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mgdv commented on Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment    · Posted by u/mckirk
mgdv · 3 years ago
Amazing idea :)

I've been learning and playing with Common Lisp. I've been involved in Java for more than a decade and wanted to try something new. I wanted to try something outside of OOP and more functional. I went from Scala -> Clojure -> Common Lisp. I've also switched to Emacs for almost all of my common tasks. That hurt as a long time Vim user :) but I'm enjoying it so far

mgdv commented on Solarized   ethanschoonover.com/solar... · Posted by u/behnamoh
mgdv · 3 years ago
Again, I started with solarized but moved onto other themes. I think it was one of the first themes that was implemented almost everywhere. It was nice to have my browser, IDE, window manager etc all themed up the same way.

I also appreciate the work he went into to set the color scheme up. I feel the same spirit with the Modus themes[1] for emacs

[1] https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes

mgdv commented on Gamification affects software developers: Cautionary evidence from GitHub   arxiv.org/abs/2006.02371... · Posted by u/edward
microtonal · 3 years ago
I am surprised that there is no widely-spread Starware license yet. “You are entitled to use this software after starring X/Y on GitHub.”
mgdv · 3 years ago
I've seen this on a lot of the hacktoberfest repos this year. The repo owner will only authorize the PR if you star them
mgdv commented on Ask HN: How do you deal with rude interviewers?    · Posted by u/pmoriarty
mgdv · 4 years ago
If the interview was like this, what does it say about the culture of the company? Either way, I would have politely terminated and left
mgdv commented on Show HN: Lists.sh – A Microblog for Lists   lists.sh... · Posted by u/qudat
mgdv · 4 years ago
added to my rss. Really nice and the idea of limiting your writing to lists helps to focus your thoughts. Will give it a try
mgdv commented on Clojure by Example   kimh.github.io/clojure-by... · Posted by u/chenzhekl
mgdv · 4 years ago
This is very useful. I'm learning clojure at the moment and it's way more helpful to have little code snippets to explain points, much like the documentation does.
mgdv commented on Wallabag: Self-hostable application for saving web pages and articles   github.com/wallabag/walla... · Posted by u/xz18r
Tomte · 4 years ago
I looked at Wallabag and went for Pinboard again. Even subscribed for two years.

Seems, it was a mistake.

Archiving stopped around 85% of my bookmarks.

I've had those problems before, especially when the owner played U.S. politics and didn't care much about Pinboard anymore. I still went back.

Pinboard's support doesn't reply to mails, Pinboard's Twitter account doesn't reply, either.

I've asked for a refund (within the one week refund window). No reply.

Maybe he'll reply here. Last time I had such problems he also ignored my mails for a long time and finally replied on HN.

People, look at Wallabag seriously. Maybe Pocket. And maybe Archivebox (https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox).

mgdv · 4 years ago
I also use Pinboard and also have had no replies to emails.

I actually like the service but I don't use the archive feature. It's minimal, text based and provides rss feeds for most things. It also plays nice with Miniflux.

I'm going to look at ArchiveBox but I hope someone else takes over Pinboard and can give it some proper time and attention

mgdv commented on A database of broken things to identify common failure modes and how to fix them   failscout.co... · Posted by u/hubraumhugo
mgdv · 4 years ago
Sounds like a great idea. Are you planning to have a rss feed at all?
mgdv commented on Resources to encourage children to learn to code   jamilhallal.blogspot.com/... · Posted by u/adrianomartins
mgdv · 4 years ago
I'm a Java fan at heart and I've been coding with my 6 year old on [0] Greenfoot. It required a bit of setup for him but we've had a lot of fun. He's writing code using [1]Stride which helps with code blocks

[0] https://www.greenfoot.org/door

[1] https://stride-lang.net/

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