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New comment by klekticist in "Ask HN: How do you fall asleep?"

klekticist — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 19:59:08 +0000

What sort of functional programming problems?

New comment by klekticist in "Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market"

klekticist — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 19:53:25 +0000

ricoh gr3 or ricoh gr3x are also pretty popular x100v alternatives (though they're a bit different)

i have a x100v and like it a lot. have shot over 9000 photos so far with it

New comment by klekticist in "A statically typed scripting language that transpiles to Posix sh"

klekticist — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:09:14 +0000

I agree with your point here, though imo it's worth drawing a distinction between the FP concepts the language designers / implementors must understand and the FP concepts the language users must understand.

Ideally languages prevent bug classes like null deref, use after free while still being familiar enough for most programmers to use.

It's analogous to the spectrum of SQL knowledge folks have. For instance knowing what a group by does vs how a group by reshuffles data on a single node / across nodes. Ideally the language design hides the hard details.

A very tall order admittedly.

New comment by klekticist in "The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention"

klekticist — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 22:39:05 +0000

You may find this useful: https://www.supermemo.com/help/read.htm.

I will say, though I use SRS every day for language learning, I haven't done any incremental reading.

If I'm reading nonfiction and run across a fact I really want to remember, I usually just make a flashcard for it.

New comment by klekticist in "Math ∩ Programming"

klekticist — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:07:12 +0000

List of ideas:

* I'd agree that first and foremost, I'd change the line width. I've always found the blog a bit difficult to read on the site because of the number of words per line. The site seems to be responsive - maybe just change the width of the articles?

* It might be worth having the landing page have something other than "featured articles" right at the top. Since the content of your site is so diverse, it might help to have some pointers as to how to navigate the site up front.

* On the navigation sidebar, maybe have a "New Here?" or a "Getting Started" link.

Just some ideas. I've been reading your blog for many years, btw. It even inspired me to start my own!

New comment by klekticist in "Project Euler Humble Return"

klekticist — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 23:10:04 +0000

Despite the whole situation being rather embarrassing, it seems like they're handling this quite well. Whitehat to the rescue!

New comment by klekticist in "Open-sourcing my new blogging engine implementation"

klekticist — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 01:31:09 +0000

I like this. Very cool :)

New comment by klekticist in "Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away"

klekticist — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 01:53:20 +0000

Is there any alternative API? That is, if I'm interested in creating something that interacts with Facebook chat, am I now out of luck?

Thanks.