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by juanre 7y ago
Thanks! Yes, I do make a living. My other site, https://greaterskies.com/ , supports my family and two employees.
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by juanre 7y ago
Reading PG's ANSI Common Lisp was a pivotal event on my career as a programmer. I wrote a high-resolution star map generation tool in CL about 14 years ago, and have been working on it and selling the maps it produces for many years. N
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Show HN: A star map creation tool with Common Lisp(thestarmaps.com)
138 points by juanre 7y ago|63 comments
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2019 calendar with a high-res map of the stars as seen from your place(greaterskies.com)
1 points by juanre 8y ago|0 comments
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by juanre 9y ago
When he was in Cambridge, where I am based, it was common to see him around. Not long ago I was at a conference on the rise of fundamentalisms, and he was 5m from me. I found it incredibly inspiring that he'd be there, obviously enga
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The sky as it was when Stephen Hawking was born(greaterskies.com)
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by juanre 9y ago
I switched back to mutt 5 months ago, when my startup started to grow fast and I needed a sensible way to deal with lots of email in multiple accounts. I haven't looked back. I still have gmail as a back-end, but I use mbsync to keep
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by juanre 10y ago
I wrote in Common Lisp the star map generation software at the core of my startup, http://greaterskies.com , and could not be happier. But now that it's getting off the ground I wonder whether it may adversely impact my cha
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by juanre 10y ago
Indeed. Pascal with WordStar on CP/M, running in my father's Osborne 1.
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by juanre 10y ago
http://greaterskies.com , back in 2011 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3066684 ), personalized high-resolution maps of the sky as seen from a place and at a time. Amazing how time passes. It's been mor
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by juanre 10y ago
I would like to attain some decent level of privacy, but my searches on how to go about it yield a large amount of conflicting information (which I suspect is there on purpose.) Is there a sensible guide out there that some of the experts
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by juanre 11y ago
I use org-drill, the spaced-repetition tools for org-mode, http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-drill.html Combined with org-capture templates is a great tool. Several commenters are saying that it does not mak
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by juanre 11y ago
Don't miss Harari's "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind". He talks quite a bit about Göbeklitepe, and explains some fascinating hypotheses about it and about its possible role in sparking the agricultural revolution.
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by juanre 12y ago
Completely agree. I shoot B&W film as well, and I enjoy the whole process: from the manipulation of my old Voigtländer, to the smell of the chemicals, the image appearing on the paper, and the prints I end up with. Which is not to say
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by juanre 12y ago
Here's a wonderful description by Henry Poincaré (Science et Méthode, 1908) of how mathematics can indeed be done by parts of your brain you are not aware of: "À ce moment, je quittai Caen, où j'habitais alors, pour prendre p
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by juanre 12y ago
I build and sell high-resolution posters of the sky at http://greaterskies.com I've been at it for some years now, and it's been featured here a couple of times. The backend (astronomical computations and generation of
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by juanre 12y ago
Barcelona, with teams in Palo Alto and San Diego.
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by juanre 12y ago
I am working on this product. It really is awesome: the level of excitement among the engineers reminds me of the HP of 15 years ago. And I completely agree with your assessment. Figuring out the right workflow is going to be the corners
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by juanre 12y ago
Of course!
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by juanre 12y ago
Contact me if you want me to show his CV around HP's lab in Barcelona. Hope it works out well for him!
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by juanre 12y ago
I completely agree. The only beginners I have taught were my sons ---I wrote what I thought were the basics for them in a book, The Hackers Ways [1]--- but P. Guo's articles very much resonate with me as well. Helping them see that t
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by juanre 12y ago
I've often had the impression that mastery of command line tools is seen by some as a rite of passage. Looking at many of the comments elicited by this article certainly makes me think so. I don't think he is trying to belittle c
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by juanre 12y ago
Alan Watts' The Way of Zen[1] is a great, rather iconoclastic, introduction to Zen and one if his best works. Another wonderful read is D.T. Suzuki's Zen and Japanese Culture[2]. And R.H. Blyth's Zen in English Literature a
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by juanre 12y ago
For those of you using Emacs and org-mode org-drill is a great option, http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-drill.html
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by juanre 12y ago
Only tangentially related: if you like cooking and understanding what you do, Jeff Potter's Cooking for Geeks is a wonderful book. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596805890.do
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by juanre 12y ago
I took a class from Stanford with this name many years ago and it was an eye-opener. Bracewell's book of the same name is wonderful as well ( http://www.amazon.com/Fourier-Transform-Its-Applications/dp/... ).
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by juanre 12y ago
I wholeheartedly agree that it's a good investment to spend time learning your way around the shell. And I've been quite successfully proselytizing it at home: the terminal and the UNIX toolset has been part of my sons' intr
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by juanre 12y ago
I tend to use "cd -" instead, which goes to the previous directory. Coupled with searching the command line history (C-r in the default emacs-like mode of bash, ESC-/ if you have set vi-like mode with "set -o vi") y
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by juanre 12y ago
Would you mind contacting me by mail? I'd rather do this privately.
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by juanre 12y ago
Correct. Thank you very much. Fixed.

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