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Thomas Hintz
Personal blog · thintz.com/essays · on HN as thecombjellyphilosophyproductivitysystems
Thomas Hintz's personal blog at thintz.com covers philosophy, productivity and systems. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “The Hintz Chicken Scheme Shell”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Thomas Hintz's site for the Hintz Chicken Scheme Shell (Hiss) project and his resume. The linked pages cover Scheme tooling and the author's professional profile.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thomas Hintz is a systems analyst, systems designer, and educator with project experience across ecological restoration, software architecture, and more.
Most-linked posts?
- The Hintz Chicken Scheme Shell2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-02
- Stuff Costs More Than You Think2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-19
What Hacker News says?
I've seen Prescheme (a subset of Scheme used to bootstrap a full-fledged dialect of Scheme) that seems to allow only stack-based allocation and therefore forbids certain types of closures that cannot be reduced via hoisting at compile time.[0] Lisp with ref counting (assuming acyclic references) instead of GC could also be interesting to try to hack together. I have a feeling closures would be a particularly quick w…
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on “NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope”Submitted Only Working When You Feel Like It? as a story · 118 points
HN discussionAs a Chicken Scheme user you might also appreciate the Hintz Chicken Scheme Shell (Hiss): http://thintz.com/chicken-scheme-shell Disclaimer: I haven't used it and the author says it is "still pretty new." However, it seems to be under active development still. At least there was a commit to the repository within the last year.
Comment linking /chicken-scheme-shell
on “What I learned from others' shell scripts”Submitted Stuff Costs More Than You Think as a story · 46 points
HN discussionLocation: San Francisco or remote Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Javascript, React, Java, Scheme, Clojure, postgres/mysql, python, C, assembly, and many more. Resume: https://thintz.com/resume.pdf Email: t@thintz.com More than anything I just like making great products and seeing them make people's lives better! 5 years full stack web dev plus web libraries (websockets, AWS, HMAC & more) and some…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2016)”Submitted A Cleaner, Simpler Blog Page as a story · 40 points
HN discussionI would highly recommend chicken scheme for most projects. It isn't as mature as other ecosystems, but it is getting there fast and is already quite mature and practical. I've used it to build multiple web apps/sites.[0][1] Learn more about the features it provides: http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Getting%20started An index of the many libs it supports: http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-projects/egg-index-4.html Why ano…
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on “Chicken Scheme”Submitted Top Stories On HN vs Reddit as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI have built numerous businesses and websites with chicken scheme. It rocks. The largest one is a basic CRM for a small niche. It runs super fast and development was a breeze. I run it compiled with a number of optimizations enabled.[0] My personal website is also built in chicken scheme and runs fast even though it is running in interpreted mode.[1] [0] https://a.keeptherecords.com/demo , source code: https://githu…
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on “Chicken Scheme”Submitted Keep Simplifying as a story · 19 points
HN discussionWhat I did ( http://www.thintz.com/essays/less-stuff ) is to take stuff that I didn't think I needed and move it to the basement. If it stayed down there for awhile and I didn't miss it, then I knew there was a good chance that I didn't need it anymore.
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on “A minimalist lifestyle does not make you a better person”Submitted Lean Startup - Extreme Version as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThe OS has not been open sourced yet but will be soon. Personally there is https://github.com/ThomasHintz/ and https://bitbucket.org/thomashintz/ and even more on my personal website http://thintz.com Technically it could support C. One of the reasons it is based on Scheme though is that there is a lot of code already, code written in Scheme. :)
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on “Why do we need a new OS?”Submitted Rewrite It ...and other programming best practices. as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYou can also read a blog post at http://thintz.com/essays/butter-camp-launch , which details how I went from nothing to launch in about a day.
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on “Ask HN: Review My Startup - Butter Camp”Submitted Turn Off The Premature Optimization as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making It On My Own as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Having Trouble Getting Started? Stop Researching and Start as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Profiling and websockets: going from 23s to 285ms as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Save Our Computing Future as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted For Me, College Is Not Worth The Time Or Money as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best, How? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Better Work Environment as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programmer's Obligation to Reduce Climate Change Impact as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On interviewing and getting a job with a disability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Less Stuff as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The hidden cost of stuff as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing For Your Best Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted So Lean There's Almost Nothing There as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Actions Follow Thoughts as a story · 2 points
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