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harveytoroon Show HN: I made a poster generator for runners

This is great, thanks for creating and sharing.

harveytoroon Show HN: Futuure – hash-certified public prediction store

Nice. I did something similar a couple of months ago that posts to Twitter: https://predictionelect.com

harveytoroon Ask HN: Favorite computer science, software engineering papers and essays

My two recommendations are:

- Communicating Sequential Processes https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Hoare78.pdf

- Crash-Only Software https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos03/tech/full_paper...

harveytoroon Show HN: Landr – My First Indie Startup

Looks cool, congrats on the launch.

What tools did you use for creating the video on the landing page? Veed or something different?

harveytoroon Ask HN: How to take notes?

Depends partly on how you learn, generally a better approach to learning a programming language (from my perspective) would be to work on a project or some problems that way you will have runnable code in that language that you can reference back to at any point. If you do take programming notes it is also useful to capture edge cases or syntax comparisons either against two languages or different approaches you can take in a single language rather than just noting down syntax.

Having said that I have in the past captured a Syntax file for a programming language I was learning e.g: https://github.com/harveytoro/TIL/blob/master/go/syntax.md

But more recently if I just want to refresh my knowledge on the syntax of a language I use: https://learnxinyminutes.com which has syntax cheatsheets for a lot of languages

harveytoroon Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

I recently built https://grapiture.com An API for sending charts / panels to Slack.

Still have a bunch of features in the works but hoping it will make some money eventually.

harveytoroon Ask HN: Learn Distributed Systems Interactively

Raft has a visualisation that you can interact with to understand it better https://raft.github.io/

Also might be worth checking out https://github.com/theanalyst/awesome-distributed-systems not sure if any of these resources are interactive though.

harveytoroon Ask HN: Introductory programming books for a young kid?

Take a look at http://www.codecademy.com and http://code.org/learn

There not books but they are a good place to start.

harveytoroon Ask HN: What do you use to organize your knowledge?

Github repository, I wrote a simple app to pull in a repo and I can view, edit and delete and also create new files. All the files are markdown so I can export to PDF or HTML if I need them outside the app.

harveytoroon What books for learning Java?

Introduction to Java Programming (Ninth Edition) Y. Daniel Liang. Is quite a good book to learn Java programming.

harveytoroon Best bookmarking tool? Delicious just lost 1500+ of my bookmarks

Pocket is a very useful tool: http://getpocket.com/