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New comment by jonsagara in "Full Text Search of US Court records"

jonsagara — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 05:48:51 +0000

Searching up family members is a dangerous game to play on a Friday night

New comment by jonsagara in "Why F#?"

jonsagara — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:36:51 +0000

The killer feature for me is type providers. I need to read a lot of CSV files of varying formats, and the CSV Type Provider lets me make quick work of them in a type-safe manner.

https://fsprojects.github.io/FSharp.Data/library/CsvProvider...

New comment by jonsagara in "Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?"

jonsagara — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:55:49 +0000

Here's a blog post that is tracking issues:

https://codeofmatt.com/list-of-2024-leap-day-bugs/

New comment by jonsagara in "Phoenix 1.7 for Elixir: Edit a Form in a Modal"

jonsagara — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:59:02 +0000

"Line of Business"

New comment by jonsagara in "Apple HomePod 2nd Generation"

jonsagara — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:30:37 +0000

Same. We use it all the time. It's incredibly useful.

New comment by jonsagara in "Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?"

jonsagara — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 13:43:08 +0000

Yes, with Feedly. It's how I keep track of my favorite blogs and YouTube channels.

New comment by jonsagara in "Copilot is closing"

jonsagara — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 15:49:12 +0000

> I wonder if any Wasabi transpiler code is still out in the wild.

It is. I still have a FogBugz account, and I saw a Wasabi stack trace in my admin notifications the other day.

New comment by jonsagara in "Walkman Archive"

jonsagara — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 04:30:30 +0000

New comment by jonsagara in "Crafting Interpreters"

jonsagara — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 14:18:47 +0000

> Does anyone else have any recommendationed reading for someone like me?

Writing an Interpreter in Go (https://interpreterbook.com/)

It's a very approachable introduction to lexing and parsing using nothing but Go and its standard library.

New comment by jonsagara in "Programming Notes for Professionals books"

jonsagara — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:19:01 +0000

From the bottom of http://books.goalkicker.com/DotNETFrameworkBook/ :

"The .NET Framework Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow. Text content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA. See credits at the end of this book whom contributed to the various chapters. Images may be copyright of their respective owners unless otherwise specified

Book created for educational purposes and is not affiliated with .NET Framework group(s), company(s) nor Stack Overflow. All trademarks belong to their respective company owners"

New comment by jonsagara in "Ask HN: What software/service helps you be an effective remote developer?"

jonsagara — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 07:45:51 +0000

Zoom for screen sharing and conference calls. It's incredible.

https://zoom.us

New comment by jonsagara in "Why Don't We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor? (2014)"

jonsagara — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:09:40 +0000

I'll second LO2. I use it to keep notes of what I do every day.

New comment by jonsagara in "Show HN: My NBA + Twitter mashup"

jonsagara — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:55:20 +0000

Lifelong Kings fan here. Nice work!

New comment by jonsagara in "[dead]"

jonsagara — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:36:04 +0000

I like turtles.

New comment by jonsagara in "How do you track and decide what topics you want to spend time learning?"

jonsagara — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:14:41 +0000

I have been using Trello since it launched. It works great for managing my reading list.

New comment by jonsagara in "How to impress Joel Spolsky"

jonsagara — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:25:57 +0000

On a related note: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-12-11/