Hacker News: jslaby

New comment by jslaby in "DBASE on the Kaypro II"

jslaby — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:53:22 +0000

And the Kaypro IV came out with the cool dark look.

New comment by jslaby in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

jslaby — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:16:36 +0000

No, we're talking about copilot core, not copilot framework

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

jslaby — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:38:51 +0000

Yeah, no reason for PHP to catch strays here, especially if his knowledge is still based on 4.1. It's really a whole new language compared to back then.

New comment by jslaby in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

jslaby — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:55:42 +0000

Not everyone has moved over, but I'm sure there have been thoughts or plans to.

New comment by jslaby in "Svelte’s characteristics that likely contribute most to improved performance"

jslaby — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 21:27:21 +0000

Silverlight was awesome, too bad Microsoft abandoned it. You think they could've done something with it like decoupling from the browser, instead of making all these different UI frameworks that are fizzling out.

New comment by jslaby in "Svelte’s characteristics that likely contribute most to improved performance"

jslaby — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 21:23:10 +0000

It must be a pretty old framework if it doesn't work with new PHP.

New comment by jslaby in "Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation"

jslaby — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:08:33 +0000

There is some truth to this. One of the fails we had was pricing our product too low, where it was looked at as a stepping stone to something more expensive, even though it provided the same exact functionality minus the fancy looking ui. There were businesses that wanted to get out of their existing application suite, but are hooked in due to management perception and the sunk cost fallacy. The company who overpriced considerably is reaping millions per year on that application. If I could just go back in time..

New comment by jslaby in "SQL Design Patterns (2010)"

jslaby — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 19:46:42 +0000

T-SQL can handle that alias expr just fine, but the seqNum returned is 4,8,12,16,20 instead of the 1,2,3... I tried on MySQL and it works fine. I'm not sure how SQL Server is handling those cartesian joins differently

New comment by jslaby in "SQL Design Patterns (2010)"

jslaby — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 19:13:34 +0000

Of course, trying out the first example doesn't work on SQL Server..

New comment by jslaby in "Why I'm resigning from the National Science Foundation"

jslaby — Tue, 13 May 2025 16:10:18 +0000

Efficiency is at an all time high now. We can see one air traffic controller handling a workload that would have required ten or more.

New comment by jslaby in "A cryptocurrency scam that turned a small town against itself"

jslaby — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:50:51 +0000

Unless I missed somewhere in the article, it is possible that it wasn't a scam and he probably just leveraged his initial stake. When it fell below the margin, he needed the money to avoid the loss.

New comment by jslaby in "Deferred resignation email to federal employees"

jslaby — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 04:49:24 +0000

WA was the only state to decrease in Trump vote margin

New comment by jslaby in "Laid off for the first time in my career, and twice in one year"

jslaby — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 04:05:42 +0000

First time hearing that one, no doubt coined and promoted by Oracle themselves

New comment by jslaby in "Laid off for the first time in my career, and twice in one year"

jslaby — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 04:01:50 +0000

The key is to jump jobs before they catch on

New comment by jslaby in "Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X"

jslaby — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:12:41 +0000

It's not even amplified just from his account but the site itself. Create a new account and follow something like sports or entertainment.. then see what floods your feed. I logged in first time today, and it's quite shocking actually. Not a single left leaning account, just all maga that outnumbers the sports or whatever you clicked as interests.

New comment by jslaby in "Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X"

jslaby — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:05:28 +0000

I just created an account on X and the list that pops up to follow: Elon, Terrence Williams, Sebastian Gorka, Dinesh D'Souza, Rand Paul, Dan Bongino, Leo Terrell, Tom Fitton, Mark Levin, Tiffany Smiley, Breitbart News, Matt Gaetz... not a single "left leaning" account other than Joe Biden and maybe Neil Degrasse Tyson, but I chose sports and science as my interests. Open and free speech, right..

New comment by jslaby in "Shopify is acquiring the Threads team"

jslaby — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:58:53 +0000

Yeah, I read that thinking it was Instagram Threads... and was confused to the cheery tone of the announcement.

New comment by jslaby in "FrankenPHP: Modern PHP App Server"

jslaby — Thu, 30 May 2024 04:18:26 +0000

Long time C# dev, now I primarily code in PHP8 which is a great language to quickly get things done. This is the kind of direction the language needs to go in, instead of the older LAMP which can require somewhat complex Apache configuration.

New comment by jslaby in "After Learning Her TA Would Be Paid More Than She Was, This Lecturer Quit"

jslaby — Fri, 24 May 2024 17:10:35 +0000

She was making $2936 a month teaching with a PhD? Even if it is part-time, that seems fairly low. She had 120 students in each class, let's say tuition is about 5k per class which comes out to $1.2 million. Revenue at universities have increased dramatically and is approaching nearly a trillion total.

New comment by jslaby in "[dead]"

jslaby — Thu, 23 May 2024 17:16:04 +0000

There's no content. You should have at least the first item completed so the reader gets a sense of your teaching style and whether they want to pursue further.