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Post by MielPopssss »

examplary_cable wrote: post #555
MielPopssss wrote: post #450

Hello guys, it's my first time posting here ! Actually, I'm passionate about Lisp dialects, I always been fascinated by languages, when I was a kid, I used to try to learn new languages (Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, ...). When I was 15, I found out I had a leukemia, a severe form of blood cancer, I had so much free time that I decided to learn programming languages. It was really like a revival, the idea that you c…

Have you produced anything interest that you could share using lisp/closure/common lisp?

For now, nothing really interesting, it's only guided projects I did with the book Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel and coding challenges on HackerRank and Codingame or projects in Clojure but always guided.

Its a little bit weird because I'm used to do a lot of projects in other languages, but I struggle at beginning new projects in Lisp, its really different from what I'm used to think.

But you're right, I really need to do projects in Lisp, its been a long time since I want to do my own blog and I really think I'll do it in CL or Clojure/Clojurescript.

If you have project ideas, I'll take it. :)

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Post by trykondev »

ogennadi wrote: post #670
trykondev wrote: post #622

I'm passionate about two things: game development and writing! For several years I've been working as an evenings-and-weekends indie game developer. I love it -- it's such a joyful mix of technical and creative tasks. It's stimulating and challenging and expressive, and makes my heart feel so full when I've finally finished something that another person can play. If I could ever reach a point where I could properly f…

The omnicube link is broken FYI

Oh shoot, thanks for the heads up. Is the page not loading for you at all, or is it another problem? I just tried it again at https://trykon.itch.io/omnicube and I seem to be able to get through to successfully download the demo.

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Post by curiouser12 »

Thanks so much for the post. Its really nice to see what other people are passionate about. I work on building web applications and internal tools. At the beginning of this year, I quit my job in order to take a break from the grind and just take a breather. Did some soul-searching, spent time with my family, road trips, reading, etc. Now, back to job hunting :)

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Post by aagustyana »

i'm addicted to surfing since 6 years ago, i surfed 2-3 times a week, thanks for remote working, it allows me to move from metropolitan city to the island that have many world class waves

this activity also cure my backpain & shoulder pain, sitting down on my surfboard in the ocean also somehow calm me, it makes me think clearly when i'm struggling with my work (bug fixing), often i'm be able to solve a bug not in front of laptop but at the ocean (solutions popped out randomly from my head while i stared at the sea)

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Post by LocalH »

I mod Harmonix-made Guitar Hero and Rock Band games. In the last couple of days, we just squashed a six-year-old issue we'd been having where the game's rendering would lag a frame when updating a text label that's visible on screen. We discovered the solution was to double-buffer the labels ourselves from the scripting language the game uses, as the label update is not laggy if the label is present but invisible. Now it runs buttery smooth

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Post by mdnahas »

I played a lot of Civ as a kid and it got me into Economics. I’ve been trying to understand the housing market, especially why rents and home prices have jumped dramatically in my home of Austin, TX. I’m putting together a website (below) to explain the problem. It has data from the 50 largest cities, if you’re interested.

Another project is trying to connect economics to Shannon’s information theory. Economists talk about information all the time but never quantify it.

http://mdnahas.github.io/HousingCrisis/index.html

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Post by yoshyosh »

biztos wrote: post #640
yoshyosh wrote: post #636

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mostly trouble sourcing the corn from Mexico I believe. https://taiyari.nl/ serves most Mexican places in The Netherlands. It's still not as soft as you'd get from a really freshly made one, although they sell the raw masa as well. The best hack I've found is actually cooking the corn tortillas in a bit of oil to soften them up quite a bit. Works great even with older/frozen tortillas. I haven't found good flour tort…

If you’re in Europe, I would vouch for Nuevo Progresso from Czech Republic but their web site is… not helpful. Don’t think they produce much but you can get their flour tortillas in Budapest at Ázsia Bt. You want the simple, white-label ones. In Thailand, Danitas. Don’t know if they export but they should. They also make tortilla chips that are basically crack, but their corn tortillas are the same dry catastrophe as…

Awesome, appreciate these tips, will be checking those out as I visit those areas :). I learned how to make flour tortillas from scratch since I missed it so much, corn is def harder to come across. Wrote about it here with full recipe and all https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22786287#22792647

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Post by RonaldOlzheim »

chrisrickard wrote: post #100

Hello from Melbourne, Australia. This weekend it finally started to feel warm, and I'm ready for summer. I ran a software development agency for 8 years, sold it at the start of the pandemic, and been travelling with my wife in an RV around Australia thinking about what's next. One of the issues we faced in our business was around centralising project requirements, and ensuring both our clients and our team could ref…

Hello,

I´m looking at it right now.

1: Centralising project requirements,

2: Ensuring both our clients and our team could refer to a source of truth.

3: When you're working on possibly many a few long-term projects

+4: When Scaling is a issue.

==== My remarks:

1: Which audience are you targetting? --> Is it a dev tool?

2: Does the current pricing and business model make sense? --> It´s advantage is that is longterm, but that is also the reason people would not like to hold on to contracts.

3: Product simplicity? --> I would like to do just play around with it. People like me might not use it ourselves, but if we like it we will share it with those people we think might benefit from it.

Let´s Connect on linkedin and talk more.

bye,

Ron.

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Post by RonaldOlzheim »

udia wrote: post #65

Would it be possible to build a business that were completely public and transparent? Every dollar that was spent would be published publically. All source code would be made free and permissive, open source. Users would always own their own data and could frictionlessly share with each other. There would be no advertisements. All analytics would require explicit opt in and be visible to the general public. The app w…

Intrested.
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