Hacker News: frou_dh

New comment by frou_dh in "Why TUIs are back"

frou_dh — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:15:33 +0000

There's something disgusting about the use of characters for graphs/charts on a bitmapped monitor. Trust nerds to find a way to make stuff ugly!

New comment by frou_dh in "Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of the same mass"

frou_dh — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:37:07 +0000

He's so charming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8-ZmuJixIg

New comment by frou_dh in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

frou_dh — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:08:33 +0000

AFAIK that setting is opt-in, at least in Bash.

New comment by frou_dh in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

frou_dh — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:53:29 +0000

We have to settle for the smiley face changing slightly.

New comment by frou_dh in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

frou_dh — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:08:06 +0000

It's got to be somewhat depressing working on a household name product in its trashy downturn. Surely you can't have the pride in your work that an equivalent employee once would have.

New comment by frou_dh in "404 Deno CEO not found: Deno's decline and layoffs"

frou_dh — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:19:18 +0000

I wonder about the timing in relation to the OpenAI acquisition of Astral this week. Was it a two-horse race to be acquired and then Deno got word that they were not the chosen one, and so said oh well, mass layoff it is?

BTW the Deno architects would contend that "mastering Deno" could never be a waste of time, because what you're mastering is to a large extent standards-based JS (in comparison to the APIs that came before).

New comment by frou_dh in "Ask HN: How to Learn C++ in 2026?"

frou_dh — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:22:32 +0000

Yeah, that's pretty much tailor-made to be the official resource for an experienced programmer to get an overview of C++ as it stands. Fairly slim book so it's approachable.

https://www.stroustrup.com/tour3.html

New comment by frou_dh in "//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner"

frou_dh — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:52:18 +0000

It's abject hackery because such "comment" directives don't even necessarily have to be a comment to be active:

    const x = `This whole thing is
    a
    //go:generate worse-is-better
    multiline
    string literal`

A lot of people in this discussion are beating up Go for using syntactical comments for directives, but in reality the implementation is even less principled than that!

New comment by frou_dh in "Digg is gone again"

frou_dh — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:44:46 +0000

You really gotta wonder how much value the "Digg" brand actually has, because the number of people that remember/care about the site from its original glory days is ever dwindling.

New comment by frou_dh in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

frou_dh — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:23:42 +0000

See also all the programmer blogs that feel the need to use a monospaced font for prose, to signal that they're a programmer.

New comment by frou_dh in "Building a new Flash"

frou_dh — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:58:45 +0000

Safari's devtools has a visual

New comment by frou_dh in "Why Objective-C"

frou_dh — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:19:55 +0000

Obj-C++ was used for some hall-of-fame OS X apps, e.g. TextMate

Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)

frou_dh — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:27:56 +0000

Article URL: https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/09/18/git-dont-create-gitkeep/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47094877

Points: 202

# Comments: 94

New comment by frou_dh in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

frou_dh — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:17:59 +0000

> sometimes, I allow myself to lean back in my chair and just scroll

WHAT??! This cannot be allowed!! /s

It's clear from reading programmer geek thoughts on peripherals over the years that autistic types love the "Use keyboard 100% of the time!" dogma because it is black-and-white thinking. The idea of someone knowing how to do things in a multitude of ways and changing it up based on mood is displeasing.

New comment by frou_dh in "Do not apologize for replying late to my email"

frou_dh — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:10:27 +0000

On the off-chance I ever do reply to some of the months/years old things that I've never replied to, then I will surely include an apology, because it's definitely rude what I've done.

I don't think many people in the real world worship the sanctity of the "Asynchronous Communication" principle above all else. Maybe the author is the 1/1000 that does.

New comment by frou_dh in "GitHub is down again"

frou_dh — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:41:38 +0000

One of Reddit's cutesy error pages (presumably for Internal Server Error is similar) is an illustration that says "You broke reddit". I know it's a joke, but have wondered what effect that might have on a particularly anxiety-prone person who takes it literally and thinks they've done something that's taken the site down and inconvenienced millions of other people. Seems a bit dodgy for a mainstream site to assume all of its users have the dev knowledge to identify a joking accusation.

New comment by frou_dh in "Art of Roads in Games"

frou_dh — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:51:43 +0000

In 3D games, something that's key for roads to look/feel realistic is to have small amounts of banking here and there all over the place - as opposed to just having a crude categorisation where there are flat roads on one hand and ramps on the other.

If you don't do that then large parts of the game world end up seeming like ice rinks with roads painted on them.

New comment by frou_dh in "Bash scripts are brittle – simple error handling in bash"

frou_dh — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:07:30 +0000

Is that so? Sounds like this commandment has a lot of authority, I'd better start following it.

New comment by frou_dh in "The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75"

frou_dh — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:53:19 +0000

Used in space but NOT cleared for attaching the Space Shuttle to the fuel tank.

Deno Deploy Is Generally Available

frou_dh — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:01:07 +0000

Article URL: https://deno.com/blog/deno-deploy-is-ga

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874566

Points: 3

# Comments: 0