_diyu

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by _diyu 8y ago
I've only been a consultant for 2 months, and the reason I say every waking hour is because we are only just now getting caught up with bills, but we're still pretty far from being stable, and this weighs heavily on my concentrati
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by _diyu 8y ago
I'm not in a position for any of that. We're living literally week to week, and every single hour that I'm awake I need to work. Our bills are past due and we're overdrawn $50 in the bank right now. I'm making $25&#
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Ask HN: How do you get past difficulty learning what's needed for a new job?
35 points by _diyu 8y ago|43 comments
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by _diyu 8y ago
For beginners? Whatever’s most popular on the job market. Ideally something with C syntax. Most languages are similar enough and their quirks can be avoided. Lisps are definitely a bad idea for this since the syntax is less intuitive to mos
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by _diyu 8y ago
Speaking as someone whose first dynamic language was python, it’s full of weird inconsistencies and I have no idea why anyone voluntarily chooses it when teaching programming. Granted all languages have warts, but people say python is easie
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Career Post-Mortem, or: How flashing teenager girls can ruin your life
32 points by _diyu 8y ago|40 comments
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by _diyu 8y ago
So I was actually just about to write a cross-platform app using https://material-ui.com/ purely because it is the most comprehensively fully developed and React-first toolkit for React out there. Plus it has 11k (edit: oh
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by _diyu 8y ago
I tried to rewrite my node backend in C++ but I got stuck at the package management part. When I learned Node I was able to install NPM and run “npm i -P uws” and was up and running quickly. Reading through about 5 WebSocket C++ lib install
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Ask HN: What web framework would you recommend for a greenfield project in 2018?
9 points by _diyu 8y ago|17 comments
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by _diyu 8y ago
I think that's more because Flask is a micro web framework whereas Rails is a macro web framework. Sinatra, Express, and Compojure are micro frameworks in the same vein as Flask, and they encourage simplicity of mental model over batte
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by _diyu 8y ago
I actually prefer Objective-C to Swift.
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by _diyu 8y ago
I've used a few registrars over the years in different ways. About 10 years ago I used pair.com because they also had PHP hosting and that's all I knew at the time. I did little with them. I think for a very brief period I actuall
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by _diyu 9y ago
Not just a basic one either, it had syntax highlighting! I always thought that was a pretty involved and complex feature, but it's simplified and demystified here.
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by _diyu 9y ago
Writing a garbage collector http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-gar...
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by _diyu 9y ago
Hey this reminds me of Bahamut which I made for similar reasons: https://github.com/sdegutis/Bahamut/blob/master/README.md
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by _diyu 9y ago
Thanks, I appreciate it. And my thinking lines up with yours, that nobody will realistically pay for this app, which is why my plan is to add a buy-me-a-beer (donate) button into the app, and keep it open sourced, and submit it here next Tu
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by _diyu 9y ago
That's what I've always tried to do: make something I use. The most successful example of this is when I made an app that I use on a daily basis ( https://github.com/sdegutis/AppGrid ) and have for several year
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by _diyu 9y ago
I don't mind learning, definitely. I got into this field because I'm passionate about software and I enjoy programming a lot. But while I have a full time job and a large-ish family to support, it's hard to fit "3 years
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by _diyu 9y ago
I'm only 32 but that's kind of where I'm at right now too. Mastered Objective-C and Mac & iOS development 10 years ago, now it's all Swift and nobody's really hiring for iOS devs in my area (Chicago suburbs), an
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by _diyu 9y ago
Wow, it even has skin support! I spent way too many hours developing skins for WinAmp and Trillian back in the late 90s as a teenager. I get why skins fell out of style, but I also kinda wish they didn't. Choosing a skin lets you perso
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by _diyu 9y ago
What kind of things make it great? I only see downsides or at the very least poorly implemented upsides that most other languages only have.
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by _diyu 9y ago
Clojure is fantastic for its simplicity, and I worked on a Clojure code base full time for 5 years, coming up with ways of translating Java patterns into Clojure. But I've noticed it has not been gaining traction in the job market, and
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by _diyu 9y ago
> few of the people using it realize they're programming An idea I've been toying with for a few months now is an automation app (read: window manager) whose UI is somewhere between Excel and GameMaker Studio's drag &amp
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Why I'm ditching Clojure for JavaScript(sdegutis.com)
11 points by _diyu 9y ago|17 comments