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by _benj 5y ago
Another vote for "The Phoenix Project" and "The Unicorn Project". Both of those books are technically fiction but they are incredibly insightful into what goes all around coding and how to optimize those processes. The c
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by _benj 5y ago
I'm fascinated by your comment. I'm making a few assumptions from the "CEO of midsized company" and "quick profits" plan that "worked out quite well" about you. It's awesome to see that it worked
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by _benj 5y ago
ok, I'm down! Using zig I finally decided to try GDB and it is amazing!
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by _benj 5y ago
I was recently given a legacy project to work on. Two things happened, I made at least one big mistake that took 4 people and 3 days to fix on production. Second, I realized that I had a very strong resistance to reading somebody else’s cod
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by _benj 5y ago
I’ve been learning Zig for a few months now and what I’m in love with is the ability to just use Zig to interact with whatever C libraries I want, but doing so with the conveniences that Zig offers. I want to use SDL2 and cairo and pango? N
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by _benj 5y ago
This resonates so much with me. Recently I talked with an EE that worked at a company that I admire. When I asked him what he did there, fully expecting something cool and highly skilled, he replied that he did sales. I think that my disapp
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by _benj 5y ago
Seeing how big companies still pay for WinXP support… I’m rooting for the little guy who has more mobility
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by _benj 5y ago
:) oops… should had put the disclaimer that it’s a personal opinion. I just hear some people saying “I don’t like vegetables” and often my question is “how have you had them?”
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by _benj 5y ago
I don’t smoke but have been involved in some programs to (hopefully) help people quit smoking. One of the things that seem to work was replacing the habit. Just being bored doing nothing on the time that you used to be smoking will drive yo
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by _benj 5y ago
This is definitely not the right comment but as a vegetarian… steam vegetables are disgusting! Grill/bake is so much more delicious. And, after committing the sin of telling you that I’m a vegetarian in my first sentence, I hope it can
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by _benj 5y ago
Neat! I've been recently falling more in love with trees and have been planing to beautify my backyard, any recommendations? Also, if there's anything in particular about cli/scripting that you need an individual to ask, my e
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by _benj 5y ago
That is so cool! I can't write to save my life, so I have certainly an admiration for those in wise in the ways of communication! Woman, certainly bonus point! The best engineers I've worked with have been females, I think because
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by _benj 5y ago
I’ve tried reaching for a book /kindle when I needed to be entertained without success, or taking so much effort to start it that the habit hasn’t stayed. Was there something that helped you on that? Some type of book/etc.?
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Ask HN: Non-Tech People on HN?
4 points by _benj 5y ago|5 comments
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by _benj 5y ago
This look amazing! Thanks for sharing, sounds like yarh (yet another rabbit hole) that I wanna pursue! :-)
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by _benj 5y ago
Interesting take. I used to think that but looking at psychology, things like the "flow" state or the book "Deep Work" there's something to be said about out enjoyment of something and the motivations for why we do
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by _benj 5y ago
I loved that article!! Ever since then I've been playing with some techs that I've been curious since forever but without a "project" to try them I hadn't... The notion of doing something for which I don't care
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by _benj 5y ago
In my opinion is the creation of an actual alternative to emacs, but more modern and simpler using lua instead of (e)lisp. I have nothing against emacs but being a fan of vim and of simpler systems I'm a fan of what I'm seeing bei
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by _benj 5y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. Would you mind expanding a little into the real time aspect of the API? Does that includes order and Level 2?
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by _benj 5y ago
why is there so little info on their site? I'm tempted to use a throwaway email to see what is it because from their landing page there's very little that would make me trust them, specially when I know how expensive that data tra
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by _benj 5y ago
Hey there! As someone with just half the years of experience you have... I'm just gonna leave my one cent here :-) Clean Code is an excellent book to start going in the direction of what I'd consider "good programmer", i
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by _benj 5y ago
second this! I read the transcript and it was quite enjoyable indeed
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by _benj 5y ago
this is really cool! Would you mind if I ask about "performance"? I'm working on a toy project with luajit and I can either use ffi and SQLite C API (which can be a little complicated) or just use the CLI and capture the outp
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by _benj 5y ago
Not sure about O’Reilly but svelte is very nice and similar to plain HTML/CSS/JS. Elm is also a fun but it can take you for a loop if you are not that familiar with functional programming.
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by _benj 5y ago
you know, I have never explored anything but git. I'm aware of the esixtence of mercurial, svn, and hg but have never looked into it. I think git for me was just the thing I learned at work and just continued using even in personal pro
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by _benj 5y ago
I can think of a few reasons like "personal portfolio" and whatnot, but for me the main reason is to kind of have a central place to keep my personal projects that is not as messy as my "projects" folders and also to tra
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by _benj 5y ago
gitea looks great! thanks for the recommendation :)
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by _benj 5y ago
putting up with you? nah, I'm glad you are here! HN can sometimes sound like an echo chamber. I hear you, I've been through a few careers myself before landing on software engineering, but at the end of the day I've come to r
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Ask HN: GitHub Alternatives?
15 points by _benj 5y ago|15 comments
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by _benj 5y ago
Hey! What you are looking for is called “digital design” and my personal favorite is a book called “digital design and computer architecture” by Harris. It takes you all the way from the mathematical idea of a gate to combining them into la

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