Readit News logoReadit News
xahrepap commented on Deprecate like you mean it   entropicthoughts.com/depr... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Certhas · 15 days ago
Last paragraph of the article:

> In case the sarcasm isn’t clear, it’s better to leave the warts. But it is also worthwhile to recognise that in terms of effectiveness for driving system change, signage and warnings are on the bottom of the tier list. We should not be surprised when they don’t work.

xahrepap · 15 days ago
Yeah, totally a woosh moment for me. Read all the way up to the `* * *`. That's on me :)
xahrepap commented on Deprecate like you mean it   entropicthoughts.com/depr... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
layer8 · 15 days ago
Most HN visitors won’t read to the last paragraph, so it’s a good thing to emphasize.
xahrepap · 15 days ago
I thought I had read it. :) I thought the three `* * *` at the bottom was indicating I was about to start reading suggestions for the next article. So definitely a "Woosh" moment for me :D
xahrepap commented on Deprecate like you mean it   entropicthoughts.com/depr... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
xahrepap · 15 days ago
> That would probably not trigger anyone’s midnight pager, but it would make it clear that relying on the deprecated functionality is a bug lurking in the code.

How do you know? This is a wild assertion. This idea is terrible. I thought it was common knowledge that difficult to reproduce, seemingly random bugs are much more difficult to find and fix than compiler errors.

If you're ready to break your api, break your api. Don't play games with me. If more people actually removed deprecated APIs in a timely manner, then people will start taking it more seriously.

xahrepap commented on Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility   lttlabs.com/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/croes
xahrepap · 4 months ago
I tried to use a USB-C HDMI dongle I had. But I assumed it was because the switch 2 was looking for something that could deliver enough power and actively cool it, like the first party dock does.
xahrepap commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers   fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber
atoav · 5 months ago
As someone who interviewed people for technical roles, I'd see that as a bad sign and answer: "Just tell me what you can think about."

This isn't school where teachers give you trick questions and you fail if you misunderstand it. If you are applying as a software developer and you can't talk at length about various forms of interfaces you are probably not very experienced. UI, API, ABI are all interfaces..

xahrepap · 5 months ago
One time an interviewer asked me languages I knew.

After I went through my experience with Java, C#, python, etc. he said, “I meant like… Spanish…”

xahrepap commented on The Two Towers MUD   t2tmud.org/... · Posted by u/astronads
xahrepap · 6 months ago
Oh wow! Didn’t expect to see this piece of my childhood on the front page!

I used to spend hours on telnet playing this game with my friend. What a fun blast to the past!

xahrepap commented on Two new PebbleOS watches   ericmigi.com/blog/introdu... · Posted by u/griffinli
Reason077 · 9 months ago
> "30 day battery life"

I've done the math and according to my calculations that's approximately 30X more battery life than an Apple Watch. Impressive!

xahrepap · 9 months ago
About 60 for me. I have to charge mine while working to get it to last a day :/
xahrepap commented on 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure   azsh.it... · Posted by u/SlyHive
hliyan · 10 months ago
In my experience (worked for organizations that used everything from on-prem server racks, to Linode to AWS to Azure), complaints about cloud infrastructure are proportional to managed service usage. I rarely hear teams that largely rely on virtual machines (perhaps with a managed RDBMS) complain. They do have to maintain a little extra scripting, but that's a minor inconvenience compared to battling issues and idiosyncrasies of managed services.
xahrepap · 10 months ago
I wish I could better help my org see that. Luckily my boss agrees with me, but he's not in full control. Between the vendor lock-in, and the _almost but not quite api compatibility_ with OSS... I just dread as more teams adopt it.

"But it's easier!" ... yeah, we'll see...

xahrepap commented on RomCom exploits Firefox and Windows zero days in the wild   welivesecurity.com/en/ese... · Posted by u/croes
galangalalgol · a year ago
Wasn't the first cut at windows me written in c#, maybe we can start there. The servo browser on redox isn't even completely free of c I think.
xahrepap · a year ago
xahrepap commented on Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on the infamous Pokémon episode   animefeminist.com/porygon... · Posted by u/Aissen
chriskanan · a year ago
I don't understand why in the current era we don't have videos just post-processed by the media player / TV. That seems like it would increase accessibility while not irritating folks who do not have epilepsy.

I tried to search to see if something like a plugin existed for VLC, and I didn't find anything. Seems like it should be solvable at least if the media can be parsed ahead of time or with some delay for a live feed.

xahrepap · a year ago
Similarly, I would love if videos/blurays/streams/etc had a way to adjust volumes separate from each other. So many movies have such loud music and quiet dialog. So I'm constantly adjusting the volume between different scenes.

u/xahrepap

KarmaCake day1997February 29, 2012View Original