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by _benj 4y ago
What is OCaml mostly used for? Like Ada for aerospace or Erlang for concurrency, does OCaml has a niche like that?
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by _benj 4y ago
same. I think something along those lines might be happening with projects like Janet, Fennel and Clojure. But I’d love to be able to experience that so talked about CL teaching a system how to behave in CL/Small Talk
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CAD Sketcher – Constraint-based geometry sketcher for blender(github.com)
1 points by _benj 4y ago|0 comments
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I was thinking about the same recently… The solution I came up with was to do something that would have nothing to do with what I do professionally. So I decided to learn LISP (Janet in particular), improve the tool I use to manage my finan
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CAD Sketcher – A constraint-based sketcher addon for Blender(makertales.gumroad.com)
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by _benj 4y ago
It might or might not be what you are looking for but it’s possible to charge the scrolling direction on the trackpad preferences. It’s defaulted to “natural” something and it’s literally the first setting I change when I reinstall macOS
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by _benj 4y ago
I’m slightly suspicious about the “mandatory” hybrid model. I’ve been working remotely pre-Covid and I really like it. With that said, I recently visited the office and met some people that I’ve had diverging opinions… and I was completely
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by _benj 4y ago
This looks super interesting! Is use case only to build products on top of your platform or could it be used for personal finances and, as a developer, add automations and such over the API?
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by _benj 5y ago
Love your thoughts and observations! I think for the most part I align with you regarding calling something “finished” as a project having monetization in it. As of lately though I’ve been thinking a lot about two different definitions of “
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by _benj 5y ago
A book that helped me a lot was “clean code”. It provided me with a way to curb complexity, which I wasn’t aware I was adding to my projects. The symptoms where always similar, after certain time and code written the codebase was such a mes
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by _benj 5y ago
While I don’t wanna comment about my job, I think that this question ignores the fact that an individual having a job as opposed to having to depend on other or on welfare is IMHO a net positive to the world. And that a company can provide
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by _benj 5y ago
I'm in the middle of reading "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl. It was a book recommendation from my engineering manager and oh wow, it is an incredible book! One of the things that stood out the most out for m
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by _benj 5y ago
For me the limitation of circular imports forced to drastically rethink how I architected my software (golang, rewrote the whole mvp 3 times be the first two I was either completely blocked by no-circular-imports or the structure felt so ha
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by _benj 5y ago
I enjoy morning brew. Pretty neutral (politically speaking) when it comes news and keeps me informed without aiming to trigger fears/anxieties
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by _benj 5y ago
I second “The Art of Electronics”! It packed to the brim with usable circuits, you can feel the excitement of the authors sharing a material that they are deeply passionate and excited about! And what I like the most out of it is how they w
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by _benj 5y ago
I’m noticing that! It seems to that instead of straight up hate, curiosity and exploring might yield better results… but seems like this is the wrong forum for that
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by _benj 5y ago
Idk why this is being so downvoted but how open the crypto ecosystem is, how much access to data, how DIY it is… to me it looks like open source financials vs proprietary government issued money. I think we have challenges with its exorbita
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by _benj 5y ago
I’ve been considering quant for a while too. What you mention about latency sounds like HFT, market making strategies? Instead of that I’ve been looking into momentum and mean reverting stuff, and my best friend being a profitable trader gi
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by _benj 5y ago
I'm originally from the Caribbean so I don't think I'm the best judge of that :-) I kind of enjoyed summers there. Everything was green and lush!
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by _benj 5y ago
I lived for a while in Chattanooga and really really liked it! It’s a bit of an up and coming city but with a 10 drive you are already in the midst of nature, mountains, rivers, etc. When I lived there there was a creek right behind my apar
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by _benj 5y ago
In spite of your comments about Apple, I’d still recommend a MacBook. The top reason is that it just works, day in and day out. I love Linux and run it in everything that is not work related, but for work I need a machine that behaves exac
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by _benj 5y ago
We use SNMP to control industrial power distribtion units. It might not be the best solution but the alternative of implementing multiple http interfaces depending on the vendor (been there, done that, pretty sucky) it worse. With a good IT
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by _benj 5y ago
so that's how `wget -c` works! the more you know :)
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I used a lot of download managers and accelerators back in the dial-up times, they seemed like magic to me, plus being able to resume a download after somebody picked up the phone and dropped my internet connection was a plus! How is it tha
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by _benj 5y ago
I’ve spent way too much time “learning” emacs! lol A better option would be to define your goal with emacs and then learn that. I use it for plaintext finances and learned enough lisp to get it working the way I like it and it’s been an ama
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by _benj 5y ago
Remind me of a random idea from heard somewhere: I’m not crazy because crazy people don’t think they are crazy… Loved what the author mentioned about how not being an imposter can be verified. Have you produced something that solves a custo
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by _benj 5y ago
Great suggestions here. I’d add to understand the problem that you are trying to solve. I often thought that my inadequacy at a previous company had to do with lack of technical knowledge, and even though that was true I was not familiar at
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Usually no. There are situations in which I want to understand better how something is working or if an edge case was taken into account, or if I want to suggest a change and I wanna check my suggestion against the code first. In those case
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The slight challenge for me was seeing the words, because french words don't sound like one would think! But after getting a few rules in my mind like "oi" sounds like "wah" in english and the ending of the french w
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by _benj 5y ago
I came across the Michel Thomas Method[0] on some comments here some time ago, and I've been thoroughly enjoying it! When I first started learning French I took a "school" approach to it, get a dedicated notebook, buy books,

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