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Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by leohonexus »

tismyname wrote: post #30

Hello from California. I'm a full stack developer. Primarily Scala/JS/TS. I do some Haskell and Python on the side. Love functional programming. I built a bunch of Haskell projects that people still use. I don't have the time to maintain them anymore. Want to get back into it again. Kind of want to learn Rust. I'm currently trying to build Strava for the command line because I like minimalism. Want to build a few iOS…

I love Haskell! I once wrote an interpreter for an OOP language with Haskell, and I've loved the elegance ever since.

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Post by snthpy »

Hello from sunny Cape Town, South Africa!

I'm passionate about data and am excited about what's happening in the space with DBT, DuckDB and Apache Iceberg! I contribute to [PRQL](prq-lang.org) to make working with data even easier wherever SQL is spoken. I would love to make this my full-time gig and am keen to chat to co-founders, VCs or existing startups. snth@github

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Post by schappim »

Hello! Just drove home from the beach shack in Hawks Nest (beachside town in NSW Australia) to Sydney getting ready for the week ahead.

Whilst up in Hawks Nest I had a prehistoric visitor[0] visit our family and hiked a mountain[1].

[0] https://twitter.com/schappi/status/1588984902048894976?s=46&...

[1] https://twitter.com/schappi/status/1588985786481139713?s=46&...

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Post by tomcam »

jamesknelson wrote: post #8

Thank you so much for this post, and Hello from Tokyo! I'm currently working on an old fashioned website editing app, with a UI styled after today's note taking apps. I'm hoping that being able to work on my blog across devices without an internet connection - and without a like button or analytics script - will help me focus on what I want to write, instead of focusing on what will "sell". I'm thinking of putting an…

Should be fun, and I’m guessing you’ll have a head start in Asian language support. What brought you to Tokyo?

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Post by blinding-streak »

dev_throw wrote: post #68

I love niche forums like HN because it satisfies my itch for mind expanding content. The closest I got to that was OG StumbleUpon, if you know, you know. I'm unfortunately not passionate about much nowadays; in treatment for stage 4 cancer, so I'm fairly exhausted all the time. I'm glad I can still maintain my cognitive abilities during chemo so I can still do my job.

So sorry to hear about your diagnosis. Best of luck on your battle, I hope the chemo is having the desired effect. My mom recently finished her chemo rounds. Took a real toll on her. Hang in there! You got this!

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by tqwhite »

I just made a small thing that is thrilling me.

It started because I wanted to be able to share a diagram on a whiteboard drawing site (whiteboardfox.com, nice service). I thought it would be cool if I could have a bookmarklet that saved the current diagram's URL in a file on my web server and made it available at an easy URL that my friends could bookmark.

I now have just such a thing.

Click a bookmarklet and it hits my server and redirects back to the page I'm seeing. On another browser, I (or a friend) can hit my 'blah.com/mirror' and it shows the same page.

It is quick, clean and lovely. Took about ninety minutes. A perfect Saturday night.

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by defrost »

nynx wrote: post #61
defrost wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of interest roughly how much "flight capacity" (self motion ability post orbit injection) do literal internet satellites have? Are we talking small gas thrusts, magnetorquer's, etc? If it's mag torque, how much GMF modelling is involved?

I’m definitely not allowed to say, sorry!

Figured - always worth a try :-)

( FWiW I can think of several other ways to twitch a sat )

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by klipt »

rakejake wrote: post #42
Subsentient wrote: post #26

Sometimes, I think about what I really want. What I want most in the universe, for myself. There's plenty I want for everyone else. I seldom let myself think about what would be good for me lately. Sometimes, like tonight, I do know what I want for myself. It's impossible, but it's my greatest desire for my life. I want to be "uplifted". I want my brain capacity to be expanded by orders of magnitude. I want to unders…

I oscillate between this (having an expanded brain capacity) and the exact opposite (a more limited brain capacity, the ability to take things one at a time, be eternally optimistic, not have your mind race all the time, sleep instantly when you lie down).

> sleep instantly when you lie down

The secret to this is lots of exercise (and maybe good sleep hygiene).

IME insomnia is mostly a result of being sedentary all day.

Never had insomnia when camping and hiking multiple hours each day.

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