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Re:Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @08:12AM (#48278640)
By far one of the best games I have played.
Re:From Today, Software Engineering Is Dead on Monday May 11, 2026 @08:37AM (#48094197)
Long live Software Engineering!
Re:Ask HN: How to Be Alone? on Sunday March 08, 2026 @09:19AM (#47297111)
Two different perspectives:

1. To be alone is FAR better than to be in bad company. And the world is full of bad company. Thousands of people are craving to be alone for this reason.

2. You need to be a nice companion to yourself. If you arrive at this level, when you meet other people, you will be eager to share this amazing companion with others, instead of appearing to be begging not to "be alone".

And one piece of advice:

1. If you are a Christian, it is a great time to learn and enjoy God's company through prayer; you will never be alone again.

Re:Clean Coder: The Dark Path (2017) on Monday February 09, 2026 @05:44AM (#46943795)
I understand what the author says, but in my experience, "Nullable Types" and "Open/Sealed Classes" are two different subjects and...

1) For "Nullable Types", I see that it is VERY good to think about if some type can be null or not, or use a type system that does not allow nulls, so you need some "unit" type, and appropriately handle these scenarios. I think it is ok the language enforces this, it really, really helps you to avoid bugs and errors sooner.

2) For "Open/Sealed Classes", my experience says you never (or very rarely) know that a class will need to be extended later. I work with older systems. See, I don't care if you, the original coder, marked this class as "sealed", and it does not matter if you wrote tons of unit tests (like the author advocates), my customer wants (or needs) that I extend that class, so I will need to do a lot of language hacks to do it because you marked as sealed. So, IMHO, marking a class as "open" or "sealed" works for me as a hint only; it should not limit me.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) on Friday January 02, 2026 @04:34PM (#46469672)

  Location: Brasilia, DF, Brazil
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: C#, .NET, Asp.NET, Blazor, SQL
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clickok/
  Email: clickok at gmail.com
  Languages: English and Portuguese
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025) on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @07:40AM (#45810260)

  Location: Brasilia, DF, Brazil
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: C#, .NET, Asp.NET, Blazor, SQL
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clickok/
  Email: clickok at gmail.com
  Languages: English and Portuguese
Re:The easy way to make a website with Markdown on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @01:06PM (#45105907)
Or just use Obsidian + Obsidian Publish,

You are welcome.

From the article:

  In Brazil, the Brazilian Federation of Banks (FEBRABAN) sees it as a “significant advancement in protecting users and encouraging accountability.”
Brazilian government right now is pushing hard to destroy any kind of freedom in social networks, so take this with (really big) grain of salt.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025) on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @07:25AM (#44442390)

  Location: Brasilia, DF, Brazil
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: C#, .NET, Asp.NET, Blazor, SQL
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clickok/
  Email: clickok at gmail.com
  Languages: English and Portuguese
Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures on Friday June 20, 2025 @02:05PM (#44330286)
"We are working hard to make your life miserable"
Re:Pope Francis Has Died on Monday April 21, 2025 @10:08AM (#43752192)
According to the rules in the first post, I cannot talk about politics in this thread, but the summary is, the political inclinations that he displayed were "uncomfortable".
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025) on Monday February 03, 2025 @04:03PM (#42923096)
Fabio Silva

  Location: Brasilia, DF, Brazil
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: C#, .NET, Asp.NET, Blazor, SQL
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clickok/
  Email: clickok at gmail.com
  Languages: English and Portuguese
I'm a Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience (+25 years). I specialize in solving complex bugs and researching solutions for problems others couldn't resolve.
Re:A comparison of Rust's borrow checker to the one in C# on Thursday October 31, 2024 @11:34AM (#42007929)
No partial classes is painful. I know that we have some alternatives, but migrating from C# is a doom without it.
Re:A Dictionary of Single-Letter Variable Names on Sunday October 13, 2024 @04:59PM (#41831538)
I have a hard time normalizing existing codebases where coders insist on using `catch (Exception e)` instead of the default `catch (Exception ex)` and then there are clashes in event handlers with try/catch due to the same variable name...
Re:Brazil's top court says X paid pending fines to wrong bank on Saturday October 05, 2024 @05:37PM (#41753133)
This is a fake excuse from that judge to postpone the return of X to later of this Sunday's elections, so the candidates that are bound to Social Networks (the political opponents of this judge) will be harmed.
Re:Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders? on Friday December 29, 2023 @02:48PM (#38809395)
probably chatgpt is Canadian :)
Re:In 2024, please switch to Firefox on Friday December 29, 2023 @02:01PM (#38808882)
The killer feature that everyone is waiting for Firefox is... "chromium tab". If I can open a "chromium tab" inside of Firefox for some sites that work only on chromium browsers I swear I will not look back :)
Re: on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @01:19PM (#38784803)
both, depending on adhesive tape usage
Re:Java 21 makes me like Java again on Saturday September 16, 2023 @10:51PM (#37541029)
apples and oranges
Re:This page exists only if someone is looking at it on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @05:08PM (#37411347)
Schrödinger's page
Re:Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years on Saturday September 02, 2023 @06:15PM (#37365984)
no so complex.. just everything that a online wyswyg editor like tinymce can do, saving as a single HTML file instead
Re:Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years on Saturday September 02, 2023 @02:47PM (#37364312)
The natural upgrade for WordPad did never come: basic html or markdown editing.
Re:The Worst Programmer on Saturday September 02, 2023 @02:07PM (#37363965)
nice, thanks for the link
from the article:

"For the OR clause query, the DBMS sequentially compares each condition's value one by one. In the given example, it performs three comparisons for each row to determine if (price = 1), (price = 2), and then (price = 3). This evaluation approach means that for N predicates, the complexity of the filtering operation per row is O(N).

On the other hand, with the IN clause, PostgreSQL builds a temporary hash table populated with the elements in the query’s IN clause (ExecEvalHashedScalarArrayOp). Then as the DBMS scans each tuple, it probes this hash table to see whether the tuple's attribute matches with any entry. This hash-based evaluation has a more efficient complexity of O(1) since the DBMS only needs to perform one lookup in the hash table per tuple.

Hence, as the number of predicates increases in a query, the OR clause incurs significant overhead because the DBMS evaluates predicates for each row individually, in contrast to the more efficient IN clause."

`Out-Gridview -PassThru` is pure gold!
Re:Drop Table “Companies”;– LTD on Thursday August 03, 2023 @06:48PM (#36993134)
I know that does not solve the problem, but I find amazing that it is so hard to open a "read-only" connection to a sql database. At least in Sql Server we need to create a User with specific rights in order to do it, and even so it is not perfect.
He started the article with: "When building a new thing, a good first step is to build a thing that does nothing."

and later he adds: "Too often, I see relatively inexperienced developers dive in and start writing a big complex thing"

He is advicing to before start building something, make sure that the context is rightly settled.

This was a great read, thank you!
Or at least do as portable as possible. Just copy and paste a folder, and `dot net run` will be amazing....

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