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by _benj 4y ago
I like this question but I think is hard to answer because “it depends” :) I might want to learn something to get a job, I might want to learn something to make something easier… But lately I’ve been leaning strongly in learning because I’m
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Exactly!
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hehe! It's ok to be "that person" :) Yes, I've tried rust and have even shipped some project with it! I think the things that didn't worked for me was the complexity. It felt like I had to keep a lot of things in mi
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It’s the access and control that it gives me! As when I’d pick Go because I was doing some concurrency, I can now explore a bunch of concurrency libraries, including some implementations that look a lot like Go channels. Want to watch a fil
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With the woes of string.h being known, why not just use an alternative like https://github.com/antirez/sds ? I’ve also been having a blast with C because writing C feels like being a god! But the biggest thing that I l
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I simply use Wave (no affiliation, just a happy customer). I considered using ledger or gnucash or something else but at the end of the day I don't want to spent too much time worrying about bookkeeping. I like how transparent they are
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I’m quite excited about this! Janet looks like a nice small, embeddable, fun language with a lively community! The documentation and site felt like a close-knit community of insiders, which I wanted to become one of them :) hopefully this b
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There are a couple of charities that my wife and I donate to but a few are from people we have come to trust (John Green, MrBeast philanthropy) and something particular happened this year during my taxes (US), it was the first year that ite
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Boring bank
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Inkscape > Illustrator I recently used it for a project and it was rock solid. Apart from that I could script/automate workflows with CLI!
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Thanks for this! One of my frustration with tools nowadays is that they aim to be so "user friendly" that actually make things complicated and thus understanding how something works, which allows one to be more productive with a t
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I love this project and generally agree with the idea that art is up to the viewer. At the same time, I believe that artist have can often have a unique ability to see/perceive reality in a way that escapes the general population, and
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I relate to this so much! What I’ve been enjoying A TON lately is embedded development for hobby. Not Arduino, but bare metal, flipping registers and configuring devices in a STM32, writing linker scripts and scripting gdb. It feels awesome
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For me it comes down to happiness. I find it meaningful and enjoyable to solve problems for others. I remember reading in Give and Take by Adam Grant about how the happiest people volunteer around 100h per year. With that said, I think that
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Not sure, tested it with firefox and it offered to download it. I don't think is a good format for the web though because it takes too much space. I use it to make images with C locally and monitor them with a quick image viewer[0] I w
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yeah :(
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Just in case others find it useful, I recently came across Netpbm[0] which is comically simple to implement![1] It’s a pretty good image format if one wants to quickly make something visual with code. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.o
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I second the comment about trying them, but then again, it’s very different using a chair in a showroom than 8 hours a day. My Steelcase chair is for sure the best office investment I’ve made! With a good chair you are looking for something
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For me it’s a matter of just starting. Days that I feel like doing nothing or feel very distracted, I’ll put on some music I like, put a 10 minute timer, and just start doing the next thing I need to do for the next 10 minutes. The majority
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Idk? joke aside, I think it's a way to sound less bossy or imposing or something like that on text communications? (see, I did it again, maybe?) I know I use it in slack as a way to invite comments on a message, sort of like saying, &q
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Welcome! I definitively feel your struggle because I was there a few years ago. When I started this journey a few years ago it just seemed daunting and impossible but I remember telling myself: "people do this and I am 'people&#x2
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I hear you! I think that a hard NO sometimes can be misunderstood or just straight up not understood at all. I once got a PR review that said “doesn’t confirm to SOLID principles” Well, being self taught I didn’t know what the heck was he t
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Uff, I might have been that guy! I think it came about from my first couple of tech jobs in which I was either working alone or was the most knowledgeable one on the team and thus pretty much anything I said happen. When I came to work with
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This! It happened to me on my last job search. Was talking with three companies and two of the had the usual 4-6 meetings across 2-3 weeks stuff… the one I accepted did two interviews (technical and with PMs) and had an offer for me about 1
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> any layperson can say "hey AI slave, write me a program that..."? I think this is one of the big challenges. From my limited experience, a person without expertise being able to describe accurately enough what a program shoul
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I’m glad that you still find SPA and CRUD apps fun! That is my day job and I’m in the, idk, two figures CRUD app during my career? :)
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I’ve been playing with Scheme and I’m loving it!!
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Although the author mentions some interesting points the biggest advantage that I find using tailwind is avoiding context switching. Going from the markup to css and then trying to remember what was the name of the class I was working with?
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Ask HN: Hobby coding that doesn’t feel like work
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No. I think one of the issues of react is that even though is not a framework (do they still say that?) it is used as one. IMHO Vue 2 was a very good framework in as much as it hid away from the the miscellaneous and complexities of the bro

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