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hds··on For mathematicians, = does not mean equality
Thanks, fixed.
hds··on Ask HN: What are the most beautifully written tutorials for beginners?
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good is a fantastic introduction to Haskell in particular and functional programming in general. Definitely a great place to start:

http://learnyouahaskell.com

hds··on Ask HN: How did you find a job in another country?
That looks interesting, I'll check it out. Maybe someone needs to write one of these for software engineers...
hds··on Logo Interpreter
I've wanted to see a JS version of Logo for ages. Well done to the programmer who finally got around to doing it!

Now it just needs to be forked and adapted to match NetLogo[1] and I can run all those social sciences simulations without Java!

[1] https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/

hds··on Drawbridge
"a version of Windows enlightened to run efficiently" is just begging to be quoted out of context.
hds··on Mapcode – A short address for any location on Earth
I'm curious about what happens when a geographical location changes country. If Catalunya gains independence from Spain, will the MapCode associated with my house here in Barcelona change? Will the old "Spanish" MapCode still be valid?

Speaking of current events, do Isreal and Palestine have separate MapCodes and what happens when borders shift?

hds··on Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime
Partly it's what I'm used to, but I've yet to find anything "easier" for the large amount of mathematics I typeset. There is a lot of notation and very little graphics or difficult formatting.
hds··on Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime
The code is horrible, but it's here: https://github.com/hds/repo-flatplan-animation

You'll find the JS bits in the repository for the website which is there too.

hds··on Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime
At the moment I'm a little hesitant to make it public. Partly because there's a large chunk of unpublished research in there, but also because some of the early drafts are a little embarrassing.

Perhaps when the thesis is deposited (and hence public) I could add that in for "historical" interest.

hds··on Programming is a Terrible Job
My (unsolicited) advice would be, go and find one of those jobs that you idealise from a few decades ago. They still exist, just where they always were, in academia. Of course, it's not all playing, but if you want your job to revolve around programming things that nobody has programmed before, that's the place to be.

Have a look at getting into a PhD programme in Computer Science, Computational Engineering or something even more abstract like Computation Number Theory.

hds··on Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
Of course if we did add 6 months (mod 12) then we could have hot July (almost) everywhere.

And an australian christmas in June, but it would be worth it!

hds··on Google's "Bacon number" search
It doesn't appear to work if you are using google (even .com) in another language, confirmed with Spanish (Castilian).