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JaDogg

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Stuff I build: https://github.com/JaDogg --- I am a large potato that can think or a programmar. I work on Yaksha programming language. --- email username - hackernewsUsername -plus- ".Coder" email host - gmail -dot- com

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JaDogg··on AI.gov
more people should go to america just to annoy this person :p
JaDogg··on Write more "useless" software
Anyone know if there is something like `The Recurse Center` in London ? would be cool to join something like this. :)
JaDogg··on Write more "useless" software
Have fun and learn when you need it, and work to earn when you need it. I see no harm in both.

But it might be better to have some fun in a while (it does not have to be writing code), so you do not feel like you are trapped in an endless rat-race (99.9% are in the rat-race). Having fun would also reduce the probability of burning out / going deep into depression.

JaDogg··on Ask HN: Who is developing a programming language that compiles to C?
Hello, I'm working on Yaksha programming language.

It has python like syntax and whole lisp subsystem as a macro preprocessor. Got bunch of builtin tools - syntax highlighting plugins etc.

Main website: https://yakshalang.github.io/

Try it online (with full x86 vm running in the browser): https://yaksha.pages.dev/

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License is GPLv3 with few additional terms

JaDogg··on AI hype is built on flawed test scores
This is exactly correct.
JaDogg··on Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
I love articles by Raymond Chen. very good.
JaDogg··on Yaksha Lang WASM Demos
Bunch of WASM demos
JaDogg··on How did Netflix know I was gay before I did?
Same for me as well. I either listen to rain sound videos on Youtube or use my own sound generator.
JaDogg··on Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on?
Make star-trek replicator.
JaDogg··on Lisp in Space
Wonder if you can consider a rainbow colour parenthesis plugin as an alternative
JaDogg··on Nim 2.0
OK I had someone with keratoconus to test it. I think it is good now.
JaDogg··on Nim 2.0
I have updated the CSS, used a font with more weight, relative font sizes and high contrast themes for both light and dark themes (rrt theme, default theme in pygments)
JaDogg··on Enu – 3D live coding, implemented in Nim
good work and good luck :)
JaDogg··on Nim 2.0
Thank you. Will have a think.

Question - does dark theme and light theme both have the contrast issue?

JaDogg··on Nim 2.0
Nice, congratulations on v2.0.

Shameless plug: I'm working on a programming language called Yaksha that is also inspired by Python like syntax, however, philosophy differs from nim. Please take a look and let me know what you think :) https://yakshalang.github.io/documentation.html

JaDogg··on Flashdown: A terminal based Flashcard app using plain text files
Very nice. This looks nicer than one I made. https://github.com/JaDogg/sbx

Mine uses secret json in markdown HTML comment & SM2

JaDogg··on Enu – 3D live coding, implemented in Nim
Woah, this is magic! This is the right direction (for teaching/learning) compared to no-code and copilot IMHO
JaDogg··on Show HN: YakshaLisp – Lisp dialect and macros for Yaksha lang
Few more examples:

- embedding a text file

  macros! {
      (defun load_string (file) (list (yk_create_token YK_TOKEN_STRING (io_read_file (map_get file "value")))))
      (yk_register {dsl load_string load_string})
  }

  def main() -> int:
      println(load_string!{"test.txt"})
      return 0
- importing a macro

  import import_me as magic

  def main() -> int:
      println(magic.counter!{})
      println(magic.counter!{})
      println(magic.counter!{})
      return 0
JaDogg··on Show HN: Gogit – Just enough Git (in Go) to push itself to GitHub
Nice, I'm liking the python version too. Good stuff
JaDogg··on Why I use the D programming language for scripting (2021)
> Yet I see here people patting themselves on the back just because they re-re-rewrote the algorithm of the day

If you cannot re-create how do you know you understand? This is one of the best ways to learn. There is zero harm here. If you don't like it you can ignore it. :)

> Can't we focus on these please, instead of being proficient at elementary level in 40+ idioms?

No, we are not in an insect colony to specialize in things.

> We don't need D or another language on top of all others we have, and that we have plenty of problems for which there's NO solution to.

Why did we build cars when we have horses?

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Anyhow, it is hackernews, we do things we learn, we reinvent the wheel because we can, and we are better for it.

JaDogg··on Mark Watson's Lisp books
Popularity does not mean good. Also I assume most killer apps use right tool for the job - For example in a corporate setting with multiple developers something like Java would be better.

I speculate the following - if there are few developers who love lisp, then all can try to mob program a lisp code base -- multiple cursors, same time (code review and development all happen parallel). (Not sure if such an editor exists) This would be a good way to maintain a lisp code base I think (speculation). (Compared to Java where you can work mostly alone and make a mess and it will still work somewhat OK)

JaDogg··on Mark Watson's Lisp books
Lisp is cool. It has that hacker feeling when you code in it. No matter the dialect :) Downloaded the whole repo, will have a look.
JaDogg··on Why SQLite does not use Git (2018)
IMHO, only problem with NIH is if it is not open. (Example create your own closed sourced - version control system, build tool, etc)

Reinventing is how I learn, and there is no harm in that.

JaDogg··on Why SQLite does not use Git (2018)
Woah, this sent me down a rabbit whole. Probably the best thing I saw for a long time.

Seems like you can use this and mirror in Git/GitHub as well. https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/inout.wiki.

Builtin UI looks OK. (Usable and easy to navigate actually). But I was hoping the UI support commit as well. (I could not figure this out in UI). (so you don't have to mix command line and web interface to get things done)

I think if we can build a wrapper UI around fossil (which allows open, init, commit, sync?, sync-with-git, start-web-interface) (or even better add it to fossil itself). Then, this would be highly helpful to less-techy or non-devs that code (bio, math, data-science, etc) to maintain Jupyter notebooks,etc. Hmm, but perhaps a simple git-ui client can be used for that as well. (but you will loose the builtin wiki/tickets). And ability to work locally is useful as well (but then git can do that too). In any case I have seen less-techy people shy away from git (or version control in general).

I can see the potential in builtin wiki and tickets in same repo. One file to backup is also interesting.

JaDogg··on A FactoryFactoryFactory in Production (2017)
I recently started working in a Kotlin project coming from a Java background.

I wrote a Builder for a data class I needed to add stuff in a loop.

Reviewer suggested I use `copy()` instead. Once I used that I was happy, I didn't need that Builder after all. I removed bunch of useless lines of code, made things simpler. Loved it!

JaDogg··on Tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI
If anyone is depressed about AI replacing your job please get mental health help (or at least talk to someone) and stay away from AI related news for a while (Use some Tampermonkey script to block things for you).
JaDogg··on Tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI
Seriously, I wonder if these sweatshop people are paid by lines of code. That is a horrible way to Engineer things.
JaDogg··on Tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI
Actually this would be a good use case for ChatGPT use it to practice for interviews.

Learn about things you missed. double check everything it says.

Good luck.

JaDogg··on Natural language is an unnatural interface
Seriously. I think posts/articles/etc related to replacement of Software Engineering jobs to AI are exaggerated and probably driven by jealousy or sadism. Just ignore those and move on.

(It was very depressing to believe that Software Engineers will lose jobs)

JaDogg··on Faster CPython at PyCon, part one
thank you
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