Hacker News: jcon321

New comment by jcon321 in "NASA Artemis II moon mission live launch broadcast"

jcon321 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:42:55 +0000

walking outside, and the surf report... they cancel all the time for less wind shear

New comment by jcon321 in "NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon"

jcon321 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:57:37 +0000

too windy outside for this to happen imo

New comment by jcon321 in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

jcon321 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:29:42 +0000

yea imagine having to maintain a python dependency (which undergoes security constraints) all because some junior cant read/write bash... and then that junior telling you you're the problem lmao

New comment by jcon321 in "Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet"

jcon321 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:45:04 +0000

You have no issues with handing over your cell phone to a police officer who pulls you over? I imagine you'll say "all I have to do is present an ID", but what if the officer cannot read it, so he wants to hold it? Okay you wont let him hold it, so he bends down and gets real close to your phone? You know he must verify the address against his database, so you're going to make him write down your address as he walks back to his car? Yea some people cannot afford this type of friction when dealing with police officers.

New comment by jcon321 in ".NET 10"

jcon321 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:46:54 +0000

Microsoft's Ubuntu image seems to be ready. I guess I could see a reason to use regular Ubuntu 24 and then install dotnet manually, but these images have served us well.

docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:10.0 - Refers to Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat"

docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:10.0-noble - Refers to Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat"

https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-docker/discussions/6801

New comment by jcon321 in "Why Self-Host?"

jcon321 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:44:03 +0000

We self host everything at our company as we're a data center - all the tools required for a modern development stack + modern environments.

It's great for learning and control - it's not so great for anxiety.

New comment by jcon321 in "Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords"

jcon321 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:12:05 +0000

So this is only relevant to websites that do not use passwords and only do a temporary one time code... this is not 2FA correct?

New comment by jcon321 in "Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks"

jcon321 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:13:49 +0000

What's the usecase for this? Texting your classmates right next to you when wifi is down and you didnt pay your phone bill? It requires peers to be running bitchat. So is this only going to be useful if everyone has bitchat installed?

New comment by jcon321 in "EverQuest"

jcon321 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:32:34 +0000

Same, mq2 macros was my first programming language at 13

New comment by jcon321 in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

jcon321 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:37:15 +0000

Okay fair point, thank you for that info. This makes more sense for the people who are developing prompt generation for some tool (like copilot, claude code, etc) yet I was thinking of it more from a user standpoint (like asking chatgpt, gemini, etc).

New comment by jcon321 in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

jcon321 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:18:24 +0000

I thought this entire premise was obvious? Does it really take an article and a venn diagram to say you should only provide the relevant content to your LLM when asking a question?

New comment by jcon321 in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

jcon321 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 23:01:31 +0000

I think that experiment was very cool, but I will say that the OAuth2.0/OIDC protocol is very well documented and there are tons of tools already built around it in multiple languages.

I implemented the OAuth2.0 protocol in 3 different languages without a 3rd party library - entire spec implemented by hand. This was like ~2015 when many of the libraries that exist today didn't back then. I did this as a junior developer for multiple enterprise applications. At the end of the day it's not really that impressive.

New comment by jcon321 in "How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment"

jcon321 — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:42:22 +0000

Like with a cloth right?

New comment by jcon321 in "Underrated Soft Skills: Charisma"

jcon321 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:17:50 +0000

I agree with this. The author is just documenting how to "play the game", not how to be a good engineer.

New comment by jcon321 in "Apache NetBeans 25"

jcon321 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:19:33 +0000

I've brought my company's JavaEE 7 web application through NetBeans' upgrade life cycle, starting at NetBeans 8 I think. 10 or so years ago. NetBeans was great, when I first started, around version 8 or 9 - almost every "EE" feature worked. The years during transition to Jakarta were rough, most EE features lost.

However during this time I've learned a lot more about java as IDE "magic" was mostly gone. (Converting ant to gradle, better understanding of dependency management, jaxws wsdl generation, better understanding of the deployment and application container, probably more...)

I'll probably upgrade to 25 soon. Now-a-days there's never any problems when I upgrade, I guess because I'm no longer reliant on any IDE feature. At this point NetBeans is just a text editor with remote debugging capability. I enjoy it.

New comment by jcon321 in "Firing programmers for AI will destroy everything"

jcon321 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:34:46 +0000

Well before AI, us old guys had to google our own issues and copy/paste from stackoverflow. When I was a junior I never thought about being overly reliant on "google or stackoverflow", but LLMs are slightly different. I guess it would be like if I googled something and always trusted the first result. Maybe for your question it means not copying/pasting immediately what the LLM gives you and have it explain. Wasting a few mins on asking the LLM to explain, for the sake of learning, still beats the amount of time I used to waste scanning google results.

New comment by jcon321 in "Git-absorb: Git commit –fixup, but automatic"

jcon321 — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:04:44 +0000

Yea teams that have poor tracking and no PR practices.

New comment by jcon321 in "Employees who stay in companies longer than two years get paid 50% less (2014)"

jcon321 — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 20:18:14 +0000

Would you really bring your boss an offer letter? Even as top performer it seems like a bad idea to take any counter offer.

New comment by jcon321 in "The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection"

jcon321 — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:46:34 +0000

This is cool. Narration of audio books is a time consuming process! I agree with some of these comments here about how AI narration can sound robotic though and may not be too pleasant to listen to.

However, for anyone who is, or knows a family member/friend with a certified disability, or is a veteran, there is a free program to listen to a vast collection of audio books (with real narration) provided by the US Government. Check out https://www.loc.gov/nls/ (Braille material too!)

New comment by jcon321 in "How to build toxic software teams"

jcon321 — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:45:38 +0000

> I did my best to make the case from a technical (bug fixes and features), business (vendor X won’t support us on this version), and customer (customer wouldn’t be happy if they knew we were running version X) standpoint.

I feel your pain then.