Hacker News: h91wka

New comment by h91wka in "Writing a winning 4K intro in Rust"

h91wka — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 09:01:54 +0000

https://github.com/smabie Is it your github with a creepy kid picture? Very unprofessional!

New comment by h91wka in "Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly"

h91wka — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:13:35 +0000

> I don't think collaboration means that you can't compete with each other?

I just don't think there's much room for competition when one party gently keeps another in a chokehold. Klarna depends on Visa, but not vice versa.

New comment by h91wka in "Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly"

h91wka — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 12:12:15 +0000

In Sweden they issue regular credit cards (my friend has one). Also, AFAIK, in Nordics they offer virtual card payments to merchants who don't integrate with them directly.

New comment by h91wka in "I Am Deleting the Blog"

h91wka — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 11:43:28 +0000

"Safe Ruthenium rain falls over Bashkortostan", "27 police officers injured in a largely peaceful anti-racist protest"... -- how could I forget about these exceptional examples of very complicated news reporting job well done.

New comment by h91wka in "Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly"

h91wka — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:41:19 +0000

Klarna is a bank that is connected to the Visa network. So, inherently, it is bound by the same rules as any other bank. So, in the context of this thread, they are not a competitor to Visa/MasterCard.

New comment by h91wka in "Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?"

h91wka — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:31:13 +0000

Not if you have a competent devops team and a deployment pipeline.

New comment by h91wka in "Haskell for a New Decade [pdf]"

h91wka — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 11:09:46 +0000

I think Erlang's mnesia was the earliest implementation of STM.

New comment by h91wka in "I Am Deleting the Blog"

h91wka — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:22:28 +0000

You missed my point. Sure, blogs are written by "some guy on the internet", and anyone should be skeptical about anything they write. But journalists are also "some guys on the internet"! They should be kept in the same security ring. There's no difference in competence or accountability between a rando and an entitled journalist.

New comment by h91wka in "Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?"

h91wka — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 18:16:24 +0000

> Personally I think it's an improvement on mobile

...because usage of Github from mobile is so important /s

New comment by h91wka in "Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?"

h91wka — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 18:05:48 +0000

Looks absolutely horrible. I use a laptop as my main dev machine, and all these 16px and 30px paddings that they added everywhere create real tunnel vision experience. I guess people with huge displays don't mind... But I absolutely do.

Looks like another case when a frontend team does something to justify their existence.

But let's look at the positives: the last redesign of that sort helped me to completely migrate away from gmail.

New comment by h91wka in "I Am Deleting the Blog"

h91wka — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 11:17:58 +0000

I don't understand why traditional media still exists in modern days, when p2p communication between people is possible. In the best case, a journalist is a middleman who will misunderstand and garble information unintentionally, since they are working under deadline to get stuff published ASAP. Not only experts, but even enthusiasts spend much more time researching than journalists. In the worst and most common case, they just push agenda or slander groups of people to attract hate clicks. I cringe every time when mainstream media article ends up on HN.

New comment by h91wka in "Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar"

h91wka — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 09:54:17 +0000

If at this point you still use Google products, while equal or better alternatives exist, you get what you deserve.

New comment by h91wka in "MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations"

h91wka — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 14:33:56 +0000

Great news. Elsevier is a parasite.

New comment by h91wka in "Create diagrams with code using Graphviz"

h91wka — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 10:16:49 +0000

I don't want to diminish importance of graphviz, but PlantUML is better suited for visualizing state machines, message sequence diagrams and whatnot.

New comment by h91wka in "A Peek Inside the Erlang Compiler (2012)"

h91wka — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:50:31 +0000

I passed a couple Elixir interviews with zero knowledge of this language :) You can just treat it as Erlang with funny syntax.

New comment by h91wka in "A Peek Inside the Erlang Compiler (2012)"

h91wka — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:48:17 +0000

There is employment channel here: https://erlanger.slack.com/

New comment by h91wka in "A Peek Inside the Erlang Compiler (2012)"

h91wka — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:46:00 +0000

Neat! But please bear in mind that BEAM VM trusts the bytecode, so if your compiler emits buggy bytecode, it can crash the entire VM.

New comment by h91wka in "Formalizing Text Editors in Coq"

h91wka — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 10:44:29 +0000

Lean 3 is community maintained, aka dead. Lean 4 is described as "go away", and it will be incompatible with Lean 3. So much for practicality.

New comment by h91wka in "Microservices Considered Harmful (2019)"

h91wka — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 10:29:39 +0000

> I would also love to know the origin.

FWIW, there's a very old Russian joke that goes like "a novice doesn't know how to do it, a pro knows how to do it, and an expert knows how to avoid doing it".

New comment by h91wka in "Ask HN: Are my expectations on code quality and professionalism too high?"

h91wka — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 13:03:02 +0000

This is not unreasonable at all.