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New comment by vborovikov in "When Bruce Lee trained with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar"

vborovikov — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 11:44:58 +0000

It's called bottom up processing and time slowing down is a side effect of that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_recognition_(psycholog...

New comment by vborovikov in "Use Your Type System"

vborovikov — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:55:38 +0000

Source generators hide too many details from the user.

I prefer to have the generated code to be the part of the code repo. That's why I use code templates instead of source generators. But a properly constructed ID type has a non-trivial amount of code: https://github.com/vborovikov/pwsh/blob/main/Templates/ItemT...

New comment by vborovikov in "If AI is so good at coding where are the open source contributions?"

vborovikov — Fri, 16 May 2025 05:30:20 +0000

I recently discovered an open source project which I believe was completely vibe coded. 90k lines of code, 135 commits starting from an empty project.

I cloned the repo and tried to run the examples. Nothing worked. The problem was many data structures and variables were initialized empty/zero but the code wasn't designed to work with empty data at all.

New comment by vborovikov in "Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs"

vborovikov — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:33:35 +0000

also known as Agile™ approach

New comment by vborovikov in "The reality of working in tech: We're not hired to write code (2023)"

vborovikov — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 07:03:35 +0000

But I don't want to configure WordPress. I like to write and debug code. If it's not required for the business, I'm not interested in working there at all.

New comment by vborovikov in "Why Tracebit is written in C#"

vborovikov — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 18:07:36 +0000

You can decompile any modern .NET assembly to C# 1.0 in ILSpy. It can be quite useful when learning the language new syntax.

New comment by vborovikov in "IsMyXFeedFucked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You"

vborovikov — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:32:38 +0000

Thanks for the extension. By the way it only started working after I switched the X display language to English.

New comment by vborovikov in "Do you have any suggestions on RSS readers?"

vborovikov — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 10:50:50 +0000

I wrote my own from scratch including the HTML/XML parsers. If you can't pick a reader the next best option is to write it yourself. There are countless projects on GitHub in any language.

Probably not really usable for anyone except myself but here is the code for my reader: https://github.com/vborovikov/news

New comment by vborovikov in "On finishing projects"

vborovikov — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 08:11:01 +0000

I keep reminding myself when working on my projects

- don't wait until you feel like doing something

and

- half-ass it

New comment by vborovikov in "Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?"

vborovikov — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 08:02:50 +0000

an online store item price watcher - saved me some money while shopping online

a feed reader - I was never satisfied with other feed readers so I've built my own

small utilities I use from time to time

All these apps were in active development for at least a year each and were deployed to my home server where they continue to work to this day. I fix bugs and add new features when I have time. Many of my apps use the libraries I publish publicly. It's always a pleasure to work on my own projects.

New comment by vborovikov in "NTS (TeX reimplementation in Java from 2001) still compiles under Java 16"

vborovikov — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 15:41:15 +0000

amusingly the older versions are still available on Adobe FTP

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/

New comment by vborovikov in "WPF Begins Its Long Goodbye"

vborovikov — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 13:19:26 +0000

The workaround was using a collection wrapper inherited from CollectionView class, usually ListCollectionView or CollectionViewSource. So you could create a collection view, bind it to the list control's ItemsSource property and that was enough. That's few additional lines of code in a view model.

New comment by vborovikov in "“Clean” code, horrible performance"

vborovikov — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:49:07 +0000

What is the author suggesting? To write software using infinite loops changing global state? Makes sense for video games but not for the custom enterprise software where clean code practices are usually applied.

The enterprise code must be easy to change because it deals with the external data sources and devices, integration into human processes, and constantly changing end-user needs. Clean code practices allow that, it's not about CPU performance and memory optimizations at all.

New comment by vborovikov in "Ask HN: What simple facts have you learned surprisingly late in life?"

vborovikov — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 13:35:11 +0000

Malapropism - not the phenomenon itself, but its name which I finally remembered from watching the movie Glass Onion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism

New comment by vborovikov in "Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam"

vborovikov — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 14:34:47 +0000

this list is really helpful

https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

New comment by vborovikov in "BugMeNot Is Gone?"

vborovikov — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:05:27 +0000

I check the copied password for whitespace and usually that's the reason for the password not working

New comment by vborovikov in "Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?"

vborovikov — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 21:14:23 +0000

Usually nothing changes for me as a developer if shareholders get bigger returns on their investments. So I don't really care.

What I care about is the code quality because good code makes my job easier. I inherited the code, not the business.

New comment by vborovikov in "Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets (2017)"

vborovikov — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 20:26:32 +0000

But these guys develop their programs in isolation and they deploy to users only the final result or a limited number of beta versions. They almost never evolve their code bases to a second version. They work on video games.

If I work in isolation from the users, don't have external requirements, don't care about future versions of the software - sure, their advice might be useful to me.

New comment by vborovikov in "Ask HN: What exactly is a mindfulness meditation?"

vborovikov — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 18:06:51 +0000

For me, it is a gentle stop to the internal monologue by transferring attention to my own breathing. What is the end goal? Less thoughts, more stable the emotions.

New comment by vborovikov in "“Google” programmers. How one idiot hired a couple more idiots"

vborovikov — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:15:24 +0000

the original post (in Russian) tries to be entertaining, so these are hyperbole.