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Oskar Thorén
Personal blog · oskarth.com · on HN as oskarthprogrammingproductivity
Oskar Thorén's personal blog at oskarth.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
One HN commenter links Oskar Thorén's Lisp interpreter post as one of several Lisp interpreters built over the years, alongside older Lisp 1.5 implementations. The post is about building a Lisp interpreter.
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What Hacker News says?
Shameless plug: I made Code Cards ( https://codecards.me/ ), which helps you remember programming concepts by active spaced repetition. Think of it as Anki but made with code specifically in mind. In the interest of full transparency, I think there are some things missing to make it the best tool it can possibly be. I'm still mulling over how to tweak it so it works better w.r.t. motivation/relevancy and availabilit…
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on “How to Remember More of What You Learn with Spaced Repetition (2016)”Submitted How are you spending your time? as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI've tried the multiple fill-in-the blanks card approach with Anki, but I'm personally not a fan. It feels too complex and reductionistic for code, but YMMV. Speed is indeed of the essence [1], but I prefer to actually feel myself coding the interesting parts of the code, not just filling in a blank code word here and there. It's definitely a good alternative though! Do you have some examples of using the input fiel…
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on “Show HN: Code Cards – Anki for code”Submitted How to make direction advice better as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOP here. I'm a long time user and fan of Anki as well. The main difference between Anki and Code Cards is that you can code in the 'question' directly. I find it useful for code where the chunk size is bigger than you can keep in your head at a given time, as it allows you to actually type the code out. There's a scratchpad in Anki but it's mostly useful for things like Kanji, not for code. I've previously experimen…
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on “Show HN: Code Cards – Anki for code”Submitted Find the tools to get lost as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLocation: Berlin, Germany Remote: yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: Clojure/Clojurescript, Python, Scala, Go and more Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=42655380 Website: http://www.oskarth.com/ Projects: http://www.oskarth.com/projects/ Email: me at oskarth dot com
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2015)”Submitted Launching Code Cards on Hacker News and Lessons Learned as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRubbish. Lisp 1.5 wasn't just a theory, and ran on the PDP-1, thanks to Peter Deutsch. Here's a copy that can run on an IBM 7094 emulator. [0] Several people have made interpreters over the years. [1][2][3] [0] http://www.sonoma.edu/users/l/luvisi/ [1] http://mentallandscape.com/Lisp.htm [2] https://www.oskarth.com/lisp-interpreter/ [3] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mom22/tphols09-lisp.pdf
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on “Lisp 1.5 Primer (1967) [pdf]”Submitted Basic Event Sourcing in Clojure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOP here. Whisper Walk is an app for iOS that allows you to explore and walk freely while a voice whispers in your ear roughly which direction to walk. Write up about why I created it here: https://www.oskarth.com/find-the-tools-to-get-lost/
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on “Show HN: Whisper Walk – Siri for Walking”Submitted Code cards as a story · 1 points
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