Hacker News: fsw

New comment by fsw in "Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua"

fsw — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:08:50 +0000

For one, the last official stable release of premake is from 2010.

New comment by fsw in "I see a future in jj"

fsw — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 07:27:44 +0000

We had rcs, cvs, svn, and now git. Why would it be the ultimate VCS and not be replaced again by something better?

New comment by fsw in "A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in"

fsw — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 08:49:47 +0000

Are you suggesting that killing a few people is acceptable as long as the net result is positive? I don't think that's how the law works.

New comment by fsw in "Scrum is a cancer"

fsw — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 20:34:36 +0000

> One dev flat out refused to stand. I can still see the pulsing vein on the neck of the project manager who so wanted to scream ‘You will stand during the standup dammit!’

There's no project manager role in Scrum so he was already doing it wrong.

New comment by fsw in "TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, NXP to jointly build semiconductor fab in Europe"

fsw — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 08:19:44 +0000

Dresden is kind of a semiconductor hotspot in Germany. AMD and Infineon have factories there for example which also attracted suppliers and related technology to the area.

New comment by fsw in "IntelliJ Rust"

fsw — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 18:25:19 +0000

Why would you like a standalone IDE instead? You'd have to pay another license instead of using an existing one.

New comment by fsw in "Interactive Music Theory Cheat Sheet"

fsw — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 19:13:09 +0000

He would help you in preventing you from learning the wrong things that can take a long time to "unlearn" again later.

New comment by fsw in "Interactive Music Theory Cheat Sheet"

fsw — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 13:59:26 +0000

"Learning the piano" is nothing like Guitar Hero, though. These apps just tell you (and check) which key to press in what order. They don't teach you anything about musicality like dynamics or articulation. They often can't even tell if you played multiple notes simultaneously or if your timing was correct.

If you cannot already play the piano, what you get is just a fancy way to learn reading (parts of) sheet music with the ability to connect a MIDI keyboard.

New comment by fsw in "Twitter's API is down?"

fsw — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:36:17 +0000

Yeah, just start your own Twitter if you want to build an app for it.

New comment by fsw in "Just: A Command Runner"

fsw — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:58:58 +0000

Most people know about scripts and what are for. Most people don't know anything about just or what a "Justfile" is.

New comment by fsw in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022"

fsw — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 09:24:33 +0000

What? That's the absolute opposite of what happens. More vitamins are retained in the food in a pressure cooker because of less water/more steam and less oxygen.

New comment by fsw in "German Bundestag Passes Whistleblower Protection Act"

fsw — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 22:06:44 +0000

I don't think that's very clear in the article. The law allows companies to provide incentives for internal reports but the employee/reporter is the one who can chose to do an internal and an external report.

> Personen, die beabsichtigen, Informationen über einen Verstoß zu melden, können wählen, ob sie sich an eine interne Meldestelle (§ 12) oder eine externe Meldestelle (§§ 19 bis 24) wenden. Wenn einem intern gemeldeten Verstoß nicht abgeholfen wurde, bleibt es der hinweisgebenden Person unbenommen, sich an eine externe Meldestelle zu wenden.

DeepL translation:

> Persons intending to report information about a violation may choose whether to contact an internal reporting office (Section 12) or an external reporting office (Sections 19 to 24). If an internally reported violation has not been remedied, the whistleblower is free to contact an external reporting office.

New comment by fsw in "Twitter misses payroll in Germany and the UK"

fsw — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 13:26:29 +0000

The LAG Köln disagrees with your interpretation:

> (...) Im Falle des verstetigten Bruttomonatsentgelts tritt diese Fälligkeit gemäß § 614 Satz 2 BGB nach Ablauf des Zeitabschnittes, bei einer Monatsvergütung also nach Ablauf des jeweiligen Monats, ein. (...) [1]

This means the payment is due as soon as the month is over and according to § 286 (2) 1 BGB, the employer is immediately in default

[1] https://openjur.de/u/2172897.html

New comment by fsw in "Twitter misses payroll in Germany and the UK"

fsw — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:49:17 +0000

> "after the expiry" != "immediately after the expiry"

That's actually exactly what it means. Immediately after the end of the time period, the employee is entitled to the money and the employer has to pay interest for each day after that.

New comment by fsw in "Twitter misses payroll in Germany and the UK"

fsw — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:23:49 +0000

> If remuneration is assessed by time periods, then it is to be paid at the end of the individual time periods.

"time period" = "month"

New comment by fsw in "Twitter misses payroll in Germany and the UK"

fsw — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:23:00 +0000

Meanwhile in the real world, salary has to be paid at the end of the month:

> BGB, Section 614

> Due date of remuneration

> Remuneration is to be paid after performance of the services. If remuneration is assessed by time periods, then it is to be paid at the end of the individual time periods.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bgb/englisch_bgb...

New comment by fsw in "Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this still doesn't work right”"

fsw — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:01:40 +0000

Outlook shows national holidays in the calendar, yet its "Scheduling Assistant" is unable to figure out that people don't work on that day.

New comment by fsw in "Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75K in court"

fsw — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 20:44:11 +0000

20 days are 4 weeks if you work 5 days per week.

New comment by fsw in "Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019)"

fsw — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 11:19:11 +0000

> All that said: can someone point me in the direction of a hosted email service that is reliable (this is a must, I don't want emails to bounce and I don't want spam), has native mobile apps w/push notifications, has a good web ui, and generally just works? And can anyone confirm that once I pull my email from google apps that I could then use it for those google services?

Fastmail does all that, I'm using it for years now: https://www.fastmail.com/?STKI=/u226717

New comment by fsw in "RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD"

fsw — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 06:30:07 +0000

> PLEASE NOTE: On 2022-02-14, we decided to abandon the current path of using X11/KDE desktop components and write from scratch a new UI that will align better with our goals. A very early UI on the new WindowServer is starting to take shape as of 2022-07-27. Thanks for your patience as we work to make ravynOS the best possible version.