Hacker News: gustavorg

New comment by gustavorg in "Lucasart's Afterlife"

gustavorg — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:28:20 +0000

Because of my poor English, I thought this post was about life at LucasArts after the sale. I was disappointed. I never had time to play LucasArts games: Leisure Suit Larry, Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals and similar games took up all my time.

New comment by gustavorg in "The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)"

gustavorg — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:01:52 +0000

I was honestly embarrassed to admit that I have no idea what I've been using on my Ubuntu server for the last 10 years. The way to find out if I'm using vi or vim is to enter command mode (by pressing “:”) and run “version” I'm using vim ;)

New comment by gustavorg in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

gustavorg — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:42:10 +0000

As I was reading this text, my hands started sweating, my head began to ache, and I felt the anguish and terror of reliving a traumatic experience all over again. I can’t even count how many times I’ve been stuck in a project that’s already behind schedule, where the client (I’m a freelancer, working directly with the person who has the requirement) throws in a ‘simple’ request like: change the style of that radio button so it matches this other one. The problem isn’t that—because of reasons like the ones explained in the article—I end up spending hours and hours on what looks like a trivial task. The real nightmare is when the client asks me: ‘Why are you taking so long to do something so dumb?’ It’s a nightmare. That’s why I ran away from React, because of this and countless similar situations, and went back to WordPress, where the world is so much simpler, the clients are happy, and so am I.

New comment by gustavorg in "Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet"

gustavorg — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 10:44:14 +0000

Furthermore, robotic exploration of Mars is already yielding sufficient evidence that Mars once had oceans. There is a well-founded suspicion that Europa and Titan have seas hidden beneath their surfaces. Does this article mean that all of this is just our imagination? I don't think so.

New comment by gustavorg in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

gustavorg — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 10:41:03 +0000

Everyone is celebrating and praising this beautiful and well-crafted game, and here I am maliciously thinking that if this game were to come to Steam, some evil curator would say “Not recommended” followed by a nonsensical and absurd explanation.

New comment by gustavorg in "Fixing a Direct3D9 bug in Far Cry (2018)"

gustavorg — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:39:53 +0000

The last image of this article shows the bug supposedly solved. But it does not show the same image with the bug. The images to show the bug are from different points of view, where it is difficult to appreciate the problem as the last image does.

New comment by gustavorg in "Matt Mullenweg temporarily shuts down some Wordpress.org functions"

gustavorg — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:27:50 +0000

After reading all these comments, I started to worry and even panic because it seemed to me that I was on the wrong side. HN, which side are we on?

New comment by gustavorg in "Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO"

gustavorg — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 08:15:45 +0000

You are going to say what the app is, right? right?

New comment by gustavorg in "Robinhood Crypto Gets Wells Notice from US SEC"

gustavorg — Mon, 06 May 2024 17:19:18 +0000

I don't believe that at this point there are still people who have their cryptos with them. These people already have “most wanted” style documentaries and almost all cryptos forums have in their FAQs “Not your keys, not your coins" warnings.

New comment by gustavorg in "Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing"

gustavorg — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 11:37:42 +0000

Sir, I have my pompous site on linode and feel offended and hurt.

New comment by gustavorg in "Improbable Island, one of the largest and longest-running online text adventures"

gustavorg — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 12:24:06 +0000

No, it's a text adventure, an RPG, online, in a browser.

New comment by gustavorg in "Why NASA Chose WordPress for Revamping Its Flagship Website"

gustavorg — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 12:26:27 +0000

No idea, but after 27 years of web developments (yes I started around 1996) I would choose Wordpress every day and twice on Sundays. I have used Drupal, Joomla and Codeigniter extensively, and yet my answer today is, Wordpress.

New comment by gustavorg in "Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)"

gustavorg — Tue, 23 May 2023 10:43:03 +0000

Well, we know this is not true. At least Armando Scannone had a team of 4 cooks to make and rehearse each and every one of the recipes in his famous cookbook [1]. Armando Scannone has a famous Venezuelan cookbook, it is the obligatory reference for those who want to make Venezuelan dishes. I have personally tried many of the dishes and the recipes are correct and the result is just as the book indicates.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Armando-Scannone/dp/B011YUALZS

New comment by gustavorg in "The Inventor of Magical Realism"

gustavorg — Wed, 10 May 2023 00:48:56 +0000

In an interview, García Máquez, on reading the first sentence of The Metamorphosis, stopped reading and asked himself, is it possible to do this?

New comment by gustavorg in "Emacs in Odd Places (2020)"

gustavorg — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:10:10 +0000

I think there is no problem using an editor like VisualCode or Notepad++. But you should have an editor like Emacs or in my case VI at hand. It is a lethal weapon to solve any problem in inhospitable environments where speed and power are required. I want to believe that VI or Emacs is like that gun that James Bond or Jim West has up his sleeve, and at the push of a button it deploys to your hand in case of emergency. Subtle, fast, and effective in emergencies.

New comment by gustavorg in "NetHack 3.6.7"

gustavorg — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 08:59:05 +0000

I must be some kind of medieval purist because today in the middle of 2023 I still play the original rogue, in its 3.6.3 and 5.4 versions, and I can barely tolerate some of the changes. That's what I don't like about Hack and its "new" incarnation, Nethack. Changes were introduced that change the original spirit. I also played Moria and Adom for years with mixed results. I was never able to play Nethack. I'm going to try, maybe this time I will succeed.

New comment by gustavorg in "Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services"

gustavorg — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 11:58:35 +0000

> What won’t change is the price-performance, portability, and award-winning support that developers love.

At least they put "love" and "developers" in the same sentence. I think they still love me.

(https://www.linode.com/blog/linode/a-bold-new-approach-to-th...)

New comment by gustavorg in "Z-Library Returns on the Clearnet in Full Hydra-Mode"

gustavorg — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:23:09 +0000

dump answer: you ask a dump question. You can start somewhere around https://singlelogin.me/

New comment by gustavorg in "University offers investigation into Oracle finance disaster"

gustavorg — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 08:44:09 +0000

I don't really know what has happened lately, but 20-25 years ago as a Sun vendor I was involved in or had knowledge of at least 10 large ERP projects, and in all of them SAP won. I don't have the details, but I got the feeling that all those customers discarded Oracle because it barely scored 2 or 3 points in the evaluation matrix. All of those SAP projects were a success. All of them.

New comment by gustavorg in "Memento mori"

gustavorg — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:39:21 +0000

Exactly, I was wondering what OP's motivation is for reminding us of this.