Hacker News: jordand

New comment by jordand in "Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks"

jordand — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:56:06 +0000

That does happen, and that junior level work is constructive, but what I've also experienced and noticed is that companies put a lot of effort into finding and hiring exceptionally skilled juniors (industrial placement schemes, graduate fast-tracks, etc.) where they can make safe bets on those people delivering significant value to their companies/projects. Some bigger companies do make an effort to build a mutually beneficial working relationship with a clear 5 year career roadmap (some sectors really struggle with those best candidates choosing FinTech instead). I've worked with high-performing junior programmers that have (quantitatively and qualitatively) dramatically outperformed experienced mid-level programmers, so I'm always an advocate for investing in them.

New comment by jordand in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

jordand — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:49:44 +0000

Your point is valid and yeah, it's a never-ending fight just to keep the control we have. Things like the Play Protect API and loads of Android apps being coupled to Play Services is it's own big challenge we're stuck with just to stay within the Android ecosystem

New comment by jordand in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

jordand — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:46:28 +0000

Curve Pay has worked well for me. Only good alternative as it doesn't depend on Google Play Services too

New comment by jordand in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

jordand — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:13:06 +0000

We took control, we're keeping control

New comment by jordand in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

jordand — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:53:40 +0000

I've been running GrapheneOS for 7 months now and I'm not going back. When I bought my Pixel 10 last year, I wasn't actually planning on trying Graphene for a while....until I noticed Google had force bundled a 'Wicked For Good' movie promo theme with the latest security update.

New comment by jordand in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

jordand — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:50:08 +0000

Only silver lining to this is they run a lot of discounts and promotions on them, and it's possible to buy them at a significant discount. Got my first Pixel 10 on a very cheap contract with trade-in promos on top, and got a second Pixel 10 at a 70% discount from the RRP.

New comment by jordand in "What happened to nerds?"

jordand — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:17:56 +0000

Your perception of him is the result of a very carefully crafted image and PR management going back decades to the 80's. His behaviour and controversies with Microsoft have been well known since the 90's (Melinda Gates relationship, anti-trust probe etc.) and even with more recent allegations in 2019. Link: https://www.wsj.com/business/microsoft-directors-decided-bil...

New comment by jordand in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"

jordand — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:31:27 +0000

The main frameworks with traction like Slint UI, egui, tauri, and Dioxus all have baseline accessibility support

New comment by jordand in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"

jordand — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:26:23 +0000

Slint UI does have bindings in other languages, but tutorials and docs are still lacking. Qt Bridges is a new option on the way for leveraging Qt with Rust and other language bindings.

Link: https://www.qt.io/development/qt-framework/qt-bridges

New comment by jordand in "Justice Department Approves Paramount's Acquisition of Warner Bros"

jordand — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:32:28 +0000

Yup yet another completely unnecessary merger that burns billions, reduces choices and quality for consumers, and produces nothing of value.

New comment by jordand in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

jordand — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:39:22 +0000

For Natural Selection 2, it was mainly the gameplay logic that was Lua, all running on their bespoke C++ game engine called Spark. But yeah, modern Python and Lua can be pushed to high performance.

Link: https://unknownworlds.com/en/news/spark-engine-questions-and...

New comment by jordand in "Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream"

jordand — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:05:34 +0000

Eh they announced in April that Tim is staying on as Executive Chairman, and the expectation is he'll deal with the politics so the new CEO doesn't (quite likely he'll give Trump another shiny gift)

New comment by jordand in "Zig Zen Update"

jordand — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:56:29 +0000

Activism as in their move away from GitHub? Andrew K recently said in the JetBrains interview that because of moving away, their CI/CD now actually works.

New comment by jordand in "Dav2d"

jordand — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:03:46 +0000

Yeah I could imagine the AV1 codec sticking around for a very long while, even as a fallback for AV2. There's still hundreds of millions of people out there using old/cheap devices (especially in developing countries) where that battery drain from software decoding is a big problem, so AV2 would be nonviable.

New comment by jordand in "Dav2d"

jordand — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:45:41 +0000

'AV2 decoding is roughly five times more complex than AV1 decoding. In practice, that means software running on today’s hardware will struggle to decode AV2 in real time without careful, architecture-specific optimization'

AV1 software decoding is already very intensive so AV2 decoding benchmarks are the next thing that would be really interesting (or mortifying) to see.

New comment by jordand in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

jordand — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:00:59 +0000

Yeah simplest explanation might be my nails being abrasive and whatever grease is on my fingers. That's with 35h a week usage and no eating while typing. Not had this issue with other decent quality mice and keyboards though.

New comment by jordand in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

jordand — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:22:05 +0000

I'm stuck in the same relationship with them: MX Master 3s/4 is my perfect productivity mouse. Problem? The rubber coating gradually disintegrates and accumulates dirt. ERGO K860 is my perfect keyboard. Problem? The plastic ABS surface of the keys wears and smooths in just a few months. The first set of AAA batteries have a far longer life!

If only they didn't cheap out on the materials and plastic quality.

New comment by jordand in "No more JetBrains products for me"

jordand — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:28:45 +0000

Still a bit weird that this text editor has an immense amount of venture capital invested in it, but yeah, I'll probably end up giving Zed another go. Still, they've made some odd decisions in the past. It took a lot of community pushback just to get them to add that 'disable_ai' flag (mandatory feature for me).

Link: https://zed.dev/blog/disable-ai-features

New comment by jordand in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

jordand — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:45:41 +0000

The graduates were expressing their free speech rights, and they know what they're up against. Schmidt does not care about them at all.

New comment by jordand in "WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward"

jordand — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:28:25 +0000

There's now an Avalonia back-end for .NET MAUI in preview, so they are making an effort on that cross-platform front too. Link: https://avaloniaui.net/blog/maui-avalonia-preview-1