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coolgoose

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A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.
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coolgoose··on What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments
Welcome to PHP land :P
coolgoose··on "Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces
Or be a proper comrade and only use our :p
coolgoose··on Vibe coding as a coding veteran: from 8-bit assembly to English-as-code
It's an awesome article but one thing makes me twitch

`wrote a non-optimal algorithm and claimed it is optimal (in terms of guaranteed shortest solution) until (sometimes later) I noticed the bug;`

That's my general concern, that the Ai generation would make mistakes that I would otherwise catch, but getting into the vibe, I might start to trust the AI a bit too much, and all those lovely subtle bugs might pop up.

coolgoose··on The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust
I fail to see how you got 5x lower loc from php to go.

Php isn't perfect but it has a lot of shortcut syntaxes that go just doesn't have

coolgoose··on Typepad is shutting down
Was this just not profitable? Or not vc extra growth profitable?
coolgoose··on Node.js is able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration
I still want enums
coolgoose··on The Framework Desktop is a beast
I doubt that Dhh if all people would do advertisement (as paid) for this. He genuinely seems to enjoy his macos break
coolgoose··on The benefits of trunk-based development
And how is that different than just doing a pr, and merging to trunk?

It feels like you are just canceling a lot of pipeline tests all the time, assuming there's a cadence of 10+ pushes per day.

coolgoose··on The special hell of Bolt, Europe's Uber clone
Had no issues with bolt so far tbh. But had issues with Uber drivers canceling a few times. I guess it all depends on the country and luck.
coolgoose··on Beyond Meat fights for survival
I am all for eating more vegetables. But putting ultra processed mashed up shit to replace the real thing just sounds like an avenue for disaster health wise.
coolgoose··on I was wrong about robots.txt
I agree, and I am also confused on how this got on the frontpage of all things. It's like reading a news article of 'water is wet'.

You block things -> of course good actors will respect and avoid you -> of course bad actors will just ignore it as it's a piece of "please do not do this" not a firewall blocking things.

coolgoose··on Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP
But kudos to them, that's the only way to break monopolies. Although I do wonder how much they bet on people not using all that bandwidth based on their promises.
coolgoose··on Lenovo Legion Go S: Windows 11 vs. SteamOS Performance, and General Availability
SteamOS has 'desktop mode' which is full fledged Linux + Kde environment. You can use that accounting software most likely via wine ;)
coolgoose··on Mistral Code
Yea but this little tator just wanted to use the coding agent, I don't expect enterprise features. Unfortunately there's no alternative to enterprise, so no way to support an European alternative :)
coolgoose··on Mistral Code
Pricing is worse than contact us, it's contact us and tell us your company size and revenue wtf Mistral, I wanted to maybe pick this up, as we're an european company and I want an European ai company to succeed but this is ridiculous
coolgoose··on Run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs
Reading all the above, this is nothing like that.

It's just standard c# no new dialect, works like a proper 'shell' script and it's not a repl, what am I missing

coolgoose··on Claude Code does our releases now
I mean, it's cute, but how the heck this is this an actual solution.

This is basic automation and a pretty weird deployment process that could literally be a proper ci/cd pipeline.

coolgoose··on Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes
Everybody complaining about grub forgot about lilo
coolgoose··on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
No it can't. Let's be honest Synology's OS is covering more than just storage, and no, spinning up a lot of 3'rd party docker containers that you need to maintain, secure and manage isn't as easy.
coolgoose··on Significant performance improvements with Edge 134
And when they had EdgeHTML which wasn't even that bad, people pissed on it and said it's worse than Blink, idk man, this is an impossible case of getting the monopoly out of Google's hands.
coolgoose··on Googler... ex-Googler
I think you need to look at some of the recent Dutch firing sprees and figure out if that'd actualy respected ;)
coolgoose··on Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace
No fax ? :P
coolgoose··on Gemini 2.5 Pro reasons about task feasibility
Next step into LLM evolution is teaching them to procrastinate
coolgoose··on Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them
Reminds me how I learned Linux by bootstrapping Gentoo from Knoppix live cd's on my Athlon xp 1600+ and using God knows how many compilations flags
coolgoose··on Breaking Up with On-Call
Sounds like normal support work not sure why that's affecting morale.

It's normal in any kind of system to also cover issues.

Yes, at some point you might want to have a customer support / customer success later to at least triage them, but that makes more sense as you get bigger not when you are small.

I actually like having discussions on support days with customer. Yes, sometimes they're more annoying but it's direct feedback of people trying to use your software.

coolgoose··on Ask HN: Best way to simultaneously run multiple projects locally?
docker compose, technically other clients support the former also.
coolgoose··on The European Vat Is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports
I mean, I get it to some extent, but there's literally an article linked on this whole thread that we're all commenting, explaining why not...
coolgoose··on The European VAT Is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports
You never had to handle cross country VAT it seems, and the stupid regulations that changed to make it require vat collection on the country of the payee :)
coolgoose··on The European VAT Is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports
I find it funny that a lot of people can't read the article, so here's an ELI5 case on why VAT isn't discriminatory from our lovely Franch LeChat.

Going to add TLDR for people: Vat applies to all shit on the market, regardless of where the fuck you produced it.

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The Value Added Tax (VAT) in Europe is designed to be a consumption tax that applies equally to both domestically produced goods and imports. This means that whether a product is made locally or imported from another country, the same VAT rate is applied when the product is sold to the end consumer. This approach is intended to create a level playing field, ensuring that local producers do not have an unfair advantage over importers, and vice versa.

The reason VAT is not considered discriminatory against imports is that it is applied at the point of consumption rather than production. When goods are imported into the EU, they are subject to VAT at the same rate as similar goods produced within the EU. This ensures that the tax burden is the same for both local and imported products, promoting fair competition. Additionally, businesses can often reclaim the VAT they pay on purchases, including imports, which further neutralizes any potential disadvantage.

However, it's important to note that while VAT itself is not discriminatory, other factors such as customs duties and regulatory standards can still affect the competitiveness of imports versus local produce. These factors are typically addressed through separate trade policies and agreements rather than through the VAT system.

coolgoose··on LinkedIn is the worst social media I've ever seen
Genuinely curious what's a decent platform to keep in touch with companies and handle your career. Any tips?
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