Hacker News: jeroen

New comment by jeroen in "Inverse Parentheses"

jeroen — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:49:49 +0000

If we actually (as the title seems to imply) invert the parentheses, then for your example we get 1+2)*(3 .

Now all you need are the opening and closing parentheses at the start and end, and we're back to normal.

New comment by jeroen in "Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today"

jeroen — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 14:05:25 +0000

Episerver bought Optimizely and then took the name.

New comment by jeroen in "Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts"

jeroen — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:41:28 +0000

I think you mean Aldi Nord and Aldi Sud, _reportedly_ split over a dispute about selling cigarettes. Lidl is not related.

New comment by jeroen in "'Obelisks': New Class of Life Has Been Found in Human Digestive System"

jeroen — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:22:10 +0000

I'm more surprised when I encounter one that isn't hostile like this.

New comment by jeroen in "Sora is here"

jeroen — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:24:25 +0000

They don't even get basic details right. The ship in the 8th video changes with every camera change and birds appear out of nowhere.

New comment by jeroen in "How should the new element work?"

jeroen — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:19:56 +0000

selection?

New comment by jeroen in "It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans"

jeroen — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:16:03 +0000

As Spolsky said a long time ago:

> It’s harder to read code than to write it.

New comment by jeroen in "Creating a Git Commit: The Hard Way"

jeroen — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:23:04 +0000

When it shows you a hunk that's bigger than you like, you can use 's' to split it into smaller hunks.

New comment by jeroen in "Creating a Git Commit: The Hard Way"

jeroen — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:04:54 +0000

> Files in Git can be in one of these three states: Modified, Staged, Committed

> Staged: The current version of the modified file is staged to be included in the next commit.

A bit of a nitpick, but if I change a file, "git add" it, and then change it again, both of these statements are false.

New comment by jeroen in "Google's 'Reimagine' tool helped us add wrecks, disasters, and corpses to photos"

jeroen — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 18:04:44 +0000

The car and the bike in the first photo ( http://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25582867/ai... ) look about as realistic as the average AI-generated human hand.

New comment by jeroen in "Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?"

jeroen — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:12:54 +0000

I would start by defining an MVP. What do you really need to support operations, and what can wait until later? If it can be done by hand for a while, don't put it in the MVP. If you can manage with Excel for a few months, don't put it in the MVP. That should give you insight into how big of a project you are looking at. The bigger the project, the greater the chance it's not going to go well.

EDIFACT is a bit of a mess, but not that scary. IME the details of logistics are more complex.

If you are in Europe there are a lot of people in software development in non-glamorous industries. I see more risk in judging tech talent. How do you know if you're talking to the right people?

New comment by jeroen in "Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations"

jeroen — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 11:58:23 +0000

Something seems to be off with the grouping. If you look at Chinon (France) there are 2 different statuses, but 3 groups. A1 is not grouped with A2 and A3.

New comment by jeroen in "Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones"

jeroen — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 09:11:53 +0000

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/microsoft-volume-ii

New comment by jeroen in "Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road"

jeroen — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 14:00:02 +0000

The TdF is apparently the 2nd most watched sporting event in the world, with 3.5 billion viewers. That's not very niche.

-- https://www.roadtrips.com/blog/the-most-watched-sporting-eve...

New comment by jeroen in "Italian streets that don't exist on any map (2022)"

jeroen — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 22:01:14 +0000

It should work the same in The Netherlands, but when my city had semi-technical problems with registering me at my new address, they weren't exactly forthcoming with this option.

New comment by jeroen in "Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs"

jeroen — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 08:45:05 +0000

An alternative would be to print IDs using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift, which was specifically designed to make normally similar characters to look different.

New comment by jeroen in "House cleaners find two of the first desktop PCs in random boxes"

jeroen — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 14:46:55 +0000

Sometimes it's the other way around. I saved a Cromemco Z2D from the trash when the company where my father worked cleaned out their basement prior to moving to a different building.

New comment by jeroen in "Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier (2022)"

jeroen — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 11:40:59 +0000

Given that we're talking about the US, this:

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFR...

New comment by jeroen in "Mozilla 2023 annual report: CEO pay skyrockets, Firefox market share nosedives"

jeroen — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 23:03:29 +0000

- Keep Firefox alive as an alternative to Chrome. It doesn't feel like Mozilla is achieving that.

This has been on my mind for a long time. It would be good for everyone to have a real alternative to Chrome and it would be good for Europe to be less dependent on the US, as you mentioned.

In time, it might be possible to fund this off donations, but a bit of EU funding would go a long way to getting this off the ground. Unfortunately, the workings of EU funding programmes are a mystery to me.

New comment by jeroen in "Dutch storm surge barrier closes automatically"

jeroen — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 13:37:57 +0000

Two nitpicks:

- It was completed in 1997.

- It automatically closed in 2018, but the algorithm was adjusted to close at a lower water level, specifically to enforce a closing under storm conditions.

source: https://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/water/waterbeheer/bescherming...

(that is the Dutch agency responsible for the barrier)