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Re:India: Income Tax Bill allows officials to forcibly access social m...
on Monday July 21, 2025 @01:42PM (#44638072)
don't get so touchy on someone else's behalf. i am on a visa too. it's a daily reality for us.
Re:India: Income Tax Bill allows officials to forcibly access social m...
on Monday July 21, 2025 @01:37PM (#44638005)
you are on a visa aren't you?. don't celebrate too hard. you may yet have to go back.
Re:NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
on Friday May 09, 2025 @09:49AM (#43936712)
> A spokesperson for NSF says the rationale for abolishing the divisions and removing their leaders is “to reduce the number of SES [senior executive service] positions in the agency and create new non-executive positions to better align with the needs of the agency.”
Reducing bureaucracy is not the same as cutting science funding.
Re:Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal
on Monday April 28, 2025 @07:51AM (#43820301)
@ksec is from california.
Re:Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation
on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @07:53AM (#41719575)
If you like higher level languages like C#, you are not going to like Zig, except the surface similarity in syntax.
not liking syntax is not enough reason not to use a language. It takes a few days to get over the unfamiliarity in syntax. concepts are much harder to learn.
Re:Zb: An Early-Stage Build System
on Friday September 20, 2024 @04:38PM (#41605341)
what is WAF?
Re:Tata joins hands with PSMC to build India's first 12-inch fab
on Monday March 18, 2024 @11:03AM (#39745543)
Except this plant is in Gujarat, and the distance from the southern most city I could find in Punjab to Dholera, GJ is 1048 km.
Ask HN: Tech career advice for unsexy but decently paying jobs($100k, US remote)
Context: I'm a mid career level software developer in US that was recently laid off. My family's basic expenses are taken care of by previous investments and passive cash flow, but it's not enough for discretionary spending, and health insurance.What tech career options do exist for someone who wants to have a 9-5 tech/programming career for another decade?
Re:Apple co-founder sells Carmel Valley ranch, will become nature pres...
on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @08:07AM (#36402871)
$8M in 1982 to $35M in 2023. Yeah, he really made it rain for himself. Understand how inflation works.
Re:Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language
on Sunday March 19, 2023 @04:18PM (#35223116)
yes, indirectly.. likely named after Yakshas themselves - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaksha
Pandoc 3.0
Re:Pandoc 3.0
on Friday January 20, 2023 @11:10AM (#34455080)
A major version upgrade.
Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people
on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @09:25AM (#33532004)
The bare minimum would be 60 days severance to stave off California's WARN act, isn't it?
Re:Lambda the Ultimate is now running in a new, more stable environment
on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @08:54AM (#32661445)
Yeah, it's Drupal (PHP)
Re:When the Surgeon Was an Uneducated Barber
on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @10:57AM (#32319349)
and no mention of suśruta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushruta whose works were copied extensively by Arabs.
Re:Show HN: Common Lisp running natively over WebAssembly for the firs...
on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:39AM (#31594722)
So much complaint about color schemes. Hitting the Reader View formatted the page beautifully.
I'm thankful it is a simple HTML page that could be easily formatted using browser-built-in tools.
Re:ClojureDocs – Community-powered documentation and examples for Clojure
on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @02:37PM (#31586210)
There is also JanetDocs for Janet, which is inspired by Clojure.
[1]: https://janetdocs.com [2]: https://janet-lang.org
Re:Roapi: An API Server for Static Datasets
on Friday October 08, 2021 @11:16AM (#28800227)
datasette is only sqlite, ROAPI serves up CSV, Parquet storage etc.,
Re:Why most gas stations don’t make money from selling gas
on Sunday September 12, 2021 @10:28AM (#28501453)
Who doesn't want free things or "discounted" or BOGO or "Going out of business sales".
The linked article has nothing to do with the discussion here. You are just projecting something else here.
Re:Why most gas stations don’t make money from selling gas
on Sunday September 12, 2021 @10:26AM (#28501435)
because a significant number of gas stations are run by Indians.
Owning a gas station is on the ... Truck Driver -- Gas Station -- Motel .. spectrum for blue collar immigrants from the subcontinent.
Re:Americans Are Keeping Their Cars Longer, as Vehicle Age Hits 12 Years
on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:37AM (#27571059)
the buyer should think about the replacement value of the vehicle.
I might spend $1500 on my 12 year old car (which is "only" worth 4200 according to KBB), instead of spending lot more money to get a different used car with unknown issues or a hefty monthly payment.
Re:Driving with D
on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @10:53AM (#27355293)
I am curious to see where Java are C# are making progress towards optional GC.
This specific article talks about using No GC aka "betterC".
D has GC by default; the use of GC is convenient and mainstream as most popular languages show - Java/C#/Python etc. What D gives is the unique ability to do No GC programming for the cases where GC is not desirable. Very few languages offer this capability.
Zig is interesting in this arena, but it approaches the problem from the other angle. It is manual memory management by default, but you can explicitly choose which memory management technique you want to use - at compile time.
Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013
on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:16PM (#26973646)
WhatsApp happened and no one cares about iMessage outside US.
-- sent from my iPhone
Re:Show HN: I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted alternative to D...
on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:39PM (#26879111)
Disqus is "commenting as a service" for pages.
Discourse is a "forum". Not the same thing.
Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles
on Monday June 17, 2019 @08:46AM (#20202328)
eh.. I had a 2016 mazda that I replaced with a 2015 lexus. The mazda's rotary knob based interface is soo much better than the the "mouse" based lexus one.
My mazda had the touchscreen, but I hardly ever used it.
Re:Racket 7.3
on Thursday May 16, 2019 @09:40AM (#19928922)
but do all applications need multi-core threading? Languages like Python get around this using multiprocess module, which is not the same as "multi-core" threading, but it is probably good enough for a majority of applications.
REPL based development, Interactive development are also features. Multi-core isn't probably the top most thing on everybody's list of things.
Re:Walmart announces next-day delivery, firing back at Amazon
on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @03:25PM (#19912984)
I agree. I was in a dollar general recently in a different city (just killing time) and i think they are actually more appealing to shop than a walmart. (I shop in neither usually).
DG gives an impression of small, local run (which I know they are not) shop with pretty decent service, and walmart doesn't feel like that.
The Road to Zig 1.0 [video]
Re:Show HN: Koonchi – Convert Photo to Hand-Painted Painting by Artist...
on Sunday May 12, 2019 @01:17PM (#19893145)
you know the hindi word for vacation is - chutti.
This is sophomoric funny only if you read it in Roman script.