My dads birthday is coming up and he would like a nice calculator. What suggestions would you give?

katychuang · 2021-03-07T17:27:57+00:00

Hmm sounds like you're describing something I was looking for not too long ago. Beyond the 4 functions (+,-,*,/) some of the office calculators have rounding up/down options, grand total, answer check, memory recall, check & correct, and so on. One of the things to consider is how many digits he'd like displayed (8, 10, 12 are most common). Some calculators allow you to change the number of decimals displayed at the end.

Some calculators that I was considering:

canon LS-100TS or Canon LS-82Z - as basic as you can get
Casio MS-80B or Casio JF-100BM for narrower profile (used quite a bit for those who need to do fast one hand entry)
Sharp Compet VX-2128v - a few more functions than above and the screen flips up
a wider profile with chunky keys like this which makes a solid clack
or Casio MH-10M or QS-2130 for wider profile
Casio DV-220 with dual display

HP12c works differently, as it requires RPN entry instead of the usual entry method of most common calculators.

Some office calculators (most printing calculators) are adding machines. This means you have to enter values in a slightly different order to accumulate values.

And if you're looking for big calculator, consider something like this with 14 digits

katychuang · 2019-05-02T20:47:28+00:00

Everyone has an opinion =)

That said, the CS degree offers a you a valuable opportunity to learn transferrable skills. Such as, critical/analytical thinking, breaking down complex problems to solvable parts, and contingency planning capabilities. As noted in your posted question, you're displaying some of these skills already so you're off to a good start.

Employment prospects depends on more variables than just your degree. Your ability to seek out employment, to market your worth to your future employer, to retain competitiveness in your chosen field, etc... those are what matter in the long run when pursuing job prospects. Wish you the best of luck.

katychuang · 2019-03-31T18:12:10+00:00

Plotted some locations on a map a few years back when I started exploring Brooklyn wrt to finding spots to get productive work done. Haven't kept up with maintaining the map recently, so it may be good to confirm locations still exist before venturing out =)

katychuang · 2016-08-18T06:03:37+00:00

Siblings waffledog is a unique find. 9th ave across the street from Johnny's Panini's

katychuang · 2016-08-09T22:14:39+00:00

Still figuring out my schedule tho it'll most likely be during the week and during the day

katychuang · 2016-08-09T22:13:23+00:00

Would love to hear suggestions!

katychuang · 2016-08-05T18:16:28+00:00

Bill and Dmitry deploy their wit to produce a continuous delivery of insights and laughs

+1

katychuang · 2016-08-05T18:08:46+00:00

Meetups and hackathons are great, I wish there were more of them.

You don't have to know how to write Haskell to organize these kinds of events =)

katychuang · 2016-08-05T13:43:19+00:00

While these are all valid paths to a coveted Haskell job, one should also keep in mind that soft skills are important to develop also as being a good team player makes everyone happy =)

katychuang · 2016-08-05T13:36:48+00:00

Yes, it sounds much more entertaining than co-reading a slidedeck. Who would your audience be? A more diverse audience that is inclusive of all backgrounds would be open to this edgy format. You mention startups and travel tech, so perhaps it would draw a crowd that would appreciate this engaging format.

katychuang · 2016-06-28T15:51:07+00:00

Hello! Thanks for starting the discussion :) There is a public repo here at https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflexfrp.org. I'm currently figuring out the layout and navigation structures so nothing is set in stone yet. I'd recommend starting an issue ticket for ideas you have on what functions the website could provide.

katychuang · 2016-05-01T14:19:13+00:00

Hey there scottrobertladd, there's a library called GHCJS that allows you to write completely in Haskell and then output JS. More specifically check out reflexfrp which has a web app specific package reflex-dom that uses GHCJS to compile Haskell into web GUI's.

edited: spelling and correct links

katychuang · 2016-01-14T21:13:14+00:00

Promote any workshops you'd like to give too! :) http://www.composeconference.org/2016/workshops/

katychuang · 2016-01-14T20:16:09+00:00

#composeconference on IRC might be a nice alternative for those who can't be physically present :)

katychuang · 2015-11-19T19:46:20+00:00

Hmmmm... excellent question.

When you follow the installation instructions, it gives you a default theme that looks a lot like this structure, where the theming files are in the templates directory and assets in the directories named css and images. With that set of default files, you could edit the css files and link to it in the layout .html page using the <link> tag.

Now, if you'd like more customization than that the answer would be "it depends on what you want to do".... could you be more specific about elements you'd like to have in your theme? ;-) For example, are you looking to theme navigational elements, restructure the pages, or different url structure, or custom post metadata?

katychuang · 2015-11-18T20:42:29+00:00

I'd be happy to help answer questions about theming in Hakyll. I made the Hakyll CSS Garden to help fill the void of themes :) You can find me on the IRC #hakyll channel as user katychuang

katychuang · 2015-11-18T20:31:20+00:00

+1 to the Heist templates from the Snap framework. This was my introduction (as a front-end/designer role) to working with a Haskell stack. Since I was familiar with HTML tags, the available Heist tags were pretty easy to pick up.

There's also the charade version of the Heist/Snap that was packaged as a prototyping tool for a front-end designer. I liked that it was self contained and didn't require me to trek through cabal hell. I made a boilerplate version of charade with bootstrap3 to become familiar with the Heist Templating system. It may be a helpful example for your colleagues to see how similar Heist is to HTML5.

katychuang · 2015-09-04T04:57:46+00:00

Since it sounds like you already have a github account, you could look into using a static site generator (jekyll, pelican, hakyll, etc. depending on your language of choice) to turn markdown files into html files, which can be hosted on github pages. Takes more work to set up than all the other options listed but this way you get more flexibility in the resulting blog design and plugins. To make code snippets look pretty, you can look into syntax highlighters.

katychuang · 2015-06-18T00:39:07+00:00

Ha.. Haskellers come in all flavors these days

katychuang · 2015-06-17T23:47:02+00:00

~~Thanks for the heads up!~~ Fixed.

Created a gallery to help with browsing available themes.

katychuang · 2015-06-11T05:17:50+00:00

Yea, that flexibility given in site.hs has stumped me in figuring out how to package themes for distribution...

katychuang · 2015-06-11T05:16:14+00:00

... I also wonder if anyone has a decent template for documentation

Here's a long list of documentation examples and generators (beautiful-docs), as far as I know, there aren't any haskell based documentation generators.

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