eager_learner

i can't make out the point of this article.

"sweet spot for most things." care to expand on this a bit? Thanks.

Upvoted you, because the downvotes from the Python cult are unfair.

fellow ADHD here. Rust feels like 'oh come on you want me to type all that?' I find Raku great, though

function Greeting({ name }: { name: string }) { return ( <div class="card"> <h1>Hello, {name}!</h1> <p>Welcome to my site.</p> </div> ); }

That looks like HTML, but it's TypeScript. It gets compiled to actual HTML. Can any Python framework do that??

In Python, you'd typically write your logic in Python and your HTML in a separate Jinja2 template file — two languages, two files, context-switching. With Fresh + TSX, your logic and your markup live together in one .tsx file, both in TypeScript, with full type-checking throughout.

why not Rails?

to solumunus: notice your comment downvoted? it appears someone who is against Tailwind downvotes all pro-Tailwind comments. I think i know who- and will reciprocate in kind.

i am no pro-- just a lurker wanting to learn -- and comments like danaw's are the reason my time on HN is not wasted. Thank you.

Thank you. It's something I am really passionate about. Given my 'day job' and 'family time' and battling an uphill swim against my ADHD, I am still happy with the progress I've made so far. I feel like I'm almost there.

Thank you so much for the wonderful advice! It's so refreshing to see humans act and be human-- helping each other despite not knowing each other.

For context, I've been stuck in tutorial hell for years! Part of it can be blamed on my ADHD, which is a serious disability if you want to finish any task. Still, I've been trying to make inroads at it... I've been reading several books at the same time, but stuck on chapter 3 or 4 in each. Then I begin looking for other books until I hit a block in it--then process restarts again.

You're right that LLMs do help a lot. I think I made more progress in the last six months than the past pre-LLM two years.

Thanks and kinds regards.

EL

it appears to me that there may be a gate-keeping involved that stops the hordes from really learning how to program.

Look at the books on programming in the last 15 years--none teaches how to program and problem-solve.

nice game! may i know what amount of js/css knowledge should i possess to be able to write sth like this? Eloquent JavaScript + any generic CSS book enough? thanks for making my evening.

This. Nothing can compete with free.

He also wrote a very good book on problem-solving:

"Problem Solving and Computer Programming"

You can't find books like this anymore.

Actually, this 'very large group of people'--by definition [that they believe Evolution 'theory'] have pigeon-holed themselves as a certain type, hence their existence as a 'group'. I think the irony is that you didn't realize this.

thanks.

Amazon is the same now. I can't find books on it that I know for sure exist on it. It always pushes something else first.

this ought to put flat-earthers completely down. :)

i don't know how old you are, but this does not seem like a mature, thinking person's behavior.

You know, you should definitely keep writing comments like the one you just did, because it will show the thinking, intelligent readers what kind of people support Evolution theory... Thanks, I guess?

The book you disparaged is written by a real scientist and published by Oxford Uni Press. They are smarter than you, and if it were 1 + 1 = 3, OUP wouldn't have published it. Even if we disregard all this, the fact that you judged a book without reading it says a lot about your critical thinking skills.

if that's true and evolutionists are so confident then why did my comment get downvoted so much? Knowledge from DNA disproved EVolution-- maybe you should read more. Here's one: 'Philosophical Scientists'-- David Foster, OUP

meaning what exactly ?

I really love the back-and-forth in this mini-thread, I learned a lot about good thinking skills here. Thanks everyone.

Evolution is questionable science. i am not trying to be contrarian. it's not dogma nor it is established, scientifically proved theory. Proponents, usually when cornered, shrug and say: 'well, this is the best explanation we have so far'. That's not science. Best possible scenario is speculation by a group of people with mediocre thinking skills.

Mentioning this here because just like your comment, this 'theory' is usually slid inside arguments to make it appear as established science or fact. Kinda like this AI debacle.

tldr:

- In the 1940s, ~80% of kids were trained by their 1st birthday

-By 2004, the average completion age was 37 months (over 3 years old)

-That extra year of diapers = ~$3.1 billion annually for the industry

-A pediatrician named Brazelton popularized "wait until they're ready" advice in the 60s — and later became a paid Pampers spokesperson, which is... a conflict of interest

-Diaper companies responded by making bigger and bigger sizes (up to 65 lbs!)

Exactly! 12 years of 'knowledge' half of it useless, the other half could be taught in 3 years--if done properly.

to--> latexr: Thank you for the link to Polum's essay in juliusosis. It really is the case that a lot of incompetence is hiding in plain sight. Probably because modern schooling encourages this.

I've lived in China (as a foreigner) and they have a word for Juliuses. They call them the 'cha bu duo xiansheng' = the 'Mr. Almost ok'.

Comments like amluto's above, are the reason my time spent on HN is not wasted.

care to name a few such good oldies?

I tried Kimi 2.5 Swarm Agent version and it was way better than any AI model I've tried so far.