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by kovac 5y ago
I like this man. I think the only thing we'll look back on is, considering how those who came before us delivered so much with so little (compute power, parallism, safety, tooling), how we fell so far from grace and fuck things right i
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by kovac 5y ago
Looking at the mass of crappy software all around us, I'm not surprised.
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by kovac 5y ago
A little off topic, but which gopher server (and any management tools? ) do you use for hosting? I'm in the process of setting up one and trying different ones out but haven't settled on one yet.
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by kovac 5y ago
Isn't keeping 3rd party stuff like TLS out of the core protocol a good thing? Regarding breaking existing clients in a catastrophic way, I think the server could send an error response to the client that don't support TLS (which i
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by kovac 5y ago
Thanks for your points. I agree on the TLS, struck me as odd too. Feel like a gopher(s) would be a nice addition.
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by kovac 5y ago
I'm not a protocol expert. I understand why one would not want to use a subset of HTTP, but why not use the existing, lighter weight gopher protocol instead and implement a server and client that supports TLS for gopher instead? Becaus
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by kovac 5y ago
There's gopher where there is still quite a number of interesting posts. There's also a more recent network called gemini which is gaining in popularity.
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by kovac 5y ago
Go really? Last I checked its impossible to write an ORM in go, didn't even have a way to do dynamic routing that I had to implement my own router using a trie. Please.
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by kovac 5y ago
I did. I tried Rider and continued to use VS when I was programming on Windows. On Linux I use Rider (though I'm mostly off. Net stuff now). Reason for using VS is because I like it's UI (like the colour scheme more) and I think t
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Yes, do as I say!(youtube.com)
1 points by kovac 5y ago|0 comments
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by kovac 5y ago
I'm a software engineer with a pure mathematics degree. I can't speak for the "elite underproduction" bit but the rest of it pretty well covers my case.
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by kovac 5y ago
This right here is the kind of company any self-respecting engineer shouldn't join unless they are transparent about the fact that they have issues with their processes/don't have people to deal with these issues that they ne
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by kovac 5y ago
Thanks! It's very useful!
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by kovac 5y ago
Nice, thank you!
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Ask HN: Interesting gopher holes?
9 points by kovac 5y ago|7 comments
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by kovac 5y ago
While I agree that quitting should be the way, to add to the rest of the comments, there are also other forces at play like the length of your tenure at your previous company, references from previous employers, reason for leaving and the s
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by kovac 5y ago
In one interview, I was given a timed hacker rank problem with a screen share with 2 interviewers. The sample tests passed and the real tests passed except for 2 (from what I remember) that timed out on large data sets. Before the tests wer
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by kovac 5y ago
"Culture fit" has become like the currency of recruitment. Supposedly what you may have to pay with for a potentially great engineer (technically) about whom the hiring team didn't feel comfortable with. I think the original
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by kovac 5y ago
I'm not proposing any solutions. Just stating that a software with source open may not necessarily mean it's free and open in the sense it was originally intended. What one wants to do with it I think depends on one's own val
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by kovac 5y ago
This indeed is true and I truly wish they made Vivaldi open source. However, free and open software is an ideal. Like any ideal, it can be used as a front and abused inna way that defeats its purpose. In its original form, free and open is
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by kovac 5y ago
I'm absolutely with you on this. In fact, when I heard about the servo team and the CEO's salary, I stopped using Firefox. Now I mostly use qutebrowser (and Vivaldi for stuff I need more security). I will start using Firefox when
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Ask HN: Open-source projects written in C
1 points by kovac 5y ago|1 comments
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Why software is so bad (2002)(technologyreview.com)
4 points by kovac 5y ago|0 comments
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by kovac 5y ago
Thank you for sharing! I really find these industries fascinating and hope to work in one of those someday. > "The most important things are an advanced method of requirements generation and change management." Makes perfect se
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by kovac 5y ago
In my case it doesn't stop there. There's sprint planning, sprint retrospective, then a backlog grooming. After all that there are still more architectural discussions, meetings to clarify stuff. And then we break interfaces every
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by kovac 5y ago
And you can't really have a sane conversation with these guys either. I've never met a more arrogant programming community than the c++. I wanted to learn more low level programming when I was a C# dev, and coming from an OOP back
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by kovac 5y ago
I grew up playing sports too mostly full contact sports and ball games like football. Haring the endurance part really resonates with me too. I absolutely hated the endurance training in those sports. It's really the skills I learnt an
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by kovac 5y ago
Just a few days ago I installed Arch Linux on a ThinkPad P15 Gen 1 with X Server and i3wm for wm, disk encryption, multiple displays and it works very well. Heck, even the touch screen is working OOB without any special configuration. I&#x2
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by kovac 5y ago
If they know how that btn click solves the problem, then that's fine. But if they are an engineer and they don't know what the btn does, then they aren't really an engineer in that sense. While that btn click may help them so
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by kovac 5y ago
I started off with Windows development. Later on I developed using Windows terminal and WSL. I've also done development on Mac. Then one fine day I tried Linux. It blew my mind. What is coming to Windows now is a pale imitation of what

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