ptnxlo's comments

On: The Nova Kakhovka Hydroelectric dam in Ukraine has been blown open

[ptnxlo]

This is by far hilarious and sad. You have an interesting way to tweak facts and transform the narrative.

You could make a career out of it (if you haven't done so).

(Zero value reaction to a comment with no value whatsoever)

On: Finland Becomes a Member of NATO on Tuesday 4 April

[ptnxlo]

> ... let's not pretend Russia in anyways benefited from this.

I hope you're not using only the wheat production of a country to formulate your answer on this.

On: Stripe announces new round of funding and plan to provide employee liquidity

[ptnxlo]

The same Stripe we read complains and Tell HN stories every month ...

On: WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator written in Rust

[ptnxlo]

I've been using WezTerm for a year more or less and haven't had any problems so far. Whenever I want anything fancy I just go to the docs or dig through the Github repo (issues, PRs, etc) and that's all I need.

I just couldn't stand the petulant attitude of Alacritty's maintaner(s) and it didn't take much to find something else. Although I can't give this for granted now I haven't seen there's the same sort of behavior on WezTerm.

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)

[ptnxlo]

Is this Remote US or Remote Global?

[cullenking → ptnxlo]

Sorry for the delay here. Remote US, potentially Canada for the experienced who already have set up their own business that handles payroll. Trying to keep administrative overhead low.

On: Tell HN: Coinbase is a joke (product and support)

[ptnxlo]

That would be my first thought. Never had a problem with it.

On: Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready

[ptnxlo]

Compilation won't tell you whether your code follows the business logic it's intended to do. You do need to rely on tests even if the implementation of the programming language compiles it or not.

[Yoric → ptnxlo]

Actually, very often, with a strongly, statically-typed language, in a well-designed API, it actually can.

Unfortunately, most people got a taste of static typing with Java and the initial language and library design were done in such a way that types were well, if not entirely useless, then certainly under-used. But if you look at many libraries for languages such as Rust, Scala, OCaml, Haskell, F#, ... (I haven't looked at Java in a while, but I don't hold high hopes on this specific front) you'll find many examples in which the API and the type system cooperate to guarantee that high-level protocols are enforced.

That being said, I absolutely agree that strong static typing does not mean that you don't need tests. As everything, if you want to be safe, you need a defense in depth, with good API design and many test layers.

[Salgat → ptnxlo]

I'm not talking about business logic tests, and never implied that compilation removes the need for them.

On: Iranian attack drone found to contain parts from more than a dozen US companies

[ptnxlo]

"Ukrainians claiming something doesn’t make it true"

Claiming what specifically?

"Here's an example of ..."

From how many examples? And what exactly do you see it's happening on the only video?

Asking just to understand what's the point you're trying to make.

On: Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?

[ptnxlo]

Follow up of this. The nopecha.com site does not have a Github sign in anymore (only Google at the moment). Looking through Github the organization nopecha seems to have been deleted and all its repositories return a 404 from Github, and seems to have been moved to a different organization recently created (and kept as public) Can't avoid feeling curious what has happened.

On: Telegram: No-SIM Signup, Auto-Delete All Chats, Topics 2.0 and more

[ptnxlo]

"Telegram has no ties to Russia", this sounds like a statement. How sure are you of this?

[tail_exchange → ptnxlo]

Seems reasonable considering that the Russian government tried repeatedly to shut them down and the founder fled the country and got citizenship elsewhere. How sure are you thay they do have ties with the Russian government?