Hacker News: yulaow

New comment by yulaow in "Ask HN: Why Isn't PHP Dead Yet?"

yulaow — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:38:03 +0000

easy to deploy, latest versions of the language are ok, has some of the best web frameworks to work with, absurd amount of experienced programmers can be found on the market

New comment by yulaow in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

yulaow — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:59:24 +0000

I never understood this. We build in Europe, over earthquake-risk zones, with bricks and steel and we follow rules to make them earthquake resistant. It is not a problem anymore since like the 1980. We now have also methods to make old and very old brick buildings earthquake resistant without demolishing them

New comment by yulaow in "Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)"

yulaow — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 08:42:43 +0000

throw in some async too and I really lose myself most of the times

New comment by yulaow in "Ask HN: Why Is Stack Overflow Fading Away?"

yulaow — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:02:27 +0000

The main problem is they tried to be a middle way between a forum and a wiki with only correct answer (even if as some other have said, they never wanted to acknowledge that especially in programming the answer is correct or good or valid only for a certain amount of time most often than not)

What we actually need:

- the owner of the question must be the only one capable to say if an answer is good or not for his question

- no other user must be able to modify the question of the owner even if they think it is badly explained. They can always suggest modifies but the owner can decide if to accept them or not

- the moderators can try to suggest "hey we think this is a duplicate of that" but the owner must be the one to accept or reject it. Even if he says "I just want a more current answer, the one you linked is 4 yo" the moderators must accept his decision and keep the question open

- moderators must act aggressively against people (and other moderators) saying things like "this sound like some homework" or "you better use technology y instead of x" or similar

- answers older than a few years should have a visible flag on them signaling that probably that answer is not anymore the best possible one and to be careful using it and, if it doesn't work anymore, to open a new question tagging the old one

New comment by yulaow in "Ask HN: Changing my mind about JavaScript"

yulaow — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 09:39:43 +0000

agree with this, at this point all my toy projects, even those of a few lines, are in typescript (with bun.js so I don't have the overhead of configuring node for ts)

New comment by yulaow in "How I Learned to Concentrate"

yulaow — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 21:58:35 +0000

This is just a promotional post for a book, there is no actual content in this link

New comment by yulaow in "Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?"

yulaow — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:42:32 +0000

yes, in Italy for example you pay 0.2% annually on whatever you hold (stock, bonds, cryptos, etc) even if you sell nothing or they depreciate compared to the year before

New comment by yulaow in "Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs"

yulaow — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:47:01 +0000

you can deactivate them. In my installation on linux they were disabled by default and it asked me if I wanted to activate them (just one time) to support the browser

New comment by yulaow in "Ask HN: If you were to learn to code again..."

yulaow — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 10:16:53 +0000

Yes and I would join a company/startup/whatever far earlier instead of passing so much time in university (not that I think the degree was not worth it, I would just start working asap and taking the courses as part-time student).

New comment by yulaow in "Tesla to build 25,000-euro car at German plant"

yulaow — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 10:33:20 +0000

The same car model just 10 years ago went for half the price. Same for the fiat Panda (my parents bought it in 2008 for 8k, now the most base model I can find is 19k). In the meantime salaries have not double at all (in some nations they even fell)

New comment by yulaow in "Tesla to build 25,000-euro car at German plant"

yulaow — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 10:31:49 +0000

25k is quite a lot for many average salaried people in Europe, indeed the step bump of price (almost 2x in 10 years) of non-electric cars already put the eu market in a dire position where most people are not able to replace their car anymore and keep using very old cars with very high pollution outputs

New comment by yulaow in "German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals"

yulaow — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 08:53:08 +0000

They would not, they just serve contextual ads related to the things you are looking at the moment (which often are far better than the tracking ones)

New comment by yulaow in "GDPR has ruined the web experience"

yulaow — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:41:33 +0000

The sites ruined the web experience because they could not stop collecting personal data for non-essential usage

New comment by yulaow in "Ask HN: Does anybody not use an adblocker?"

yulaow — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:04:49 +0000

I agree with you, that's why I support any website that uses contextual ads and not profiling/tracking ads deactivating my adblocker for them.

I have zero sympathy for sites that try to profile me, I consider personal data protection an inviolable right and act in that sense

New comment by yulaow in "About GitHub’s use of your data"

yulaow — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 12:07:14 +0000

We really need to have an open source sw license that specifically forbid any use of the code by AIs

New comment by yulaow in "Why are there no antitrust claims vs. GitHub Copilot, when there is a precedent?"

yulaow — Tue, 16 May 2023 12:23:44 +0000

I mean, we discovered that the whole car industry was lying flagrantly on their emission tests which had the potential of destroying the whole business and there were A LOT of people who knew about it and could talk anytime

Why wouldn't sw companies do the same?

New comment by yulaow in "Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come back to the office"

yulaow — Mon, 15 May 2023 08:40:28 +0000

I personally only consider full remote position because even policies like "one day in the office every two weeks" would force me to live quite close to the city in which the office is and I absolutely want to avoid that if I can (and the market says I can)

To be on the safer side, I try to consider only offers from company that have no physical office at all, so it's quite impossible that in the medium term they call a "return to office" policy... I mean, they could always decide to buy office space out of the blue, but usually in those companies all the upper management is there exactly because they want to WFH for life

New comment by yulaow in "Italy's ChatGPT ban attracts EU privacy regulators"

yulaow — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 15:41:25 +0000

I don't understand this thinking. The gdpr is law since years, this is SIMPLY a case of a company not respecting it and paying the price, there is literally nothing else going on

New comment by yulaow in "Early Remote Work Impacts on Family Formation"

yulaow — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:31:40 +0000

This sounds more like a problem of your country culture of not encouraging to take sick days. I would have been on sick leave for all the time needed to not have sleeping problems anymore

New comment by yulaow in "I tried an alternative way to date – and it worked"

yulaow — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 10:17:15 +0000

Looking at aggregated stats like those on tinderinsight this is not an alternative way to date but exactly what most women do on dating apps and it's also an obvious strategy as soon as you realize that, as a woman, you have far more men competing for you (in my nation 91% of tinder users are men [0]) and most of them get quite desperate quite fast

If the situation was reversed we men would behave the same most probably

[0] https://www.netimperative.com/2019/04/05/online-dating-trend...