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by gavinray 1y ago
I think you might have to get more granular than: > people who genuinely enjoy the process of programming (regardless of when they started) I began programming at 9/10, and it's been one of only a few lifelong passions.
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I remember running Hamachi and NoIP DUC's (Dynamic Update Client) as a kid in late 2000's to expose private server addresses for games or for multiplayer through direct network addresses NoIP was also the recommended "easy&qu
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I thought so too...
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Wow, our stories are shockingly similar! Started at the same age, also learned programming mostly through SecondLife Lua and other game scripting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44658995 I often wonder how much moddab
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by gavinray 1y ago
Based on the experience that Quanta consistently provides the highest-quality publications of science developments for the moderately-technical layperson?
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I don't actually understand what this VS Code extension provides? > Behind the scenes, this extension is using a Docker-based local proxy (via Neon Local) to route traffic from localhost to your Neon database branch. The extensi
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It's explained in the post.
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Tailwind Plus is a paid collection of UI components and templates. TailwindCSS itself is meant to be nothing more than a styling tool, like Bootstrap...
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by gavinray 1y ago
Vsevolod Tolstopyatov ( https://github.com/qwwdfsad ) is the other brain behind Coroutines, Concurrency, and Atomics in Kotlin, and he's still very much active.
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Raises hand
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Highschool dropout w/ GED here. I started learning how to code from trying to make game mods around age 10. This was mostly UnrealScript + Lua for SecondLife. Got an internship at a web dev shop when I was 18. They primarily did SaaS s
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by gavinray 1y ago
I tried to use Jetbrains official Kotlin MCP SDK recently and it couldn't even serve the MCP endpoint on an URL that was different than what the default was expected to be... They had made a bunch of hard-coded assumptions
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Ask HN: Tools for first-time home buyers?
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"Mortal Engines" begins... (One of my favorite Sci-Fi Young Adult series I read growing up) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Engines tl;dr = Post apocalypse, cities are giant mobile machines that eat an
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SQL: 2023 Property-Graph Queries in Postgres 18 Beta(gavinray97.github.io)
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Experimenting with SQL:2023 Property-Graph Queries in Postgres 18(gavinray97.github.io)
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20 questions are not nearly enough to give someone a sense here. Additionally, there are a lot of subdomains/niches to kinks. Gold standard here is https://bdsmtest.org which is ~100 questions in the full version and scores
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by gavinray 1y ago
The idea of "Context-Oriented Programming" is really interesting. Recently, Kotlin has added this in the name of "Context Parameters", and Scala 3 has them as "given"/"using" traits. https:&#x2F
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Having a language in which the exact same letter(s) make different sounds only based on context is absurd. Spanish, for example: everything is spelled exactly the way it sounds, a sane design.
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Impressive work, how useful is it for consumer genome analysis or pharmacogenomic investigations?
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> The ethics and long-term risks here seem huge. Do they? If we have the ability to screen embryos to determine which ones are likely to have the least health problems, and to live as fulfilling and successful a life of possible,
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I'd like to know what it looks like before investing my time in using a GUI tool. Neat idea on paper though!
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Oh, that is great to know, thank you!
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Show HN: I built an MCP tool to query anything with SQL (Apache Calcite)(github.com)
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These are pretty clever usecases I wouldn't have thought of. Maybe a little complex for what I do, but clever nonetheless.
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I use Edge on both Win + Android, and uBlock Origin works perfectly on both.
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I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted. I've not read any of the authors listed, but "downvote" on HN is not an "I don't like your opinion." button, it's a "What you've said contributes
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Online playground: https://pattrns.renoise.com/
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> The UI is a garbled mess of like 15 years of UI design. There are 3+ menus for doing nearly every task. You can still use some views that have been around since windows 98. Then basic tasks get hidden. I actually like the newe
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by gavinray 1y ago
Win11 was great for me, but recently the shoe-horning of Copilot/AI into everything has been degrading my experience. The worst of it being Notepad. I use Notepad _constantly_. I am always pasting little bits of text or drafts of thing

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