celaleddin (u/celaleddin)

celaleddin commented on How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023) johndcook.com/blog/2023/0... · Posted by u/tzury

lol I never made that connection — in Turkish, zero is sıfır, which does sound a lot like cipher. Also, password is şifre, which again sounds similar. Looking online, apparently the path is sifr (Arabic, meaning zero) -> cifre (French, first meaning zero, then any numeral, then coded message) -> şifre (Turkish, code/cipher)

celaleddin · 3 days ago

Nice! Imagine the second meaning going back to Arabic and now it's a full loop! It can even override the original meaning given enough time and popularity (not especially for "zero", but possibly for another full-loop word).

celaleddin commented on Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024) windscribe.com/blog/the-v... · Posted by u/walterbell

0x073 · 3 months ago

Just spin up a server with wireguard.

celaleddin · 3 months ago

or with Tailscale (and configure the server as an exit node).

celaleddin commented on Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale derwiki.medium.com/do-thi... · Posted by u/derwiki

pikseladam · 4 months ago

Ekşi Sözlük (eksisozluk.com) has always been like that, and it still is. People wait over 4–5 years just to become a user, while non-users can only read. It remains one of the biggest websites in Türkiye, yet the design is still very simple, with only one or two new features added over the years. It reached more and more users, but it never really scaled in true meaning. It still like a weekend project

celaleddin · 4 months ago

Interesting and lovely to see ekşi sözlük getting mentioned on HN (even though I remember seeing ssg on HN before if I remember correctly).

I'm curious if there are any similar (in the vein of Douglas Adams' "Guide to the Galaxy") websites with a geographically wider adoption, basically its English version.

I remember İTÜ Sözlük changing its brand to Instela to go somewhat global. But looks like they failed.

I also remember seeing a "Guide" in some Douglas Adams related website, but it wasn't really an active website as far as I remember.

celaleddin commented on Programming languages that blew my mind (2023) yoric.github.io/post/prog... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

erik_seaberg · a year ago

My university had essentially a weird-languages course to blow our minds. Smalltalk (everything is a message to an object, back when C++ was the new hotness), Lisp (everything is a sexpr that you can redefine), Prolog (everything is a clause to search for known axioms).

Later: Lisp again, because of closures and CLOS let you program how method dispatch should work and CLCS let you resume from just before an error. Haskell, because you can lazily consume an infinite structure, and every type contains _|_ because you can't be sure that every function will always return a value. Java, back when the language was poor but the promise was "don't send a query, send code that the backend will run securely" (this was abandoned).

celaleddin · a year ago

Sounds like an amazing course!

Was that the case for you? I'm especially curious about the exams if there were any, because it's probably hard to keep the whole context in mind as a student and to evaluate students for the teacher.

celaleddin commented on Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python github.com/hylang/hy/disc... · Posted by u/Kodiologist

celaleddin · a year ago

Great news, congratulations!

Years ago, under the influence of Lisp romanticism late into my university years, I worked on a domain-specific language for designing and analyzing control systems as my senior design project, using Hy! Just checked, it's been five and a half years to be specific. Really, time flies.

Here it is for anyone curious: https://github.com/celaleddin/gently

Since then, I've been following Hy from a distance and it's amazing to see it's still active. Thank you everyone involved!

celaleddin commented on Daktilo: Turn Your Keyboard into a Typewriter github.com/orhun/daktilo... · Posted by u/orhunp

celaleddin · 2 years ago

This is cool! Also, reminds me of selectic-mode for Emacs:

https://github.com/rbanffy/selectric-mode

celaleddin commented on Owner of Symbolics Lisp machines IP is interested in a non-commercial release hachyderm.io/@gmpalter/11... · Posted by u/mepian

dietrichepp · 2 years ago

ITA software is an acquisition, and I’m sure most of the Lisp development at Google is just done by engineers tweaking their .emacs files.

The problem of parsing data from airlines is fiendishly hard. There are a ton of different rules for how to calculate prices, and all sorts of deals and promotions that may affect a particular route on a particular day. If you have a system which can parse this data, then you wouldn’t want to rewrite it. I’ve read a number of articles about ITA Software’s Lisp code and it’s really interesting.

Lisp may be a critical part of ITA’s success, but “good enough for Google” is probably the wrong take here—Google, I’m sure, purchased a company to add its working product to their portfolio. I doubt that Google’s processes would allow someone to ale a new product in Lisp.

celaleddin · 2 years ago

Can you share some of the articles you mentioned about ITA Software's Lisp code?