Hacker News: zerr

New comment by zerr in "DConf 2026 in London"

zerr — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:54:33 +0000

Funny that C89/C90 would compile this specific example just fine due to implicit function declaration feature, which was deprecated in C99.

New comment by zerr in "Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard"

zerr — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:54:57 +0000

Developing a muscle memory is the main aspect of keyboard usage. Does this app account for this? i.e. how repeatable are those key-shortcuts? Seems like it's random.

New comment by zerr in "Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE"

zerr — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:31:04 +0000

Why not use JUCE for UI? :)

New comment by zerr in "Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode"

zerr — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:08:12 +0000

The thing is, in a perspective, who would need any apps at all? Users will get what they want from AI directly.

New comment by zerr in "Ask HN: I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?"

zerr — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:22:11 +0000

While this is true that the stack and domain does not matter for any capable software engineer, most jobs are for hiring particular narrow specialists, requiring the years of experience in a particular framework, and even experience working on an exact same product but in a different company.

New comment by zerr in "How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner"

zerr — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:02:16 +0000

Why do we keep tolerating that regime which makes 26 mln people suffer? Why can't we do Operation a la Maduro there?

New comment by zerr in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

zerr — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:10:22 +0000

One would say, unemployed with a good local language skills will be able to easier navigate bureaucracy and claim more benefits - more loss for the state :)

New comment by zerr in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

zerr — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:13:14 +0000

I believe you are mixing permanent presidentship with citizenship. That's why I've clarified that PR != citizenship.

New comment by zerr in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

zerr — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:44:25 +0000

I mean, when you have already proven that you are net positive for the state, and continue doing so, requiring you to pass some exams is not rational. PR != citizenship. Will I have a bit difficulty buying some groceries in a local market? Maybe, but that shouldn't bother the state.

Also, you can live permanently without PR. PR unlocks some additional perks, which again, have nothing to do with linguistics.

New comment by zerr in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

zerr — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:02:19 +0000

Business deal means the requirements should be rational, pragmatic.

New comment by zerr in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

zerr — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:28:38 +0000

Permanent residency is a business deal between two entities: an individual and a state. It has nothing to do with linguistics. There are many Germans permanently living in Vietnam, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries, who never bothered to even learn how to say Hello, not to mention any certificate or exam...

New comment by zerr in "The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth"

zerr — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:19:15 +0000

The valuable prose aside, I never liked that code examples were in a pseudo assembly language.

New comment by zerr in "Moby Dick Workout (2022)"

zerr — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:06:45 +0000

That reminded me of how fast/instant Winamp loads the huge directory (recursively), while other players struggle. Scrolling reveals that files are being loaded lazily (obviously), but the most interesting part is that Quick search and Jump to file works immediately.

New comment by zerr in "Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years"

zerr — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:11:35 +0000

Yes, remote and part-time. Shopping on Monday afternoons is enjoyable.

New comment by zerr in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)"

zerr — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:48:52 +0000

It's a HN bubble :)

New comment by zerr in "What to learn to be a graphics programmer"

zerr — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:09:12 +0000

Isn't it mostly shaders programming nowadays?

New comment by zerr in "Ask HN: What is your opinion on TUI applications"

zerr — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:18:56 +0000

Creating high-quality native desktop apps became a forgotten art, so people/shops are flocking to TUIs even for the local (i.e. not remote shells) work.

New comment by zerr in "Job application asked for my SAT scores"

zerr — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:57:11 +0000

The trick is to prepare specifically for SATs.

One would say the tests (and job interviews) should have been designed with the original intent of testing candidates AS IS, i.e. preparing specifically for such tests should have been considered as cheating... But at some point it turned into prep gymnastics, and measuring how desperate the candidates are.

New comment by zerr in "Deno Desktop"

zerr — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:14:21 +0000

Yes, I was considering C++ (and C) desktop UI toolkits. Unlike Qt Widgets, QML/JavaScript is a horrible mess and not suitable for desktop software.

New comment by zerr in "Deno Desktop"

zerr — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:40:23 +0000

Gtk is hardware (GPU) accelerated, while Qt Widgets is software/CPU-rendered.