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

hapgood.us
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How to Start a Startup (2005)

paulgraham.com
3 points·by shminge·8 माह पहले·0 comments

Visualizing Algorithms (2014)

bost.ocks.org
3 points·by shminge·10 माह पहले·0 comments

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

3 points·by shminge·10 माह पहले·1 comments

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shminge
·3 माह पहले·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
·3 माह पहले·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
·3 माह पहले·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
·4 माह पहले·discuss
Very cool idea. What's the range of BLE connectivity? I can't imagine it gets far
shminge
·4 माह पहले·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
·4 माह पहले·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
·5 माह पहले·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
·5 माह पहले·discuss
offline first, so much faster, no terrible pricing model. Hugely better in my opinion
shminge
·5 माह पहले·discuss
fwiw, it's 'foolproof' not 'full-proof'
shminge
·6 माह पहले·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
·8 माह पहले·discuss
If you're on Android, YouTube Revanced does this (+many other premium features)
shminge
·10 माह पहले·discuss
What does it give you that Obsidian can't?