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by mgomez 2y ago
NPR's is one of my favorites: https://www.npr.org/404
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by mgomez 3y ago
Ivan answered this in one of his AMAs on Reddit[1] a couple of years ago. He used "Pea" because "Apple" was already taken. [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/s2elpv/i_made_a_fr
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by mgomez 3y ago
I've yet to dip my toes into Wasm. This might push me to finally get going. Based on a quick search, Wasmer and Wasmtime appear to be the two most popular runtimes with the latter being backed by some big names (via the Bytecode Allian
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by mgomez 3y ago
Here's a non-wizard tutorial that I bookmarked when I started with F# (I also had a hard time finding a simple example at first): https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/fsharp/get-started/get-st... What I li
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by mgomez 3y ago
> I have two young kids and I'm constantly humbled by how fearless they are...There's this tremendous power in "not knowing what you don't know" that sometime in university disappeared from me... "The teenag
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by mgomez 3y ago
ETscript: https://github.com/markgomez/etscript An interpreter for AMPscript (DSL for personalizing emails) that I used when I was at ExactTarget/Salesforce. I wanted to learn Rust and needed a project-based appro
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by mgomez 3y ago
Give "A half-hour to learn Rust" a try: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust Books/tutorials/etc. never really worked for me because they were all "happy path" exer
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by mgomez 3y ago
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/ If you're like me and more interested in language additions, each release entry has a "Language Updates" section (under "Language and Libraries&quot
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by mgomez 3y ago
I've spent the last several weeks porting a backend I had written in Go over to Rust (using Axum) and so far so good. But I don't know if I can call things in the Rust world like Axum/Actix/etc. "frameworks" an
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Show HN: ETscript – An experimental interpreter for Salesforce's AMPscript(github.com)
2 points by mgomez 3y ago|0 comments
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by mgomez 3y ago
This is pretty neat. I'm wondering if something like this (on a smaller scale) could be used to catch the elusive illegal dumper in my neighborhood.
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New semaphore puzzle lights up at Adobe HQ(blog.adobe.com)
3 points by mgomez 3y ago|0 comments
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by mgomez 3y ago
What's everyone using when it comes to data validation these days? Maintenance for one of the most popular crates for this seems to have slowed[1] and options for JSON Schema validators still seem immature[2] (but the ones I've tr
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by mgomez 4y ago
The one without the "y": > Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It can also be interpreted as ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the
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by mgomez 4y ago
Previous discussion: Why Go and Not Rust? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20983922 - September 2019 (477 comments)
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by mgomez 4y ago
Sure thing: https://lets-go-further.alexedwards.net That book is a follow-up to an easier book [1] that I also bought, but ended up skipping since I was only interested in writing JSON APIs. [1] https://lets-go.alexed
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by mgomez 4y ago
To force myself “to figure out the code,” I typically do the tutorial in a different language. I wanted to get familiar with Java last year, but all the books/tutorials were boring to me. What I ended up doing was going through a book
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by mgomez 4y ago
I have tinnitus. I always describe my particular case as sounding like a dialup modem that's being "muffled" because it's in the next room over, behind closed doors. With this I can now pinpoint the specific section (ANS
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by mgomez 4y ago
> Historically they also ship compilers and command line dev tools as a separate package, I'm not sure if that's still a thing. It's still a thing: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tool
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by mgomez 4y ago
It sounds like you might be stuck in a "tutorial loop". Put them aside for now, and try building a tiny project for yourself. It could be anything that interests you; scratch whatever itch you may have right now no matter how sill
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by mgomez 4y ago
At the beginning of this year, kdy1 (Donny) said he'd be switching to Go after initially trying things out in Rust [1][2], I guess he decided to go through with Rust after all? Or is this something slightly different? [1] https:/
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by mgomez 4y ago
> I'd wish I knew golang. You can start learning today. I picked up Go by porting my backend web projects written in different languages over, but my next task is to convert all my custom shell scripts into CLI tools using Go.
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by mgomez 4y ago
Chapters 14 and 15 from Crafting Interpreters [1] should be a good start. The entire book is worth a read if you decide to move beyond calculators. [1] https://craftinginterpreters.com/a-bytecode-virtual-machine....
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by mgomez 4y ago
Ivan did an AMA earlier this year which is also worth a read: https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/s2elpv/i_made_a_free_...
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by mgomez 4y ago
I've been meaning to pick up either Haskell or OCaml for my next language. On the OCaml side, I see Cornell's free CS 3110 textbook recommended around here. Is there something similar on the Haskell side?
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by mgomez 4y ago
You're not alone as someone else made a similar observation in a previous thread[1]: > To me Java is like a garbage truck. You get to work, start it up, do a nearly invisible but absolutely essential duty, then, at the end of the da
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by mgomez 4y ago
For comparison, here's a view of SMACS 0723 from Hubble: https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/smacs0723-73... > This image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 has been constructed from blue,
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by mgomez 4y ago
The "Why Vite?" button on the homepage is fairly "front and center" to me and is only a single click away: https://main.vitejs.dev/guide/why
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by mgomez 4y ago
Check out: https://basarat.gitbook.io/typescript/ https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/intro.html
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by mgomez 4y ago
Just got this email as well. They ask us to "reset" our password through a link inside the email itself which I won't do out of habit since this could be a phishing attempt for all I know. So could I just change my password o

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