Hacker News: hnb2137

New comment by hnb2137 in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

hnb2137 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:31:59 +0000

It looks like a lot of nothing. All the READMEs are empty. What is being contributed here?

New comment by hnb2137 in "Salad Theory"

hnb2137 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:53:20 +0000

The whole article is a word salad.

New comment by hnb2137 in "Get up to $175 back for your pre-installed Windows 11 license"

hnb2137 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:42:48 +0000

> To inspire you, the site includes several user reports of success, and I note one user getting back as much as €150 from Acer (~$175). That was a combination of Windows license reimbursement and a larger legal fee refund. A more typical reimbursement level is roughly $60.

The title is a bit misleading. But getting back $60 for something you do not use is still a good deal.

New comment by hnb2137 in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

hnb2137 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:25:22 +0000

If coding by AI was truly solved then it would be done with AI, right?

New comment by hnb2137 in "What happened to WebAssembly"

hnb2137 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:20:07 +0000

WASM allows you to run some parts of the application a bit faster. ;)

New comment by hnb2137 in "Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)"

hnb2137 — Tue, 06 May 2025 07:16:56 +0000

Until slmail.me disappears and all your logins stop working and can no longer be changed.

New comment by hnb2137 in "UML diagram for the DDD example in Evans' book"

hnb2137 — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 07:54:58 +0000

One of the creators of UML, Booch, has said so himself that it was taken to a point where it should never have. Interesting interview: https://youtu.be/u7WaC429YcU?feature=shared

New comment by hnb2137 in "Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)"

hnb2137 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:52:27 +0000

How many Big Macs?

New comment by hnb2137 in "Programmers are bad at managing state (2020)"

hnb2137 — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 16:38:48 +0000

And only once delivery. And only once delivery.

New comment by hnb2137 in "Causal Trees"

hnb2137 — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 09:30:59 +0000

CRDTs solve the problem of concurrent updates bij users.

New comment by hnb2137 in "The Frothy Saga of the Jacuzzi Family"

hnb2137 — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 15:53:51 +0000

Same on Android. Even on desktop mode after completing a bunch of traffic light CAPTCHAs it would not continue. Nevermind, then.