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focalcurve.com
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The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral (2015)

hapgood.us
1 points·by shminge·il y a 5 mois·0 comments

How to Start a Startup (2005)

paulgraham.com
3 points·by shminge·il y a 8 mois·0 comments

Visualizing Algorithms (2014)

bost.ocks.org
3 points·by shminge·il y a 10 mois·0 comments

Ask HN: What do you do when you want to make something but aren't sure what?

3 points·by shminge·il y a 10 mois·1 comments

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shminge
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
I really don't want this to be AI writing because I enjoyed it, but as other commenters have pointed out, the rate of publishing (according to the linked Twitter account) is very rapid. I'm worried that I can't tell.
shminge
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
I'm surprised no one in the comments is mentioning Kotlin. Out of all the languages I've worked with it has been the most enjoyable by far. I agree with the article that there isn't much community but I feel like that's arguably the least important category there. You should definitely give it a shot if you've never tried it before.
shminge
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
I think this sums up my thoughts on the LLM writing "style" pretty well:

> If a student submitted a piece of writing to me that sounded like this—and I was sure they wrote it themselves—I wouldn’t know where to start. I guess I would tell them to stop writing for a while and go read some old novels, or work a crummy job, or backpack around the other side of the world. But that would be bad advice, because I know people who have done all of those things in the hopes of becoming a more interesting person, and it hasn’t worked. So I might ask them instead: “Have you ever considered a career in consulting?”

Code doesn't need subjective intelligence. I think LLMs, as much as I dislike offloading thinking to them, are likely to become a large part of software engineering. I'm hoping that it'll never nail the subjective experience - I read to explore others thoughts, however ungrammatical, broken, or convoluted their prose is. Give me that over a bowl of bland and tasteless slop any day
shminge
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Very cool idea. What's the range of BLE connectivity? I can't imagine it gets far
shminge
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
I've tried Love2D and enjoyed it but just found the lack of support for Lua was tough - how do you handle debugging and things?
shminge
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
I have sync to support the amazing devs, and for convenience, and an automatic git-based backup that runs in the background. It's good to double dip sometimes
shminge
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
I thought this was about programming languages before I saw it was from BBC, making me ask - what is the best way to learn a new programming language?

I'm guessing the answer is making small things, but what exactly? I've made so many to do list apps I don't know what to do with them
shminge
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
offline first, so much faster, no terrible pricing model. Hugely better in my opinion
shminge
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
fwiw, it's 'foolproof' not 'full-proof'
shminge
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
I'm sick of using React for personal projects so I've been building a lightweight, functional, and minimalistic reactive web framework. Turns out there are a lot of decisions that go into something like this, it truly is an iceberg of complexity. It creates plenty of enjoyable problems to think about though
shminge
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
If you're on Android, YouTube Revanced does this (+many other premium features)
shminge
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
What does it give you that Obsidian can't?