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by poletopole 6y ago
I was talking with my brother last night about online course platforms. I was arguing that there's plenty of graduate students or professors even in these times that would have the time and skill to host virtual lectures/classes a
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by poletopole 6y ago
I think people have an exaggerated expectation about Rust even though it's good at what it does. But if you really want to do low level development, then learn C first along with a good OS theory book and perhaps a compiler engineering
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by poletopole 6y ago
I was going to say SEO would be an easy way to get a foot in the door and doesn't really require any technical skills to do. After awhile you can make well beyond average income doing it.
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by poletopole 6y ago
I just finished a 300 page book on Dart which took all night to read. I've been hunting for an alternative to RN and heard about flutter and it definitely is as close as you're going to get. Overall, Dart gets the job done with th
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by poletopole 6y ago
I'm reading mostly CS and mathematic textbooks, although I am reading the Kybalion too. The first half of the secret is finding a good book which is a problem you would think would be solved by now. The second half is learning to take
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by poletopole 6y ago
I'll check out your hiring page.
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by poletopole 6y ago
Not hard at all to appreciate. I know the consistency woes of juggling thousands of message queues with millions of messages and containers with enormous databases. The problem though, as I found out ironically, is that most dilbert bosses
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by poletopole 6y ago
I've been considering writing a graph database on top of SPARQL and RDF. Beyond the official docs (which are pretty good), can you recommend any other resources for easily getting the hang of SPARQL?
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by poletopole 6y ago
I may be able to answer your question. I only watched the video on the landing page and glanced at the docs, but it reminds me of what a saga system would do (like redux-saga perhaps), meaning that much of the side effects, such as networki
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by poletopole 6y ago
SEO practitioner, hands down. My brother is one, and all he does is watch Google hangout videos, attends inane company meetings, and occasionally does "real" work in excel.
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by poletopole 6y ago
I've been a PHP developer for 10+ years and I would say learning Laravel is good place to start since it's the most popular choice for "PHP" companies. However, am I the only one who feels like web frameworks (in OOP lan
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by poletopole 6y ago
From what I've gathered most small software companies rarely invest in refactoring. Instead, they like to dangle the promise of doing so, perhaps with a new modern language, as a carrot and stick routine to keep developers from leaving
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Ask HN: Any recommendations on a modern/good set theory book?
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by poletopole 6y ago
I live on a poverty line and I just give homeless people there I know smokes and cash for food. That’s more than most people manage to do.
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by poletopole 6y ago
Am I the only “lucky apple user” where I was randomly redirected to a cheezy malware site from 20 years ago?
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by poletopole 6y ago
Welcome to the club :)
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by poletopole 6y ago
I tried teaching my 10 year old nephew bash and python about a year ago. What I learned is that you have to make it fun for the kid. For example, I taught my nephew the "say" command and he went berserk over it for about an hour.
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by poletopole 6y ago
No one will see this comment buried under 200 others, but if you made it this far checkout basscss. It's the only css framework that ever has made sense to me. Devs keep recommending Tailwind to me and I honestly don't understand
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by poletopole 6y ago
Don't get stuck in traffic coding, you'll cramp up.
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Ask HN: Has anyone here switched to a technical writing role?
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by poletopole 6y ago
I forget if PG started HN before or after YC funded Reddit. It's best to think of the two in an evolutionary sense, meaning, HN intentionally remained simple as opposed to Reddit. This was a prudent choice and many have complained abou
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by poletopole 6y ago
I'm not sure if this answer helps the OP in any way but I actually prefer books that don't have a newfangled project that distracts from the core language. It's a good idea for readers who are learning programming for the fir
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by poletopole 6y ago
Will do.
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by poletopole 6y ago
I was the lead contractor for Wonder. I haven't talked with the founder since last year since I had other projects. I probably will reach out to him this month to see how things are going. Feel free to email me (my email is current) yo
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by poletopole 6y ago
Life is so different now for you than it was for me back in 2010 at 20. However, as far as general life advice goes: if you can’t decide on something, pick up a book and read. I always liked will smith’s advice which was just “read and run”
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by poletopole 6y ago
Holy crap I have that book. Can you elaborate more? I’m learning C right now for a variety of reasons but I didn’t think learning posix c would bump my value as a web dev.
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by poletopole 6y ago
Exercism.io looks interesting. I wonder though, how is it free though?
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by poletopole 6y ago
I'm going to do it then! I'll make a thread on the 5th next month and if it goes well it'll be every 5th from there.
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by poletopole 6y ago
Can we make this a regular thread on HN? Perhaps TMWN HN (Tell Me Why Not HN)? I have tons of ideas that I'm too embarrassed to get initial feedback on from HN. Once a month we can all pitch each other ideas and give feedback on others
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by poletopole 6y ago
Thanks for the tip, will do.

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