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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)
on Friday May 02, 2025 @04:22AM (#43867408)
Location: Berlin, Germany
Remote: OK
Willing to relocate: yes
Technologies: Go, Scala, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, Common Lisp
Résumé/CV: https://macrolet.net/data/main.pdf
Email: olof plus hn at macrolet dot net
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olof-joachim-frahm-6b27b2275
Re:The evolution of a structural code editor
on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @11:06AM (#42623889)
While they're very good compared to the alternatives, I wonder why they haven't pushed more into that direction, e.g. what I've wanted to put into a plugin when tinkering with the PSI was simple composable operations, similar to Vim operations, like "rotate if/else branch" (while correctly negating and simplifying the test expression), or "convert if to case/switch/..." (and back and only if it's feasible).
Re:Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Pe...
on Friday December 20, 2024 @07:41AM (#42470595)
What hardware do you have issues with nowadays? I agree it used to be problematic, though lately the only remaining thing I'm struggling with is (some) printers. Then again, thankfully I haven't had to set them up on Windows either.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)
on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @08:35AM (#42305874)
Location: Berlin, Germany
Remote: OK
Willing to relocate: yes
Technologies: Go, Scala, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, Common Lisp
Résumé/CV: https://macrolet.net/data/main.pdf
Email: olof plus hn at macrolet dot net
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olof-joachim-frahm-6b27b2275
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)
on Saturday November 02, 2024 @10:00AM (#42026434)
Location: Berlin, Germany
Remote: OK
Willing to relocate: yes
Technologies: Go, Scala, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, Common Lisp
Résumé/CV: https://macrolet.net/data/main.pdf
Email: olof plus hn at macrolet dot net
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olof-joachim-frahm-6b27b2275
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024)
on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @06:27PM (#41439962)
Location: Berlin, Germany
Remote: OK
Willing to relocate: yes
Technologies: Go, Scala, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, Common Lisp
Résumé/CV: https://macrolet.net/data/main.pdf
Email: olof plus hn at macrolet dot net
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olof-joachim-frahm-6b27b2275
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)
on Saturday August 10, 2024 @08:20AM (#41208971)
Location: Berlin, Germany
Remote: OK
Willing to relocate: yes
Technologies: Go, Scala, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, Common Lisp
Résumé/CV: https://macrolet.net/data/main.pdf
Email: olof plus hn at macrolet dot net
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olof-joachim-frahm-6b27b2275
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)
on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @07:30AM (#40855591)
Location: Berlin, Germany
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Go, Java, Scala, PostgreSQL, Python, Common Lisp, ...
Résumé/CV: https://macrolet.net/data/main.pdf
Email: hn AT macrolet DOT net
Re:More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verified on the...
on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @11:09AM (#36587699)
It's great, just not fantastic (yet). I'm kind of eager for further hardware revisions, but on the other hand, I've already used it a lot when I otherwise wouldn't have had the option to start up the big desktop for gaming (commuting, or even just to use some time in between things). And while I bought a Switch before, the main benefit here is of course the entire Steam library being available, so no buying the same title more than once.
Biggest dislike is the on-screen keyboard. On the one hand it's usable with the two trackpads, but, I still take way to long to enter text, even compared to a phone screen. It's also very slow to appear and bugs out too often. I really hope that that can be improved so it can pop up and disappear without noticeable delay.
I'm not sure about underpowered, I was actually quite happy to install some rather resource-intensive (Windows!) games and while it's getting quite warm, I never ran out of battery immediately, but yes, if you've got to save energy, better turn on all the options for that. And that's actually quite cool to be able to turn down energy consumption on a whim, or with per-game profiles, etc.
As long as they're going to optimise the experience more and not just keep it as-is, because "it works fine", then it could be a really good platform going forward.
Same question for the dock though, is it worth it?
Re:FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:26PM (#30026757)
Ditto, had it only once that they complained the signature on separate documents was identical. Well, just wrote it down a couple more times in case I run into that again.
Re:LaTeX Finite Automata and State Diagrams with Tikz
on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @10:12AM (#29725473)
TikZ/PGF had a graph layouting implementation for about a decade now, c.f. "Part IV - Graph Drawing" in the manual. And apparently `dot2tex` can also render TikZ instructions, so going via Graphviz is possible too.
Re:Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal?
on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:43AM (#29594617)
At least it's using some OSS, like osquery, c.f. <https://cdn.drata.com/agent/osquery/queries.json>, so you can easily see quite a bit of what it's going to gather.
Re:Lessons learned after working one year as a Common Lisp Developer (...
on Friday December 10, 2021 @05:47AM (#29508463)
Great points on the list too, even though I still think they're more the acceptable trade-offs kind of bad. I.e., yes, of course `caddddr` will be unreadable, probably, so just don't. `declaim` has a sharp edge for a reason, but you can also make things better by increasing the debug and safety level, that's a great idea I really haven't seen repeated elsewhere.
The JSON library makes sense, there are several ones and they're all making different decisions wrt. representing the JSON types. I wonder if anyone made a comparison of them with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20724672, that would be useful.
Lastly, I'd always add "be wary of pathnames", even though I was (am) a big fan of the concept in general, it's just sometimes a bit fiddly with regards to physical filenames that can appear on various systems (that's e.g. why SBCL's `native-namestring` can be necessary, http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Pathnames).
Re:Automatically Light Up a Sign When Your Webcam Is in Use
on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:58AM (#28326688)
The top answer on SO that I found (https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/344463/91434) also uses this way of determining whether the device is being used - is that really the best way, or is there anything to actually query the device? E.g. my webcam has a light already that is only active when images are being captured(?), shouldn't it be possible to query that bit of information directly?
Re:Copyright infringement by German contact tracing app
on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @06:58AM (#26645699)
Source for the 20%? Anecdotally I've never heard anyone being asked for one, other corrupt behaviour though for sure, things regarding land ownership, or zoning violations.
Re:People Keeping BlackBerry Alive
on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:08PM (#26008326)
Got a Classic one on a job and fell in love with it too, so I recently bought a used one and now a replacement battery (just have to actually do the replacement ... will be fun given it's not made for it). The keyboard is just lovely and especially coming from ThinkPads the cursor is super good too. Hope I can keep it alive for a long time!
Re:Create diagrams with code using Graphviz
on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @12:33PM (#23479019)
Just a former student who participated in the first version (let's say draft) of it, which had no really interesting algorithms in it yet, just the overall graph framework and integration with the rest of PGF/TikZ.
Really cool project though, one of the few that made it outside of uni.
Re:Create diagrams with code using Graphviz
on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:20AM (#23478039)
Wow, that was a long time ago, very fun project to work on. But yeah, without deep knowledge of the TeX side you'd likely still struggle a bit to understand how the two sides interact, at least it was a bit of a struggle for me, maybe / hopefully it got a bit better in the meantime.
And thankfully LuaLaTex was ready enough at that time, I can't imagine how bad it would've been to do this in pure Tex ...
Re:The Day AppGet Died
on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:29AM (#23335219)
> You use it.
And you keep the copyright notice, otherwise you're violating the license.
If it's based on the same design (i.e. same file formats, mechanisms, etc.) then the issue is still not giving credit and pointing out the design it's based on. Doesn't cost them a thing and gives a lot of goodwill from people.
Like, if someone uses my code, I'm happy, if they copy the idea and present it as their own that's dishonest.
Re:Video Game Keyboard Diagrams
on Monday February 17, 2020 @05:47AM (#22346752)
Select the US layout, not all of the games seem to have all layouts available.
Re:Rotary Cellphone
on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @05:21AM (#22307591)
Love this so much. The small display is also definitely something I'd like on a phone simply to display small information bits that then don't need the full powered up display.
On that note is there a good conversion (as in, make it into a USB keyboard) write-up for mechanical typewriters? I've seen one commercial kit before, but didn't follow through so far, even though I've got two still lying around.
Re:The Emergent Features of JuliaLang: Part II – Traits
on Thursday November 07, 2019 @06:17AM (#21472208)
If what I've seen is representative, there could be a big opportunity in overhauling the short/medium term forecasting piece in a lot of those companies and adding in a versatile timeseries and analysis platform, which would then allow you to do more accurate forecastings more often (and given the number of readings you're gonna get that might need some thought). And since you're already developing something new you can probably get a nicer architecture out of the whole thing anyway, which might allow you to use all that data in more ways than just for that single purpose. Getting rid of some lock-in from certain database vendors in the long-term might also be nice.
Just speculation, I kinda agree in that I doubt yet another optimisation package is gonna be so useful.
Re:‘They Get Fired All the Time. And They Have No Idea Why’
on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @01:57PM (#20749868)
From how I've been reading these interactions the last one isn't actually all that up to discussion. That's exactly what's been annoying me about it. If it were, then yes, exactly like you described it would be a sensible next level after the "please do X". And for most people I'd indeed (correctly) understand it that way, just not, as the parent described, from some particular backgrounds.
Oh, but actually, maybe that's the case, I'll pay more attention to the reaction if someone "doesn't like" to.
Re:‘They Get Fired All the Time. And They Have No Idea Why’
on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:22AM (#20747956)
> It's a common social technique among adults with authority to frame requests as a question
Is that somehow locale specific? I've never had people ask me to do something like that until I had interactions with US-based folks.
Personally I find it very odd to phrase it like that and it basically achieves the complete opposite of that intent (so I've to actively ignore it and read it as the actual assignment that it was meant as).
Re:Using ‘switch’ to match arbitrary logic instead of string or number...
on Monday August 19, 2019 @06:32AM (#20736554)
Yeah that's been around for some time http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/m_cond.htm
Re:Is Rails still relevant in 2018?
on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @05:42AM (#17857587)
While as a fan of one particular language I tend to agree, I found http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2908 a somewhat convincing argument that perhaps my view isn't so well-rounded as I thought.
Making Games Better for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing – Designing for Disability
Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro
on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:17PM (#17544713)
As in: It's everywhere.
Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro
on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:07PM (#17544631)
And you have variance in the industries, location, travel requirements presumably, etc. Sure. But with a project of this size and scope I'd be impressed if they'd be able to find (great) devs wanting to work on it below 65-70k and not quit after a year. IMHO and so on based on way smaller projects.