Hacker News: anjakefala

New comment by anjakefala in "The Lost Art of Logarithms"

anjakefala — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:45:49 +0000

I think the argument is that for non-scientific usecases, folks don't really need to think about error or significant digits. By focusing on the significand too much laypeople aren't grasping how large and small these numbers are relative to each other.

It's not being put forward as a recommended tool for scientists when reasoning about precise values. It's put forward for laypeople when trying to understand the vastness of the universe.

New comment by anjakefala in "Ask HN: Are there any websites for SQL puzzle games?"

anjakefala — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:21:45 +0000

If you subscribe to the newletter here: https://hanukkah.bluebird.sh/about/ =) You'll here about our next datagame.

New comment by anjakefala in "Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles"

anjakefala — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 06:17:14 +0000

Click on the candles to see the puzzle! Start with the 0th candle in the centre. =)

New comment by anjakefala in "Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles"

anjakefala — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 23:16:56 +0000

Yes, exactly! A new puzzle will be released at 4pm UTC each day.

Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles

anjakefala — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:09:07 +0000

Article URL: https://hanukkah.bluebird.sh/5784/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559655

Points: 199

# Comments: 32

New comment by anjakefala in "Show HN: USV = Unicode Separated Values"

anjakefala — Sat, 14 May 2022 19:16:09 +0000

Would you be open to filing an issue with these details? https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/issues/new?assignees=&lab...

We do not have anyone who is deeply familiar with USV spec details on the team, and could use your help to understand what needs to be fixed.

New comment by anjakefala in "The Many Faces of a 10x Software Engineer"

anjakefala — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 03:21:26 +0000

> For example, some apparently 10x engineers were only so because they were allowed to only work on interesting, relatively easy early stage work. The difficult, fiddly work of mopping up the awkward corners was left to other engineers, who were considered 'slow'.

I am someone who loves mopping up the awkward corner cases. For me, this is the most fun part of coding. I think the early design and infrastructure work is actually pretty challenging work. The decisions made at this stage pay dividends later on, in ease of debugging, api goodness, future expendability, etc. I prefer collaborating with senior engineers who are strong and relatively fast with that, and then I help clean-up to facilitate their speed. If everyone is on-board, I am not sure what is wrong with this arrangement.

New comment by anjakefala in "Ask HN: What was that texted based CSV data analysis tool?"

anjakefala — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:14:29 +0000

I recommend this tutorial! =) https://jsvine.github.io/intro-to-visidata/the-big-picture/v...

New comment by anjakefala in "Rich Tables in the Terminal"

anjakefala — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 23:10:55 +0000

Do you have a link to the tool you built with vdtui? =)

New comment by anjakefala in "Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online"

anjakefala — Wed, 27 May 2020 21:11:01 +0000

They substituted veggie soup cubes with chicken ones.

I am a vegetarian. :/

New comment by anjakefala in "How many users block Google analytics? (2017)"

anjakefala — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 07:33:21 +0000

++ for checking that you were using the correct pronoun for the author!

It’s not overreacting to prepare for coronavirus. Here’s how

anjakefala — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 23:45:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/28/21156128/coronavirus-prepare-outbreak-covid19-health

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22447490

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by anjakefala in "Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects"

anjakefala — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:49:59 +0000

We would also welcome you with open arms at https://github.com/saulpw/visidata =) Send us an email, or join us on freenode, twitter, etc, if you want to help out! I would love to onboard you.

Why Media Lab thought it was doing right by secretly accepting Epstein’s money

anjakefala — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 23:28:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/11/20860717/mit-media-lab-joi-ito-epstein

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20945880

Points: 70

# Comments: 67

All the concepts a non-degree dev learned at each stage of their career

anjakefala — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:04:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.taniarascia.com/everything-i-know-as-a-software-developer-without-a-degree/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20446437

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by anjakefala in "VisiCalc's Spreadsheets Changed the World"

anjakefala — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 02:50:55 +0000

If you pipe your output into VisiData[1], it will structure fixed width text for you into a tabular form. =)

Just type `blah | vd -f fixed`

[1] http://visidata.org/

New comment by anjakefala in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2019)"

anjakefala — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 18:03:17 +0000

  Location preference: Vancouver, Canada 
  Remote: Open to
  Willing to relocate: To the US
  Technologies: Python, Bash, R, statistics, strong linux foundation, some exposure to AWS, experience with medical imaging technology and protocols - interested in devops/sre
  Résumé/CV: http://anja.kefala.info/resume.pdf
  Email: anja.kefala@gmail.com

New comment by anjakefala in "Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?"

anjakefala — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 04:43:24 +0000

Open-source tool for quickly opening and exploring tabular data: https://jsvine.github.io/intro-to-visidata/index.html

(Disclaimer: I build homebrew, apt, etc packages for VisiData.)

New comment by anjakefala in "Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983"

anjakefala — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 17:38:29 +0000

I feel like this is the core of how "Open Software" is aiming to combat this. By removing the consumer-driven model away from software and putting users in closer touch with developers, we are supposedly developing tools together that better fit our needs. Though, OSS arguably is struggling to meet this theoretical ideal, especially with the current lack of support most OSS devs have.

My life improved considerably when I switched from Sublime to vim, Excel to VisiData, Word to LaTeX (though, I am unsure if LaTeX is completely OSS), etc. I invested the time in learning the language of the tool, but it pays off in droves.

New comment by anjakefala in "Connecting to Google Sheets with Python"

anjakefala — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 02:04:42 +0000

I found this to be a very clear and well-structured post. I was not surprised to read that the author is a historian. I especially liked the detail in their process where they automatically update the communal sheet to indicate that the data has already been processed.