nbaksalyar

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by nbaksalyar 6y ago
Hey HN, For the last couple of months, I have been working on a new interactive course to teach systems programming. Basically, it can be described as "Khan Academy for low-level coding". It is built with Rust and it uses WebAssem
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Show HN: Low-Level Academy, an explorable systems programming course(lowlvl.org)
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Typical Problems of Technical Founders(qotoqot.com)
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by nbaksalyar 6y ago
> Before that, you technically had to leave the country the day you were laid off Interestingly enough, there's a very similar system in place in the United Kingdom (Tier 2 General). Not only you have to leave within 60 days after b
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The Impostor's Advantage(zainrizvi.io)
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Show HN: Headcrab, a modern Rust debugger library(github.com)
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by nbaksalyar 6y ago
If we talk about Patreon and independent creators, I don't think it's a fair comparison because usually most of the content is already offered for free, unlike Netflix which you can't access without paying.
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The Soul of a New Debugger(nbaksalyar.github.io)
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by nbaksalyar 6y ago
Prescriptions are also completely free in Scotland. Same for Wales and Northern Ireland, as far as I know.
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Ask HN: What open source projects do you sponsor?
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by nbaksalyar 6y ago
> what is all of this for? Faster downloads of instagram photos? It’s almost like saying “640kb of memory will be enough for everyone”. :) Instagram, YouTube, and a wealth of other apps which are a large part of our lives now were enable
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by nbaksalyar 6y ago
I think the main problem with advice on 'how to beat procrastination' is the assumption that everyone is the same. Which is not the case, of course, because people have different sleep patterns, different habits, and different rea
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by nbaksalyar 7y ago
That's a feature I sorely missed after the demise of the original (pre-Blink) Opera Browser, and one of the reasons I strongly prefer Firefox over Chrome. Thank you so much for this!
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SuperMemo Guru: texts on memory, learning, creativity, and education(supermemo.guru)
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Playstation Emulation Guide: implementation of an emulator from scratch [pdf](svkt.org)
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by nbaksalyar 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE or UK I'm a senior Rust engineer with experience in compilers, distributed systems, networking (including decentralized networks), native libraries & APIs, and performance optimization. Email: nikita.baksalyar
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by nbaksalyar 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | UK or REMOTE Senior Rust engineer with experience in compilers, distributed systems, networking (including decentralized networks), native libraries & APIs, and performance optimization. Email: nikita.baksalyar@gmail.com
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Unlambda(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nbaksalyar 7y ago
This “handheld game console” is in fact a complete clone of Nintendo Game & Watch. :)
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by nbaksalyar 7y ago
Like it works now with older versions of macOS and on Linux: it downloads a Ruby binary when it's not available on the host system.
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by nbaksalyar 7y ago
> allowing more and more games to exist and do well on the market Valve is doing amazing Not to mention their efforts with Linux gaming. Proton [1] is amazing: in under a year a lot of AAA games just work with it. Something you
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by nbaksalyar 7y ago
> Was it from Packt? From a 1st tier publisher. ;) But I concur with another comment, it's hard to justify not going with self-publishing in 2019. More so if you're not doing this for money. I would prefer to publish a comple
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by nbaksalyar 7y ago
Thank you, this is very timely: recently I got a cold email from an acquisition editor too and been researching this fascinating topic of writing tech books. :) Some more helpful resources I found: - Advice to Prospective Book Authors from
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Superfluous character – code 1000 times slower(reddit.com)
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by nbaksalyar 8y ago
> Or ISPs and telcos could offer 'family' filters built into some of their plans, etc. And they already do this, it's switched on by default. Sometimes you can't even visit innocuous websites because of thes
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by nbaksalyar 8y ago
> What else remains? SPARQL. It's useful beyond Semantic Web, as evidenced by the raise of projects such as GraphQL. It can replace proprietary REST APIs and make the Web more connected and open. For e.g. see this short talk
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by nbaksalyar 8y ago
Well, isn't HN an oasis of the good old Web? ;) You're right though, but these connections are rarely long-lasting.
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by nbaksalyar 8y ago
It really was. ICQ, MSN, and even Skype had this feature of finding people by their profiles (country, age, interests, etc.). What’s more important, people were open to talking to complete strangers back then, and it felt like magic to talk
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by nbaksalyar 8y ago
It is possible to cause an irreversible disaster with critical software, though, like in the infamous Therac-25 case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
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by nbaksalyar 8y ago
> Rust is slower than C++ It may be, but there's also the concurrency aspect which is hard to get right in C++. That's where the performance gains come from, partially, because 'fearless concurrency' is one of the Rus

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