_benj

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   by _benj 5y ago

   I’m also quite interested in what brings you to HN. Don’t get me wrong, welcome! But it’s quite interesting seeing somebody here that is not the stereotypical tech/business/startup type
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   by _benj 5y ago

   Thanks for pointing out Fennel! every since I learned a little of elisp I really enjoyed the experience but common lisp seems like a beast to big to take on, clojure run on java and tbh I'm prejudiced against it... but fennel is just a
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   by _benj 5y ago

   I’d say cautiously maybe. Using lua to me seems like it could open doors for neovim that before we’re either not possible or very complicated to do with vimscript. Neovim doesn’t have such incredible and almost ridiculous power to change it
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   by _benj 5y ago

   For me it was the lua config file. Now tweaking vim to the behavior I want is no longer learning an obscure language but figuring out what is the behavior I want and coding that using lua and the vim api. With the lua language server vim’s
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   by _benj 5y ago

   Tbh, that’s how I call it but it’s just having incremental search enabled. That will highlight search/replace matches and the using s/<thing to search for>/<thing to replace it with> That allows me to see what my
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   by _benj 5y ago

   For those out there trying to "learn" vim, give neovim 0.5 a try! I've been using neovim HEAD (0.5 pre-release) for a while and it has been awesome. It all started with this config [0] and from there and haven't tried (a
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   by _benj 5y ago

   I just made an account with neeva and it seems likt they have their own browser for iOS, quiet likely just a thing wrapper around safari but with their search engine integrated. It seems to me that if neeva just had an open url to do search
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   by _benj 5y ago

   I honestly was expecting more "innovation", more daring decisions and deep convictions that "this new way", even though it might get some backlash, will prove to improve the wellbeing of it's users, even if they don
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   by _benj 5y ago

   OP Here: I wanted to write a simple text-based interface to track the my groceries. Early on I decided that I wanted to use Lua to write the program and thus started using LuaJIT amazing ffi to call ncurses functions to display what I wante
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    Show HN: A Simple TUI Tool(github.com)

    4 points by _benj 5y ago|1 comments
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    by _benj 5y ago

    For work projects, absolutely. It would be and easier sell to a tech/product manager if there's some credibility behind the boiler plate (who's using it, last update, github stars...) For personal project, I wouldn't fin
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    by _benj 5y ago

    I've also been trying to learn system programming for a while and what did the trick for me was finding a way to use the C interfaces that UNIX provides. I've tried to learn C probably 4 times now and I just don't like it. Bu
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    by _benj 5y ago

    Working on a tool to track my groceries and create grocery lists for shopping. It uses a receipt printer to print the groceries and I’m learning ziglang and SDL while making it :)
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    by _benj 5y ago

    Honestly I love that our company has giphy on slack and I use it quite frequently. There are other productive tools like the integration with google calendar to know when somebody is on a meeting or zoom to quickly start a zoom call, but gi
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    by _benj 5y ago

    I think it really depends on the project. If it’s a project for work it often has a deadline and thus saving all the time I can by using boilerplates or anything else is usually the way to go. When is a project for myself I’m personally mor
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    by _benj 5y ago

    I’ve been lucky enough to have a manager that doesn’t care at all about about how much time I’m working, as long as I’m consistently delivering what’s expected of me. This has allowed me to optimize my day and at the end I end up working ab
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    by _benj 5y ago

    Wow, this game is beautiful! Has a monument valley feel to it in the music and the art. I wonder what technologies where used to make this, the seamless transition between the cut scene at the beginning and the game. But it's definitiv
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    by _benj 5y ago

    > Giving a professional tool to someone doesn’t make them a professional. Exactly! Two things come to mind: Anecdotally and from experience, low-code tools are just another tool that developers build to make their life easier. And someth
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    by _benj 5y ago

    I'm also learning curses but went the LuaJIT ffi way and it's been a blast! LuaJIT ffi allows me to load the ncurses shared library and use straight C to call whatever ncurses functions I want, or write light lua wrappers. I'
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    by _benj 5y ago

    why use OS-provided functionality when you can write you own? :P
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    by _benj 5y ago

    While I completely relate to the sentiment and, I'd say, similar to the usual HN crowd find products to be a goal, I've personally lost complete interest and even develop resentment/hate toward personal projects the moment I
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    by _benj 5y ago

    I was lucky enough to be homeschooled (semi-properly) and thus avoided some of the terrible learning habits of traditional education. Curiosity was encouraged and the curriculum, specially during early education (i.e. before I had to pass S
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    by _benj 5y ago

    Thanks for sharing Michel Thomas languages. Not too long ago I wanted to learn French and instinctively as well as aided by everything else I saw I took an academic approach, notebook, vocabulary list, repetition and whatnot, in short I rec
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    by _benj 5y ago

    > One of my perennial frustrations with current tech is the idea that putting a computer in the control loop necessarily makes things safer. I completely agree with you! A simple electronic component is a lot more fragile that a mechanic
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    by _benj 5y ago

    This makes me think of aeronautical industry. It is possible to get a J-3 Cub with just a stick that pulls on the control surfaces or it is possible to get a Cessna private jet with thousands (if not millions) of lines of code in it. They a
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    by _benj 5y ago

    I have a more optimist view about the industry being able to cope just because we have two more industries that have gone the same transitions, aeronautical and aerospace. Back in the day airplanes where just knobs and levers, and we didn&#
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    by _benj 5y ago

    Thanks! I think that at the end of the day it comes down to being raw and completely honest with oneself. Most of us have the huge privilege of having a say in where our lives are going and my fear is that we entrepreneur tend (or have?) to
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    by _benj 5y ago

    Please take with a huge amount of salt as it a only describes my personal experience and is more of an anecdote than an advice :) Last year I was a cofounder of an AI/software company and after a year I was starting to be burned out. I
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    by _benj 5y ago

    Those HOWTOs where what started me on Linux back in Slackware time when I’d order CDs of it because downloading those ISO with dialup was almost impossible. Good times!
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    by _benj 6y ago

    I love the 4 years with 3.5 of research! Apart from the terrible timing with cost of materials and such, do you think it'd still be easier to build and to buy? Looking at the article it seems like on of the issues for the housing crisi