Hacker News: thecaio

New comment by thecaio in "CSS-Native Parallax Effect"

thecaio — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:14:58 +0000

there is a special place in hell for pages like these that don't show examples

New comment by thecaio in "Floats Don't Agree with Themselves"

thecaio — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:10:37 +0000

Same. I now tend to simply abandon writing when I see those tell tale signs

New comment by thecaio in "Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one"

thecaio — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:42:39 +0000

wow. this is insane. never new such mechanic was ever remotely considered or possible. pretty neat

New comment by thecaio in "Some people can't see mental images"

thecaio — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:19:18 +0000

I was thinking the same! At first, I thought I was firmly in the “can clearly visualize” camp, but the more I read and hear people describe how they form (or don't) mental images, the less sure I am.

New comment by thecaio in "I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks)"

thecaio — Sun, 11 May 2025 23:55:26 +0000

Never easy to pull these off, so congrats! App might be modern in the sense that you coded it in 2025, but looks straight out of Windows 98

New comment by thecaio in "Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools"

thecaio — Sat, 10 May 2025 02:48:43 +0000

I get it and don’t disagree but isn’t this being too literal? At the limit, isn’t this expecting author to be overly precious with the title? I mean, I could as well ask author to state a precise statistic like “93.76% of business books are entertainment”

New comment by thecaio in "RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports"

thecaio — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:09:32 +0000

fair!

New comment by thecaio in "RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports"

thecaio — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:02:26 +0000

thank you! so needed. there is a special place in hell for folks that don't attach screenshots to fundamentally graphic projects.

New comment by thecaio in "Which country consumes the most coffee?"

thecaio — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:31:20 +0000

Is this article correct?

> Interestingly, the list also includes non-traditional coffee-consuming countries such as Lebanon and Brazil, which could be attributed to the global spread of coffee-related business and culture

Really? Both Brazil and Lebanon are traditional coffee consuming countries. Brazil in particular is the largest producer of coffee in the world and coffee is everywhere, since pretty much forever.

New comment by thecaio in "The Ipe extensible drawing editor"

thecaio — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 03:10:30 +0000

I’m yet to understand how a tool to create graphic drawings does not provide any trace of a screenshot of example outputs in their website; and upon reading this very comment section, I learned it has a GUI, of which of course there is not a screenshot either in their page. Go figure

New comment by thecaio in "RPG Engine for the Nintendo 64"

thecaio — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:46:51 +0000

so frustrating to not have screenshots or video recordings on projects like this – game engines are naturally a visual beast

New comment by thecaio in "Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)"

thecaio — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:42:38 +0000

Dude from Sao Paulo here. I found this law a blessing. The picture in the articles make it look like the city is scattered with abandoned billboards but that's not the case. You won't see any one from SP complaining from this piece of law. City looks better, with intrusive, cheap-looking street advertising (mostly) gone. Businesses survided.

New comment by thecaio in "Windy.com"

thecaio — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 00:08:53 +0000

Any kite surfers? How have you found Windy for spotting decent places to surf? I’m a fan of Windy but sometimes find it a bit “lowres” in the sense that it does a good job on translating wind direction/force in broader, more general areas while it’s hit and miss for specific spots (eg beaches or nooks). POVs?

New comment by thecaio in "The Psychology of Colour"

thecaio — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 22:33:57 +0000

This s pseudoscience. Working with large consumer brands in the last 10 years, I’ve never seen any of this applied to real life. This has no value and I’m surprise it was voted to HN frontpage.