Hacker News: jwlake

New comment by jwlake in "A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft"

jwlake — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:25:33 +0000

If its not written with blocks its not real.

New comment by jwlake in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

jwlake — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:20:40 +0000

The point is you should realize your gains before you reinvest the money. Circular borrowing causes asset bubbles. You could collateralize against OTHER assets, but unrealized gains you should be paying taxes on if you are borrowing against them. It's really just closing a loophole. If the loophole is BIG enough, the you could lower the rate for everyone!

New comment by jwlake in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

jwlake — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:20:24 +0000

Loans against unrealized gains should just be taxed directly as income. Not indirectly creating more loopholes. Same way stock buybacks should be taxed at the same rate as short term capital gains.

New comment by jwlake in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

jwlake — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:08:21 +0000

my m1 max macbook pro 14 has small little divots out of the edge on the right side (not on the left) presuambly because of where my wrist sits when using the track pad. It would be nice it there was some radius on it to not cause that.

New comment by jwlake in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

jwlake — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:06:51 +0000

Whats it look like closed?

New comment by jwlake in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

jwlake — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:59:37 +0000

ifixit sells just the keyboards, why doesn't that work?

https://www.ifixit.com/products/macbook-pro-14-a2442-a2779-a...

New comment by jwlake in "Swift 6.3"

jwlake — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:29:28 +0000

did they ever add #define? bridging constants from the build system to swift with static NSString * const kConstValue = @XSTR(CONST_VALUE); is soooo annoying.

New comment by jwlake in "Swift 6.3"

jwlake — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:25:30 +0000

nodejs itself doesn't have very many breakages; i have plenty of code that is unchanged from 0.12 to 24. npm is a whole other kettle of fish but I don't think you can blame the core project for the sins of everyone that publishes to the package manager. Python2 -> Python3 on the other hand had a lot of breakage in "standard" code.

New comment by jwlake in "Qite.js – Frontend framework for people who hate React and love HTML"

jwlake — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:05:10 +0000

The "isPresent()" in the example gives me alot of ick. It's confusing why thats not actual javascript.

New comment by jwlake in "Apple Business"

jwlake — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:11:28 +0000

I would expect Apple to actually simplify the problem and not overreach and just do activation / provisioning / deactivation / lock and none of the other stuff MDMs try to do that introduces the complexity.

New comment by jwlake in "Apple Business"

jwlake — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:42:47 +0000

A non-terrible MDM that actually works would be really nice. The rest I doubt they get much traction on. Gmail is too easy, Google docs and sheets if you don't need Microsoft is also way better than Apple's free apps.

New comment by jwlake in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

jwlake — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:56:36 +0000

Anyone owning 4chan should be very anonymous and only operate in a very friendly jurisdiction. Normal websites, no one cares.

New comment by jwlake in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

jwlake — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:52:08 +0000

If android security is so fucked that the 24 hours helps, why do they maintain it has security?

New comment by jwlake in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"

jwlake — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:41:59 +0000

I remember when they invented kibibytes and mibibytes and shaking my head and being like they have forever destroyed the meaning of words and things will be off by 2% forever. And is has been.

New comment by jwlake in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

jwlake — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:32:11 +0000

its very odd that apparently everyone working in Apple software dev either refuses to dogfood this stuff or just uses iPads for everything.

New comment by jwlake in "The /o in Ruby regex stands for "oh the humanity ""

jwlake — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 02:03:43 +0000

this is similar to the g modifier in javascript?

New comment by jwlake in "Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data"

jwlake — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 01:12:10 +0000

These NEW 20 year olds are scary!

New comment by jwlake in "The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs"

jwlake — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 01:10:34 +0000

Its so funny to me that people freak out about amortization when I spent several years at a public company having to document my work as being R&D to amortize it to make our EBITDA look better.

New comment by jwlake in "The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs"

jwlake — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 01:07:01 +0000

In this theory you should tax revenue and not profit. Welcome to VAT.

New comment by jwlake in "Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral"

jwlake — Fri, 02 May 2025 03:19:53 +0000

The judge should really fine apple in the form of a 100% refund of everyones fees for the duration of this behavior. That's the only way the pain is great enough to force forward compliance.