Hacker News: spand

New comment by spand in "NaN, the not-a-number number that isn't NaN"

spand — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:37:44 +0000

It can usually be implemented like this. No need for strings.

fun isNan(n) = n != n

New comment by spand in "Cursor 1.0"

spand — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:43:45 +0000

Its their take on a coding agent that just came out of early access.

New comment by spand in "Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?"

spand — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:54:50 +0000

I can second this. Their sales people have such poor behaviour that I am considering moving away simply on principle. There is nothing predictable about being on an enterprise contract and they will hit you with bullshit overage charges like using too many dns requests (wtf??) all of a sudden to force you onto a much larger contract. On the 28th of December no less ! We have used them for a very long time but I am having very big doubts about how much we can use them in the future even though their products are great.

New comment by spand in "GitHub Snakes SVG"

spand — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 11:04:50 +0000

Python is not named after the snake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python)

New comment by spand in "Why is Apache clinging to OpenOffice?"

spand — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 17:03:34 +0000

Knowingly distributing a faulty product with risk of harm to the user ?

New comment by spand in "Rocket Mortgage to trim 8% of workforce as home-loan market shrinks"

spand — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 14:41:23 +0000

Your math is wildly off in point 2. Rates are now above 3% and ie. a 0.5% bond is trading at 77 [1]

[1] http://www.nasdaqomxnordic.com/bonds/denmark/microsite?Instr...

New comment by spand in "CUPID – For Joyful Coding"

spand — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:40:47 +0000

Has anyone tried the D in a multi module jvm setup ? I attempted this[1] in Kotlin with Gradle but breaks in IDEA which is pretty much a dealbreaker.

[1] https://github.com/spand/KotlinCUPID

New comment by spand in "How to Become a Bad Developer"

spand — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:36:56 +0000

Everything is gold plating until it isn’t. So do you bet on the project going big and deep or not ?

New comment by spand in "Microsoft Patches Six Zero-Day Security Holes"

spand — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 22:14:06 +0000

What a silly straw man. Engineers may not be fungible but funding is.

New comment by spand in "IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax"

spand — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:32:53 +0000

Houses usually taxed on an ongoing basis. Not really comparable to stocks.

New comment by spand in "IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax"

spand — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 11:21:41 +0000

Unrealised gains compound faster than taxed gains. You then only have to pay taxes on the money you spend.

New comment by spand in "DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized"

spand — Fri, 14 May 2021 16:17:14 +0000

I would expect only Bitcoin markets to have the liquidity and depth where one can easily buy 5 million worth of coins. Similarly when the hackers want to sell the coins again.

New comment by spand in "Why can’t you buy a good webcam?"

spand — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 10:41:02 +0000

It is covered in the article

New comment by spand in "Insulation: First the body, then the home (2011)"

spand — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:37:24 +0000

Not sure of the total outcome but the heat source might not be as efficient at pumping out heat for it to get warm quickly enough than it would at a constant rate. I cannot find a source now but I believe this is even the case for new refrigerators that they run in a much more continuous mode than the jagged cool/off mode.

New comment by spand in "U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise"

spand — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:44:03 +0000

Does anyone believe the US isn’t doing similar shit themselves ? In that light it seems pretty disingenuous to call out others for the same act.

New comment by spand in "Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent"

spand — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:00:05 +0000

Same except it stopped not long ago. Maybe they fixed it ?

New comment by spand in "Questions to ask before adopting microservices"

spand — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 08:32:20 +0000

Seems the solution would be to improve the thing rather than reimplement it as microservices.

New comment by spand in "Questions to ask before adopting microservices"

spand — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 08:30:31 +0000

Can you elaborate why it had to be done that way ?

New comment by spand in "Rust 1.40"

spand — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:30:08 +0000

Not affiliated but there is at least one posting here https://concordium.com/careers/

New comment by spand in "Compile-Time DI vs. Run-Time DI"

spand — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 16:41:32 +0000

You are just refuting your own straw man.

Passing dependencies also qualifies as DI and is for the benefit of the developer. Maybe you are only talking about DI frameworks or containers in which case I share some skepticism but in general the concept of DI is pretty sound.