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hernandipietro

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hernandipietro··on Windows native app development is a mess
I use WTL with modern C++ (smart pointers, Microsoft WIL for scoped handles is a good point) for suitable Windows native apps. Yes, this seems to be old but it’s the only thing that fits my mental model as a 30 year old Windows programmer as you.
hernandipietro··on Show HN: PrintReadyBook
Greed is making humanity go towards worldwide idiotism.
hernandipietro··on How Europe crushes innovation
Innovation at the expense of crushing workers and increasing the gap between parasitic management compensation and worker wages. No, thanks. Europe may need reform but it’s not the USA way of doing things, except for the elite for which “ the economist “ is a already known and tired sockpuppet.
hernandipietro··on Making video games (without an engine) in 2025
Congratulations man, great work.
hernandipietro··on TheForger's Win32 API Tutorial
I learned a lot with this tutorial, decades ago
hernandipietro··on Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
Right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5468462

hernandipietro··on Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
Originally, Windows NT 3.x was more "microkernelithic" as graphics and printer drivers where isolated. NT 4 moved them to Kernel mode to speedup the system.
hernandipietro··on Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
Windows NT 3.x had graphics and printer drivers in user-mode for stability reasons. Windows NT 4 moved them to Ring 0 to speed-up graphics applications.
hernandipietro··on ASCII Silhouettify
awesome algorithm, curved features seem to be perfectly reproduced by each ASCII character density and geometry.
hernandipietro··on Open Sourcing DOS 4
I remember looking at MSDOS binaries with hex editors and seeing "MS Runtime Library", like many tools were written in C -- may be my memory is completely failing ... but probably MSDOS 5.0 included many utilities written in C? I used 5.0 with a 386, circa '93.
hernandipietro··on Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana
I just use FanControl , and I'm very happy with it. Windows only, unfortunately.
hernandipietro··on Tell HN: Getting Ready for Unemployment
If you are already at systems level programming field (C/C++) you can tackle on Rust, which is becoming more and more popular (Linux Kernel, Microsoft in the future, etc)
hernandipietro··on Intel Core I9 9980XE vs. Ryzen 9 3900X Benchmark
Here is another comparison. 9980XE multithreaded performance seems to be better.

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i9-9980XE-v...

hernandipietro··on Show HN: Purrli, an online cat purr generator
Nice!
hernandipietro··on Inkscape Version 0.92 is Released
I will see if stability improved. At least in Win32, I got pissed off so many times with crashes and hangs.