Hacker News: zubairq

New comment by zubairq in "Approaching 50 Years of String Theory"

zubairq — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:45:51 +0000

A bit like LISP then ...

New comment by zubairq in "In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)"

zubairq — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:22:44 +0000

Great stuff. I always love technical fluff about the history and philiosophy of operating systems

New comment by zubairq in "React Three Ecosystem"

zubairq — Sun, 11 May 2025 04:10:06 +0000

How does this compare to https://aframe.io ?

New comment by zubairq in "The Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)"

zubairq — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 14:51:25 +0000

haha, funny, I was thinking the same thing!

New comment by zubairq in "Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?"

zubairq — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 08:30:11 +0000

Pretty cool.. I had no idea Hal was such a hacker on the personal computers in those days... makes me think of Bitcoin whenever I hear Hal mentioned

New comment by zubairq in "Nobody cares"

zubairq — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:31:00 +0000

Great article. I need to care more myself even if other do not care, thanks for the wake up call!

New comment by zubairq in "Computer History Resources"

zubairq — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 07:19:14 +0000

Almost skipped this as there were no comments. Ended up favoriting it. Thanks :)

New comment by zubairq in "Undergrad thought he had mastered Unix in weeks. Then he discovered rm -rf"

zubairq — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 14:33:02 +0000

I remember trying to help a fellow student in Manchester University around 1991 and thinking I was deleting a subfolder when in fact I was in their home directory:

rm -rf *

: and deleting everything from their Sun Workstation Unix account. Apologies!

New comment by zubairq in "Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#"

zubairq — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:16:04 +0000

Wow, I see you made SQLWindows too. I am in awe!

New comment by zubairq in "Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser"

zubairq — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:28:03 +0000

As someone building a JS type low code tool (yazz.com) which is also open source I am very impressed. Well done!

New comment by zubairq in "Ask HN: What's your favorite text-based adventure game?"

zubairq — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 06:26:48 +0000

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

New comment by zubairq in "AI won't replace human devs anytime soon"

zubairq — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 17:33:03 +0000

Ok I'm using cursor again. It is helping me with about 10% of the autocomplete on a very simple one file NodeJS project, but anything more complex it definitely messes it up.

New comment by zubairq in "AI won't replace human devs anytime soon"

zubairq — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 05:06:13 +0000

Thanks. I've tried Cursor, but probably more useful on smaller codebases I found and for simple code changes. Can you share the github repo that you use it on, or give me an indication of the codebase size that you use it on?

New comment by zubairq in "AI won't replace human devs anytime soon"

zubairq — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 04:08:11 +0000

I “wish” AI would replace me so that I could do other stuff than coding

New comment by zubairq in "How Visual Basic became the most dominant prog. env & its sudden fall from grace"

zubairq — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 16:44:28 +0000

Yes, I agree with that

New comment by zubairq in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

zubairq — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:56:24 +0000

https://github.com/yazz/VisualJS - VisualJS, a VB style programming language but with Javascript

New comment by zubairq in "Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)"

zubairq — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:31:40 +0000

Brilliant article. I read a brilliant book written by Jessica Livingston (Paul Graham's wife) called Founders at Work. In the book Steve Wozniak talked about how he got designs done fast by keeping it all in his head. Ever since I read that I have tried to do the same. I would recommend this to anyone working on their own project.

Of course in a corporate setting it is much harder to do as you have code written in multiple languages using multiple patterns stored in different places, so often there is not underlying architectural thread to hold it all together.

Rory Sutherland – Are We Now Too Impatient to Be Intelligent? – Nudgestock 2024 [video]

zubairq — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:30:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc9jFbxrkMk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41541313

Points: 2

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New comment by zubairq in "The Art of Good Software"

zubairq — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 06:31:38 +0000

I normally love the retool articles but I didn’t understand this one as much. Can someone explain it to me in a simpler way as I really want to understand it

New comment by zubairq in "Ask HN: Who's building an AI-free product?"

zubairq — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 09:04:04 +0000

Yeah, building VisualJS, an AI free coding tool:

https://github.com/yazz/VisualJS