Hacker News: vraylle

New comment by vraylle in "The Worst Programmer I Know (2023)"

vraylle — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 03:58:15 +0000

This is the key. Ask all the developers for a ranked top-3 list of who they would most prefer to go to for help with a programming problem. Put that data together and you know who your best are.

Before the inevitable protest: I believe the ability and willingness to communicate with other developers is a vital skill in this business.

New comment by vraylle in "Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize"

vraylle — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 02:40:04 +0000

A nice layout. For fun I attempted to actually print (to PDF) and boy was that messed up badly! Guessing that's not the type of "print" you had in mind. :)

New comment by vraylle in "NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism"

vraylle — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:35:02 +0000

I had no idea this existed. Me likey. Now if I can just get this as an RSS feed....

New comment by vraylle in "Aegis v3.0 – a free, secure and open source 2FA app for Android"

vraylle — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 02:17:00 +0000

It can put encrypted backups on almost any cloud service, pCloud in my case.

New comment by vraylle in "Goodbye non-KISS appliances"

vraylle — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 15:35:03 +0000

Maybe a decent short-throw projector?

New comment by vraylle in ".NET 7 is Available Today"

vraylle — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 03:03:27 +0000

We're in the process of migration a large MVC application from Framework 4.8 to .NET 6. It's been....painful. Hopefully at least for a while updating to new LTS versions will be less so.

New comment by vraylle in "Coding as a greybeard"

vraylle — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 13:30:24 +0000

For me, the TRS-80 Model I (4k). I later "graduated" to the TI-99/4A (16k) and Commodore VIC-20 (5k).

New comment by vraylle in "So, how can we lower gas prices?"

vraylle — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 02:15:48 +0000

By removing the incentive to plow the current massive profits into stock buybacks and dividends instead of refining capacity?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/energy/gas-prices-oil-product...

New comment by vraylle in "How long does a freezer stay frozen when the power goes out?"

vraylle — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 02:52:48 +0000

Typically wherever you buy it they will have small Styrofoam coolers next to it. It typically comes sealed in thin plastic bags. Get it home, put on a glove, and throw it in your freezer. Any glove is fine as long as you're not standing there with it in your hand. There are several grocery stores that have it available here.

New comment by vraylle in "Things I wish I’d known about CSS"

vraylle — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:01:45 +0000

We use WKHTMLTOPDF (https://wkhtmltopdf.org/). In our case it's in the Rotativa package (.NET MVC). There are a few caveats; it uses an older headless WebKit engine that doesn't support everything. We use the QT Web Browser (http://www.qtweb.net) to test/debug when needed. We do design pages to be specific "paper" sizes and lean on SVG a lot for anything fancy. We have some JS that breaks long tables into multiple tables, etc. But the resulting output looks flawless.

New comment by vraylle in "CSS grid garden"

vraylle — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 22:03:30 +0000

We just finished deploying a major contract where the military is a primary customer. They still have many machines running IE 11. I used CSS Grid and it's working well. IE 11 supports the initial version of the spec and has the -ms prefixes, but works. There are some things you can't do (like areas), but it largely works with that syntax, if you design with column/row in mind.

See this for details on the IE 10/11 implementation:

https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/11/26/should-i-try-...

New comment by vraylle in "A Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun"

vraylle — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 02:43:20 +0000

I don't know about other areas, but here in the middle of Oklahoma the Dollar Generals have been a real positive. There's a lot of rural areas where a Walmart came in, then folded later. It left a 1-2 hour drive to get buy any kind of "real" food. The DG stores here have been expanding to include an actual grocery section, including fresh produce and (limited) fresh meat. More is available frozen. They have excellent prices on canned goods. Are they as good as a full grocery store? No, but they're a _lot_ better than the gas station/convenience store and its endless supply of deep-fried burritos...and also the only alternative.

New comment by vraylle in "Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign"

vraylle — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:08:41 +0000

Ditto, hope the men in suits don't come down.

New comment by vraylle in "Ask HN: Why don't you work less?"

vraylle — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:01:26 +0000

Insurance. At least, until 2014.