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clyfeon Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

Cees de Groot's The Genius Of Lisp https://berksoft.ca/gol/

clyfeon Ask HN: Is there an open source HN?

https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters

clyfeon Ask HN: Platform for kids to learn how to code

http://kidsruby.com/

clyfeon Notesnook – open-source and zero knowledge private note taking app

I'm a https://logseq.com/ fan.

clyfeon Show HN: Turn Doom Emacs into VSCode

Install Doom Emacs and the linked config, and use Emacs with VSCode-esque keybindings and look-and-feel. Good for Emacs newbies with prior VSCode experience.

clyfeon Build your portfolio by working on interesting projects

Work for free and don't get paid, because, hey! You'll get tons of experience and build your portfolio. Now on a crowd-source scale! Sucker!

clyfeon Ask HN: What's the best resource for getting back up to speed with modern css

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/css-transitions

clyfeon Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015

Polymer

clyfeon You cannot have more than 10 years of experience in Rails

I remember back in 2007 when job ads were like: "5+ years Rails experience".

clyfeon Ask HN: What mental habits do fast coders have?

Fast coders know their languages, frameworks and tools like the back of their hand. They eat docs for breakfast, have a knack for memorizing it, and an even stronger knack for making sense of it.

Sounds like a job add at the Startup From Hell.

Fast is a subjective term. How would you quantify? LOC/hour ? Words per minute?

There is no such thing as a "fast coder". You could differentiate from "mostly beginner" and "somewhat experienced" but that's about it, and even that is subjective.

I find "coder" a demeaning term and prefer programmer or developer.

Do you know a programmer that recommends himself as a "fast coder" ?

(Other than a job starved dev, in a low income country, to a low budget - low quality dev shop ?)

As DHH says, the main factor of velocity is feature negotiation: shaving off the 20% of stuff that takes 80% of time.

clyfeon Ask HN: What's the best way to stay up to date with software dependency updates?

Use something like Bundler, Maven, Pip, npm, sbt. For example bundler has the `$> bundler outdated` command that shows dependencies that have new versions.

clyfeon Ask HN: What to put on a donated laptop for a 12yr old

http://turtleart.org/ http://scratch.mit.edu/ http://kidsruby.com/ http://www.greenfoot.org/door http://www.bluej.org/

clyfeon Show HN: Airtable, a real-time spreadsheet-database hybrid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCVj5RZOqwY

clyfeon Show HN: zzzz.io, a free DynDNS replacement I created on the weekend

We also built https://entrydns.net/ It's a more complete solution. Running for about 3 years now.

clyfeon Ask HN: What are the current best frameworks for CRUD app auto generation?

Just allow the users to crud: https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin

Need more powerful customization? https://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold

clyfeon France’s Hollande Gets Court Approval for 75% Millionaire Tax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi-D24oCa10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRpEV2tmYz4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91mLpMqjZsE

clyfeon Ask HN: why shouldn't browsers come embedded with font-awesome like icons?

They kind of do https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/List_of_useful_symbols

clyfeon What are some must-know algorithms?

Food for thought:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_conquer_algorithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtracking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greedy_algorithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth-first_search

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadth-first_search

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aho%E2%80%93Corasick_string_ma...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%E2%80%93Fulkerson_algorit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_method

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_descent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive_Bayes_classifier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_regression

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_component_analysis

Solve some of:

https://projecteuler.net/

http://acm.timus.ru/problemset.aspx

clyfeon Ask HN: I want to learn Ruby. What do you have for me?

http://users.aber.ac.uk/cwl/ruby/shroeder-slides.pdf

clyfeon Ask HN: What email newsletters do you read?

http://startingandsustaining.com/ 2-week email course about launching apps from the sifterapp.com guy

clyfeon Lenovo’s new Yoga 2 Pro has the same flexible hinge, 3200×1800 display

They also ruined the keyboard in the process, no more home/end/pgup/pgdown row. I love those keys.

clyfeon Addition of 1 and 1 in PHP

From ZF :( https://twitter.com/_clyfe/status/265588170341625857

clyfeon What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers?

clyfeon Stanford Introduction to Databases Course, Winter 2013 edition, starts today

I took this a while ago. The quality is exceptional and the explications very good and intuitive. Can't recommend it enough for people who want to learn about databases.

clyfeon Separation, Abstraction, and Cascading in CSS

Because one would end up implementing HTML and CSS in that "powerful programming language".

Funny, have a friend that does desktop dev because he "hates web dev", built his own UI building framework on top of Swing :

    menu.addChild(item)
    ...

Now he's building an XML dtd to automate it...

clyfeon Ask HN: What do you use to prototype mobile apps?

Might want to try Pencil: http://pencil.evolus.vn/Stencils-Templates.html

clyfeon Want the Truth Behind “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother”? Read her blog.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchausen_syndrome_by_pro...

clyfeon Ask HN: Any speech segmentation API's out there?

http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/speakerdiarization

clyfeon Ask HN: Learning to write good JavaScript

http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/ top right hoover over "Menu"

clyfeon Ask HN: How to avoid "that bootstrap look"?

Change the navbar color to a bright one, make it wide, add a shade to the white background (very light red, very light blue etc) That's it.