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beeburrton How do I become a Golang Pro? Best resource to improve at lightspeed

Matt Holiday's GoClass:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoILbKo9rG3skRCj37Kn5...

He made this series as a Christmas gift (2020) for his co-workers. Seriously underrated

beeburrton Privacy Badger: A browser extension that learns to block invisible trackers

I use uBlock and Privacy Badger together.

beeburrton Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

Congratulations! I have about a year and a half sober. You should be proud of yourself.

beeburrton Harvard CS50 – Free Computer Science Course (2023 Edition)

I just found this: https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2023/certificate/

It seems there are 3 platforms which offer a certificate, for a fee, and then one with a free certificate, Harvard OCW: https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2023/

https://www.classcentral.com/report/cs50-free-certificate/ says:

> Finally, to further confuse matters, even when you take the course via Harvard OCW, you’ll be asked to create a free edX account. To be clear, this is just a logistical step that will allow you to submit your assignments. You do not need to buy the edX verified certificate.

beeburrton Harvard CS50 – Free Computer Science Course (2023 Edition)

Are there assignments, labs, etc.? Or just the lectures?

beeburrton Verto.sh: A New Hub Connecting Beginners with Open-Source Projects

What are the requirements? This is great by the way, thanks for sharing!

beeburrton Cleveland launches plan to provide cheap broadband

I'm considering moving there. How are you liking it? How is the tech jobs market there?

beeburrton Marcel the Shell

you could try Carbon:

https://carbon.now.sh/

beeburrton Marcel the Shell

What's the original thing? Sorry, I don't know the reference.

beeburrton Cops Are Suing a Teen for Invasion of Privacy After False Arrest Vid Goes Viral

I had been awake for far, far too long, when unconscious (and under arrest) they (the paramedics) took my blood, and according to my lawyer, there was nothing I could do about it.

beeburrton Ruvy: creating Wasm modules from Ruby code

That's how I felt about Python for the longest time, hated it. I am currently learning Python.

beeburrton Ruvy: creating Wasm modules from Ruby code

I love Ruby. As the saying goes, It was developed with programmer happiness with mind. Once you learn more than hello world, you start to see there is actual joy to be had in programming in Ruby.

beeburrton Cops Are Suing a Teen for Invasion of Privacy After False Arrest Vid Goes Viral

You get a Driving Under the Influence charge and everything that comes with it: suspended license, fines, etc. if there are traces in your blood, even if the traces are days/weeks old. And they can take your blood without your consent. Ask me how I know.

beeburrton Douglas Crockford to Keynote 'From Here to Lambda and Back Again' at RacketCon

It's only $10 for remote, I'm in

His talk is Saturday, 9:00am CDT

beeburrton Ask HN: Examples of well designed statistics websites?

I like Gwern Branwen's website: https://gwern.net/index

beeburrton Real-Time Research: Top Reference Systems (Design Systems and UI Libs) 2023

This is a good idea. Are each of these systems open to freely use? Maybe you could add something about licensing? Just a thought. This is pretty cool. I like it, I'm bookmarking it. Good job :)

beeburrton Val Town v3

I am super intrigued by Val Town.

I'm curious if the connect() api:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/socket-api-works-javascript-runt...

would be on your agenda to incorporate?

edit* sorry, I just noticed it says that it's for non-browser runtimes.

beeburrton Geospatial data science with Julia

In the preface you list:

- Generate high-performance code

- Specialize on multiple arguments

- Evaluate code interactively

- Exploit parallel hardware

> This list of requirements eliminates Python, R and other mainstream languages used for data science.

Can you elaborate on why/how? Awesome work by the way

beeburrton Lensm, a tool for viewing disassembly

Nice. Thanks for the tip

beeburrton DevOps for the Desperate: A Hands-On Survival Guide

I received this as part of a No Starch Press book bundle from Humble Bumble but I haven't read it yet (I plan to but still working my way through others).

I'm hoping someone can comment and say if it's good/worth the read.

beeburrton Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs

There's also the recent fork of Insomnia, here:

https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium

and discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708582

beeburrton Ask HN: Holy grails of free, online courses?

Is that the one that uses Standard ML?

beeburrton Ask HN: Holy grails of free, online courses?

There's cs61a:

https://cs61a.org/

(I'm doing the Denero version: https://cs61a.org/denero.html) If you pass the command-line flag: `--local` you can run the tests without triggering the submission system.

accompanying book:

https://www.composingprograms.com/

The moocs from University of Helsinki are really good. Here's the current Python one:

https://programming-23.mooc.fi/

And there's their web dev course, called Full Stack Open:

https://fullstackopen.com/en/

If learning web dev, you can't go wrong with The Odin Project:

https://www.theodinproject.com/

beeburrton Fixing for loops in Go 1.22

I'm getting 10s for your last code example (not 9s)

beeburrton Fixing for loops in Go 1.22

> to reliably get Python 3 on Linux and Mac you have to run `python3`.