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Nick Knowlson
Personal blog · nickknowlson.com/blog · on HN as nickknwprogramming
Nick Knowlson's personal blog at nickknowlson.com covers programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Categorized Weaknesses (summary negatives) from State of Haskell 2011 Survey”. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Nick Knowlson's personal web site. Bio, projects, blog, contact information.
Most-linked posts?
- Categorized Weaknesses (summary negatives) from State of Haskell 2011 Survey2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-13
What Hacker News says?
That's awesome! My project inspired by the Game of Life is quite a bit less ambitious (and still incomplete) - http://nickknowlson.com/projects/conways-revenge/ It lets multiple cell colonies fight against each other using a modified ruleset.
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on “Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers”Submitted Why Maybe Is Better Than Null as a story · 164 points
HN discussionThere was recently a survey on the State of Haskell in 2011 [1]. As many people here seem to be echoing, OCaml was the main possible "replacement language". Also included in the survey are ratings of various aspects of Hackage and also Haskell libraries in general. It was a really interesting read. I made a follow-up post [2] that analyzed the free-form responses to the last question, "What do you think is Haskell's…
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on “Why Not Haskell?”Submitted Categorized Weaknesses (summary negatives) from State of Haskell 2011 Survey as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI agree, it is! I did a light comparison[0] between a logic programming solution to sudoku (Prolog) and one using constraint programming (Scala + JaCoP). I thought Prolog was a little nicer because it was shorter and more declarative, but the JaCoP solution was still great compared to any non CP-solution. [0] - http://nickknowlson.com/blog/2012/08/06/seven-languages-week...
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on “A CP Solution for XKCD NP Complete Restaurant Order”Submitted Seven Languages: Week 4 (Scala) - Day 1 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHi Mike! In your first post you say "I've got great aesthetics and design sense". I could definitely use your advice on my personal website - http://nickknowlson.com My skills are those of a developer much more than a designer, but I tried to make it fairly clean. Thanks for doing this!
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on “Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)”Submitted Counting powers of two - a neat pattern as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI think there is a bug. I ran it on my own site ( http://nickknowlson.com ) which is pretty simple in terms of colour. I got a large list of colours (33!) that contains colours I can verify are not in the stylesheet or present anywhere on the page. EDIT: Nevermind, false alarm. Forgot about the syntax.css file for pygments.
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on “The inconsistencies in your site's color palette”Submitted Day 3 of Prolog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's exactly why I use a combination method on my personal website[0]. By default it uses the JS method for a clickable link, but if someone doesn't have JS enabled it degrades to "Email: nick at this domain (For a clickable link, turn on javascript)". It relies on the assumption that 'someone not using javascript' == 'someone computer-savvy enough to figure out what that means', but for the people that are likely…
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on “Ask HN: Why do HN users still obscure their e-mail addresses?”Submitted Transposing a matrix in O(1) with Io as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Day 2 of Prolog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Week 1 (Ruby) - Day 3 as a story · 1 points
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