Hacker News: trevex

New comment by trevex in "HashiCorp CEO Predicts OSS-Free Silicon Valley"

trevex — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 20:45:33 +0000

While this is certainly true, there is also another part of the puzzle.

There are plenty contributors in the ecosystem building providers, submitting PRs under the assumption that the ecosystem will benefit and not solely Hashicorp.

As it stands most providers are not maintained by Hashicorp, e.g. AWS, Azure, Google, Hetzner, GitLab, ...

While the license change does not directly affect the providers it limits the ecosystems use of those providers.

New comment by trevex in "Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad"

trevex — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 10:44:20 +0000

No prior experience with it myself, but https://www.taiga.io/ is often mentioned and on my personal bucket list of things to check out.

EDIT: fixed typo

New comment by trevex in "EU moving closer to Facebook ban"

trevex — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 05:40:12 +0000

Could you point me to the source. I was under the impression it is dead and Deutsche Telekom now collaborates with Google Cloud on the so called Sovereign Cloud [1].

[1] https://cloud.google.com/t-systems-sovereign-cloud

New comment by trevex in "SPAs Were a Mistake"

trevex — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:06:51 +0000

Isn’t this basically what NextJS and NuxtJS provide, if you only leverage their static rendering?

New comment by trevex in "Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories"

trevex — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 19:58:48 +0000

I unfortunately share your experiences. However in Germany there is a foundation called “Stiftung Warentest” [1], which does independent testing of products. With reviews full of Amazon affiliate links dominating search results, I tend to purchase their tests for ~3 Euros more often than ever.

However this only works for popular product categories, but less so for specialized equipment.

My impression is also that affiliate links hurt consumers in the long run as they reduce the selection of products in reviews or blogs to those the authors can earn money with. This however leaves out potential alternatives. More often than not the winner of product categories (at least those I was researching) of independent tests were not available from sites running affiliate programs. For example a consumer-grade lawn mower from an otherwise professional gardening company or a tent from a Scandinavian brand.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Warentest

New comment by trevex in "Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?"

trevex — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 11:26:49 +0000

nix has a very steep learning curve, but I have been using it on macOS for a while now. Can’t recommend it enough. Even started using it on my personal PC, which allows me to use the same nix flake on both systems.

EDIT: Personal PC is running NixOS not Windows.

New comment by trevex in "Ask HN: Why is there not a memory-safe C?"

trevex — Thu, 24 May 2018 12:59:26 +0000

There is also a language called zig[1], which popped up on hckrnews a few times in the past. I didn't have the chance to try it out, but am following the blog.

From what I can gather, it supports compile time code execution and reflection, so no preprocessor necessary. Furthermore it has a lot of safety features and optional checks, a nullable type instead of null value and manual memory management but also provides a `defer` statement.

[1] https://ziglang.org

New comment by trevex in "Mark Zuckerberg Calls for a Universal Basic Income"

trevex — Fri, 26 May 2017 18:20:28 +0000

There was a very interesting article in the german business-magazine "brand eins" [1]. The article is not yet available for free (always released for free a few weeks after the magazine).

But the gist was that UBI is only possible with a substantial tax reform. In the article an example of 1000€ per month is presented and a universal "commerce" tax of 50% used (no other taxes just taxing money going out of businesses, e.g. earnings, salaries).

Several examples are presented: Low income of 24000€, 12000€ - 12000€ = 0€ in taxes. Higher income of 100000€, 50000€ - 12000€ = 38000€ in taxes.

It concludes that basic income in Germany is therefore great for everyone with salaries below 240000€ compared to the current taxation system.

Calculations for the amount of money necessary were also included, but I am unable to recall them from memory. Looking up the article online revealed a report by the interviewee from the magazine article [2], which states that a UBI of 800€ per month (including major reforms) would cost around 454.10 billion €, which would be about 2/3 of Germany's current tax income.

[1] "Wie überlebt der Sozialstaat die Digitalisierung?" https://www.brandeins.de/archiv/2017/fortschritt/

[2] http://www.hwwi.org/fileadmin/hwwi/Leistungen/Gutachten/Grun...

New comment by trevex in "Hello Lua"

trevex — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:09:47 +0000

Lua is still my goto embedded scripting language. I don't have any experience with haxe per se, but is the transpiler embeddable as well?

New comment by trevex in "Loci: A C++-like systems programming language"

trevex — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 01:08:04 +0000

Seems it was created by one developer called Stephen Cross (scross.co.uk). I am quite impressed by his accomplishment. The only thing I miss are custom allocators.

New comment by trevex in "React-cursor: a JavaScript implementation of the Cursor concept first seen in Om"

trevex — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:30:28 +0000

I agree. The first minute I looked through the tutorial `onChange` confused me, because I expected it to take a callback.

I would prefer `transact` or any other of your proposed method names over onChange.