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JJseikoon Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?

maybe Roblox? could be a way to implement the game your son conceived and could also be a gateway to more programming in the future

JJseikoon Try Clojure – An interactive tutorial in the browser

Thanks for this! I just finished the tutorial and really enjoyed it! Found myself hoping for more. Maybe a small series that would teach one the necessary basics of Clojure so one could actually do a real project in it afterwards. That would be awesome :)

JJseikoon China declares cryptocurrency deals ‘illegal’

agreed!!!

JJseikoon Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?

T430

JJseikoon Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?

Lenovo ThinkPad

JJseikoon A social platform where you get paid for being helpful

sounds like something that could potentially be built on top of Ethereum smart contracts (not sure if it should though ...)

JJseikoon Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?

this made me laugh!

JJseikoon Ask HN: What's an unsolved problem in your field?

repl.it not a local environment, but if you're after the shortest path to learners being able to code, that's how I do it with the people I teach. Works well.

JJseikoon Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie is very good. The title is absolutely terrible, but the content is as good as the title is terrible (in my opinion at least)

JJseikoon Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019?

"Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth Century Italy" by Carlo Cipolla

JJseikoon Show HN: Codegates – Learn Basic Coding with the Help of a Personal Mentor

fixed it. Thank you again, that somehow slipped by me ...

JJseikoon Show HN: Codegates – Learn Basic Coding with the Help of a Personal Mentor

thank you so much, Im onto fixing it.

JJseikoon Evaluation of five password managers

If someone is still looking for a good one, I use Keepass and can very much recommend it.

JJseikoon Repl.it Multiplayer

I've been using Repl.it's Multiplayer to teach people Python, I recommend it!

JJseikoon Qutebrowser – A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser based on PyQt5

Installed qutebrowser last week. Can definitely recommend it!

JJseikoon Ask HN: What are some examples of small but rapidly growing markets?

Hi Yohann! Sorry for not replying timely, but in all honesty, those are pretty much exactly the ones that I though of (except the miniature construction thing actually)... Best, Johannes

JJseikoon Launch HN: SharpestMinds (YC W18) – Online Community for AI Devs

I like the idea! Very much actually. It's a real problem - the discrepancy between actual skills and how your CV looks.

In that it reminded me of the way that Basecamp hires - which is that in the "final rounds" they actually hire the candidates to do some small project that is actually needed at Basecamp - just another way of getting at the bottom of what a person can actually do rather than how they look on paper.

JJseikoon Ask HN: Which book have you read, but do not recommend?

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger, by Peter Bevelin - was just plain bad. I remember thinking that it doesnt relly deserve to be called a book.

JJseikoon Ask HN: How do you deal with loss of motivation?

One of the most thoughtful things I've read on the topic of work satisfaction. I may actually help: https://sivers.org/balance

JJseikoon What I love about Hacker News

This is a small medium post I wrote a while ago. It's just one thought/observation on HN. Hope you enjoy.