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subtra3t on Monday February 09, 2026 @08:43AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Hi HN,I'm in my last year of high school, about to enter university. I'm undecided on which field I would like to major in and would appreciate some words of advice.During the pandemic, I completed a few online courses (including CS50x) and worked on some small programming projects, so I’m familiar with programming fundamentals. For a long time, my plan was to study computer science or...
Not surprised at all to see how unpopular this sentiment is on HN. For some reason HN seems to love one dimensional stereotypes for every job that isn't theirs.
Actually that's wrong, even the idea that engineers are smarter than managers is very prevalent here.
Was on my way to suggest this game to avoid, which is also available for free on desktop.
Good catch. I haven't found a proper source other than a quotation from some HN comment, so I'm not sure if it actually is POSIX valid or not, just that many people seem to think it is.
> Seems similar to the JVM situation
Oracle was relying on behaviour that was POSIX valid so I don't see how it is "incorrect code".
Since the paid tiers have paid for the free tier for at least 9 years, I'd imagine that it shall remain available for at least a few more years.
> the old is well too old
What's wrong with the old Reddit UI?
I haven't read the article yet but I think that means that UDP was used less than TCP and so routers/operating systems didn't optimize for it as much as they did for TCP. Hope this helps.
On a related note, is it a good idea to sell access to the same API your app is using under the hood? Why or why not?
Really? I used the website on Chrome on my Samsung Galaxy M12 (a fairly average smartphone) and the experience was fine.
If the user experiences stuttering while decoding a video, they won't learn to enable special permissions for the website but instead switch to a different browser that hasn't yet implemented this "feature".
And most websites most users visit will need the GPU to be remotely usable. For them enabling specific permissions for every website they visit is very inconvenient.
As of 9th March 2024, Microsoft is the most valuable company in the world, followed by Apple and Nvidia (which might take Apple's position soon).
People who want others to ask them their pronouns before referring to them, what is your reason for doing so?
Is the book worth reading, for an average lurker of HN?
In a lot of developing countries, Facebook is often the only app that a significant part of the population uses. And that includes young adults as well.
For some reason I couldn't browse the home page but I could still access my messages (website).
I think this depends a lot on where you currently live. Maybe if you live in a very closely knit and/or isolated area, other people might welcome you with open arms. But if you try the same thing in a cafe at a busy street you might be greeted with curt responses that try to politely reject your attempts at making conversation.
> I've met many people in coffeeshops, made friends, even been hit on fwiw
I don't think anecdotal evidence would be very convincing in this case, since your success (there has to be a better word for this) would largely depend on your percieved attractiveness and/or approachability. The setting might not play as big of a role as you think it does.
> I'm surprised you find it to be an insurmountable challenge.
I'm not GP but I didn't get that impression from their comment. I agree with them in that the meeting-people-at-coffeeshops is an overused cliche that was popularized by pop culture/media with lower chances of success.
Ah, I hadn't considered that a smaller size could be seen as a symptom of an inferior/incomplete feature set when compared with competitors.
I used to use it a lot in the past and I think it was mostly the convenience factor for me personally. I didn't want to learn another piece of software and I thought that WinRar did what it was supposed to do, reasonably well.
> Big size impress management
I thought this was relevant mostly for line of code or similar metrics used to evaluate the size of projects (build sizes not being one of them). Or are you trying to imply that artifically inflating the perceived size of a project can indirectly and consistently affect the build sizes as well?
Ah, sorry. If one day you decide to write under your real name, please do email me the names of your books. If you feel like it, of course.
Less than 20. Most mirror the chapters of manga I like, and some are blogs I regularly find interesting.
If you don't mind sharing, could you link to a few of your books? No pressure of course.
A cynic might call that the purpose of this forum.
"*Rich 46yr-old man has mid-life crisis"
What have you written/published so far?
Some economies of scale take effect not with the scale of production but with the size of the business. And Apple is as big a business as any.
Depends on what you mean by working. If you mean able to render a standard HTML5 page with a little bit of CSS and no javascript, a game engine would probably be more complicated. But to create a browser that implements most/all of the features a modern browser offers, without becoming bloated, I think that would be far more harder than any game engine we have right now.