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New comment by TurboHaskal in "Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links"

TurboHaskal — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:23:32 +0000

It also makes you bitter, at least in my experience.

New comment by TurboHaskal in "SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp (2008) [pdf]"

TurboHaskal — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:08:45 +0000

And arena support, and a parallel GC... there's always something exciting and promising coming up.

The proprietary implementations are also quite good.

New comment by TurboHaskal in "AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is"

TurboHaskal — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:24:49 +0000

I was going to say the same. In my experience I can say without hesitation green field projects is how you advance your career, become visible and get promoted.

New comment by TurboHaskal in "Vibe engineering"

TurboHaskal — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 09:09:38 +0000

You say this because you are on HN, very senior and/or living in a bubble.

In the vast majority of programming jobs out there you are not paid to solve problems: you are told very clearly what to do, how to do it and what technology you have to use for the job.

People don't hire analysts they hire "Java programmers".

New comment by TurboHaskal in "Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out"

TurboHaskal — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:53:41 +0000

Or, you could have been suddenly cheated on and exposed, or divorced and recently entered the dating market, or thinking about opening up your relationship after decades of monogamy.

New comment by TurboHaskal in "Seed7 – Extensible Programming Language"

TurboHaskal — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 06:23:59 +0000

Sure. But if they are first class and you have a mechanism to assign them to variables then there is no need for syntax sugar.

New comment by TurboHaskal in "Notes on Graham's ANSI Common Lisp (2024)"

TurboHaskal — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:02:50 +0000

It's funny how I started this way as well, and a decade later my Common Lisp code couldn't be more procedural and CLOS and LOOP heavy.

New comment by TurboHaskal in "Dull Men’s Club"

TurboHaskal — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:14:11 +0000

Maybe this is just me and my experiences but when I encounter people in the wild that seem dull I often assume they just have fringe interests that are kinda problematic to share with regular people they haven't built rapport with yet.

Like they're probably into something weird or niche that doesn't translate well in casual conversation so they just keep it surface level until they figure out if you're their type of person.

New comment by TurboHaskal in "Lisp-stat: Lisp environment for statistical computing"

TurboHaskal — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 07:24:24 +0000

Yeah I don't get it either. Lisp is perfectly fine for this task although probably makes less sense now that Julia is a thing.

Reminder that before Python was used for data science, people used things like BioPerl and PDL and that didn't stop people from working on pandas and the like.

Also let people have fun.

New comment by TurboHaskal in "Simpler Backoff"

TurboHaskal — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 07:18:53 +0000

I am afraid it is a serious argument.

If you ever feel the need to write code like that lookup table, you are working on the wrong place and you have a hiring problem.

New comment by TurboHaskal in "I stopped everything and started writing C again"

TurboHaskal — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:27:56 +0000

This reads like a cautionary tale about getting nerdsniped, without a happy ending.

New comment by TurboHaskal in "A Performance Comparison of Modern Garbage Collectors (2021) [pdf]"

TurboHaskal — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:33:04 +0000

He probably means Allegro CL which is in my experience the best one.

All the OS Lisp GCs are stuck in the 80s and honestly not very good. The one in LispWorks is pretty good though but I wouldn’t call it state of the art. It just works.

New comment by TurboHaskal in "Fun with Go Iterators"

TurboHaskal — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 07:56:42 +0000

Life without REPLs.

Cosmic Trader: A Game Built with Xojo Web

TurboHaskal — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:13:44 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.xojo.com/2024/09/17/cosmic-trader-a-game-built-with-xojo-web/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41572805

Points: 3

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New comment by TurboHaskal in "Premature Abstraction"

TurboHaskal — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:26:34 +0000

It seems to me the author just wants multiple dispatch.

New comment by TurboHaskal in "Garbage Collectors Are Scary"

TurboHaskal — Sun, 12 May 2024 12:35:07 +0000

I don’t fear Java as much as I fear its acolytes.

New comment by TurboHaskal in "How I listen to music"

TurboHaskal — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 10:12:48 +0000

I have found that my consumption of rock is mostly tied to my cortisol levels.

To some degree, one could say that rock / metal is a degeneration of Bach's music (and that's what makes it great).

New comment by TurboHaskal in "If architects had to work like programmers (1995)"

TurboHaskal — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:28:27 +0000

Left an otherwise good job because of this.

I am done with it.

For the next job I take, I will demand to be present in the daily meeting to see how it looks like. Ideally, there isn't one.

New comment by TurboHaskal in "Orthic Shorthand – Write as fast as you type"

TurboHaskal — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:46:23 +0000

Ah, finally I will be able to understand my doctor's handwriting.

New comment by TurboHaskal in "Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity"

TurboHaskal — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 19:16:51 +0000

I inherited some piece of code that made use of an extremely long and complicated jq script.

I simply gave up understanding the whole thing, and restored the balance in the universe by rewriting it in Perl.