Hacker News: throwA29B

New comment by throwA29B in "Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one"

throwA29B — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:50:14 +0000

>ignore them for some reason

The reasons are clearly stated in the issue you have linked.

New comment by throwA29B in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

throwA29B — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:06:53 +0000

Elitism is good. Elitism is just. There is absolutely nothing wrong with elitism.

Skill based one of course.

New comment by throwA29B in "Java.evolved: Java has evolved. Your code can too"

throwA29B — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:05:05 +0000

>immutable

>setters

sigh

New comment by throwA29B in "Draig, a Welsh Programming Language"

throwA29B — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 03:39:02 +0000

No. You want 'for' to be a looping construct with no other meanings.

Seeing code in my native language makes me laugh, I can't take it seriously.

New comment by throwA29B in "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"

throwA29B — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:01:22 +0000

What is the point of this post? To shame the author?

New comment by throwA29B in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

throwA29B — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:19:56 +0000

Can't wait for the Ladybird to arrive.

New comment by throwA29B in "Time Warp IDE – Complete environment for old-school coding"

throwA29B — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 02:01:07 +0000

It is not an IDE though, just set of compilers/translators like gcc.

New comment by throwA29B in "Effect of the inflows of immigrants on European workers’ careers (2013) [pdf]"

throwA29B — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 01:43:42 +0000

>period of 1995-2001

That time basically only some intro-European migrations happened: Germans repatriating from the recently dissolved USSR, other Europeans moving back and forth, maybe some refugees from the Balkans.

Interesting stuff started happening much, much later.

Also what with this line spacing? It renders the paper nigh unreadable!

New comment by throwA29B in "Show HN: Zli – A Batteries-Included CLI Framework for Zig"

throwA29B — Mon, 26 May 2025 03:49:18 +0000

libc, starting with errno, continuing with fopen/printf/str* functions, locales, etc is a pile of quick hacks; set of useful abstractions at the time, no doubt! But that time is long gone, for decade(s) it is nothing but a drag.

New comment by throwA29B in "What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023)"

throwA29B — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 01:19:03 +0000

Chaining calls is an anti-pattern. Not only this is needless duplication of ye olde imperative statements sequence it also makes debugging, modifying ("oh I need to call some function in the middle of the chain, ugh"), and understanding harder for superficial benefit of it looking "cool".

It actively hurts maintainability, please stop using it.

New comment by throwA29B in "What's New in Emacs 30.1?"

throwA29B — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:12:16 +0000

>Native compilation is now enabled by default.

And it shows. Now emacs is much nicer to use on Windows. Big thanks to the developers!

New comment by throwA29B in "Stop KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act)"

throwA29B — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:52:29 +0000

Internet of today quite differ from the Internet of the past.

New comment by throwA29B in "Stop KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act)"

throwA29B — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:32:00 +0000

Judging by the quality of the content of the page, this KOSA bill is at least not a bad thing.

New comment by throwA29B in "ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire"

throwA29B — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 03:12:21 +0000

>Like Israel, the Soviets also failed to invest in the lands they occupied

Don't know about Israel, but you definitely know nothing about the Soviets.

New comment by throwA29B in "Ask HN: How to manage autistic developer?"

throwA29B — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:56:38 +0000

Why complicate things? Just fire him.

New comment by throwA29B in "Rectify11 Improving upon the Windows 11 experience"

throwA29B — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 14:28:43 +0000

>everyone using it in business and multimedia must just like making their life harder

Nah, they just either don't know any better or just don't care. I think it is a mix of both.

>I forgot Linux was the greatest

You can't forgot what you didn't know, mate :) Linux is for servers, it has no place on desktop. All those "The [Current Year] is a year of Linux on the desktop!" articles can attest that.

New comment by throwA29B in "Rectify11 Improving upon the Windows 11 experience"

throwA29B — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 13:58:39 +0000

>macOS is good

You can't be possibly more wrong here, mate. macOS is an absolute garbage. Always was.

And Windows 11 tries to mimic that but fortunately fails at that too.

Edit: add reddit spacing

New comment by throwA29B in "A world where people pay for software"

throwA29B — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 03:15:17 +0000

I dislike SaaS very strongly. I will not repeat the "why"s mentioned in this thread, just add one that I haven't seen yet: SaaS incentivize doing busywork that is visible but not necessarily useful.

For example JetBrain's products: Oh look, we have changed our icons/ updated UI/ improved UX/ etc! We know that nobody asked for this, but it will be shoved into your mouth anyway!

Pretty much sure you can find that everywhere.

New comment by throwA29B in "A world where people pay for software"

throwA29B — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 02:45:07 +0000

Well they were not that huge, but most of organizations had "board of honor" with photos and names of best workers displayed for everyone to see. It was mocked ("look at those idiots that work for free, lol") even before USSR died.

And monuments are only for the very, very few.

New comment by throwA29B in "Maine becomes first state to decriminalize selling sex"

throwA29B — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 05:11:03 +0000

Probably increase, because demand for the "silent" sellers will increase.