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New comment by nj5rq in "We are destroying software"

nj5rq — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 22:15:45 +0000

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Isn't this kind of ironic?

New comment by nj5rq in "Operating System in 1,000 Lines – Intro"

nj5rq — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:13:22 +0000

There are very good kernels written in Ada, like Ironclad[1].

Besides, what's the point of this comment? What if people wanted to write a million more Unix-like kernels in C? Do you think this is bad? Why do you care? If you want, just write your own in whatever language you want, with whatever design you want.

> Why not Plan 9 in Zig, or Hare, or even D?

Because nobody to this point was interested in doing this. It's really that simple.

[1] https://ironclad.nongnu.org/

New comment by nj5rq in "Don't Clobber the Frame Pointer"

nj5rq — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 23:06:13 +0000

That color scheme is nice for my eyes.

New comment by nj5rq in "Manual for PUB (a markup language in 1971) – Larry Tesler"

nj5rq — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 13:04:00 +0000

That website format is very interesting. The original text (while also hyperlinked) on one side, and notes/explanations on the other side.

New comment by nj5rq in "Pleasant Debugging with GDB and DDD"

nj5rq — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 12:50:38 +0000

Debugging with GDB from Emacs is amazing; thanks to Nick Roberts and Dmitry Dzhus.

New comment by nj5rq in "Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all"

nj5rq — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 11:20:52 +0000

Ubuntu is supposed to be the most intuitive or friendly distro (very arguable), but it's a shame how bad and bloated it is.

I have been using steam in arch-based distros for a very long time and I have had no issues at all running most Windows games (see https://protondb.com). As someone else mentioned, the only real issue might be anti-cheats in competitive games.

New comment by nj5rq in "Show HN: Underthreaded – The Brand for Engineers"

nj5rq — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:26:27 +0000

Basic/minimal designs are fine, but just by looking at the brand logo the buyer isn't really showing that he supports free open source projects, at least right now. Perhaps adding some tech-specific designs, as the other user suggested, would help associate your brand with that. I wish you the best.

New comment by nj5rq in "Show HN: Voxcreo – Turn written text into podcasts"

nj5rq — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:21:15 +0000

Source code is not public? I rather read with my eyes.

New comment by nj5rq in "How the OCaml type checker works (2022)"

nj5rq — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:19:59 +0000

Say whatever you want, but this is how websites should be designed.

New comment by nj5rq in "Getting back into C programming for CP/M"

nj5rq — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:17:29 +0000

It's the first time I ever see the function parameters declared like this:

    int my_function (a, b)
    int a; char *b;
      {
      ... body of function ...
      }

What do you even call this?

New comment by nj5rq in "Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture"

nj5rq — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 15:22:00 +0000

Sure, but do you think that's the reason why there is an interest in promoting diverse teams? For helping the people "grow up"? Besides, that's only true if the differences are relatively small, you can't understand and relate to everyone. You can obviously collaborate with them on a professional level.

New comment by nj5rq in "Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture"

nj5rq — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 12:20:25 +0000

> They really want you but don't want you to think that so they can get you to accept less in the negotiation.

I wouldn't call this shady, it's just basic business. If you want to buy a house, and you want to lower the price, you can't act all excited.

New comment by nj5rq in "Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture"

nj5rq — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 12:18:35 +0000

> modern HR philosophy seems to be "Always keep the employee/candidate on their back foot." Always make sure the corporation is Alpha Dog.

This is absolutely true. A good way of accomplishing a more submissive team is by making it more diverse. If the members of the team can't relate to one another, the less personal connection, and the more submissive each person is to the guys on top.

I am sure some people will think this is not the case and that companies just care about "making things right".

New comment by nj5rq in "Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture"

nj5rq — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 12:12:22 +0000

> "Tell me about a change that's been made with the support of senior leadership to improve engineering culture." [...] If the answers I get are too diplomatic, then my suspicion is that changes aren't being made to improve culture.

There is no "engineering culture" in a company. I don't know why everyone loves that word so much.

New comment by nj5rq in "Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture"

nj5rq — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 12:05:26 +0000

I was going to type something like this. I don't know how the interviews are in your country, but in mine the interviewer doesn't take this well.

New comment by nj5rq in "Discrete Mathematics – An Open Introduction, 4th edition"

nj5rq — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 21:09:32 +0000

I was intimidated by these math books, but I was able to find a lot of interesting stuff in "Applied Discrete Structures" by Al Doerr and Ken Levasseur[1]. I was attracted by the "Logic" section, and I was not disappointed. You can download it for free from their website.

> It’s a bit old and unfortunately not free

It's available on Anna's Archive, in case someone is looking for it.

[1] https://discretemath.org/

New comment by nj5rq in "Aristotle – How to live a good life"

nj5rq — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 21:04:10 +0000

There are so many good (non-mainstream) tech articles to share. A lot of them are not repetitive. A lot are shared here every day. Yet, for some reason, people decide to share these self-help low effort articles on HN. Just make some "news.selfhelp.how2behappy.com" website.

(No offense to you, I just don't get it)

New comment by nj5rq in "Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch"

nj5rq — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:23:22 +0000

Thank you for sharing this, very useful. The BYTE magazine is absolutely amazing, it's a shame nothing similar could be done today.

New comment by nj5rq in "Markdown is meant to be shown (2021)"

nj5rq — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:14:22 +0000

As someone else mentioned, this is how Org mode works on Emacs, not only that, but by setting:

    (setq org-hide-emphasis-markers t)

You can hide the markers (*, /, _, etc.) by default, and toggle them with:

    M-x visible-mode

It also has many other features that integrate well with Emacs.

New comment by nj5rq in "How does it feel to test a compiler?"

nj5rq — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:09:21 +0000

I am making a simple Lisp interpreter, and this is my whole testing stage:

    $ valgrind --leak-check=full --track-origins=yes ./lisp < test/test.lisp
    $ cat test/expected.txt

What can I say, works for me.