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   by asicsp 4y ago

   Reminds me of this quote by Brian W. Kernighan > Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it
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   by asicsp 4y ago

   Related discussion (tweet by the same author): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026663 "Amazon has a book piracy problem" https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1545477267932864512 (
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   by asicsp 4y ago

   > I'm not sure why, but when this first happened with me - it was selling a book I wrote online - it started to change my way of thinking, opening a realm of possibilities I never considered before. Similar story for me. I publishe
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   by asicsp 4y ago

   Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31929897 (87 points | 20 days ago | 25 comments)
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   by asicsp 4y ago

   See the discussion by the site's author here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32168903
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   by asicsp 4y ago

   Link to the HN discussion mentioned in the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28300951 (982 points | 10 months ago | 74 comments)
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   by asicsp 4y ago

   See https://news.ycombinator.com/pool for a list of such posts.
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   by asicsp 4y ago

   > Build your own filesystem Found a few links: * https://blog.carlosgaldino.com/writing-a-file-system-from-sc... * https://www3.nd.edu/~pbui/teaching/cse.30341.fa17/project06.... * https
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   by asicsp 4y ago

   I'd assume 20% covers payment processing fees, collecting VAT/etc where appropriate, and so on. As a comparison, Leanpub charges 20% for books/courses (not sure if those courses are on par with the features offered by tigyog)
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    Links to illustrations and data: * https://github.com/ablwr/illustrations/tree/main/cables * https://archivesoftomorrow.com/illustrations/video/ * https://archivesof
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    > Does the time spent writing feels worth it to you? Writing is an additional form of learning for me. Just the thought of sharing with someone makes me to do my research better, verify my assumptions, etc. I look up my posts first over
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    The Illustrated Guide to Video Formats: fifty years of video history(archivesoftomorrow.com)

    120 points by asicsp 4y ago|17 comments
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    This one? https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer There's also a list here with more resource links: https://github.com/madd86/awesome-system-design
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    See also https://loige.co/where-to-go-to-learn-rust-in-2021/ (books, video courses, newsletters, podcasts, blogs, workshops, etc)
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    > writing has to be among the worst ways to make money, sorry to say Depends. I left my high paying job and had mostly burned through my savings until selling programming ebooks saved me. Not saying that writing was the best option, but
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    Past discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22348190 (360 points | 2020 | 108 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10402121 (256 points | 2015 | 78 comments)
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    Something like https://regex-generator.olafneumann.org/ ?
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    Haha, you are right to be skeptical. For example, `GNU grep` doesn't treat backslash as special within character class. You need to place metacharacters like `-`, `^`, `]`, etc in particular spots to match them literally.
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    All words starting with the letter "n" and ending with "g", case insensitive >> /^nw*g$/i Yeah, seems like backslash got gobbled up in some sort of parsing before what gets displayed on the
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    Dupe: "Cheat sheet for if I'm gone" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31748553 (495 points | 16 days ago | 189 comments)
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    I haven't really looked into print on demand. I started with ebooks since that seemed the easiest option for me. And it is easy for readers to get updated versions. My books are around 100 pages and I've seen a few readers mention
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    That's a fair point, something like `tldr` and `cheat.sh` mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    Thanks a lot for the feedback, feels great to know the content style suited well for you :)
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    Thanks a lot for the feedback :) Curious about what kind of issues you had with `awk`. Perhaps https://awk.js.org/ could help? > Do you have a patreon or something similar? I pay my bills by selling PDF/EPUB versio
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    I use my ebooks for reference: * GNU grep and ripgrep ( https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnugrep_ripgrep/ ) * GNU sed ( https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnused/ ) * GNU awk ( https:/&
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    See also https://github.com/tayllan/awesome-algorithms for a list of interactive visualizations, learning resources, etc.
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    Here's a classic article on this topic: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    The `re` module in 3.11 will support "Atomic grouping and possessive quantifiers". I recently wrote a blog post about these features: https://learnbyexample.github.io/python-regex-possessive-qua...
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    See "Flight rules for Git" for more: https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules
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    by asicsp 4y ago

    Check out this past discussion thread (post link as well as comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20061078 Here's some technical writing courses: https://developers.google.com/tech-writing An