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kevinherron commented on Detekt – A static code analyzer for Kotlin   detekt.dev/... · Posted by u/TheWiggles
smokel · a month ago
Out of curiosity, how many of you are using Kotlin for backend development? It seems that Java has caught up a bit, and the advantages of Kotlin (extension methods, better syntax, better null-checking) might not be enough to justify the risk of lock- in?

Personally, I quite like Kotlin, but I haven't been able to convince most of my greybeard colleagues to make the leap.

kevinherron · a month ago
We use it for (non-Spring) backend development. It's lovely and always my first choice over Java.

I like to avoid mixing Java/Kotlin within the same module when I can, but it still works, and parts of our codebase are mixed this way. (by module I mean e.g. the same Maven or Gradle module, i.e. try to avoid a situation where you have a `src/main/java` and `src/main/kotlin` next to each other)

kevinherron commented on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not   theregister.com/2025/07/0... · Posted by u/LorenDB
em-bee · 2 months ago
i have yet to find a site where i needed to activate DRM. even on sites where firefox did tell me to activate DRM, i just ignored it and the site worked fine. that said, having the feature built in doesn't bother me as long as i have the option to ignore it or keep it turned off
kevinherron · 2 months ago
Try Spotify’s web player.
kevinherron commented on Denmark Is Switching to Linux   pcgamer.com/software/oper... · Posted by u/ricecat
daoboy · 2 months ago
The last comment:

>The Politiken article has been corrected. They're dropping Microsoft Office but not Windows. They might in the future, that seems to be the general trend, but in this case the minister said they're dropping Microsoft services and interviewer misinterpreted that as including Windows.

kevinherron · 2 months ago
Ahh, did not see/read the comments on the article.
kevinherron commented on Ask HN: Are you hesitant to open source your project because LLMs may steal it?    · Posted by u/busymom0
kevinherron · 2 months ago
No.

In fact, if there was a better, more direct way than publishing on GitHub to feed my open source code directly into future training runs, I would probably do that.

kevinherron commented on Denmark Is Switching to Linux   pcgamer.com/software/oper... · Posted by u/ricecat
daoboy · 2 months ago
It looks like they're just dropping Office 365 for Libre office. Not switching the entire operating system.
kevinherron · 2 months ago
> in a move that exchanges Windows and Office 365 for Linux and LibreOffice.

> It'll migrate about half of the Ministry of Digital Affairs away from Windows this summer

kevinherron commented on Data manipulation using natural language prompts    · Posted by u/brockmeier
kevinherron · 3 months ago
Submit for batch processing using the OpenAI batch API?
kevinherron commented on Run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs   devblogs.microsoft.com/do... · Posted by u/soheilpro
Meph504 · 3 months ago
I wonder where the divide of "shebang" vs "hashbang" lands geographically and chronologically, During college and for many years in the early 90s and 2000s in the south it commonly called hashbang, didn't hear shebang until C# became a thing, I know it predates that, just never heard it before then.
kevinherron · 3 months ago
Interesting, I’ve never even heard it called “hashbang” until you just did.

California, 40yo fwiw

kevinherron commented on Ask HN: When will Wayland eclipse X?    · Posted by u/Rooster61
kevinherron · 4 months ago
I’ve been using Wayland since it became the default in Fedora. These days it seems to be working great. I’m especially happy with how well KDE seems to work on Wayland now.
kevinherron commented on Ask HN: How is Windows 10 EOL impacting you?    · Posted by u/kakadu
kevinherron · 4 months ago
I'm primarily a macOS and Linux user, but I do have a 2nd work laptop and a VM I use for Windows, both of which I upgraded to Windows 11 2-3? years ago.

There's never been an issue. It's a better experience than W10 was. I don't really understand why everybody is upset.

I don't play video games so maybe that's part of it?

kevinherron commented on I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype   unixdigest.com/articles/i... · Posted by u/smartmic
kevinherron · 4 months ago
They should have let an AI check their spelling and grammar, maybe they wouldn’t have used “loose” instead of “lose” multiple times.

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