elias94

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by elias94 4y ago
Wikimedia Foundation has around $350M of founds while the website expenses has been estimated around ~$10M per year. It could be run for more than 25 years without any money. The Wikimedia Foundation manager takes $400k as salary.
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by elias94 4y ago
I would suggest Practical Common Lisp https://gigamonkeys.com/book/ You will create a MP3 database, a web server, a spam filter, a HTML generator. Really practical!
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by elias94 4y ago
Books are curated content that has been reviewed by editors and are usually well written. Better if the books is printed by a relevant publishing company and even better if the book has been translated which usually means is relevant. Also
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by elias94 4y ago
Unfortunately users reviews are generally pretty useless. And the experts reviews are absent or difficult to find online, because there's not a real incentive for them to share it. I came from an European country, a not heavy-populated
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by elias94 4y ago
1. don't use Kindle since it lock you to use a proprietary format made by Amazon. Use a Kobo for example 2. buy ebook in a open format like .epub 3. buy physical copies as an alternative Remember that the important thing is to support
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by elias94 4y ago
https://tryclojure.org/ in case you want to try it!
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by elias94 4y ago
> has been upwards of 15 queries per second from bots What type of queries are they generating? For what purpose are querying Marginalia? Scraping and filling internal search engines? > If anyone could go ahead and find a solution to
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by elias94 4y ago
Hey, here is the author of the accent package. It was my first extension that wrote after 1 week on starting using Emacs. ELisp is really great! MacOS menu for accented characters is must have for me and I cannot understand why other OS are
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Ask HN: Why physics students are usually great software engineers?
1 points by elias94 4y ago|2 comments
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by elias94 4y ago
48MB? Nowadays laptop are sold with 500GB SSD and minimum of 16GB or RAM. What matters are the performances. The JVM outperforms all the electron and JS app out there. I would much prefer to download a 300MB app than use those slow JS web a
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by elias94 4y ago
I got hypnotised
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by elias94 4y ago
I doubt anything interesting will came out from that expensive series. They're doing it for the money, not for the product. And that as always be a clear indicator of a low quality product.
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by elias94 4y ago
If you are a developer, why not create your own blog? - github, or even better sourcehut as a repo + hosting - buy a domain for $10/y - hugo, jekyll (org-mode for pro) it will take you 15 minutes
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by elias94 4y ago
Thanks for the comment. I downloaded both and I'm really impressed.
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by elias94 4y ago
I love org-mode, but the lack of mobile is really a wall for me. I need the flexibility to add notes in a second from my mobile (without emacs server etc). I switched to Bear atm, just because has the sync between all devices.
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Common Lisp: A website in 1 minute(youtube.com)
7 points by elias94 4y ago|1 comments
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by elias94 5y ago
I’m the only one that saw Loom having access to the webcam in the article? Loom can open your webcam and record you audio if they want… So grammarly is offering this service thanks to the cloud and thanks to the data transmitted over intern
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by elias94 5y ago
Read Clojure Distilled and try to complete all the Clojure Koans. 1. https://yogthos.net/ClojureDistilled.html 2. http://clojurekoans.com/
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by elias94 5y ago
Try (prev-step) in the REPL. Probably I need to add an help with some commands. Forgot Show HN. Now I cannot edit the title anymore
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by elias94 5y ago
I mostly worked with Javascript and Python, never touched Java. Depends what you do. But generally no, Java knowledge is not required.
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The Next Search Engine(scotto.me)
2 points by elias94 5y ago|0 comments
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by elias94 5y ago
Reminds me of Lisperati1000 https://twitter.com/lisperati/status/1357029088343506944
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by elias94 5y ago
> Veganism is just one way to help animals. Decreasing and regulating the meat industry needs to be done also for the impact that it's having on the climate change. This is just another click-bait title
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by elias94 5y ago
Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins - Konrad Lorenz A book from 1973 but still actual and incredibly true.
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by elias94 5y ago
Why not Firefox?
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Coding Interview with Dan Abramov(youtube.com)
3 points by elias94 5y ago|0 comments
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by elias94 5y ago
No idea, the card was an N26
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by elias94 5y ago
I consider LinkedIn full of crap and marketing stuff. I hate the newsfeed and all the fake stuff that people post there. Messages are bloated with random recruiters, search is a pain and the algorithm is totally unclear. Indeed or similar a
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by elias94 5y ago
Yes, I found it from the article. I think that is an interesting library. Is pretty fast and developed/used for 5 years. I cannot understand how some libraries are so popular without changing that much and others are not popular at all
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by elias94 5y ago
Firefox has the best set of tools for developers imo. Had largely surpassed Chrome in my daily usage (frontend dev) and works well with large sets of tabs

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