andrewl-hn (u/andrewl-hn)

andrewl-hn commented on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' finalroundai.com/blog/aws... · Posted by u/birdculture

frostiness · a day ago

I can't help but feel this is backpedaling after the AI hype led to people entering university avoiding computer science or those already in changing their major. Ultimately we might end up with a shortage of developers again, which would be amusing.

andrewl-hn · 20 hours ago

Perhaps, their own hiring pipeline is suffering, too. With most companies out there cutting internships and hiring of people with no experience "because AI will replace them" for the past 2-3 years we probably having a large dip in number of prospective candidates with 2-3 years of experience today.

Historically, these candidates have been the hiring sweet spot: less risky than brand new engineers, still small enough experience to efficiently mold them into your bespoke tools and processes and turn them into long-term employees, and still very cheap.

andrewl-hn commented on Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo gabrielweinberg.com/p/som... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt

niccl · 5 days ago

One thing not mentioned in TFA but I came across following the 'we're hiring' link to the Back-end Engineer role. They use PERL (v5). That certainly surprised me!

andrewl-hn · 5 days ago

DDG has been around for a long-long time, and when it started Perl was an old fashioned choice but still very reasonable. Even if they moved to other languages they probably still have old bits of Perl code running somewhere.

For about first 5-10 years of its existence DuckDuckGo also promoted their use of Perl, and afaik they contributed to Perl development.

andrewl-hn commented on Mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle that fits in the luggage designboom.com/technology... · Posted by u/tlyleung

andrewl-hn · 9 days ago

Interesting how Japanese companies were pursuing these compact mobility solutions. One other example is Honda made two of them:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Motocompo in 1980s and

- https://motocompacto.honda.com just a few years ago. This one is electric.

andrewl-hn commented on Nook Browser browsewithnook.com... · Posted by u/ray__

jauntywundrkind · 12 days ago

Opera 10 was getting into some wild stuff. 9 was obviously just winning. But I loved how 10 literally gave you the user your own endpoints on the web. The browser is the server (by way of proxy)! Massively inspirational decentralization. https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/opera-unite.html

andrewl-hn · 12 days ago

Other parts were legendary, too.

* They came with a mail and chat (IRC) clients, a download manager, a set of browser dev tools, and in the age of limited internet traffic all of that was smaller than a single download of Firefox.

* Their dev tools were the first that allowed remote debugging. You could run Opera on your phone (Symbian, Windows Mobile, early Android) and debug your website from a computer.

* They were the first browser to sync your bookmarks, settings, history, extensions across devices.

* They were the first to add process isolation, albeit initially on Linux only. If an extension crashed your page it didn't take the whole browser down with it. This was later added first by Microsoft in IE8 and then by Google in Chrome.

Their browser was a brilliant piece of tech and a brilliant product. Too bad that the product couldn't survive under pressure.

andrewl-hn commented on · Posted by u/wonderfuly

gem4508 · 13 days ago

LinkedIn was also affected.

andrewl-hn · 13 days ago

You would think they would use Azure for CDN, but apparently not.

andrewl-hn commented on Anthropic acquires Bun bun.com/blog/bun-joins-an... · Posted by u/ryanvogel

andrewl-hn · 16 days ago

Honestly, given the constant rollercoaster of version management and building tools for Python the move to something else would be expected rather than surprising.

I’ve seems like a great tool, but I remember thinking the same about piping, too.

andrewl-hn · 15 days ago

Autocorrect messed up my last line, should say:

uv seems like a great tool, but I remember thinking the same about pipenv, too.

andrewl-hn commented on Anthropic acquires Bun bun.com/blog/bun-joins-an... · Posted by u/ryanvogel

zelphirkalt · 16 days ago

Then it would probably be back to Poetry. Or some other newcomer, or maybe a fork of uv.

andrewl-hn · 16 days ago

Honestly, given the constant rollercoaster of version management and building tools for Python the move to something else would be expected rather than surprising.

I’ve seems like a great tool, but I remember thinking the same about piping, too.

andrewl-hn commented on Anthropic acquires Bun bun.com/blog/bun-joins-an... · Posted by u/ryanvogel

andrewl-hn · 16 days ago

I’ll be honest, while I have my doubts about the match of interests and cohesion between an AI company and a JS runtime company I have to say this is the single best acquisition announcement blog post I’ve seen in 20 years or so.

Very direct, very plain and detailed. They cover all the bases about the why, the how, and what to expect. I really appreciate it.

Best of luck to the team and hopefully the new home will support them well.

andrewl-hn commented on Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code github.com/hexagonal-sun/... · Posted by u/hexagonal-sun

viraptor · 20 days ago

Too late? https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/linuxemu/

andrewl-hn · 20 days ago

Also, AFAIK SmartOS / Ilumos has had a combat layer for it, too.

andrewl-hn commented on Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code github.com/hexagonal-sun/... · Posted by u/hexagonal-sun

hexagonal-sun · a month ago

Hello!

For the past 8 months, or so, I've been working on a project to create a Linux-compatible kernel in nothing but Rust and assembly. I finally feel as though I have enough written that I'd like to share it with the community!

I'm currently targeting the ARM64 arch, as that's what I know best. It runs on qemu as well as various dev boards that I've got lying around (pi4, jetson nano, AMD Kria, imx8, etc). It has enough implemented to run most BusyBox commands on the console.

Major things that are missing at the moment: decent FS driver (only fat32 RO at the moment), and no networking support.