Hacker News: winteriscoming

New comment by winteriscoming in "Automattic is closing its San Francisco office as most employees work remotely"

winteriscoming — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 12:25:20 +0000

Looking at that picture, it looks like some kind of backroom place in some store where employees gather to have lunch.

New comment by winteriscoming in "Inkscape Moves to GitLab"

winteriscoming — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 08:17:41 +0000

I couldn't find it either. Neither on their project pages nor that specific blog article and not even the "Search" option (where I searched for inkscape) on the gitlab.com/ site.

Thanks TranquilMarmot for posting the link to the repo.

New comment by winteriscoming in "Uber Board to Discuss Travis Kalanick’s Possible Leave of Absence"

winteriscoming — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 10:51:11 +0000

Dupe. The other one here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530797 has some comments already

New comment by winteriscoming in "[dead]"

winteriscoming — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 12:57:12 +0000

This whole naming of Skype app for linux is confusing. This announcement is just that they are retiring their older version of the app and they are asking users to switch to the newer beta version which is missing some features. Ultimately there's still going to be an official app for Linux.

New comment by winteriscoming in "iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always an option for users"

winteriscoming — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 02:42:07 +0000

Thank you.

New comment by winteriscoming in "iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always an option for users"

winteriscoming — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 01:38:44 +0000

I like all the new things coming in iOS11, including this. I recently got my first iPhone and it's on iOS10. Do users like me get to upgrade just the OS on the same handset when they release iOS11? I haven't found the answer to this on some of the apple articles I have browsed.

New comment by winteriscoming in "NTFS bug lets anyone hang or crash Windows 7 or 8.1"

winteriscoming — Fri, 26 May 2017 16:41:26 +0000

>> Microsoft has been informed, but at the time of publication has not told us when or if the problem will be patched.

Doesn't a bug like this one deserve a responsible disclosure and wait for a patch to be available? The report doesn't state when Microsoft was informed about this, but given the severity of this issue and the fact that they haven't heard back, I would suspect it wasn't too long back.

New comment by winteriscoming in "Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it?"

winteriscoming — Fri, 26 May 2017 09:11:56 +0000

This post is like reading a CNN kind of site which posts latest "what we know so far" every few minutes about some breaking news :)

New comment by winteriscoming in "Kill Google AMP before it kills the web"

winteriscoming — Sun, 21 May 2017 02:21:08 +0000

Have been using DuckDuckGo as primary search engine for more than a year. It's OK for many cases but the search results aren't yet there in terms of quality or relevance in many cases. Even searching for AMP shows the AMP spec page after some almost useless dictionary sites, in the search results.

New comment by winteriscoming in "Kill Google AMP before it kills the web"

winteriscoming — Sun, 21 May 2017 02:08:57 +0000

Or as a start, maybe a browser extension/plugin where it renders it for certain configured sites.

New comment by winteriscoming in "Kill Google AMP before it kills the web"

winteriscoming — Sun, 21 May 2017 01:59:54 +0000

What's going to be interesting is if browsers can at some point render a APM version of a page natively. What I mean is render the original page on the source website as APM content. That will stop the monopoly and hijacking (or rather the rationalization of it) of target websites in Google results.

New comment by winteriscoming in "The State of Go – Where we are in May 2017"

winteriscoming — Fri, 19 May 2017 13:53:28 +0000

A bit OT - does anyone know what tool was used to create those slides? They look very light and clean and something I might experiment with for technical presentations.

New comment by winteriscoming in "Announcing GitHub Desktop Beta"

winteriscoming — Wed, 17 May 2017 16:40:55 +0000

I use git and github regularly for my hobby/side projects and even for contributing patches to some open source projects hosted on github. My typically workflow is using git command line for commits and the usual things and then a git push to my remote github repo and use their website to submit PRs, respond to reviews etc...

I am curious, how people use desktop app for github and what value it adds when compared to just using github website.

New comment by winteriscoming in "A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab"

winteriscoming — Wed, 17 May 2017 12:08:45 +0000

I have been using Mercurial for some years now and before that was on Git. Github used to be one of our remote repositories. The thing that Git excels is feature/bug-fix branches, which can literally be considered throw away branches. You work on one or more feature branches, independently and then submit a review request (github is just one option) and then have it merged against the actual release branch - all this without polluting the history of the release branch or without juggling with too many complex version control commands/tricks. Github wrapped around a lot of end user tooling around this concept (pull requests for example) and showed to the world how easy it is to accomplish this level of "parallel" feature work or bug fixing.

Coming to Mercurial, now that I have been using it for more than a couple of years, my experience is that, this workflow (which is now considered standard and well known through git and github) isn't possible to achieve. Mercurial's concept of branching doesn't fit into this scheme of things. They stamp each commit with a branch id and there's no way to erase that which effectively leads to a lot of issues if github has to support the model that I mentioned above - a model which is well known and popular at github. Mercurial recommends bookmarks for cases like these, which based on my experience and some of the discussions in mercurial dev list, doesn't work either. I hear they are working on a "evolve" plugin in Mercurial to sort out some of these issues. But overall, it's still very complex and requires a deep understanding of the mercurial concepts/commands to achieve what can be achieved in git pretty easily.

Given all this, I personally don't think it adds much value for github to support mercurial in such a way that the workflows remain (almost) the same irrespective of what underlying version control system you use.

New comment by winteriscoming in "Two years of Rust"

winteriscoming — Tue, 16 May 2017 03:11:52 +0000

What a mess! Came to this thread to read about Rust and its progress and this has devolved into a useless discussion about some person's website, who seems to consider that he/she is doing all the right things and the rest of the technical community is stupid.

Completely lost track of what thread I was reading.

Red Hat – Why We Voted NO on Java Modules JSR 376

winteriscoming — Sat, 13 May 2017 09:38:14 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.jboss.org/blogs/mark.little/2017/05/11/why-we-voted-no-on-jsr-376

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14330140

Points: 12

# Comments: 2

New comment by winteriscoming in "Remotely Exploitable Type Confusion in Windows 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Server, etc"

winteriscoming — Tue, 09 May 2017 03:29:18 +0000

A few days back there was a HN thread here talking about this tweet from Tavis[1] which involved Natashenka as well. I think it's related to this very issue.

[1] https://twitter.com/taviso/status/860679110728622080

New comment by winteriscoming in "Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?"

winteriscoming — Sat, 06 May 2017 16:36:10 +0000

Everytime I read about such constructs, it makes me realize, as a regular developer, how complex web application security is and how difficult it is to think about and cover your application against each and every such potential problem.

New comment by winteriscoming in "Concerns with JPMS spec and Jigsaw implementation"

winteriscoming — Sun, 30 Apr 2017 01:54:46 +0000

Don't know about "most" OpenJDK devs, but Red Hat is heavily invested in OpenJDK and has an entire team of employees working in it.

New comment by winteriscoming in "The future of Java"

winteriscoming — Sun, 30 Apr 2017 01:50:03 +0000

Is this meant as a joke? It's just a javadoc of the java.util.Future.