Hacker News: jonalmeida

New comment by jonalmeida in "Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?"

jonalmeida — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 02:38:20 +0000

+1 for Typora. I've been using it for maybe 5 years (it feels like that at least) and it hasn't let me down.

Like others, I have single file and a section for each week containing all my tasks. Then I move the unfinished ones down to the next week at the end.

It's easy to sync those files in git of course.

Mozilla launches Reference Browser for Android, a testing bed for new features

jonalmeida — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:29:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-launches-reference-browser-for-android-a-testing-bed-for-new-features

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19054855

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jonalmeida in "Why I never finish my Haskell programs"

jonalmeida — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 21:07:04 +0000

I think there's an error in the first example.

  Poly [1, -3, 0, 1]

Should be:

  Poly [1, 0, -3, 1]

EDIT: My mistake.

Learning Erlang as an Experienced Developer

jonalmeida — Fri, 04 May 2018 22:44:12 +0000

Article URL: https://jonalmeida.com/posts/2018/05/01/erlang/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16999034

Points: 59

# Comments: 6

New comment by jonalmeida in "Tail calls, tailrec and trampolines (2009)"

jonalmeida — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 12:49:07 +0000

I'd say the full quote to be, "Luckily, even without JVM support, the Scala compiler can perform tail-call optimisation in some cases. The compiler looks for certain types of tail calls and translates them automatically into loops."

This wouldn't be actual TCO in that case.

New comment by jonalmeida in "Concurrency I can finally understand and write correctly"

jonalmeida — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:56:39 +0000

If anyone is looking for another language that also uses the actor model for concurrency and has very similar ways of handling it like D, then checkout Erlang. It's language lessons are clearly still relevant today. :)

New comment by jonalmeida in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)"

jonalmeida — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:56:51 +0000

Jet.com | Senior Android Developer | Hoboken, NJ | FULL-TIME ONSITE VISA

We're an e-commerce company built mostly on F# that's a few steps away from Manhattan and we're looking to hire a senior android developer for our small (but growing) team. We are also the #1 rated e-commerce app on the Play Store!

Requirements

- Expert level knowledge of Java, Android SDK and Gradle.

- Experience working with Reactive framework (RxJava, RxAndroid) and dependency injection (Dagger)

- Kotlin experience is a plus, but not required.

Benefits

- Unlimited vacation

- Flexible hours / working from home

- Plenty of growth opportunities - conferences, mentorship/working in other teams for a few sprints, etc.

More details in our FAQs: https://careers.jet.com/faqs

Apply here or message me (see HN profile) if you want more details: http://grnh.se/ats3n11

New comment by jonalmeida in "Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases"

jonalmeida — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:42:24 +0000

If you come up with a nice high res screen grab for your print, could you please share it here? Might want to use it for a wallpaper background.

New comment by jonalmeida in "Tree Style Tabs Extension Ported to Firefox 57"

jonalmeida — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 22:22:02 +0000

The developer had put out a note saying that Tab Groups won't be suppressed by WebExtensions, and the work in order to do a partial port isn't worth their time.

New comment by jonalmeida in "China's new submarine engine"

jonalmeida — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 19:59:30 +0000

Silly question, what other applications would work for rim-driven turbines work? The naive side of me wants to see how it would work on a plane.

New comment by jonalmeida in "Erlang and First-Person Shooters (2011) [pdf]"

jonalmeida — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 20:09:30 +0000

Since some people were asking on how to get started with Erlang, some time ago this MOOC was posted on HN for an intro to learning Erlang/functional programming.

What I liked about it is that it assumes you have an imperative programming background so it isn't entirely like learning at a very slow pace (which leads me to lose interest): https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/functional-programming-e...

The next course after this is on the concurrency part of Erlang which is also on FutureLearn that I'm currently taking. It has video clips from Joe Armstrong teaching concurrency (one of the creators of the language).

New comment by jonalmeida in "Ask HN: Other communities like HN?"

jonalmeida — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 04:24:41 +0000

Sent.

New comment by jonalmeida in "Show HN: Send a Custom Postcard to Anywhere, from Your Phone, for $2.99"

jonalmeida — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 20:23:04 +0000

This isn't a new Show HN since you've posted this before[1] with the domain postacard.io. What's changed since then?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12427505

New comment by jonalmeida in "Show HN: CakeResume – Drag and drop resume snippets to build a unique resume"

jonalmeida — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:19:12 +0000

> In our job application frontend we don't even require logins or passwords. Only after you have finished your application and confirmed the privacy agreement we send an email with a confirmation link, only then you can add a password to follow the progress of the application, but even that is optional.

I noticed smartrecruiters.com follow this format and it was such a pleasant experience using it.

New comment by jonalmeida in "Show HN: CakeResume – Drag and drop resume snippets to build a unique resume"

jonalmeida — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:08:11 +0000

In some countries a photo is required, so it's nice that they've included the option.

New comment by jonalmeida in "Ask HN: Any good resources for finding software jobs abroad?"

jonalmeida — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:12:04 +0000

Fair point. I inferred OP was in the US, considering the US election that just ended and people were jokingly talking about leaving the country[1] to other places.

[1]: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-s-immigration-website-cr...

New comment by jonalmeida in "Ask HN: Any good resources for finding software jobs abroad?"

jonalmeida — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 16:19:08 +0000

OP specifically said it was a serious question, so this comes off as patronising..

New comment by jonalmeida in "Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase"

jonalmeida — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:37:32 +0000

I've found some flights to be $100 more on Google Flights than if I went to the airline website itself and booked a flight straight from their website, so you aren't far out there.

New comment by jonalmeida in "GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable"

jonalmeida — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:58:45 +0000

I received this email as well and a friend recommended I donate the server uptime to boinc[1] which can make better use of it than trying to find something to use it on.

[1]: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

New comment by jonalmeida in "WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People"

jonalmeida — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 15:56:29 +0000

I'd like to know how backing up data on Google Drive will be done now. Does it remain encrypted, so that when you re-import it to your phone only then it'll be readable?