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The couple who took on Google and cost the tech giant £2B

itohihiyt — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 21:48:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr431lr72jo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41965957

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by itohihiyt in "Solid back end language to learn"

itohihiyt — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 12:14:33 +0000

Out of interest, why wouldn't PHP be a consideration? I thought it was pretty good now a days...

New comment by itohihiyt in "Comparison of configuration file languages (2016)"

itohihiyt — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 11:17:23 +0000

Yeah, half baked anything is going to screw you over. INI files are certainly programmatically serialisable, otherwise they wouldn't exist. It does move the datatypes to the program rather than being encoded in the config though, which adds to program overhead. Horses for courses though, with greater flexibility comes greater potential to f*uk it up.

New comment by itohihiyt in "Order and orient the keys on your keychain"

itohihiyt — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 08:26:19 +0000

I don't order my keys at all. All mine are on a carabiner, for maximum flexibility, it's modular. I'm not taking anything but my front door key for a dog walk, for example. All my separate keys have individual clips too.

The idea is to only have the keys I need for a particular journey.

New comment by itohihiyt in "Comparison of configuration file languages (2016)"

itohihiyt — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 08:00:59 +0000

I love me an INI. By far, IMO, the best human readable config syntax. Sure it's got some gotchas, like all old formats (CSV) there's no spec. But if I have the choice I'd go INI. It's simple and leaves the choices up to the program that's reading the file, because everything is a string.

To me there's no difference in this articles argument that with INI people would have to remember about the idiosyncrasies of the python implementation related to comments, and people having to know and learn the correct syntax of TOML. I'd say remembering when and where you can comment is easier too.

Either way it's personal preference. I do occasionally like to reread this though (because I'm boring): https://github.com/madmurphy/libconfini/wiki/An-INI-critique...

New comment by itohihiyt in "Never Missing the Train Again"

itohihiyt — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:22:38 +0000

Is there a bus version? This is excellent.

New comment by itohihiyt in "Jujutsu (jj), a Git compatible VCS"

itohihiyt — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:01:59 +0000

A tutorial on this was on the front page yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41881204

I don't see why I'd use this over fossil for my personal projects though.

New comment by itohihiyt in "Zen: Firefox Based Browser"

itohihiyt — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 19:06:15 +0000

Chrome is worse than Firefox, literally a name and URL for a link and name for folder. At least with Firefox you can tag bookmarks and use keywords.

I'm curious how Firefox comes off worse in your view, chrome seems to provide basic usage which Firefox also provides.

EDIT: just saw your other reply about it. Definitely can't agree, there's nothing fiddly with the way Firefox allows you to move, create, rename, delete, or update links and folders. Same functionality as chrome as far as I can tell.

New comment by itohihiyt in "Using static websites for tiny archives"

itohihiyt — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:23:58 +0000

> I think Zim does not really fit into the discussion because it does not rely on easily exchangeable standard software like a file explorer and browsers.

Zim is very much based on the file system. Each note is a text file and if it has attachments or embedded images they go into a folder named after that text note.

Whilst not in markdown the markup used is easy to understand and convert. Zim itself allows you to copy a note to the clipboard in pandoc markdown and export the note to markdown and/or html (though admittedly the styling for html it atrocious).

New comment by itohihiyt in "Zen: Firefox Based Browser"

itohihiyt — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 12:49:16 +0000

I couldn't agree more. Bookmarks are simply an after thought today, like RSS. I'm looking for a browser with decent bookmark management. Even just a notes field and a saved snapshot feature would do me. Currently I'm using Zotero for this, but it's a little OTT as a bookmark manager.

New comment by itohihiyt in "Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial"

itohihiyt — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 10:12:00 +0000

As a British national I like to think git is a very descriptive name, because git is a git to use and understand.

New comment by itohihiyt in "Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial"

itohihiyt — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 07:41:26 +0000

Came here for a martial arts tutorial, which I thought was a bit weird to see front page on HN, and now I see an alternative to git.

I don't particularly like git and for personal projects use fossil instead.

Without going through the whole tutorial, and doing a lot more reading, why should I consider using this over fossil?

New comment by itohihiyt in "What do you visualize while programming?"

itohihiyt — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 19:51:22 +0000

Nothing, I'm too busy swearing at the computer and threatening to break it in various ways, until I realise I was missing a semi-colon, or I've misspelled a keyword, or any number of other reasons that make me a bad programmer.

New comment by itohihiyt in "Using static websites for tiny archives"

itohihiyt — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:24:16 +0000

Why not use a wiki? Zim desktop is text based local first. It doesn't handle videos but everything is handled. Search is good and you get the other benefits of a wiki. No mobile client, that I'm aware of.

New comment by itohihiyt in "Show HN: Clean News - A cleaner curation of world news events"

itohihiyt — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 17:01:55 +0000

Thanks for this, never knew it existed. Wondering now if there's region specific current events.

New comment by itohihiyt in "FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move passkeys across providers"

itohihiyt — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:10:12 +0000

My mum has a password notebook which is locked away in a drawer in her house, she knows to use either passphrases or random string that her browser generates for her. For her threat model this is better than any software thing.

Certainly a password manager like keepass would be no more complicated than trying to explain to her that she can no longer access her account because she broken her phone.

New comment by itohihiyt in "FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move passkeys across providers"

itohihiyt — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 06:45:36 +0000

I only need one provider. A portable open source encrypted database I'm in control of and can back up and secure as needed. It's what I have now, and have had for years, in my password manager. I won't be at the mercy of a company or a device to access my digital life.

New comment by itohihiyt in "Flutter vs React Native: Performance Benchmarks"

itohihiyt — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:12:42 +0000

Pretty extensive comparison. Flutter seems to beat out react native in almost all aspects.

New comment by itohihiyt in "Ask HN: Is SQLite Underrated?"

itohihiyt — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:10:16 +0000

I've not used it for websites but have used it for state management in a flutter app, which seemed waaaaaay simpler than learning and then using one of the many state management systems they have (even if I managed to figure out which one to use, paradox of choice always trips me up).

And for data analysis stuff it's absolutely brilliant!

So yes absolutely it's underrated!

New comment by itohihiyt in "Working from home is powering productivity"

itohihiyt — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 21:08:13 +0000

You started by moving the goalposts, then set up strawman arguments, and now resorting to ad hominem attacks. Pathetic really.

But I stand corrected, apparently: WFH != WFH. Good to know.