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New comment by ivm in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"

ivm — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:54:59 +0000

What about conservation? On my land, after clearing a bit around the house for fire safety and "pest" prevention, I kept most of the native rainforest. I planted a few syntropic lines of fruit trees, but they cannot cover the land tax I already pay. All my gardening and land management at large is a money sink (unless we consider touching grass an investment).

New comment by ivm in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

ivm — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:30:30 +0000

"Your" chat consists of other people's messages too and they own those. You can also delete your messages on Discord or Slack – it's quite normal as a feature.

New comment by ivm in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

ivm — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:32:36 +0000

The first one is excellent though, I wish all messengers had it.

New comment by ivm in "Cyclomatic Complexity in C#"

ivm — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:14:12 +0000

Yes, I do that too, but the value of a gate is that there's a tedious deterministic process which is the same every time. So it is harder for agents, including the reviewing ones, to stray and invent things or miss something.

New comment by ivm in "Cyclomatic Complexity in C#"

ivm — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:53:22 +0000

I made CC part of my deterministic quality gate[0] for agents. Not sure how much of it is placebo, but overall I've seen the gate catch a lot of cases where the agent strayed from the constraints of the particular project.

[0]: https://github.com/ivmirx/agentic-quality-loop

New comment by ivm in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

ivm — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:59:42 +0000

Yes, native .NET without MAUI is great for that. I have my app running with MvvmCross and two native UIs on iOS and Android since 2018, with hundreds of thousands of installs.

New comment by ivm in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

ivm — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:44:57 +0000

> The only thing that need radical change is iOS.

Please, not again.

– Sincerely yours mobile developer

New comment by ivm in "Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one"

ivm — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:33:51 +0000

Surprised by the rest of the comments because I genuinely like Finder more than any other file manager I've used. I run it in column mode all the time. Space-to-QuickLook is also amazing.

New comment by ivm in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

ivm — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:44:48 +0000

It takes about 6 seconds to get the site fully rendered on MacBook Air 2017 in Chile. HN is slightly above 1 second in comparison.

New comment by ivm in "Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE"

ivm — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:51:28 +0000

Yes, I guess a big part I skipped is that it may not be such a good fit for action games, where asset-dependent interactions, such as collisions, can affect the game model.

But games closer to the tabletop end of the spectrum (think strategy, puzzles, etc.) are basically apps: they're not doing much in the world itself, but rather rendering it based on the existing state and accepting user input to modify that state.

New comment by ivm in "Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE"

ivm — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:36:21 +0000

I've also been making a game engine based on MonoGame (and prime31/Nez), and one thing I recommend looking into is headless mode for both the game and the editor. I started my engine in the first place because I want to get back into gamedev, but there's no way I'm going back to the convoluted editor-centered workflow of Unity/Godot. And with proper MVVM, you can get the game headless too, so agents can play without the UI and run thousands of simulations of the gameplay.

Overall, MVVM should be getting a renaissance because of how well it determines the layers and data flow for AI. I have multiple projects using it, and even in early 2025, models had almost no issues understanding my code and implementing new features. Now I set up MVVM-inspired headless architectures including for Swift or React Native projects and it works like a charm.

Uncle Bob: My current strategy is to not read any code written by my agents

ivm — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:04:43 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/unclebobmartin/status/2080257779395154409

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031391

Points: 6

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New comment by ivm in "Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)"

ivm — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:03:15 +0000

AvaloniaUI has their community in Telegram, and there are other tech ones. Endless meme channels in different languages too. Also, most of Russian-speaking emigrant groups & news channels are in Telegram, some of them with tens of thousands of participants.

New comment by ivm in "Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way"

ivm — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:40:28 +0000

Spanish is not that bad: the conjugations are not gendered, while there are fewer than 20 major irregular patterns and about a dozen especially quirky verbs that you have to memorize in a few tenses (there are no 100% irregular verbs, most have at least some regular forms).

Source: I develop a conjugation app for a living

New comment by ivm in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

ivm — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:07:43 +0000

> You see the dawn of this age everywhere, from Iran to online age verification regimes, and this is only the beginning. This is why the world ahead will feel medieval in structure while remaining hypermodern and even futuristic in technology. It is a Frank Herbert world. It will be organized around overlapping zones of protection, extraction, and controlled access, rather than around universal inclusion into a single normative space.

https://turbulence.substack.com/p/the-gated-age

New comment by ivm in "Apple WWDC 2026"

ivm — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:37:10 +0000

Yeah, I'm struggling to find a wallpaper that looks good under the transparent menu bar + the vertical dock on the right. So now it's almost black solid color.

New comment by ivm in "Magnifica Humanitas"

ivm — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:24:02 +0000

HN Guidelines: Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

New comment by ivm in "Magnifica Humanitas"

ivm — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:37:42 +0000

The events you mention still took place within the Abrahamic framework of thought. Ideas like a linear timeline progressing from A to B (rather than a cyclical one) or utopian political projects bringing final justice to society are Abrahamic in nature.

So I agree with the grandparent comment: unless one takes the time to study and truly understand other belief systems, it's hard to see how Western "secular" schools of thought remain Christian because we're submerged in them since childhood.

Everything Is Computer

ivm — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:52:51 +0000

Article URL: https://turbulence.substack.com/p/everything-is-computer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215412

Points: 4

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New comment by ivm in "C# in Unity 2026: Writing more modern code"

ivm — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:30:06 +0000

Probably MonoGame is the best option for your case then