enno

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by enno 2y ago
A good place to start with kids that age is Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/ The visual programming style may turn off experienced programmers, but it's a full game engine, there is a big community of other kids out t
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by enno 10y ago
Even better Scrabble-Word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qat
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by enno 11y ago
What the article proposes is an extreme position, and while I don't agree that the entire web can work this way, a lot of it can. Look at the page you're currently viewing (hacker news): It's by no means a terrible experience
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by enno 11y ago
I believe the point was that you probably don't need the user to make an account. If they don't need an account, they have no password, and you need no email address, unless your true goal is to put as many people as possible on y
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by enno 11y ago
This is a point that should have been made in the author's article. As it is, it presents a poorly defined problem without offering solutions (other than "be afraid").
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by enno 11y ago
Incidentally, this is where the idea of writing a journal paid of, because even though keys were getting corrupted in memory, the journal was fine, and after the bugfix, read back nicely and recreated the keys.
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by enno 11y ago
Don't you love it when you announce your project to the world, only to spot a massive bug immediately after? Let me reiterate everything I already said about people not using this for critical data, because it's apparently losing
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by enno 11y ago
The source code is there for anyone to do whatever they like with it. Of course you could use this in-process and strip away the server logic, it's even split into source files to make that easy (nosql.[hc] are the files that implement
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by enno 11y ago
It all depends on your stack. I think of a full-stack programmer as someone who can dive into any level of the application to fix something. If you have a classic app that is javascript in the front, PHP in the back, then he will need to be
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by enno 11y ago
It's a Raspberry 1 Model B, the 512 MB version. So with any luck, I will see how this code performs once it runs out of memory? https://imgur.com/gallery/XI3Rul6 I've got a RPi 2B sitting here that I want to
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by enno 11y ago
I did not know that! This is some cool trivia.
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by enno 11y ago
Thanks for the upvote and the compliment! There isn't all that much code, just enough for a toy project, and what there is, is written with maintainability in mind. Not sure what kind of tutorial I could have read. I've seen two k
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by enno 11y ago
I learned a ton of things doing this (not least how to post something on HN, and that Show HN exists). Can't say that for Minecraft.
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by enno 11y ago
I figured every full-stack programmer worth his salt should try to write his own database at least once, no?
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Show HN: EnnoDB, a simple NoSQL database(twigtechnology.com)
14 points by enno 11y ago|20 comments