Hacker News: gargs

New comment by gargs in "Shopify moves back to Native from React Native"

gargs — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:59:55 +0000

What I want to know is if the agents are so good that they can convert React Native code to native with amazing efficiencies along the way, what's stopping them from improving React Native itself?

New comment by gargs in "I also filed the corners off my MacBook"

gargs — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:07:38 +0000

I actually have suffered from a cut. It's ridiculously sharp.

New comment by gargs in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

gargs — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:10:43 +0000

Apple Maps is absolutely very late to the game when it comes to road closures. Google Maps somehow always knows which roads are closed, even if for a few minutes.

New comment by gargs in "Apple needs a Snow Sequoia"

gargs — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 08:54:19 +0000

When I started using OS X, one of the biggest draws for me was first-class native keyboard shortcuts support that was consistently followed and applied by all apps (first party and otherwise). So you could be sure that a shortcut for search across all contexts (global) would work just as well as the shortcut for a contextual search within any app. No one writes great third-party native apps anymore and even Apple's own apps completely disregard this part of their heritage. Just try searching across the AppStore, Apple Music, and the legacy Finder.

For newer Apple apps, sometimes the keyboard shortcuts simply don't exist. I believe part of the problem here is the deprecation of AppleScript, which means there's no incentive to spend time on consistency, and the other part has to do with organizational indifference towards all the wonderful UX innovations from the past.

What Apple has successfully accomplished, in collaboration with other 'big tech' companies is drastically reducing user expectations from their software. I wouldn't completely blame the AppStore's forced race to the bottom for this alone. There is still a huge market for tasteful apps that cost more (even sometimes with obnoxious subscriptions), but if even Apple isn't leading by example, why waste time on it if you could just build another simple note-taking app.

New comment by gargs in "I Quit Spotify"

gargs — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:47:17 +0000

If their problem was 'too many developers', I reckon they'd be building totally useless yet amazingly engineered SDKs and data/analytics tools or apps to improve the quality and satisfaction of your music consumption. Instead, they focus on all the things that just reek of an overabundance of marketers and Product People™.

New comment by gargs in "Apple found in breach of EU competition rules"

gargs — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:39:36 +0000

Surely, Apple will respond by artificially hampering one or more of their products in the EU and hence take away even the slightest reason to upgrade hardware in the name of Apple Intelligence.

Customers need a company that acts and reasons like an adult.

New comment by gargs in "ICQ will stop working from June 26"

gargs — Fri, 24 May 2024 17:56:46 +0000

We only had dial-up connections with a real IPv4 address back when I used ICQ.

New comment by gargs in "ICQ will stop working from June 26"

gargs — Fri, 24 May 2024 17:47:18 +0000

It was way ahead of its time even in the 90s. I remember being swooned by the real-time typing windows, amazing sound effects, Just Works™ file transfer, and the wonderful contact list with people decorating their names with ASCII art. I made some wonderful friends in real life.

New comment by gargs in "As clicks dry up for news sites, could Apple's news app be a lifeline?"

gargs — Wed, 22 May 2024 11:54:22 +0000

Maybe, but Apple has proven to be exceptionally bad at rolling out their services globally if they fail to obtain some arbitrary scale.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/118205

Are Kids Losing Their Love for Music?

gargs — Wed, 22 May 2024 11:22:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/22/phone-kids-losing-their-love-for-music

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40439646

Points: 14

# Comments: 20

New comment by gargs in "The Lost Worlds of Telnet (2019)"

gargs — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:35:37 +0000

This was my immediate thought upon seeing the title! I used to love the library telnet server, which worked for searching, placing a hold, renewing, and even inter-library loans. There was also rudimentary full-text search of engineering journals. Today, it's a 'modern' website with tons of whitespace, non-customizable fonts, and links out to events and what not. Simplicity is such a wonderful feature and yet it's somehow completely orthogonal to modern engineering.

New comment by gargs in "Why tech job interviews became such a nightmare"

gargs — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 13:59:07 +0000

...and after passing that hurdle, you're suddenly exposed to a large body of work in the organization that has no processes to ensure continuity and modernization other than some rudimetary coding styles and PR/code review flows. The only way to stick around is to make your output so incomprehensible that the only way to maintain it is to keep the lead around.

For all the talk about hiring the best, once they're in the goal becomes to stop hands-on development as quickly as possible and to add friction to improving the knowledge repository as much as possible.

New comment by gargs in "Why tech job interviews became such a nightmare"

gargs — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 13:37:53 +0000

Gatekeeping also has something to do with this.

New comment by gargs in "The day I canceled my Spotify subscription"

gargs — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 10:34:47 +0000

Bad design is slowly becoming an industry trend, which is surprising because Twitter today has more design influencers than ever before. Personally, I feel that the marriage of design with data has created such a huge mess that there’s just no good escape hatch.

It’s all about simplicity and the 80/20 principle today, which means that designers are bound to look at usage metrics and clicks as evidence of a successful design. Upper management doesn’t have to care as long as the bottom line is doing well and they’re able to kill competition in other ways.

From a user standpoint, though, once you get attuned to the basic functionality you want more power features that cost a lot of effort to build but don’t really make you pay more for them. You just can’t win.

This is why we need competition.

New comment by gargs in "Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose"

gargs — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:07:35 +0000

This is the courageous Apple we've all been waiting for. One that doesn't think twice about antagonizing its users just to throw a tantrum.

New comment by gargs in "How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019)"

gargs — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:12:09 +0000

Unless it is doctors' notes or prescriptions.

New comment by gargs in "DIY MBA: My Reading List (2019)"

gargs — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 19:42:06 +0000

Would this help in getting jobs as much as a real MBA would?

New comment by gargs in "Working in Silicon Valley was fun. Now it's just another miserable corporate gig"

gargs — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:05:07 +0000

I have to wonder how much of this middle management heavy organizational structure was introduced by cultures that place undue significance to 'becoming a manager' in computing success in profession.

Netflix Down

gargs — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:00:32 +0000

Article URL: https://help.netflix.com/en/is-netflix-down

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37844508

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gargs in "macOS command-line tools you might not know about"

gargs — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:49:35 +0000

In my case, it appears that maximizing my download has a huge impact on my upload as well, which makes sense from a TCP/IP point of view. In this case, do you mean the ISP's flow control?