knoebber · HackerTrans

il y a 5 moisdiscuss

Grinnell 17' here. At first I didn't enjoy intro with Racket. But by the end I changed my mind and it ended up being one of my favorite courses. In retrospect that class easily had the most impact on me during my CS major... I still have quite a few functional programming habits. These days I like to code in elixir for side projects, which has quite a few similarities.

Anyways, cool to see another alum here! I hope the department keeps it around for a while longer :)

knoebber

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

I assume 'work life balance'

knoebber

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Like any good yakshaving programmer, i built/use my own note taking / TODO app. Now I want to implement a feature where I can send a SMS to my app, and it will save the text/media to my database. Seems like a lot less friction than using the UI on my phones browser if I just need to save a quick note.

knoebber

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

the act of writing it down probably makes them remember it.

knoebber

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

I’m surprised they weren’t doing this already . This is standard for CC companies afaik.

knoebber

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Fair criticisms, but at the end of the day, Kagi offers a better search experience then all the alternatives for a fair price, so I pay for it. I don't really need to have 'faith' in it, though I do hope it sticks around.

Also, can't wait to get my tshirt! (closed beta user here)

knoebber

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

I live about 180 miles north of silicon valley. The only utility I get here is high speed internet via a radio receiver in a redwood tree[0]. I just tested and I'm getting 20mb down/30 up, 30ms ping. Plenty for wifi calling, video calls, etc. I'm surprised your WISP has such poor performance?

[0] https://furtherreach.net/

knoebber

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Yeah, I believe they send DSL through the same lines that they don't want to support anymore.

knoebber

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

> *90% of all internet traffic goes through Erlang controlled nodes (Cisco)

(source: https://erlangforums.com/ )

Seems like a pretty good outcome to me?

knoebber

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Not useful for people who live in areas without cell service. These folks will have no way to make calls from home if ATT pulls out.

knoebber

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

I think the main use case today is the dom traversal API. It makes operations like "add the 'error' class to all <input> elements in the form" simple:

    $('#some-form').find('input').addClass('error')

Obviously you can do this in vanilla JS, but it's more cumbersome so you'll probably end up rewriting your own less complete version of jquery. There is some value to using a well worn library with public documentation that other developers can find/extend instead of a home grown solution.

With that said, I wouldn't use it for a green field project. For sites that require lots of interactivity I would pick a modern front end framework that doesn't require this kind of manual dom traversal (probably phoenix/liveview).

knoebber

il y a 5 ansdiscuss

My usecase that doesn't work is using Emacs on a high DPI screen. I'll move over to sway as soon we get a native Emacs Wayland build.

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