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Re:DBase: 1979-2026
on Monday May 11, 2026 @07:21AM (#48093576)
One of my first jobs had a legacy application that was based on Clipper. I never had to work with it directly (since I worked on the SQL successor) but reading the source code was still fascinating.
Semi off-topic: The wikipedia article on Ed Esber is in dire need of a clean up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Esber
Re:Helix: A post-modern text editor
on Saturday March 07, 2026 @09:36AM (#47288028)
These are great. I really have come to love this little plugin that extends and creates a/i textobjects:
Re:Portmaster – Open-source network monitor and firewall
on Sunday January 02, 2022 @05:58AM (#29767692)
Nowadays I use TinyWall[1] on Windows. A simple firewall with a whitelist and some convenience functions.
Re:s/bash/zsh/g
on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @07:28AM (#28929412)
Fish is really great for an interactive shell, I love using it. Not so great when it comes to scripting though. For example I think there's still no way to easily exit a script on error except to manually check exit codes.
However I haven't tried writing scripts in zsh yet, just sh/bash.
Re:Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess
on Saturday June 19, 2021 @08:50AM (#27560024)
I wouldn't attribute it to malice. The author has got that probably right: the people in charge think in iOS terms.
Re:Rust explained using easy English
on Thursday July 23, 2020 @02:41AM (#23924769)
I like the general idea. I haven’t got the time to do more than skimming right now but I already feel that a single markdown file (especially without a table of contents) isn’t the right medium for this.
The Idasen does look a lot better. Do you think it would handle a move (or two) well?
Re:Oracle vs. PostgreSQL – A Comment
on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:41PM (#23362393)
My clients — oncological institutions — license Oracle and so they prefer my solutions to use it as well. Really simple, and sad.
As for why they use it... as far as I know it‘s the old tale: historical reasons. Classical lock-in.
Re:Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018)
on Sunday April 26, 2020 @11:41PM (#22992690)
Regarding your second point: This sounds similar to .NET‘s CancellationToken. It works very well there.
What are those nuances in JavaScript which aren’t handled by it?
Re:Configs suck? Try a real programming language
on Sunday April 05, 2020 @03:01PM (#22787629)
I use schemy [0] for non trivial config tasks in .NET projects. LISPs in general are well suited for this.
Very small implementations are easily done and data is code, it’s pretty great.
Of course, if one has already access to a Python runtime that is probably fine as well.
Re:New ‘past’ link on HN front page
on Saturday February 23, 2019 @03:19AM (#19232337)
I use http://hn.premii.com/
I believed it to be more popular but it seems no one has mentioned that site so far...
Re:Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows, it’s how it...
on Saturday October 20, 2018 @02:38PM (#18264737)
Yeah I did the same.
It's infuriating to put the machine to sleep only to see in the morning (or days later...) that Windows woke it up at 3am.
Is it supposed to go back to sleep or is this honestly how someone at Microsoft wants it to work?
Re:Rust 1.26 released
on Thursday May 10, 2018 @01:38PM (#17041144)
You're right, I totally missed that link. Thank you!
It shows off Chapter 3, and yes, it really looks great.
Re:Rust 1.26 released
on Thursday May 10, 2018 @01:31PM (#17041070)
impl Trait and the second edition of the book; very nice!
Congrats on the release!
Question: Is there any way to preview what the book's typesetting looks like, since there's praise in the release note?
Re:Google is about to launch a Gmail Web Redesign
on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @01:33PM (#16813433)
In that case you can still use custom CSS / user styles.
Re:Advanced SQL window function quiz
on Friday February 09, 2018 @03:46AM (#16338798)
Q6: Ranking has an error, or I misunderstood.
It says "Order by: ranking, name" but in truth one should not order by name!
Anyway, overall very nice!
Re:Setting Up .NET Core on RHEL
on Friday June 03, 2016 @12:39PM (#11831367)
I'm curious, what exactly is it that makes you recommend Ubuntu Studio for the desktop?
Re:Ask HN: Blacklist Forbes?
on Saturday January 09, 2016 @11:40AM (#10871820)
You could also disable JavaScript for socketloop. Works fine for me.
Re:How much is time wrong around the world?
on Friday February 21, 2014 @04:56PM (#7279707)
Interesting fact just for fun: Afghanistan shares a 76 km long border with China; this is where the biggest time zone jump occurs, an impressive 3.5 hours.
Re:Domain-Specific VPN Router
on Thursday November 07, 2013 @11:01AM (#6690077)
Is there anything equivalent for Windows? I heard of ProxyCap and Tunnelier, but I don't know the technical details of how those work - i.e. if they avoid TCP over TCP tunneling.
Re:English has been my pain for 15 years
on Monday September 02, 2013 @10:22AM (#6315268)
I agree with your post. TV shows and movies helped a lot, and many wrong things just sound wrong. Pure grammar exercises can only teach so much.
However a solid understanding of grammar helps. For example in your post you wrote "like if doing". Correct would be "as if doing" since "as if" is a conjunction and "like" is a preposition. It was probably just a typo, and you would have caught it during a proof-read since it sounds "wrong" but actual grammar knowledge will confirm any suspicions.
Re:15 GB now shared between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos
on Monday May 13, 2013 @02:06PM (#5700332)
Sounds like a good offer.
Have they added an option to limit the download/upload bandwidth yet?
Re:Vim After 11 Years
on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @03:19PM (#5246803)
> IntelliJ (which I do use for C++ ;))
If I may ask, how do you use it? The C/C++ plugin was unusable, last time I tried it.
Re:YouCompleteMe, a Fast, As-You-Type, Fuzzy-Search Code Completion En...
on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @06:22AM (#5170126)
I haven't used it but is PhpStorm no 'real' IDE for PHP? There's a vim plugin for various JetBrains products too (including PhpStorm) and it works well with IDEA.
Re:Webshell.io
on Monday December 24, 2012 @07:13AM (#4962639)
Try it with alt-up/down, works for me in Chrome.
Kernighan's Lever
Re:International Obfuscated C Code Contest Winners
on Thursday October 18, 2012 @04:22AM (#4667889)
Re:Red Bull Stratos Skydive Rescheduled for today
on Sunday October 14, 2012 @12:32PM (#4651762)
There's this page on their website that should help you answer your question: http://www.redbullstratos.com/science/scientific-values/
Re:Typing Practice for Programmers
on Thursday August 23, 2012 @05:56AM (#4421604)
http://nic.io
And yes, those domains are pretty expensive.