Hacker News: skratlo

New comment by skratlo in "PeerTube mobile app: discover videos while caring for your attention"

skratlo — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:14:17 +0000

This will never take off with that awful logo and mascot, and general silliness. With the "developed by Framasoft", like who the f* cares. It's noise, it looks awful, it repels potential users. Get some serious marketing person in.

New comment by skratlo in "Intents: The Endgame for Computing Interfaces?"

skratlo — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 14:08:53 +0000

Gave me a good laugh, it's like when they were envisioning flying cars 50 years ago.

New comment by skratlo in "Developer account removed by Apple"

skratlo — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 17:37:35 +0000

The whole business model of living off of App stores, controlled by tech giants, is flawed, and no sane person should ever make this their sole source of income. It's like being held hostage.

New comment by skratlo in "FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker"

skratlo — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:09:47 +0000

No Android app, no cigar

New comment by skratlo in "Reflex – Web apps in pure Python"

skratlo — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 18:28:23 +0000

Why wouldn't it say nowhere (README, the website) what does it actually do and how? It's all marketing bullshit such as: Get up and running in seconds! Build web apps in minutes. Deploy with a single command. Build anything, faster. Create your whole app in a single language. Don't worry about writing APIs to connect your frontend and backend.

This kind of shit might catch a manager's eye, not a developer's one.

New comment by skratlo in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)"

skratlo — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 16:39:08 +0000

How and why would I feel that I'm helping society/humanity/planet/world anyhow by working for Upware? Who would I really be helping to achieve what exactly?

New comment by skratlo in "React, but in Python"

skratlo — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 23:07:35 +0000

This is cute, but it would be more helpful to have react-style GUI programming in python, with Qt (Quick or widgets) as the backend (instead of DOM).

New comment by skratlo in "Automate your Python project with Makefile (2021)"

skratlo — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:26:51 +0000

It's not true that Python doesn't have anything akin to package.json scripts. Bonus points: all is executed within project's virtualenv.

https://python-poetry.org/docs/cli/#run

New comment by skratlo in "TypeScript 5.0"

skratlo — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:03:43 +0000

We have WASM dude. But TS people are in TS bubble for what it's worth.

New comment by skratlo in "“Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers"

skratlo — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 23:25:36 +0000

> few pay attention to the fact that most grains are protected or even patented

Government and legislative failure. Just protect the seeds by disallowing any protection/patenting, for the public good, that's why we pay taxes.

New comment by skratlo in "Apple Silicon Mac’s have 2-3 times longer battery than PC laptops"

skratlo — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:16:28 +0000

Sure, but how will the MacBook hold when it's as old as your Dell?

New comment by skratlo in "What comes after Git"

skratlo — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 09:51:00 +0000

Came here to say this, I stopped reading after that, just skimmed the article, it's bunch of horsecrap.

New comment by skratlo in "GPU ray tracing tutorial – 10 articles"

skratlo — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 21:05:55 +0000

I find their C++ style particularly appalling.

New comment by skratlo in "Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal"

skratlo — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 17:59:35 +0000

This is bullshit.

> The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive

bullshit

> user accounts to just run a terminal?

bullshit

> collaboration

bullshit ...

New comment by skratlo in "Open Source Compositing Software for VFX and Motion Graphics"

skratlo — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:00:30 +0000

I recently tried Natron. I work on Linux/wayland. It was constantly crashing on me, I rebooted to Windows and tried the Windows version, it was crashing, and it was getting stuck a lot.

IMO Blender can do the same job and do it better.

New comment by skratlo in "Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language"

skratlo — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 21:02:11 +0000

That web page is like a time capsule, serious 90s vibes. Just add tag somewhere in there to make it complete.

New comment by skratlo in "Garage, our self-hosted distributed object storage solution"

skratlo — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 17:47:41 +0000

What's with the obsession with S3 API? Why not FUSE and just use any programming language without libraries to access the files? (Obviously without some S3/FUSE layer, without HTTP, just direct access to garage with the fastest protocol possible)

New comment by skratlo in "Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one"

skratlo — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 17:58:55 +0000

> It's cute, decent enough, and hand-crafted, but it doesn't measure up in usability, features, and performance to the email infrastructure that is run by big providers
What a BS, wake up dude.
> usability, features, and performance?
you really make me laugh, it's so bloated it's barely usable.

New comment by skratlo in "European alternatives for digital products"

skratlo — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:46:09 +0000

> So why does Europe have such hard time popping new software ventures
So what makes you think that "popping new software ventures" is a good thing for society? Isn't there enough software already? The problem is the mediocre quality of it, and decline (hello Adobe). Popping new software ventures is hardly a solution.

New comment by skratlo in "Tell HN: You can't add “no ads” in your Play Store app's title"

skratlo — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:45:09 +0000

Absolutely NOT! It's waaay better to have huge multinational corporation dictate what's right and what's wrong and what's good and what's bad! And they do it for you my friend! For FREE!