Hacker News: markmark

New comment by markmark in "Testing is better than data structures and algorithms"

markmark — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 08:48:22 +0000

Testing doesn't imply TDD.

New comment by markmark in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

markmark — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:13:29 +0000

Any addition of labor will push down wages just be increasing competition for jobs, even if they are all paid the same.

New comment by markmark in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"

markmark — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:09:58 +0000

Completely agree with you. Every time I see yet another template language adding some clumsy for-each loop syntax I sigh. Just let us use a normal programming language. As an example I give you every template system ever invented. Devops tooling is full of them.

New comment by markmark in "Good money, no team tactics and cute dogs: the rise of pro cycling freelancers"

markmark — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 05:08:50 +0000

LifeTime Grand Prix has at least _some_ testing.

New comment by markmark in "Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx"

markmark — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:04:18 +0000

The AI and Tooling support point is really just an extension of the Community and Ecosystem point. Even before LLMs React had an advantage in that every question you had was probably already on StackOverflow and there are mature React libraries for almost everything. Now some people might use an LLM to answer the question they previously would have gone to StackOverflow for but the outcome is the same: there are advantages to using what other people are using.

New comment by markmark in "Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident"

markmark — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 06:31:53 +0000

If you're right for 30 years in tech you're right, even if things eventually change.

New comment by markmark in "Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers"

markmark — Sat, 25 May 2024 01:39:35 +0000

Does Azure? I think there's AWS then everyone else.

New comment by markmark in "Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers"

markmark — Sat, 25 May 2024 01:38:02 +0000

The article describes what happened and it had nothing to do with Unisuper. Google deployed the private cloud with an internal Google tool. And that internal Google tool configured things to auto-delete after a year.

New comment by markmark in "Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week"

markmark — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 02:55:25 +0000

Mandatory licensing would be wild. If LG invent something that makes TVs better should they have to licence it to Samsung? Or should they just be able to make better TVs and use their invention for market differentiation?

New comment by markmark in "My $500M Mars rover mistake"

markmark — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 05:24:36 +0000

At a place I was consulting about 10 years ago one of the internal guys on another product dropped the prod database because he was logged into his dev db and the prod db at the same time in different windows and he dropped the wrong one. Then when they went to restore the backups hadn't succeeded in months (they had hired consultants to help them with the new product for good reason).

Luckily the customer sites each had a local db that synced to the central db (so the product could run with patchy connectivity), but the guy spent 3 or 4 days working looooong days rebuilding the master db from a combination of old backups and the client-site data.

New comment by markmark in "I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it?"

markmark — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 04:17:13 +0000

Lots of the fancy keyboards coming out at the moment are settling around the layout the advantage has had for decades (although usually without the nice curve the advantage has).

New comment by markmark in "macOS Sonoma Boot Failures"

markmark — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 01:59:04 +0000

Do you dual boot? I've got two bootable OSX partitions on my mac and this hit me when I updated.

New comment by markmark in "macOS Sonoma Boot Failures"

markmark — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 01:58:12 +0000

Erg, I ran into this on my mac twice when I upgraded. I have two bootable OSX partitions and it hit on both upgrades. I'm not really a mac guy and it took a _lot_ of messing around (and learning that DFU exists and what it does) to sort out. Just lucky that my daughter has a mac so that I could even use DFU without having to take the thing into an apple store.

New comment by markmark in "Grind – A first person shooter for Amiga 500"

markmark — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 04:57:10 +0000

Around the time I got my A500, my neighbour's dad bought a PC that ran California Games in CGA at about one frame per second. I'm sure there were much better PCs available, but it didn't impress us kids much. They _did_ have Leisure Suit Larry though...

New comment by markmark in "How Australians made the early internet their own"

markmark — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 00:45:53 +0000

I started undergrad at UQ in '93 and had internet via dialup to the uni I'm pretty sure that first year, but if not definitely by '94, and that was available to anyone who wanted it.

New comment by markmark in "Android’s emergency call shortcut is flooding dispatchers with false calls"

markmark — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 03:55:06 +0000

There's an emergency call option from the lockscreen (the one where you enter your pin/swipe if you don't just use your fingerprint) which I have set off a bunch of time in my pocket. Luckily I have my emergency contact set to my wife, so it calls her not emergency services. I _think_ I must accidentally put my phone in my pocket with the screen on, and then random movement gradually hits the few buttons needed.

New comment by markmark in "Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private"

markmark — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 08:11:52 +0000

8000 votes out of 7.5 million members. I'm on r/nba every day and didn't see the poll.

People will say statistically 8000 votes is sufficient for an accurate sample, but only if the voting isn't brigaded.

All comments on other basketball subs at the moment are overwhelmingly in favour of re-opening the sub.

New comment by markmark in "Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private"

markmark — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 08:07:48 +0000

I think many people didn't see or care about those original polls. All the subs I'm in that re-polled their users after the initial 2 day shutdown are now open as a result. The two that have stayed shut have not re-polled (and one didn't poll in the first place, the mods just unilaterally shut it).

New comment by markmark in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

markmark — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 04:21:32 +0000

They would only do the deal on the spot if that was their only option. But they have the option of spending $0 and having the majority of the users moving to the official app.

New comment by markmark in "It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼‍♂️".length == 7 (2019)"

markmark — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 02:03:51 +0000

Perhaps the part about it needing lookups of the unicode database and being dependent on the version of the database used?