Hacker News: frandroid

New comment by frandroid in "Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it"

frandroid — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:30:23 +0000

So we can call this one Chen's Fence

New comment by frandroid in "Show HN: M. C. Escher spiral in WebGL inspired by 3Blue1Brown"

frandroid — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:45:06 +0000

what could go wrong

New comment by frandroid in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

frandroid — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:41:22 +0000

For all the people talking about 5 hour PR review delays... This reminds me of some teams that rotate the "fire extinguisher/emergency bug fixer" duty every day/week/sprint to a different developer. One could rotate a dedicated "first review duty" person. That developer would be in charge of focusing on rapidly starting PR reviews as their priority, with option to request other reviewers if necessary. Spreading the duty around would make people be respectful of the reviewer because if they send unreviewed slop to the reviewers, it's likely that people will send them slop too.

New comment by frandroid in "How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick"

frandroid — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 01:15:16 +0000

> alongside, we can poison the nextjs cache for everyone for any site,

What??

New comment by frandroid in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

frandroid — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:37:33 +0000

Oh so that's why my bank app said it thought my old device was rooted when it wasn't...

New comment by frandroid in "Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference"

frandroid — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:55:02 +0000

It's not impossible that the Pentagon could have thought "alright, we want these readings. is there a civilian use for this kind of data and decided to see if a civilian project could be sprung up... Though that's more of a Cold War conceit. These days they would just do it themselves, it's probably an easy and cheap project.

New comment by frandroid in "Is there a purely technical term for 'monkey patching'"

frandroid — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:39:27 +0000

On the origins of the term "monkey patching"

Is there a purely technical term for 'monkey patching'

frandroid — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:39:27 +0000

Article URL: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/235992/125453

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43928891

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by frandroid in "Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more"

frandroid — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:02:47 +0000

Imagine the chaos if English had a phonetic spelling reformation like Spanish had a while ago...

New comment by frandroid in "Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize"

frandroid — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:29:25 +0000

Blame HN users for upvoting the story, not this chrome page...

New comment by frandroid in "Gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses"

frandroid — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:24:07 +0000

So, WWE more than war-like fighting

New comment by frandroid in "Make invalid states unrepresentable (2023)"

frandroid — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:51:05 +0000

Okay but the solution here is to identify and parcel your cases into discrete entities. The article doesn't say "don't accept anything odd", it says "clearly identify what you accept". If you have to accept odd cases, identify them so it's clear what's happening.

So this isn't about purity, it's about being declarative. i.e. make your code say what it accepts, instead of writing board/implicit acceptable inputs that inevitably forget cases and crashes.

If you limit what you accept as inputs then you can stop worrying about downstream error handling and debugging.

New comment by frandroid in "Macs can now inform Apple if any liquids have been detected in the USB-C ports"

frandroid — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 06:08:01 +0000

It's probably worse in warm climates, but macbook cables were disintegrating everywhere for the longest time.

New comment by frandroid in "Macs can now inform Apple if any liquids have been detected in the USB-C ports"

frandroid — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 06:06:36 +0000

Half of developers in North America, and especially those at top tier companies, use Macs. You can't buy that kind of top tech mindshare with marketing. Also now with the M-series CPUs, Macbooks aren't PC Clones anymore, they're back in the game of being an exclusive platform, which will get even more exclusive as they add other specialized chips. Their sales share of the market and as you mention, their profit share of the market keeps increasing, so even on that alone, why would a bean counter decide to drop them?

Don't forget Apple's size... the AirPod business, stood alone, would be a Fortune 500 company. Even if an Apple business is a bit small compared to the iPhone, it's still a humongous business by any other comparator.

I'm not an Apple fanboy (e.g. I use an old Chinese Android phone) but I'm still awed by their business.

New comment by frandroid in "New PFAS discovered with novel testing method"

frandroid — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 22:06:40 +0000

Okay but if I was living downstream from these plants, I'd still take my chances on bottled water that's coming from elsewhere. :P

New comment by frandroid in "After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data"

frandroid — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:45:19 +0000

So lesson of the story, avoid the AAA named companies because they've been in the respawning business for a long time

New comment by frandroid in "Firefox got faster for real users in 2023"

frandroid — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:24:00 +0000

I wasn't asking about your feel of things. I was asking about whether you're serious about thinking that no one cares about page load speeds.

Anyway, it was a rhetorical question, not one that needed an answer.

New comment by frandroid in "[dead]"

frandroid — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:22:19 +0000

That's not "lab-grown meat" means, course. Count on a headline writer to muddy any issue for attention...

New comment by frandroid in "Firefox got faster for real users in 2023"

frandroid — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 17:08:56 +0000

Are you serious?

New comment by frandroid in "Wait, what's a bookmarklet?"

frandroid — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:37:54 +0000

I post to Facebook and Twitter using bookmarklets and i just made a bookmarklet to use newsproxy.ca to get around Facebook's news blockade in Canada.

These you posted are really great