Hacker News: kunley

New comment by kunley in "Saying No"

kunley — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:35:26 +0000

Teaching, yes: one should stand for what's important and there might be costs, one should do that despite the costs. Life is not only about gaining some short-term things.

New comment by kunley in "Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy"

kunley — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:22:39 +0000

Btw, I heard Matz&co had taken over rubygems.org, right?

New comment by kunley in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

kunley — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:58:23 +0000

Disagree. It's just admitting that the company can and will be cynical when it comes to the conflict of interests between them and the employee.

Making friends at the workplace is fine until there is such conflict, then where will they stand? If they will turn they back on you (and most of them will), then how much is such relation worth in the first place?

New comment by kunley in "A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway"

kunley — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:54:11 +0000

Well said, esp. the last paragraph about the Microsoft strategy.

New comment by kunley in "A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway"

kunley — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:52:03 +0000

Cool!

Btw, can the sequence :? be called "reverse Elvis" ?

New comment by kunley in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

kunley — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:21:34 +0000

Making decisions based on distinguishing A from B is a legit thing to do. Complaining that it's "telling what's right and wrong" is a strawman argument IMO. It's about choices: they made a choice and many users are/will be joufully making the compatible choice.

New comment by kunley in "This blog is written in en-GB"

kunley — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:39:51 +0000

Yes but for the purpose of mentioned ISO 8601, the start of the week is assumed to be Monday.

New comment by kunley in "This blog is written in en-GB"

kunley — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:29:51 +0000

I discovered just this week that the numbering of weeks within the year is different between US and Europe, thus, cal -w can show different numbers for some years depending on the locale. Outlook can probably also show different things depending on the system settings.

Europe uses the algo according to the ISO 8601 standard, where the week no.1 is the one with January 1st occuring between Monday and Thursday, inclusive. If the 1st happens on Friday or later within a week, it's considered a week no.52 or 53 of the previous year.

US does not use this scheme and [EDITED] I am not sure what method is applied there.

Some companies use week numbers in business talks, planning and scheduling, so be aware who is speaking about which weeks!

New comment by kunley in "Show HN: A pure ARM64 Assembly web server, now on Linux with CGI for no reason"

kunley — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:55:28 +0000

Ahh, this little gem ported to Linux, great! That opens much more possibilities to play with it, thanks

New comment by kunley in "Show HN: A pure-Ruby X11 terminal"

kunley — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:06:58 +0000

No worries. My impression was, the premise of your articles was not (at least not initially) a compiler for a fullest Ruby with all of its intricacies, but rather showing a great technique how to tackle a problem. For me and few of my pals it was an inspiring eye-opener. We were coming from the 8bit era and had our hands dirty in assembly before, yet your approach showed we can do a lot of low-level stuff in a modern Unix setup.

Kudos for your work - and I guess you've had a lot of fun as well

New comment by kunley in "Show HN: A pure-Ruby X11 terminal"

kunley — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:46:52 +0000

I just connected the dots. You're the guy who constructed a direct Ruby-to-assembly compiler some time ago, right?

New comment by kunley in "Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code"

kunley — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:25:59 +0000

The story remotely reminds me about this gold:

What is this: does not ring, and does not fit in the ass..? Soviet device for ringing in the ass.

Infinitely more funny if you lived on the east side of the iron curtain.

New comment by kunley in "Doing something that’s never been done before (2025)"

kunley — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:29:30 +0000

Would be a good advice without this need of comparing to others

New comment by kunley in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

kunley — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:15:26 +0000

Nice to see a fellow P-N'er. This gentleman knows his craft. Good luck!

New comment by kunley in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)"

kunley — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:40:37 +0000

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New comment by kunley in "Is Russia Maneuvering to Threaten an Iceye Satellite?"

kunley — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:11:43 +0000

nice troll

New comment by kunley in "Go: Support for Generic Methods"

kunley — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:32:43 +0000

You're not meant to apply poor man's psychology everywhere just because you have heard about a certain psychological term.

New comment by kunley in "Prolog Coding Horror"

kunley — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:59:58 +0000

What Joe Armstrong et al took from Prolog is mainly the syntax.

New comment by kunley in "Grafana Labs internal source code accessed"

kunley — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:21:14 +0000

I was recently considering an engineering job offer at Grafana. At the end I was turned off by the amount of their AI-related mindless propaganda and demands they have put right in the job offer. (Which is by the way quite rare; it is rather untypical to state in the position description how a developer should use AI tools; even though everyone can imagine how it looks like).

Looks like they could have invested more energy in the processes and security rather than catching up "innovation" craze that much

New comment by kunley in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

kunley — Sat, 16 May 2026 09:28:55 +0000

That's great.

Is it possible to have any means of private communication with you where you would share the information who this employer is?