Hacker News: grandpoobah

New comment by grandpoobah in "Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold"

grandpoobah — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:26:46 +0000

Copilot for Visual Studio is just bad. How can something as simple as automatically including selected code in the query not be possible? lol. And the diffing feature always breaks. I just gave up in the end.

New comment by grandpoobah in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

grandpoobah — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:43:49 +0000

Microsoft wants a fucking medal for appearing to give a shit about their customers for the first time in 10 years.

New comment by grandpoobah in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

grandpoobah — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:43:28 +0000

I mean there's already an established theme... how hard can it be?

Fire-fox

Thunder-bird

River-wolf

Stone-raven

....

New comment by grandpoobah in "Union types in C# 15"

grandpoobah — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:43:02 +0000

As someone who has been coding C# since the pre-generics days, this is the first syntax change which I strongly disagree with. I pretty much love every little bit of syntactic sugar you guys have added to the language. But this? This seems objectively illogical and just straight up ugly. It blows my mind that this is making it into the language, and it makes me worry about the future of C#.

New comment by grandpoobah in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

grandpoobah — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:57:22 +0000

"Unreadable slop graphic" xD

New comment by grandpoobah in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

grandpoobah — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:54:56 +0000

I haven't touched it in years but I remember moving to WPF because it had a better answer for binding UI elements to data. But while WPF does have an answer, everything is so fucking verbose and clunky.

New comment by grandpoobah in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

grandpoobah — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:07:32 +0000

Not a single comment mentioning UEFN? Epic's failed attempt at copying Roblox?

Epic has been pissing money away paying "creators" to churn out slop "red versus blue" modes/maps for Epic's meta-verse.

A lot of these maps are effectively hello world applications. Like the lowest of low quality. You add in a few weapon spawns, a few prefab buildings, and you're done. Time to get yourself a few thousand a month.

Epic Games: We're laying off over 1000 Epic employees

grandpoobah — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:22:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/todays-layoffs?sessionInvalidated=true

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504018

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

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

grandpoobah — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:16:33 +0000

Let me use Windows 10 for 10 more years. You're full of shit Microsoft.

New comment by grandpoobah in "Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15"

grandpoobah — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:20:56 +0000

You almost have to feel sorry for Zucc.

New comment by grandpoobah in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

grandpoobah — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:08:14 +0000

OP answered your question. Meta is tired of being sued, so they're trying to make Apple & Co responsible instead. And honestly, can you blame them?

New comment by grandpoobah in "Quake's Player Speed (2017)"

grandpoobah — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 01:48:54 +0000

Fortnite, one of the world's most popular FPS games, has the notion of stamina. In my opinion it has been poorly implemented and it's incredibly frustrating at the best of times.

New comment by grandpoobah in "Spotify reportedly investigating Anna's Archive's scraping of their library"

grandpoobah — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:11:29 +0000

Now that's a cool idea.

Why is pasting into VSCode Terminal slow?

grandpoobah — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:52:21 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/1999317065237512224

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46244137

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by grandpoobah in "Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros"

grandpoobah — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:07:40 +0000

Not even large. Trump is cheap. https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-makers-turbotax-gave-trum...

New comment by grandpoobah in "Say Hi to Kit"

grandpoobah — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:17:00 +0000

I use Firefox and I like Firefox, but it feels like they refreshed the logo not all that long ago, and in the time between then and now I can't really think of anything they added to the browser that improved it. I just feel like Firefox is slowly dying, and a fresh coat of paint every few years isn't going to turn things around.

New comment by grandpoobah in "Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states"

grandpoobah — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:19:31 +0000

Such a cheap bribe holy crap.

New comment by grandpoobah in "Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure"

grandpoobah — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 11:38:37 +0000

MSN, .NET, Windows Live, Live... Microsoft can't help themselves when it comes to going all-in on new branding.

New comment by grandpoobah in "Microsoft makes Windows 10 extended security updates free in EEA"

grandpoobah — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:31:51 +0000

I'm willing to run Windows 10 without security updates. Not going to be bullied into downgrading.

New comment by grandpoobah in "Macron says France will ban social media access for under-15s"

grandpoobah — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:46:49 +0000

Another western country putting age controls on social media. Gee I wonder where this is ultimately headed.