Hacker News: vbgamer45

New comment by vbgamer45 in "Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence"

vbgamer45 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:23:39 +0000

This bothers me big time. One my forums got hit by 200k to 280k requests over a 15 minute interval multiple days. I ended up just blocking the whole range /16

New comment by vbgamer45 in "Google's advise to use abstraction to improve function"

vbgamer45 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:10:27 +0000

Agreed more readable, instead of searching/scanning. That's an issue I have with larger projects, more files and classes to jump to for not any gain really.

New comment by vbgamer45 in "PHP-Tokio – Use any async Rust library from PHP"

vbgamer45 — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 18:26:36 +0000

Agreed basically the OOP people who took it too far.

New comment by vbgamer45 in "AWS Begins Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses"

vbgamer45 — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 04:20:31 +0000

Check out auctions.ipv4.global website you can sell your /24's or buy others. I have used them before successfully.

New comment by vbgamer45 in "Windows 11 adding native support for winRAR, 7zip, tar, and gzip"

vbgamer45 — Wed, 24 May 2023 02:04:15 +0000

It is probably a mixture of the following: is it anticompetitive, ongoing support, security. I think it is mainly anticompetitive issue.

Windows has been called many times for bundling software since it hurts other software companies. Which leads to government regulation. It is sad since I think probably the windows solution could be better in some cases with the native support.

New comment by vbgamer45 in "Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows"

vbgamer45 — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 16:51:43 +0000

Me as well I use the builds on apachelounge.com Just have make you tweak the config files.

New comment by vbgamer45 in "Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows"

vbgamer45 — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 16:50:44 +0000

I do for several large projects. But, I do not run IIS. Use Apache instead. I have webservers running windows server, and databases servers on centos.

Main reasons familiarity started as a windows application developer, the gui in my case window explorer feels easier for the tasks that I need do.

I have setup webservers on linux as well, Just I work faster in windows can fix things easier then having to google with linux when things go wrong. I prefer the windows file permissions

New comment by vbgamer45 in "Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher (1999)"

vbgamer45 — Sat, 23 May 2020 01:07:49 +0000

I just built a rough gopher server for createaforum.com just for fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nws5oVpPY_g

New comment by vbgamer45 in "Paypal Still Sending Invoices from Fake Godaddy"

vbgamer45 — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 01:12:33 +0000

Yes, I received at least of one theme as well. Very tricky since it is a real invoice from paypal.