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>Putting your hand out of the window and then blocking the wind with a book doesn't make the car slow down.

...yes it does?

Re:Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025) on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @06:37AM (#47150222)
I don't. But I remember that the French also just did the same.
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.6 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @01:55PM (#47051462)
Even hackernews readers are eating it right up.
Re:Django: One ORM to rule all databases on Sunday October 12, 2025 @10:41AM (#45558554)
> outside Django sites

What does that mean? Like you can't use the library's ORM without exposing a webserver?

Re:Detekt – A static code analyzer for Kotlin on Thursday July 24, 2025 @09:59AM (#44670762)
Kotlin has everything. A language isn't better just because it has more.

Its great for DSLs though.

Re:Just use HTML on Monday May 12, 2025 @10:19AM (#43963238)
Fuck I hate this moronic regressionist mindset. If your project is too insignificant to benefit from a framework, then just don't use it? It has nothing to do with the technology, but everything to do with your piece of shit usecase.
Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values on Thursday March 06, 2025 @07:02AM (#43279230)
My point was that a company, and thus products and employees, do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the government of which it is based.

Besides taking ethical actions, how do you signal that that you share a certain set of political values with your consumers and shareholders, instead of your "somewhat arbitrary" law makers. It is a big shift, and not always an option, to move physical factories, workplaces, etc.

Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:55AM (#43279170)
If nuance is that hard to equip, then please do, but please be keenly aware that this is your own choice. No one will save you from your own actions.
Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:20AM (#43278860)
This is a great point where nationality does not reflect political values. Many Americans exist that do not carry the opinion of their government, as do many Russians.

If a global set of "Don't be an asshole" values could be defined, put into words, shared and progressed, it would have much greater value to a consumer and the world than merely going back to nationalism and protectionism.

Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @09:31AM (#43013081)
Modern development is not as much about writing "good code", but just as much about good communication. There is a very real risk of losing good communication when outsourcing.
Re:I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @02:15AM (#42253732)
Please don't mention it's name, we don't want anyone else reading it..
And their product is so great..?
Re:PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @10:57AM (#40916881)
The author sounds so incredibly obnoxious.
Re:Intuitive Guide to Merge Sort on Thursday November 30, 2023 @03:09AM (#38470995)
Label your axes.
Re:UltraRAM on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @05:01AM (#37749483)
I believe the author means database as disk persistence. But we could all host sqlite db's in /dev/shm today if we wanted.. I guess it's just excitement about persistence at speed :)
This reads like Sin City. Please do more Noir style writing.
Re:Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone? on Friday March 31, 2023 @06:41AM (#35385004)
On point. It would be nice with insight into the roles of the lay-offs.
Re:No-one knows what they are doing on Monday June 20, 2022 @06:38AM (#31808642)
Why is this so far up on hacker news? It's 3 paragraphs of groundless whining and self-promotion with absolutely no substance.
Re:Fresh – Next-gen web framework on Monday June 13, 2022 @03:28AM (#31722356)
HTMX is revolutionary in it's bang-for-buck simplicity
Re:The saddest “just ship it” story (2020) on Thursday May 12, 2022 @08:42AM (#31353181)
It's not really a story as it is now though. Someone did something better than this guy. It's just a stream slightly coherent gonzo ranting.
Re:Nukemap on Friday March 11, 2022 @03:30PM (#30645597)
However nice that sounds, that is unlikely to happen.

History shows that targeting civilians is by far the most effective to make the opposition concede.

Would love to see a write up of this defense.
Re:Git Submodules: Adding, Using, Removing, Updating (2009) on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @06:46AM (#26165355)
Both --recursive not being default and then using --recurse-submodules when pulling are my top annoyances in git.
Re:The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:19PM (#25718494)
So the title should be "Apple actually improved their product with their latest computer, and I am surprised" ?
Re:The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free on Thursday December 24, 2020 @09:37AM (#25527796)
I must agree. op comment is the worst advice i have seen on HN on any subject, it reads like an impatient child wishing to avoid to study just to be able to perform.

But then again, it comes down to what you want to achieve. If you just want to mind numbingly press buttons, knock yourself out.

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