Hacker News: storoj

New comment by storoj in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

storoj — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:37:09 +0000

> Enable the “Reduce motion” setting in System Settings.

> This is always the default answer to this question online, and I’m sick of it! It doesn’t even solve the problem, but rather replaces it with an equally useless fade-in animation.

https://arhan.sh/blog/native-instant-space-switching-on-maco...

New comment by storoj in "iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency"

storoj — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:57:44 +0000

Noone complains about Windows 9 because Windows 9 does not exist.

New comment by storoj in "What’s new in Swift 6.2"

storoj — Fri, 09 May 2025 22:44:45 +0000

IMO async/await and Combine are two completely different things.

What is the alternative to Combine's CurrentValueSubject or combineLatest()?

New comment by storoj in "Russian Names (2018)"

storoj — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:55:49 +0000

> Is Alex/Alexander a nickname for Sasha

it's the other way around: "Alexandr" is the "canonical" name, and "Sasha" is a shorter version of it

In Russian some names can be used with "sha" suffix that makes the name sound "softer": in many cases it's how parents call their kids.

Mikhail -> Misha; Mariya -> Masha; Alexandr(Male) or Alexandra(Female) -> Alexasha -> Sasha

New comment by storoj in "TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end"

storoj — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:09:42 +0000

There should be a well-defined list of undefined behaviors.

New comment by storoj in "Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Security Update"

storoj — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 01:22:27 +0000

I clearly don't understand what kind of security are we talking about in this particular case of using a 3D printer. A protection from what – someone comes to my home, connects to my wifi with my password, and then – prints a huge cube to waste all my filaments? Where's the real threat here?

New comment by storoj in "Ladybird browser spreads its wings"

storoj — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 08:49:01 +0000

Because they can

New comment by storoj in "Ship Something Every Day"

storoj — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:15:01 +0000

> do most of the hard work, and give it to somebody else to finish up the easy part and ship the solution

once I realized that the hardest part is actually _finishing_

New comment by storoj in "Cursor – The AI-First Code Editor"

storoj — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 10:46:35 +0000

  import foo from 'foo'

  > add comments

  // imports
  import foo from 'foo'

oh thanks, now I know that these lines that start from "import" are actually imports

New comment by storoj in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)"

storoj — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:51:21 +0000

iOS Developer

  Location: London (UK)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: iOS, Swift/ObjC, C++. ~10 YOE
  CV: https://storoj.github.io/cv
  Email: dark.storoj@gmail.com

New comment by storoj in "jq 1.7"

storoj — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:44:09 +0000

Is ".*" necessary? I think "^_" should be enough.

New comment by storoj in "Homebrew 4.0.0"

storoj — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:24:58 +0000

IMO installation failures are equally bad, no matter if they happen in 1% of cases or in 100%.

New comment by storoj in "Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok"

storoj — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:25:26 +0000

> I will not do take home assignments for free if they take more than 1h of my time.

How is it possible to do anything meaningful in just an hour?