Hacker News: runn1ng

New comment by runn1ng in "WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10"

runn1ng — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 09:26:31 +0000

easiness

New comment by runn1ng in "WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10"

runn1ng — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:03:52 +0000

LTSC can be purchased individually legally. But it is indeed expensive.

Luckily, there are also all those shady eBay “key resellers”. (They are all cracked of course, but they also work, so it’s worth it.)

New comment by runn1ng in "Switching from Chrome to Firefox"

runn1ng — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 09:50:58 +0000

Switching saved passwords (with the built in password managers) between Firefox, Chrome and Safari is a pain.

I remember that in order to get my passwords from Chrome to Firefox on macOS, I needed to install a virtual machine with Windows, and log in to Chrome and Firefox there.

New comment by runn1ng in "Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight"

runn1ng — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 07:49:01 +0000

I am mostly surprised this is still ongoing... isn’t it going for around 10 years already?

New comment by runn1ng in "Bill.com Files for $100M IPO"

runn1ng — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 02:51:19 +0000

WeWork is not “tech IPO” though.

New comment by runn1ng in "Oyo's business model is looking a lot like WeWork's"

runn1ng — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 09:27:07 +0000

In Vietnam, they vary in quality so much as to make the brand meaningless.

There are good ones and terrible ones.

The business model doesn’t seem to make sense to me either.

New comment by runn1ng in "The Google Squeeze"

runn1ng — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:57:12 +0000

I’m wishing there was a search engine that was not filled with ads that does not suck.

And don’t give me duckduckgo, that one regularly ranks spam domains and typo domains higher than the real results

New comment by runn1ng in "The Google Squeeze"

runn1ng — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:54:54 +0000

I won’t cry for TripAdvisor and Expedia, their websites were awful.

Booking Group websites (booking.com and agoda) are still doing great in 2019 as the article states, because they don’t suck

New comment by runn1ng in "Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B"

runn1ng — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:36:03 +0000

and spamming users with ads left and right, Google style, too

New comment by runn1ng in "Man sues AT&T over 'SIM Swap' hack allegedly involving employees"

runn1ng — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 03:39:59 +0000

The lesson here is not to sue AT&T. The lesson here is to stop investing in cryptocurrency.

New comment by runn1ng in "Notarizing Your Mac Software for macOS Catalina"

runn1ng — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:20:34 +0000

I’m pretty sure you do.

New comment by runn1ng in "Notarizing Your Mac Software for macOS Catalina"

runn1ng — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:32:16 +0000

How to notarize a binary if one does not have macOS? I used to have a cross-platform build on Docker for macOS, I wonder how would I do it now.

New comment by runn1ng in "Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows"

runn1ng — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 02:14:03 +0000

Isn’t LTSC better as a desktop? It’s just Windows 10 without the user hostile crap.

But I have never run Windows Server

New comment by runn1ng in "Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows"

runn1ng — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 01:36:21 +0000

Buy pirated Windows LTSC on ebay (or actual, if you have 260 usd to spare), it solves most of Windows 10 problems

New comment by runn1ng in "Secushare: A decentralized, secure social network built on GNUnet"

runn1ng — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 08:46:47 +0000

This is true about anything GNUnet related, really.

New comment by runn1ng in "Run Commands, the 'rc' in '.bashrc'"

runn1ng — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 04:45:04 +0000

I found it funny that random decisions from 60s, 70s, 80s still have repercussions on how we use computers today, because backwards compatibility beats cleanliness every time.

Be right back, solving some Windows backslash and CRLF issues.

New comment by runn1ng in "Chasing the Whale: Examining the ethics of free-to-play games"

runn1ng — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 10:59:37 +0000

Isn’t this (2013)?

New comment by runn1ng in "JavaScript Is Bad"

runn1ng — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:30:35 +0000

We need to separate two things.

One is that JavaScript is bad. It’s true, but strongly typed languages built on top of JS improve it immensely. Most people today use TypeScript, I used to use Flowtype but the history went the other way, oh well. So that part is being fixed.

The other part is the package management, and the ecosystem, and that’s almost independent on JavaScript the language. And well, the situation there sucks so much that I needed to escape to backend world, since I don’t want to deal with broken webpack plugins anymore.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s also broken in python and golang (my current languages), but people at least ADMIT it’s a problem, and in golang folks try to fix the vendor/ mess with modules. (Python... ugh.)

I wish the npm mess was getting better, but while yarn at least solved some sub-problem, the whole thing doesn’t get better. Back to golang I go, I feel happy here.

(Well unless I have to copy paste Apply for the 30th time.)

New comment by runn1ng in "Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature"

runn1ng — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:58:25 +0000

You would need a special license if you read it to your children and then sell that recording.

New comment by runn1ng in "Manufacturers want to quit China for Vietnam, but find it impossible"

runn1ng — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 06:30:11 +0000

BBC seems blocked only on some providers. I can connect to bbc.co.uk now, but bbc.com is DNS blocked.