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Ask HN: Resources about building secure websites and web services?
2 points by sunday_serif 3y ago|2 comments
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For me, the takeaway is less about why these movements are popular and more about how our perception of past events differs from our perception of current events. The experiment (to me) shows that what appears appalling and repulsive in hin
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Where does the word "pragma" come from?(stackoverflow.com)
3 points by sunday_serif 3y ago|0 comments
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by sunday_serif 3y ago
A good idea is a good idea, regardless of where it comes from.
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Scratch wasn’t my first “encounter” per say, but I did write my first non-trivial program with scratch. Everything else before that was just tinkering. In high school (2010s) I was familiar with programming from the outside in. I remember k
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by sunday_serif 3y ago
Thank you for the recommendation! I will add that to my list. So far, the following 3 books have been very useful to me (in the following order). 1. Propositions and Predicate Calculus by Derek Goldrei: The first 3 chapters in this book hel
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by sunday_serif 3y ago
I am currently trying to learn formal logic and proof systems. I’ve always been interested in learning higher level math, but was consistently mystified by the proofs. I could always come around to understand them, but I never understood ho
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Ask HN: What are you currently learning?
5 points by sunday_serif 3y ago|6 comments
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by sunday_serif 3y ago
We have rank choice voting in my city and it is amazing. I was effectively able to vote for my two favorite candidates who have very similar views with no fear of splitting a vote. Interestingly though (but not surprisingly) there is a lot
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by sunday_serif 3y ago
We have already introduced so many automations into our lives in the past century. People from 100 years ago would assume that, with the tools we have today, we already would have reached “fully automated luxury communism”. But instead, we
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by sunday_serif 3y ago
I am no philosopher, and only an amateur mathematician… But to me it seems that even when you consider math as just being language… you still run into the same philosophical problem when you consider what the semantics of that language are.
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by sunday_serif 3y ago
On Exactitude in Science By Jorge Luis Borges …In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In tim
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by sunday_serif 3y ago
Telling of what? Not trying to be snarky, I am genuinely curious.
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Booooooooo
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This has always been a favorite day dream of mine. I think all of us have some sort of fantasy in which we invent something which changes the world, makes us famous for generations to come, or something like that. I always noodle on somethi
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by sunday_serif 3y ago
I think this is a really beautiful little concept. While I imagine this being very interesting for circles formed around some topic matter, I can also imagine this as a nice way to carry forward small friend groups. I’m imagining socials ci
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by sunday_serif 3y ago
Can anyone recommend a resource on how linkers work other than the "Linkers and Loaders" book? Maybe a linker repo that is easier to read through, or a more modern book or series of articles on the topic? No shame on the book, it
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by sunday_serif 3y ago
I mostly agree with the message of this article. I rarely ever reference the knowledge and information I captured in a note. Nor have I experienced a major revelation by seeing all of my notes rendered in the structure of a particular notes
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by sunday_serif 3y ago
I think this may be one of the best overviews of parsing algorithms I’ve come across! It is concise, it points out the various approaches and their advantages/pitfalls in practice. In general, it seems like most articles on parsing are
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by sunday_serif 3y ago
That’s great! It sounds like you had a very successful career. Was it hard to find a niche to fill? Presumably as an individual selling your own software, you could reasonably find a very small niche and that would be enough to sustain you.
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Ask HN: Are you a self employed Software Engineer? If so, what is that like?
15 points by sunday_serif 3y ago|8 comments
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by sunday_serif 4y ago
Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky (third book in the Children of Time series) While not a book about an AI like chatGPT explicitly, it does feature some birds whose minds work a lot like how chatGPTs AI seems to work. The Children of
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Ask HN: How can software engineers help prevent climate change?
4 points by sunday_serif 4y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Which languages to build compilers for to learn through exploration?
3 points by sunday_serif 4y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What was your last “ah-ha!” moment?
23 points by sunday_serif 4y ago|19 comments