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dkwr commented on Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use? · Posted by u/ulam2

PikachuEXE · a year ago

I self-host it

dkwr · a year ago

Same here. I self-host it since 3 years and didn't feel the need to change it. A stable application which doesn't have any problems which OP mentioned. I use it as a PWA on mobile.

dkwr commented on Dell will no longer make XPS computers arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/MRPockets

AmVess · a year ago

I had a 2021 model. It was pretty poor in all aspects. Slow, laggy on the desktop just clicking around. Loud when doing anything resembling work. Very poor audio. Bad keyboard. 4 hour battery.

I switched to a new M1 MacBook Air and it was like going from a Cessna 150 to an F-15. Everything on the M1 MBA was decades ahead of the XPS.

Everyone and their brother now sells a much better product than XPS, and often for nearly half the cash. I picked up an Asus Vivo last year. Very nice product, half the cost of the XPS they had on offer, but with the same specs and screen.

It feels like it was engineered as a unit, much like the MBA. The XPS in comparison is a parts bin special.

dkwr · a year ago

I can agree with that. I still use my XPS from 2022 on a daily basis, but I regret it alot. Battery life and cooling are unbelievably bad, it's a shame when you start thinking about the price.

dkwr commented on Ask HN: Do you still use Java? · Posted by u/inodeman

dkwr · a year ago

In Germany or maybe Europe(?) many enterprises use Java for completely new services.

Some reasons I found: - it's a matured stack with a matured framework (Spring)

- there's already a lot of Java knowledge in the company

- there are already existing services written in Java. Why should the company start to maintain another stack?

- there's a lot of Java knowledge walking outside the company. So hiring is easier.

- it's still taught as one of the first languages at universities.

I've only seen few alternatives for language usage:

- C#, but then you lock-in to Microsoft.

- Typescript, but there are still skeptics

Anyway, the number of companies who are adapting other languages like Go or Python is rising. That's my biased perspective as a Cloud developer working in finance, IIoT. I don't know how it looks like for other areas.

dkwr commented on Ask HN: Niche technical knowledge not found on the internet? · Posted by u/andrecarini

dkwr · a year ago

Not me and I don't know if it's small enough to answer your question, but at my university there was someone doing research in the area of locating and navigating visually impaired people in the outside and inside of buildings.

While HCI and indoor navigation is a wide area, visually impaired people have another requirements for UX, navigation hints etc. You need to do things more different.

He said that at the time he was doing research there were maybe 50-60 people worldwide who also published papers in the field.

So, when he went on conferences 2 or 3 times he met everytime the same people. But he also said that it's far easier to do some fundamental research in this field.

dkwr commented on Notepad++ is 21 years old learnhub.top/celebrating-... · Posted by u/thunderbong

QuantumSeed · a year ago

For Windows 11 users, the latest Notepad.exe can also pick up where you left off the last time the app was closed.

dkwr · a year ago

Does it also offer syntax highlighting? One nice thing about Npp is not only the temp files and tabs, but also that it offers syntax highlighting if needed. Sometimes when viewing a large Json it's nice to paste it in, turn on syntax highlighting and finding the information needed.

dkwr commented on What's your favorite RSS feed reader? · Posted by u/jtwoodhouse

kohbo · a year ago

I self-host FreshRSS. I prefer the feeds to be pulled from a server rather than locally from a browser. This lets me check out news feeds from work without worrying about my computer pinging websites IT doesn't like.

dkwr · a year ago

+1 for self hosted FreshRSS. The only feature I'm missing from it is selecting multiple unread entries and marking them as 'read' instead of opening them one by one or marking the whole feed. Other than that it gives a feeling like using the Google Reader.

dkwr commented on Programmers Don't Read Books – But You Should (2008) blog.codinghorror.com/pro... · Posted by u/rspivak

minkles · a year ago

I don't read programming books any more because they are mostly shit or expensive or expensive and shit. The hit rate of finding a good one is so low it's easier to just fudge your way around a problem using some idiom you're already experienced with.

Just ambling around the book store earlier I saw a 3 inch think tome around Go programming called Pro Go or something. I opened it and it was a whole book of instructional copy and paste recipes that span 10 pages for a simple problem. Urgh. This is the status quo now and it has been for a long time. I walked out with a book on pure mathematics instead - probably more useful in the long run...

dkwr · a year ago

And then you also have the books which cost 60€ and aren't even printed in color. I mean it makes sense for ecological reasons, but I can get books for 19€ that are colorized. It would be a much better reading experience if some boxes would actually show colorized instead of different shades of grey.

dkwr commented on Ask HN: Developers using Java without Spring, and what is the alternative? · Posted by u/grandimam

dkwr · a year ago

Despite of the question being very unspecific I can’t tell you many details about alternatives. But: I think the biggest ones are Quarkus, Micronaut and Vertx. While Vertx defined itself more as a toolkit.

I never had the chance to try some of these for Production systems or for a proof of concept. This would be really interesting, but I think many companies lean towards Spring, because it is matured, has a big ecosystem and community and stays for so long. And all of this although Spring has a bigger footprint.

dkwr commented on I asked ChatGPT how to profit from the impending AI stock crash. Oh, the irony learningquant.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/mmarian

mmarian · 2 years ago

...and the RSS is now live! https://learningquant.com/rss.xml (need to mention it on the website)

Let me know if that works for you, it's my first time I've set up an RSS.

dkwr · 2 years ago

I subscribed and it worked for me. I like your writing style. Short, concise and informative!

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