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kashfion Devaslife Shares How He Plans to Survive the Generate AI Era as an Indie Dev

01:52 An indie developer brand? Are you serious? 03:13 Emotions are more important towards surviving the Al era 05:34 Learning from high-end fashion brands 07:00 Incorporating my productive vibes into my app 09:47 Edutainment: Education + Entertainment

kashfion I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

Any insights for DACA? Besides the continual renewal cycles, are there any new opportunities or options? Many thanks for your time.

kashfion Show HN: Debate Devil – AI debating practice app

How do I change my password? How do I access my account settings?

kashfion Ask HN: Resources for learning networking for back end development

https://www.wa4e.com/lessons

kashfion Apple's new Mac repair program is a sham

Louis Rossmann is the man

kashfion How to Start a Business?

https://www.startupschool.org/

kashfion Cos 333: Advanced Programming Techniques

"This is a course about the practice of programming, an attempt to expose students to the development of real programs. Programming is more than just writing code. Programmers must also assess tradeoffs, choose among design alternatives, debug and test, improve performance, and maintain software written by themselves and others. At the same time, they must be concerned with compatibility, robustness, and reliability, while meeting specifications. Students will have the opportunity to develop these skills by working on their own code and in group projects."

kashfion Ask HN: How much coffee you drink a day?

2 cups min to be alive 3rd cup to ease into serious work

kashfion Ask HN: Is a degree in CS worth it?

I recommend reading the first chapter of Bjarne Stroustrup's book, "Programming Principles and Practice Using C++." It's a quick read but it's got the wisdom that your question seeks.

kashfion Ask HN: Books or projects to learn data structures and algorithms practically?

https://sp19.datastructur.es/

Josh Hug's course would be a good place to start. Lectures -- Companion textbook -- Practice problems -- Projects -- all in one place covering everything from the basic to the complex.

kashfion Ask HN: Alternative to Crunchbase Pro ($360/year)?

"If that's not enough, it's a good exercise to scrape them." I like this idea.

I appreciate you for taking the time to reply and point me in a direction. Thank you.

kashfion Ask HN: Alternative to Crunchbase Pro ($360/year)?

Hi, thanks for asking.

CS major, just trying to keep tabs on Startups--probably not going to get FAANG, so I'd like to know the players in the Startup scene.

I want the news on what companies are doing; what startups are getting fundings. Plus that database of startups.

That sort of thing.

kashfion From English Major to Software Engineer

That little bit of advice helps a great deal. Many thanks!

kashfion From English Major to Software Engineer

I’m on a similar path.

I was wondering, hope this isn’t too personal to ask, when you were searching for that first internship, I am in that stage right now, what did your resume look like? What sort of projects did you include and did not include?

Besides my curious questions, I enjoyed reading about your experiences and I hope to read more on your blog.

Cheers!

kashfion Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data

... Anyone else having issues verifying their phone? I've never had such a buggy experience verifying my phone.

It seems like after you complete the application, the green submit button, as well as the text fields in the following sequences, are buggy -- single click doesn't seem to pick up the action, double click seems to upset it, tab into the button to press Enter doesn't work. This is all via Chrome.

kashfion Ask HN: What Practices Has Helped You Reach Productivity Zen/Flow?

Thanks for sharing!

kashfion Ask HN: What Practices Has Helped You Reach Productivity Zen/Flow?

Thanks for sharing!

kashfion Ask HN: What Practices Has Helped You Reach Productivity Zen/Flow?

Thanks for sharing!

kashfion Ask HN: What Practices Has Helped You Reach Productivity Zen/Flow?

Thanks for sharing!

kashfion Programs/Games/Websites for a 7 year old to start learning how to code

For a seven-year-old? MIT's Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/

Once they are comfortable with scratch you can get them a Raspberry Pi and develop hardware-software projects depending on their interest.

Knowing Scratch also helps to get them into game development.

Lastly, after getting Scratch you can get the kid a Lego Mindstorms kit and build robots, musical intruments, etc.

kashfion Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?

If you're a Java developer and learning pointers I recommend using the Java Visualizer.

https://cscircles.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/java_visualize/

Copy and paste the class you're working on. Include a main() to act as a test driver and then let the Java Visualizer step through your code showing you exactly what is going on.

kashfion Ask HN: As a biologist, how do I step up my programming skills?

Exercism.io https://exercism.io/about Free, not-for-profit, includes code review from a volunteer mentor.

kashfion Ask HN: Dorsey Warns AI to Effect Junior SWE Candidates; Advice for CS Majors?

Many thanks for taking the time to write that response.

kashfion Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction, 3rd edition

I just took a look at it and I think for self teaching this might be a great alternative to Rosen’s DMwA. Mainly because this book offers interactive Questions and Answers at the end of each section. Pair the book with an MIT OCW math for computer science or something similar and you should be more than good. Best of luck!

kashfion The art of destroying software (2014)

SHOTS every time this guy asks, "How many of you . . ."

kashfion A New Way to Start Linear Algebra [Gilbert Strang] [M.I.T]

Nice find! Thanks for sharing

kashfion Ask HN: As a programmer, how should I teach coding to my kid?

Also, I attended Strange Loop conference last September and there was a keynote speaker who discussed effective ways of teaching programming to kids. The talk is on YouTube and I gotta say, it's very insightful.

"How to teach programming (and other things)?" by Felienne Hermans Link: https://youtu.be/g1ib43q3uXQ

kashfion Ask HN: As a programmer, how should I teach coding to my kid?

I'm not a parent.

If I had an iPad/MacBook around, I'd sit with him and work through the Playgrounds-app Apple has for helping kids learn to code. Within the app, there's a bunch of games. You can start with Learn to Code 1 which starts off with lessons on commands, then continues to functions, for loops, conditionals, logical operators, while loops, and finally algorithms.

A couple of summers ago, a bunch of my friends developed a teaching curriculum for a summer camp. We used Lego Mindstorm to teach kids how to program code.

We also had a class where we introduced the kids to a Raspberry Pi, then installed a program called SonicPi which was then used to teach programming by playing a synth with code.

We also used Google's educational material to teach basic MachineLearning that used a computer's webcam and kids taught the machine to run a function when it recognized a facial expression or something like that.

Surprisingly, one of the cool ideas that did work was teaching the kids basic Blender, then 3D printing their models. We also had a super basic game development class that used Scratch to make games.

MIT's Scratch is very versatile, it shows up alot when you look for guides to get kids into coding.

You know, you can also just play board games with him. I don't know what it is but folks who grow up to be good at coding always seem to have anecdotes about playing games with their dad. I guess DnD helps kids develop their cognitive skills, like thinking logically and abstracting large concepts, both of which helps lay the foundation for getting your kid to be a good problem solver.

All in all, as long as the two of you are able to enjoy the time together and repeat the sessions regularly long term, it will work wonders for him. Sons need their fathers.

You got this,

kashfion Show HN: A daily aggregator of all junior level jobs

The link brings me back here.

kashfion Programming Idioms

Thanks for sharing.