all written in Delphi. It was clear VB was a second-class citizen.

Due to this factor, and others, VB had the typical Microsoft learning curve: extremely easy to do simple things, and then exponentially difficult to do big things. It was the same in MS-Access that many people thought it was the future of client/server apps, ERP apps, etc.

This limitation was lifted in VB6 or so (dumped VB for Delphi when left win16 for win32 so I am not sure).

New comment by fopen64 in "To Revive the Mac, Apple Wants to Kill Electron"

fopen64 — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 08:05:04 +0000

The problem is, Macs are too expensive and underpowered these days. More important than developers are users. Right now the Mac is sort of a tax levied on iOS developers

New comment by fopen64 in "A new census shows how a Brazilian favela works"

fopen64 — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 03:17:38 +0000

Favelas are a mass transit problem. People live there, in bad conditions, because they are somewhat nearer to their jobs. Otherwise, they would spend half a day in their way to work.. Renting a 'house' in a favela is more expensive then renting a good house in small cities.

New comment by fopen64 in "Bluetooth's Complexity Has Become a Security Risk"

fopen64 — Mon, 20 May 2019 02:17:11 +0000

You mean the BLE API? In classic Bluetooth the main problem was the lack of APIs, only SPP is supported (and not even that, in iOS).

Bluetooth is really a good bad example of committee design.

New comment by fopen64 in "Riding alone in a car is an increasingly unaffordable luxury"

fopen64 — Wed, 08 May 2019 19:59:28 +0000

The car is the last place you might have some privacy, listen to loud music, talk to yourself. I take "micro-vacations from marriage" consisting basically of driving alone a couple days.

The bathroom is arguably the other remaining place for complete privacy, so I understand completely people that can afford huge bathrooms with magazines, TV, etc.

New comment by fopen64 in "We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible"

fopen64 — Wed, 08 May 2019 19:23:13 +0000

That's what happens when you are bogged down in Donglegate-like discussions.

New comment by fopen64 in "Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop"

fopen64 — Wed, 08 May 2019 03:37:31 +0000

I'd say Flutter/Dart.

New comment by fopen64 in "What to Do About Inequality (2012)"

fopen64 — Tue, 07 May 2019 19:39:29 +0000

These people are human beings too. And the middle class is looking: whatever happens in the top tax bracket, trickles down.

New comment by fopen64 in "What to Do About Inequality (2012)"

fopen64 — Tue, 07 May 2019 15:18:32 +0000

Yes but if you are left with less disposable money you don't have any escape whatsoever if the government is not well run.

New comment by fopen64 in "What to Do About Inequality (2012)"

fopen64 — Tue, 07 May 2019 13:56:36 +0000

The destination of this money is equally important. Tax and hire a lot of lazy public servants is a moral hazard as well.

New comment by fopen64 in "Launch HN: Prometheus (YC W19) – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline"

fopen64 — Tue, 07 May 2019 03:17:54 +0000

God allows you to succeed. That would be awesome.

New comment by fopen64 in "What If Unhappiness Contains the Secret to Happiness?"

fopen64 — Mon, 06 May 2019 12:26:22 +0000

There is a stoichiometric mix of pain and pleasure that lends to happiness. In the present time, we have too much pleasure over pain, and we respond to unhappiness by adding even more pleasure.

New comment by fopen64 in "Reform capitalism or face revolution"

fopen64 — Mon, 06 May 2019 03:49:27 +0000

There are cooler heads like Warren Buffett that have been telling this for what, decades?

New comment by fopen64 in "Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others"

fopen64 — Thu, 02 May 2019 18:43:01 +0000

Regrettable. Are they banning radical left types? Of course not.

New comment by fopen64 in "Agony of an African Programmer (2014)"

fopen64 — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 19:03:46 +0000

Lots of software developers (mainstream ones, but even someones that deserve way more) make no more than that in LATAM.

New comment by fopen64 in "We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage"

fopen64 — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 22:49:56 +0000

https://medium.com/@carlosreutemann/tech-job-interviews-the-...

New comment by fopen64 in "We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage"

fopen64 — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 22:49:06 +0000

https://medium.com/@carlosreutemann/tech-job-interviews-the-...

New comment by fopen64 in "Intel Exiting 5G Modems"

fopen64 — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:48:20 +0000

RF is difficult.

New comment by fopen64 in "A fork() in the road"

fopen64 — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:33:32 +0000

For some reason the book (Beginning Linux Programming, Wrox Press, 1998 edition I think) explained select() first, so like the proverbial little duck that names 'mother' the first think it sees moving after hatch, select() caught my heart.

New comment by fopen64 in "Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing"

fopen64 — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:17:49 +0000

In Brazil the govt supplies the software for free, runs in all major operating systems, and autofills what the IRS already knows if you have a digital certificate.