Hacker News: kras143

New comment by kras143 in "Why Fennel?"

kras143 — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 22:48:33 +0000

I believe that people who complain about parens have not coded in Lisp (atleast not enough)! Once you get over the "parens", the homogeneity of the language shines through and you will appreciate why some people like me never get over Lisp.

New comment by kras143 in "Tcl Tutorial"

kras143 — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 23:15:38 +0000

Tcl offers a unique combination of embeddability and power, often underappreciated outside specific domains. While its general-purpose usage might be less prominent, its dominance in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is undeniable.

New comment by kras143 in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"

kras143 — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:00:57 +0000

The more I tried to control and organize my life, the more stressed I became. Digitizing and organizing my knowledge base, in particular, wasted countless precious hours. Recently, I decided to let go of that rigid structure and instead focus on naturally prioritizing the most important tasks for the day, week, and month. So far, this approach has been working well, or at least it feels like it is.

New comment by kras143 in "Tcl 9.0"

kras143 — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 04:44:16 +0000

In the realm of Electronic Design Automation (EDA), TCL is ubiquitous. Virtually every EDA tool offers a TCL interface or API, making it the predominant language for tool configuration. I've always wondered why TCL hasn't gained traction in other domains. It possesses the elegance of Lisp while maintaining practicality.

Ask HN: Stock Portfolio and Recommendations in 2024

kras143 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 19:29:57 +0000

Happy new year everyone!

I was wondering what kind of financial or stock recommendation service you guys are using and how it’s working out for you guys so for?

I don’t have the necessary knowledge to analyze and pick stocks for myself. And I am also not looking for a wealth management service.

A few of the services I was considering

https://seekingalpha.com https://www.fool.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38904340

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New comment by kras143 in "Pixel 8 Pro"

kras143 — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 21:33:42 +0000

Check this out https://murena.com/america/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena...

New comment by kras143 in "The beginner's guide to overcomplicating coffee"

kras143 — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 23:36:09 +0000

Where do you buy the Indian coffee?

New comment by kras143 in "Why 'Atomic Habits' may not be working for you"

kras143 — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 06:12:49 +0000

So much of what you said resonated with me. I did try meditation, and it was very helpful. Many have the opinion that meditation is something mysterious and that it is hard to get what it means, but IMO, they should keep trying. Like any muscle, our brain needs training. Once you start seeing that you have control over your thoughts, I think you will "get it."

New comment by kras143 in "Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over a year"

kras143 — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:04:41 +0000

I understand your sentiment! Do you have any references or stories to share which show WITCH companies in a good light?

New comment by kras143 in "Tactical Combat Umbrella"

kras143 — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 05:57:17 +0000

Why would I carry an umbrella on sunny days? And how is this on front page?

New comment by kras143 in "Writing English as a Second Language (2009)"

kras143 — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 06:06:49 +0000

English is my third language. Keeping sentences short and simple helped me read and write better. It also makes revising my own notes easier.

New comment by kras143 in "Rust Foundation: Hello, World"

kras143 — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 19:43:33 +0000

Assuming most people do not know is also a "bubble" perspective. We don't know what "most" people know about their time zones. Most countries in Asia have only one timezone.

source: https://www.timetemperature.com/asia/asia_time_zones.shtml

It is easier for them to relate to GMT in my opinion.

New comment by kras143 in "State of the Common Lisp ecosystem, 2020"

kras143 — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 17:26:02 +0000

The best progamming book I have read so far is "On Lisp". Reading that book and coding Lisp for sometime was the best time I spent programming. Unfortunately, the whole thing was purely academic.

Thanks for the effort and the information you put together.

New comment by kras143 in "How to Win at the Stock Market by Being Lazy"

kras143 — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:59:37 +0000

As a civilization it is better for 95% of the people to think that holding stocks for long term is better. We leave the milking to the top 5%, and we enjoy peace of mind.

New comment by kras143 in "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Typing for Practical Programs"

kras143 — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 06:33:40 +0000

My personal experience with a large project which I started in Python and later moved to Haskell: I did indeed get things done quickly in Python and had majority of the problem solved. Then I had few nasty bugs which made me change/refactor the code and thats where my problem started. I quickly realized refactoring a huge codebase in Python was really difficult. Maybe there is a better way to organize my python code, I do not know. Then I moved to Haskell (partly because of the excellent Parsec library which made things very simpler compared to the yacc style PLY I was using in Python). Initially, the fix-compile-execute cycle was really painful, but I soon realized how I could figure out some functional bugs (not type bugs) just by reasoning about the types. The compiler too helped in some cases with valid type conversion errors. I would have caught such issues in python only if I had a very large test suite which covers this corner case. Nevertheless, I am happy with the move and my love for static typing is only going up everyday.

New comment by kras143 in "Netflix comes to India"

kras143 — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 18:56:38 +0000

the collection is not that great

New comment by kras143 in "Lisp implementation in sed"

kras143 — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 04:25:19 +0000

What's the motivation? Just an academic exercise?