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Kexoth

27 karma · joined November 29, 2010

Phoenix/Elixir & iOS/Swift/ObjC Developer. .. & a very curious person.
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Kexoth··on Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024)
If so can you reccomend (link here) some of the resources which got you started?

FWIW there are blog posts from the same author of the Emacs setup: https://andreyor.st/tags/game1/

Kexoth··on Show HN: IHP, a batteries-included web framework built on Haskell and Nix
Regarding execution, Elm is for client-side rendering, whilst this is for server-side rendering. As a language, they're very similar, one could even argue that Elm is a subset of Haskell :-)
Kexoth··on Programming Languages Influence Network
As @theamk mentioned this visualization is based on Freebase Language Collection.

As a side-note on the matter I also couldn't find Swift, but was quite surprised that I found Elixir :)

Kexoth··on Up to 48M Twitter accounts may be bots
I'm thinking that this is not as `black&white` as said.

There are accounts which actually are used by people/companies, they post authentic content but do some automated actions.

E.g. a company account which tweets authentic content for their field but on the other hand has automated retweets on certain hashtags in order to gain their authors as followers or to come up as related to other accounts in same field.

Also to mention that there are services such as IFTTT which actually can help you to automate such actions and make bot-like behavior.

I guess the same would apply to Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, etc.

Kexoth··on Show HN: Beehive – An open source IFTTT powered by Go's templating engine
When I started learning Elixir/Phoenix this type of system was the first thing that came out of my mind when I was covering the Erlang/BEAM/OTP parts because of their nature.

If anyone else is interested in starting something similar in Elixir just ping me :)

Kexoth··on Show HN: WebSocket-first development
But isn't channels the Phoenix abstraction (middleware) for websockets/sockets per se?

What I mean is why not write a sockets Phoenix channels transports adapter to be used instead of the default one & continue using the existing codebase? :)

Kexoth··on The State of Go
You're right. I've used it once as a part of an exercise in the "Programming Elixir" book and never again.

It should maybe come bundled with mix, as some other tools, that way it'll be more approachable.

Also there's a wrapper for it, which helps in the process.[0]

[0] - https://github.com/jeremyjh/dialyxir

Kexoth··on London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Billion-Dollar Startup
@AlaskaCasey is right. I'm a software engineer & my company is registered in my country. When I negotiate with clients I'm representing the gross amount & I deal with my taxes etc. in my country.
Kexoth··on London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Billion-Dollar Startup
I just tried your link & it's a very interesting option to be honest :)

In my country (Macedonia) these reports on private held companies can be given after 2 fiscal years & you have to pay for them per company searched.

I'm very curious to see what's the case in other countries on this topic :)

Kexoth··on London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Billion-Dollar Startup
Actually most western European countries have 'expat programs' for eastern European countries with job offerings mostly as babysitters/valets/waiters.

They're intended for young people & the stay is between 6 months & 2 years.

In that context 'expats' is used for temporal residence in foreign countries with no intentions to be made permanent. It's mostly intended for young people to travel around, not much for the financial benefit.

So in my understanding it's the intentions which define, not skin color / continents.

PS. The written above is a definition from my personal point of view :)

Kexoth··on The State of Go
I was thinking about this a year ago & decided on Elixir. So far I have no regrets. As you mentioned Elixir satisfies all the conditions you mentioned. For the static typing part, I agree. But since there's no OOP, the flow of the information throughout the app is pretty explicit & the reasoning behind it is easy to be debugged.
Kexoth··on Just how smart is an octopus?
It might be a bit off-topic, but this is the idea behind one of the most popular episodes of the Twilight Zone.[0]

[0] - https://youtu.be/6g7vz6c2fog

Kexoth··on List of companies using Nix
I'm also interested on this topic. On their wiki page[0] there is a list from some hosting companies offering guides for setting this, but didn't saw anyone offering it out-of-the-box.

[0] - https://nixos.org/wiki/Hosting_providers_%26_NixOS

Kexoth··on Joe Armstrong Interviews Alan Kay [video]
"Hello Joe" - Awesome interview opening joke [0] :)

[0] - https://youtu.be/xrIjfIjssLE

Kexoth··on Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
I also don't think that you can orientate on dates in a decimal manner. With dates it's easier to orientate, but you don't get the exact feeling on progress.

So yes, same as you, when I'm seeing it from time to time I get motivated to do more in the time remaining for the year :)

Kexoth··on Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
Universal Beat [0] - When Apple Watch came out I had an idea for showing day & year progress 0-1000.*

Open for feedback!

* I'm aware that Swatch had this for the day only long time ago, it was called `swatch @beats`.

[0] - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/universal-beat-different-loo...

Kexoth··on 22 years in, Magic: The Gathering is the brainiest it’s ever been (2015)
MtG is my favorite game too, but honestly to be competitive with your decks, on a yearly basis you need to spend a lot more money than watching all the blockbusters for that year twice :)
Kexoth··on Faster and better browsing – Welcome Opera 41
Right now with Sierra even Apple has it's Picture-in-Picture as part of the OS itself. What I don't like is that they require the site to comply to their PiP & at the moment as I'm aware of only Vimeo does that. That aside there are some hacks how to enable it on other sites such as Youtube. [0]

I tested Opera's video pop-out as an alternative to macOS's PiP. What is positive here is that Opera's mode supports most of the video players. Also what I like in Opera's mode is that you can actually control the timeline in the pop-out which seems useful.

But the deal-breaker is when you change focus between desktops (Apple's Spaces). Opera's video pop-out doesn't follow you. Actually you have to transfer the browser window with you on the other desktop in order to have the video pop-out which kinda brakes the point of the feature for me.

[0] - https://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-enable-picture-in-picture-...

Kexoth··on Faster and better browsing – Welcome Opera 41
I don't think so, Apple stopped supporting Safari on Windows since v5 & right now Safari is at v10.
Kexoth··on Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?
Have you tried Elixir?

Please have a look at the following presentation. I was also interested in the same, watched this presentation[0] & many other, made some prototypes by myself & I'm still amazed by OTP/Elixir & Phoenix later on.

[0] - https://vimeo.com/171317253

Kexoth··on Server APIs Project
What is your opinion on Elixir as a next generation with the OTP approach?

I'm a Swift developer, I'm learning Elixir & I love OTP's model. In my opinion Apple or anyone else won't go in that direction is because it's way different & it's learning curve will push most developers away.

Kexoth··on Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity
I didn't knew this one, it's awesome, but it's with 4 instead of 3 :)
Kexoth··on Apple Unveils a More Powerful Apple TV
I understand that, but the app was from the channel broadcasting the game, so I guess they have control over it :)
Kexoth··on Apple Unveils a More Powerful Apple TV
I only wonder why the baseball app has the current stats still 'hardcoded' in the video stream & not programmable through the app?
Kexoth··on Ask HN: Static site generator with web UI?
There are some ways for content delivery as far as I know. https://docpad.org/docs/plugins#custom-interfaces https://github.com/yortz/octopress-admin https://github.com/zkarpinski/Jekyll-Admin

I will go as a selling point for them the performance & simplicity. It's also easier to maintain for a person with some technical knowledge than Wordpress regarding updating the core & the plugins.

Kexoth··on Manager.io – Free accounting software for small businesses
Hey lubos, I have a company & I do most of this by hand. The reason is that I tried different apps but I got lost in them & gave up on them.

Have you thought on maybe making a walkthrough screencast for tech guys like us from zero to doing the whole accounting through your app?

Thanks for the app, great job :)

Kexoth··on International Space Apps Challenge (NASA)
Unfortunately the site is down at the moment.
Kexoth··on Poll: Which smartphone platform do you own and use mainly?
I developed for Android some lightweight apps last summer as a hobby, got HTC Tattoo & I was dissapointed by the OS (1.6).. I switched to iOS dev & I'm planning to buy 3GS or iPod Touch for testing.