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New comment by zzygan in "Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs"

zzygan — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 10:26:27 +0000

There is a few solid prepackaged systems around now. Doom emacs is very comprehensive. Similar systems also exist rather than starting from nothing.

Elisp is a programming language that supports many ways to do things so there is lots of ways people do things.

New comment by zzygan in "Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code"

zzygan — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 23:13:56 +0000

No issue with AU credit card here. Is a credit card and not a debit card though

New comment by zzygan in "3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js"

zzygan — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 00:39:20 +0000

Is it still difficult to obtain a suica / pasmo card in Tokyo? Last time I was there it was difficult to obtain the card.

New comment by zzygan in "FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source"

zzygan — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 08:00:48 +0000

Obsidian is made by the team at dynalist - it would be amazing if they added the outlining features from Dynamist into obsidian

New comment by zzygan in "FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source"

zzygan — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 07:54:07 +0000

I love org mode for writing and that side of org is brilliant. It’s not just a task manager. In fact I’d love just a note taking tool that doesn’t care as much about tasks but focuses on a outstanding org mode note taking experience on mobile.

New comment by zzygan in "What to Know Before Debating Type Systems (2008)"

zzygan — Sat, 04 May 2019 08:16:11 +0000

The complexity is exactly is issue. So while it’s possible to implement on the .net runtime without type erasure, it’s hard.

Plus the only reason type erasure is bad is if you want reflection. Which in FP languages with a solid type system isnt idiomatic and safe anyway. Edit: value types are one other reason for not using erasure but Can be done other ways

New comment by zzygan in "What to Know Before Debating Type Systems (2008)"

zzygan — Sat, 04 May 2019 01:30:15 +0000

Disagree. Type erasure is actually one of th best possible decisions made by the java designers. Languages that have higher kinded types (Haskell, Scala)are virtually impossible to implement without type erasure. This is why the .net runtime doesn’t have languages with HKT

New comment by zzygan in "A 15-year-old weightlifting prodigy"

zzygan — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 03:40:35 +0000

Definitely a myth. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/phys-ed-the-benefit... Study Review: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/126/5/e1199.ab...

Critical Thinking: What Is It Good For? (In Fact, What Is It?)

zzygan — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 01:27:24 +0000

Article URL: http://www.csicop.org/si/show/critical_thinking_what_is_it_good_for_in_fact_what_is_it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9828771

Points: 5

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New comment by zzygan in "Inverting Binary Trees Considered Harmful"

zzygan — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 03:49:24 +0000

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing... There were earlier versions of that article as well. Joel kinda popularized the notion of those kind of problems

New comment by zzygan in "Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API"

zzygan — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:52:51 +0000

Is there a way to do XMonad style layouts with this system? Since moving to OSX, I've missed Xmonad badly. The big thing that has been lacking is the ability for newly opened windows to automatically be placed into a grid, according to the layout that is currently defined, and then have the ability to shuffle windows around within that layout.

Leading Australian Telco storing data on behalf of US government

zzygan — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 04:25:14 +0000

Article URL: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/telstra-storing-data-on-behalf-of-us-government-20130712-hv0w4.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6030912

Points: 104

# Comments: 28

New comment by zzygan in "Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm"

zzygan — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:51:13 +0000

Credit card penetration is pretty high in Australia.

Its a few years old, but as of 2009 at least 65% of Australians have credit card debt. http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Main+Fe...

New comment by zzygan in "How I Created a Matrix Bullet Time-Style Rig With 50 DSLRs"

zzygan — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 06:56:41 +0000

Just in case you were wondering what kind of shots this rig can produce....

http://24x360.com/gallery

Jullian Assange running for the Australian senate

zzygan — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:41:31 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theage.com.au/world/julian-assange-the-fugitive-20121212-2b9r4.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4913437

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Twitter in legal battle over 3rd party access to its data

zzygan — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:45:22 +0000

Article URL: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/twitter-in-legal-spat-with-aussie-entrepreneur-over-data-clampdown-20121130-2akkx.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4850741

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zzygan in "Google's Common Lisp style-guide"

zzygan — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:33:42 +0000

This must have come out of the ITA Software acquisition.... (Heading "Attention required" 'You must follow the ITA convention of using...') They were a big common lisp user apparently.

Google is normally very specific on the languages allowed for internal projects. A product/company acquisition with large assets written in common lisp would necessitate this becoming the "Google Common lisp style guide" rather than what it was most likely originally the "ITA Software" common lisp style guide. Speculation of course, but looks likely.

New comment by zzygan in "Helm: Open Source Real Time Discussions"

zzygan — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:07:36 +0000

I just finished installing helm in emacs. Of course its something completely different. Always confusing when something open source appears that has the same name as something else entirely. Not that it matters overall. http://emacs-helm.github.com/helm

New comment by zzygan in "Great work Visa, now I hate you"

zzygan — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:49:07 +0000

Yep, there is also the stipulation that no Shops in London are allowed to sell hot Chips unless sold with Fish aka Fish and Chips, because McDonalds has exclusive sponsor rights on Chips. I should say that English Chips really are nothing like McDonalds french fries.

Same thing, different brand

New comment by zzygan in "PageRank Algorithm Reveals Soccer Teams' Strategies"

zzygan — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 02:09:52 +0000

Zonal Marking is a fantastic site for tactical minded football fans. Highly recommended. Not overly surprised that its referenced 2 or 3 times on HN. Switzerland is the closest example of Chelsea/Inter in the case of Spain. Switzerland shut down the midfield pretty effectively, however Spain were particularly awful in that game, and Spain did remedy that situation later on.

In watching Euro2012, I have found it amusing about Spain being called boring by plenty of authors. The only way teams have found to stop Spain has been to park the bus, and let Spain have the ball for long periods. The negativity of opposing teams was reason for the lack of activity in the final third of the field. The result Italy in the final was a great example of what happens when a team tries to attack Spain. They get beaten soundly.