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by nighmi 3y ago
I made it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37932996
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Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
5 points by nighmi 3y ago|5 comments
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by nighmi 3y ago
Unlicensed is the same as fully copyrighted. There is a presumotion of ownership. Licenses in this case serve to clarify allowable uses. Without a license, nothing is allowable as you maintain the right to do anything within a copyright hol
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by nighmi 3y ago
The Ozymandius is amazing: http://www.thecodelesscode.com/case/234
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by nighmi 3y ago
Do we want to heat up the oceans that much though?
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by nighmi 3y ago
Isn't that a bit obvious? We all know about the tens of billions paid every year to maintain position. Obviously this wasn't in case Apple would segue to Bing. The business case of building a search engine from scratch which robs
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by nighmi 3y ago
How much time do you guys really need for such a course? I have then stacking up and have a list of a few dozen books and courses to go over. I am beginning to think I'm doing this wrong, or simply don't know how to prioritize, a
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by nighmi 3y ago
Every organization differs, of course, making this difficult to usefully answer. I have always prefered seeing senior devs as capable of architecting and implementing solutions (better yet delegating parts to juniors) such that they can lau
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by nighmi 3y ago
We had seen interesting developpments around vector databases, but then people stopped hyping them as you could just save them in normal databases without real differences. I wonder what will happen when the models can freely access them th
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by nighmi 3y ago
Does anyone have a recomended book to learn chemistry? Assuming nearly 0 knowledge retained from school. P.s. cool that our names are so close.
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by nighmi 3y ago
Does browse also mean post/save in some way? That would potentially enable an eventual escape scenario, with memory.
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by nighmi 3y ago
I thought it was the default android podcast app, lacking ads etc. This is sad, alas...
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by nighmi 3y ago
Elixir seems to be picking up insane steam right now. Every day or two there is a fascinating Elixir post here and its promise seems too good to resist. Has anyone else latched their cart onto this horse?
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by nighmi 3y ago
You are thinking of BSD, which is far more stable than Linux for servers etc.
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by nighmi 3y ago
How do you set this up?
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by nighmi 3y ago
How could I make that clearer? I explicitly asked about what language ecosystems offer the snallest production containers and gave examples.
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Ask HN: What languages/ecosystems offer the smallest container sizes?
4 points by nighmi 3y ago|5 comments
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by nighmi 3y ago
You can skip "echo" and let the error message output "hello world" along with extra text!
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by nighmi 3y ago
Learn Racket. It's an amazing introduction to computer science / programming. My partner has been picking it up lately having a lot of fun and learning a lot at the same time.
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by nighmi 3y ago
The best Racket textbook (Beautiful Racket) is even focused around building new languages!
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by nighmi 3y ago
I once bought socks on Amazon, which came with a note saying they would send me a free item for a good review. I then got a free electric kettle with another card. Then I got lenses which attach to a phone camera, a carjack, a foldable lawn
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by nighmi 3y ago
I've been working on porting golang's net/http and gorilla/websocket libs to Racket for the past few months (I don't like the servelet model.) Does anyone have insight into how that model might not be optimal in a S
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by nighmi 3y ago
What use cases do you actually have for plugins? I mean, why do you need that hotloading factor?
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by nighmi 3y ago
> they're building everything on Illumos (Solaris) This is an amazing plus in my eyes. Solaris systems are amazing.
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by nighmi 3y ago
Could you share more about how nd why you use AIX? How is it in production? Im very interested in corp Unixes but have never met anyone still using one, alrhough new features keep getting added.
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by nighmi 3y ago
From Nand to Tetris It takes you from individual logic gates to assembler to Tetris, all as a hands on course.
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by nighmi 4y ago
> You can learn to use Rust in Go-like settings in under a week. How? I would love to give it a spin.
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by nighmi 4y ago
This is so cool. A lot of prehistory and anthropology has been upended in the past few years, like human inhabitation in the Americas thousands of years before the Bering straight froze for crossing.
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by nighmi 4y ago
Lisp is composable. Everything is possible. Functional programming is one of many paradigms and many are common in it. CLOS is an abstraction layer to enable OOP. It has long been a workhorse in industry. If a programmer wants something in
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by nighmi 4y ago
That is also my suspicion although Im not knowledgeable about the technical issues, economically and impactwise this seems insane and completely out of left field. I thought IBM or such were experimenting on 8qubit machines costing hundreds

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