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jnpnj

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About jnpnj

lisp, forth, smalltalk, fp, lp fan with a dose of math envy

https://github.com/jnpn

https://registry.jsonresume.org/jnpn?theme=elegant

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49213932

    It would be worth writing examples of the resource ownership model (especially network wise), this is the rare feature here it seems. ps: were you looking at efforts such as clojur…

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    Comment #49187397

    When NLP is the interface the natural reflex is to cut the visual interface.

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    Comment #49187377

    It seems Samuel Thibault is still there, sweet. ps: some slides from earlier this year https://fosdem.org/2026/events/attachments/7FZXHF-updates_on... full vid here https://fosdem.…

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    Comment #49167066

    > "The choice of Haskell has also led to a high quality and low volume of contributors" I find this mindset very refreshing in the era of availability often implying noise over sig…

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    Comment #49167044

    Location: Paris, FR Remote: full remote Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Python, Typescript, Lisps, React, Django, FastAPI, Postgresql, Gitlab/ci, Docker Résumé/CV: https://re…

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    Comment #48834443

    Fair point, I wasn't thinking about making everybody a civil engineer but you can clean some walkway, fix a simple bolt, a bench. that sort of thing.

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    Comment #48823270

    ah yeah pretty common and pretty annoying.. either they had to avoid false issues or maybe there was a regulation forcing the use of a more beefy system (or maybe someone thought i…

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    Comment #48823243

    That is true, that said reporting is not the same (imo) as having a global map of problems and proposals to fix some of them. To me it's a lot more engaging (again, imo) as you see…

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    Comment #48820009

    Are there other similar apps to stimulate soft "crowdfixing" ? I'm sure there are plenty of other aspect of society that would benefit from a light way to know where someone can co…

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    Comment #48809657

    What was your reading list ? I plan to add more medical / genomic knowledge to my skillset.

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    Comment #48809366

    Location: Paris, FR Remote: full remote Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Python, Typescript, Lisps, React, Django, FastAPI, Postgresql, Gitlab/ci, Docker Résumé/CV: https://re…

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    Comment #48111190

    Corporate emails asking why are you not using the paid plan ??? came very very rapidly. So naturally, everybody started to use it blindly so that the dashboard metrics are all high…

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    Comment #48074865

    I ask myself the same questions. And I see other people discussing this on HN or other websites (old video games culture for instance). I too feel that the computing aesthetic has …

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    Comment #48062136

    Hehe yeah we all have our own tastes based on time. But I'm also interested about the perception of computers. I too was enamoured with the creative possibilities of it. But nowada…

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    Comment #48047990

    Could you tell us more about your grandma point of view (if she ever told you more of course). With age I'm becoming jaded with computing, not personal computers per se, but the ov…

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    Comment #48038866

    Not really, I knew it was radically strange in its philosophy.

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    Comment #48027967

    I find admirable how every era was filled with fights on just about every detail. Keys included, layout, shape, meaning. And now nobody pays attention that any of this at all. Very…

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    Comment #48021122

    it's strange to see software engineers using skills aka human description of small scripts instead of scripting things directly. often there were cli / tools / libraries to do what…

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    Comment #47995948

    looks like an informal DSL for specs that brings back some quantifiable structure, how many people follow the same ? also, i wonder if people who did MDD (model driven development)…

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    Comment #47986414

    hehe. alternatively dotnil would have sounded closer to dotnet while hinting at lisp terminology and history

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    Comment #47977921

    Location: Paris, FR Remote: full remote Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Python, Typescript, Lisps, React, Django, FastAPI, Postgresql, Gitlab/ci, Docker Résumé/CV: https://re…

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    Comment #47977893

    Well, Moggi's paper on monads is from 91 and wadler first tutorial from 92. Am I missing something ?

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    Comment #47967868

    Very very nice timeline ! some interesting papers from the 90s section. Maybe they could add https://github.com/VincentToups/emacs-utils/blob/master/mona... . I found J.V. Toups wr…

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    Comment #47939185

    I was wondering how people feel about this trend. LLM allow you to free yourself from foundations (frameworks, programmable programs) to just generate any support layer you want fr…