Hacker News: jayde2767

New comment by jayde2767 in "Windows native app development is a mess"

jayde2767 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:28:50 +0000

"Left behind", the most common phrase used when describing Windows Native programming...at least anecdotally.

New comment by jayde2767 in "Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale (2025)"

jayde2767 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:19:55 +0000

I wish you had highlighted or bolded "cartel", which is exactly how those industry players act.

New comment by jayde2767 in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

jayde2767 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:52:46 +0000

That measurement will be AI assembling MacBook pros vs human assemblers: number of units per hour, day, or whatever unit is most applicable.

New comment by jayde2767 in "Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993"

jayde2767 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:17:38 +0000

PTSD and my pining for OS/2 spikes once again...OMG...

New comment by jayde2767 in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"

jayde2767 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:55:59 +0000

Nice to see the "true spirit" of OpenSource being practiced and growing in Europe...I hope other countries jump into this as well, with support and resources.

New comment by jayde2767 in "People who know the formula for WD-40"

jayde2767 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:01:26 +0000

Please tell me, it has Brando in it, right?!?!?

New comment by jayde2767 in "Start your meetings at 5 minutes past"

jayde2767 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:46:44 +0000

I for one, support this...and reduce the Agenda to NO bullet points.

New comment by jayde2767 in "GNU Unifont"

jayde2767 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:19:17 +0000

I was also confused, until I clicked “Home” and realized the link was not to the landing page.

New comment by jayde2767 in "No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me"

jayde2767 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:23:34 +0000

Weird, I have honestly never walked into a Barnes and Noble and had satisfaction with any of their technical content on the shelf. That pleasure died when we lost Borders.

*Edit: spell correct kills me!

New comment by jayde2767 in "Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses"

jayde2767 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:27:19 +0000

Did anyone investigate this person to see if she’s being bought by any “Foreign” Gov’t?

New comment by jayde2767 in "Aerocart cargo gliders"

jayde2767 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:12:48 +0000

I imagine these would have to be flown out of specialized cargo airports. It would be a disaster coming out of Commercial airports.

New comment by jayde2767 in "Aerocart cargo gliders"

jayde2767 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:11:30 +0000

Not to mention, what happens in the event of damage to the towed aircraft rendering flight operations impaired such that it affects the towing aircraft?

“Oh sh1t!” at 35K feet.

New comment by jayde2767 in "Aerocart cargo gliders"

jayde2767 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:08:49 +0000

I doubt the economics make it a viable use case.

New comment by jayde2767 in "A safe, non-owning C++ pointer class"

jayde2767 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:55:05 +0000

This just seems intentionally bad to show where Rust would be better. This is yet another example of what I call "corner-case" instruction, which I define as, "I am going to take an obviously terrible corner-case that shows what an awful developer can do that will break a program, then demonstrate my brilliance by introducing my (highly-biased) opinionated point I wanted to make..."

In this particular case, it was subtly, Rust is preferred because it doesn't allow unsafe memory operations such as the one demonstrated. Really, all it demonstrates is that you can create really bad C++.

New comment by jayde2767 in "Anthropic raises $13B Series F"

jayde2767 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:58:04 +0000

"cash furnace", so aptly put.

New comment by jayde2767 in "Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode"

jayde2767 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:27:43 +0000

In the end, Streaming Services have proven to be nothing more than advertising platforms scattered with brief moments of content. The ads outweigh the content making it less cost effective than going back to Cable, which is still terrible also. Hence the need to pirate and control what content you see.

New comment by jayde2767 in "Robots move Shanghai city block [video]"

jayde2767 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 23:14:26 +0000

It is still a very impressive feat of engineering.

New comment by jayde2767 in "I write type-safe generic data structures in C"

jayde2767 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:45:39 +0000

This is all well and good but, for my mileage, nothing can ever beat C++ generics and the RAII pattern when there is a choice between plain old C and C++ . One second while I get my fire-retardant suit on...

New comment by jayde2767 in "OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine"

jayde2767 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:12:10 +0000

Pretty cool app, OP. Thanks for sharing the details.

New comment by jayde2767 in "Google open-sources the Pebble OS"

jayde2767 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:46:23 +0000

Maybe...the cynic in me says that someone feels this needs to be preserved because it will become another Google relic in favor of something newer, or more shiny. Or likely something written in Go...just a guess on my part...