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192 karma · joined November 24, 2017

camel rider (OCaml / Perl)
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hwj··on Show HN: A new programming language inspired by Go, no LLVM
I'm surprised ".n" was not already a used file extension:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_filename_extensions_(M...

hwj··on The Awful German Language (1880)
We're exactly in the same position (FinTech):

Translating German into English resulted in code being understood neither by Germans nor by Englishmans :-)

hwj··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
In case you continue to work on it, an RSS feed of comments would be interesting...
hwj··on Two Years of Rust
@zetalyrae, given you implemented Austral in OCaml I'd really like to know what you think about Rust vs. OCaml ;-)
hwj··on An Anonymous Investor Is Spending Millions to Make Underwater Homes
If these are going to be separate jurisdictions it's probably not as naive as it sounds.
hwj··on I still like Sublime Text
I've been using ldapvi to manage the LDAP of an entire college faculty.

Which plugin do you use for DBs?

hwj··on Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users
I had problems accessing Cloudflare-hosted websites via the Tor browser also. Don't know it that is still true.
hwj··on Ask HN: Did you personal website help you get hired? Tell about it
I really enjoy the mix of scientific, practical and personal notes on your blog.
hwj··on Debian is the greatest Linux distro of them all
For me it's Alpine Linux.
hwj··on The 4:6 method for coffee-brewing (2017) [video]
> My wife thought it was "just ok". :)

Sounds like you wife is a German :)

hwj··on Raspberry Silicon update: RP2040 on sale now at $1
I wish that would be a RISC-V instead of Cortex-M0+.
hwj··on Plant UML – Open-source UML Tool
Here you can play with it: https://pikchr.org/home/pikchrshow
hwj··on Adam Curry launches a new, open podcast directory
There is also https://fyyd.de (it is integrated into https://antennapod.org).
hwj··on An Anecdote About ML Type Inference (1994)
I too prefer SML's syntax, but OCaml seems to have better tools.
hwj··on Mutt email client 25 years old
Thanks for sharing your experience.

I'm subscribed to several mailing lists/forums and sometimes get a 3-figure number of emails per day. Since I can't (nor want to) read all of them, I score them based on the subject field (~s). Unfortunately, the scoring algorithm can't take the body into account (~b). That's why I considered notmuch for creating (virtual) mailboxes with context I'm interested in...

hwj··on Mutt email client 25 years old
Do you mind sharing how to use notmuch from mutt? Does mutt support virtual folders like neomutt?
hwj··on Bitoduc: A French dictionnary for CS related words
Here is a (390 pages long) German dictionary of systems programming:

https://www4.cs.fau.de/~wosch/glossar.pdf

hwj··on Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W
Here's another F-91W mod:

https://github.com/carrotIndustries/pluto

hwj··on Ask HN: Which books have you read more than once?
Bible.

Even rereading the same chapter sometimes makes me discover something a wasn't aware of when reading the text before.

hwj··on Learn to read Middle English
Here's another one:

> Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

hwj··on Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’
> French X for any X

OCaml is the French SML ;)

hwj··on Gadgets That Refuse to Die
Do you mind sharing what niche the Newton lives in?
hwj··on Gadgets That Refuse to Die
Can anybody recommend a good tape drive for SOHO use?
hwj··on Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming
AFAIK TI released new MSP430 chips in 2019. I don't think this is "dated".
hwj··on Registrars raise alarm over proposal for big .com fee hikes
I don't recommend .tk.

They cancelled my domain out of the blue. When researching the problem I found out this happened to others as well.

hwj··on Ask HN: How does your company keep track of lessons learned?
Oh, sorry. I thought it's the car industry or similar.
hwj··on Ask HN: How does your company keep track of lessons learned?
Hats off.

What industry are you working in? (I guess it's not web development).

hwj··on New Finnish study confirms that BMW and Audi owners drive like idiots
I can confirm that.

However, it's probably because there are much more Audi/BWM/Mercedes on German Autobahns than Porsche or Ferrari.

hwj··on A Simple Graph-Based Intermediate Representation (1995) [pdf]
The name of the author is "Leißa". (The fourth letter is a sharp s).
hwj··on Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups
Would `whois` be any better to prevent leakage of domains you intend to register?
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