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ecthiender

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About ecthiender

Anon Ray. Geek. Bangalore.

@rayanon

https://github.com/ecthiender/

Recent public activity

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    Hmm, interesting. Are you speaking from experience for Haskell? I'm a Haskell developer since 2017, and have been using LLMs to write code (including Haskell) since 2024. In my exp…

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    Comment #44873485

    If the author of the article is here, do try out org-mode. That is exactly what you need. It is designed to be a simple text file format, but tooling on top of it (simple editor pl…

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    Comment #21046701

    This comment has some good insights. Actually a lot of "business" software were like that in the 90s and early 00s. They were optimized for productivity of the user and not necessa…

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    Comment #21046686

    Maybe the commenter was just being sarcastic. But I agree it's hard to tell.

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    Comment #20113592

    I'm a programmer and geek myself, and heck, even toyed with the idea of having open-source alternative to GSuite. But reading the title I too thought it's an alternative to Google …

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    Comment #20080569

    But seems like that recently has changed. Now the paywall-ed articles are shown more to people[1]. So even authors with large number of followers don't get their articles shown to …

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    Comment #20080542

    Surprisingly, the most important organizations (like banks and government departments who have critical data) who need to ditch this practice, embrace it like the holy grail.

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    Comment #20080519

    In India, I could access Youtube, Gmail (web) and Google cloud console and GKE and Compute Engine instances in south-east asia region.

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    Comment #19708465

    This was really unexpected! I follow him on twitter and he was tweeting about FPGAs, which seems like, only few days back! I am grieved.

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    Comment #18699635

    I think Microsoft just wants to give up on the browser market/share/innovation (for business reasons ofcourse ). They just needed to have a default browser installed on their syste…

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    Comment #18508337

    The documentation or the website doesn't list all the languages it supports, especially for jump to definition. It just says all popular languages. This is a bit concerning, becaus…

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    Comment #18267185

    This is a post on `X` by example. I don't think it's constructive to the discussion here to say X has drawbacks (and then go on at it), use Y (and then go on at it). I have not use…

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