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New comment by mnkypete in "Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary"

mnkypete — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:48:54 +0000

Except that compilers are (at least to a large degree) deterministic. It's complexity that you don't need to worry about. You don't need to review the generated assembly. You absolutely need to review AI generated code.

New comment by mnkypete in "Microsoft Surface Pen Compatibility / Interoperability FAQ (2024)"

mnkypete — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 07:28:39 +0000

Not sure? It seems to me that the pen that launched with the Surface Pro 3 (V2), still works to an extent with the Surface Pro 11? That seems rather good, no?

New comment by mnkypete in "Android and Wear OS are getting a redesign"

mnkypete — Tue, 13 May 2025 20:26:09 +0000

Funnily enough the first smartwatch that was interesting to me was a round watch, so I got the Pixel watch. I don't mind having the UI not being as usable (debatable), but I much rather have a nice looking watch, more like a classic watch. That's like, your and my opinion, everyone has their preferences.

New comment by mnkypete in "Rivian's chief software officer says in-car buttons are 'an anomaly'"

mnkypete — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 09:54:10 +0000

For what it's worth, I do regularly set timers with Alexa when cooking, and I still hate using voice controls in the car... With timers the alternative is also a multi step process with probably smudgy hands, whereas just one button press to turn down AC will evolve into "turn down more, turn down more" with voice

New comment by mnkypete in "Rivian's chief software officer says in-car buttons are 'an anomaly'"

mnkypete — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 09:41:14 +0000

Ever had a (lightly) sleeping baby in the car? Glad it finally got to sleep after hours worth of crying? Maybe, just maybe, I don't want to risk asking a voice assistant to turn up or down the AC. Scenario also works for sleeping co-driver.

Buttons are fine. Even though I prefer driving EVs, the reliance on touchscreen/ voice for everything is just annoying. At least for the most common functions like volume control, AC and stuff.

New comment by mnkypete in "Show HN: Securely – Scrub sensitive data out of HAR files in Jira"

mnkypete — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:29:14 +0000

Love this, good idea!

New comment by mnkypete in "Goodbye, Node.js Buffer"

mnkypete — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 19:24:13 +0000

My absolute go to issue these days with Node is the persistence on doing the same type/interfaces as the browser. The absolute sh* show trying to make a FormData request in Node to work with native Node streams is mind boggling, just because fetch/FormData needs to be EXACTLY like in the browser. Sure, but how about I do not want to put a 100mb file into memory just because I want to use native fetch ....

New comment by mnkypete in "Hermes: An open-source document management system"

mnkypete — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 20:58:17 +0000

To be honest, I just went for a small business subscription of Office 365 for personal use, which also gives you mail with a custom domain. SharePoint is decent enough when accessed from the mobile OneDrive App and offers out of the box indexing + OCR of images and pdfs. Also their document scanner is good enough to quickly get rid of all paper coming in...

New comment by mnkypete in "Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?"

mnkypete — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:15:18 +0000

> No links > You can’t link to conversations. This means if you want to add context to a Jira ticket or in a code comment, you can’t easily do so.

You can, at least technically, if you know the message IDs (search for Teams deep links).. Not sure why they don't expose this on the UI though.. Shameless plug: If you are looking for linking conversation to Jira, try our app: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1220851/microsoft-tea...

New comment by mnkypete in "Improving NPM Security with Sigstore"

mnkypete — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 17:48:48 +0000

Yeah, besides finally having some progress regarding signing, I think it's great they went with an option that is open and already is gaining traction.

Improving NPM Security with Sigstore

mnkypete — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 17:24:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/2022-08-08-new-request-for-comments-on-improving-npm-security-with-sigstore-is-now-open/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32388399

Points: 21

# Comments: 2

New comment by mnkypete in "Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable"

mnkypete — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 12:55:13 +0000

I am: a) a dev myself b) head of a small dev/SAAS company/team c) Atlassian Marketplace vendor

Jira is fine. Atlassian will be around for quite a bit, imho. They have a somewhat decent ecosystem, which helps a lot with the stickiness.

Jira could see a lot of improvement product wise, but at least it has been getting faster in the last year (still slow, though, but not as bad). Their new stuff seems to be a hit or miss, but I especially like their new Jira thing (Jira Product Management), mostly because it comes very opinionated.

I think Jira/Atlassian would benefit a lot from actually providing more guidance on how to properly use their product(s) depending on team size (e.g. moving from 5 to 50 to 500 person teams). Most other tools don't do this as well, but I think that would improve the experience for everyone, dev & mgmt alike..

New comment by mnkypete in "Microsoft pauses free Windows 365 cloud PC trials after ‘significant demand’"

mnkypete — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 17:37:11 +0000

You have an 8core laptop with 32gig RAM for $700? That's not super common though, I think usually you'd spend more like $2500-$3000k for it. Count in the reduced maintenance and hardware support + having your whole stuff in one place.. Might make sense if you are not super low on money

New comment by mnkypete in "Switching to Windows"

mnkypete — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:07:04 +0000

You can also make this the default when you press "Print" on your keyboard. Go to Windows settings and search for "screenshot". It's so hard to discover -.-

ESE: The server-grade, embedded DB ships with Windows

mnkypete — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 14:16:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/Extensible-Storage-Engine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25969235

Points: 93

# Comments: 37

New comment by mnkypete in "Linus Torvalds on the new MacBook Air"

mnkypete — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 18:57:49 +0000

There seem to be people working on it at least:

https://github.com/Sonicadvance1/linux/issues/27

New comment by mnkypete in "Managing my personnal servers in 2020 with K3s"

mnkypete — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:20:35 +0000

Or just use caddy and get SSL included within seconds...

New comment by mnkypete in "radEventListener: Client-side Framework Performance"

mnkypete — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 06:13:02 +0000

You'd think that choosing a stack based on your target audiences computing needs would be more common.

Choosing React over vanilla JS is not only required for simple state things imho - for complex state I'd even say some may use something like Redux/MobX. The development experience and speed vs vanilla JS is just unmatched. The amount you need to worry about adding / removing classes, with implicit state all over the place will soon slow you down soon much because of all the edge cases you haven't thought of.

I hope nobody starts off development for new apps in 2020 based on pure JS - even if you explicit target ultra-low-end devices, maybe try a lighter framework like preact (et al).

New comment by mnkypete in "Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft"

mnkypete — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 17:38:55 +0000

If you are on Jira Cloud ping me, we have something very interesting launching soon ;)

New comment by mnkypete in "Why Figma Wins"

mnkypete — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 19:40:51 +0000

You know why it won for me? It had a Windows version from the start, so our team (Mac/Win) could actually get work done, since most other tools are Mac only.