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Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The ending made me hyperventilate and cry out loud.

Last month I decided to buy RunJS license. The price was a bit too high for me, so I contacted them asking if they offer any discounts for users from developing countries. They just gave me a promo code for 20% off without asking any questions.

In Kazakhstan, we have debit card “ATMs”. You can have a named debit card printed out for you in a matter of minutes. All you need to do is to have it scan your QR in the bank’s mobile app. It’s quite convenient.

Speaking as someone who never had formal education, I recommend starting with Python. It’s easy and fun to work with. You can pick up basics of programming in two weeks. After that I’d suggest diving into HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Once you get the hang of these technologies, you go on to exploring anything that tickles your fancy.

My musical taste is pretty underdeveloped and surface-level and that is why it is not bound by any particular genre. I can barely differentiate genres, to be honest. But from what I have noticed my preferences gravitate towards electronic music. I can share my favorite albums if that'll help you: Abyss (Chelsea Wolfe), Dummy (Portishead), Ones and Sixes (Low), Ege Bamyasi (Can), Mystere (La Femme), Sirens (Nicolas Jaar), Big Fish Theory (Vince Staples), My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Kanye), Awaken, My Love! (Childish Gambino), Soft Animals (Sofi Tukker), Modal Soul (Nujabes), Your Queen Is a Reptile (Sons of Kemet).

I'll give you an example to make my point clearer.

For the past month I have been reading Sylvia Plath's biography and works. I decided to document what I had learnt about her. I created a sort-of wiki page of her in my personal notes app. But then I went to the actual page and found the same information there.

This made me think that I needed to change my approach and I came here to ask this.

Currently, I am trying out obsidian[1]. So far, I really like it. To be completely honest, it's one of the reasons I want to start a knowledge base.

[1]. https://obsidian.md

> I've been thinking for a while that a (sort of) mix of the two would be worthwhile.

Perhaps, that is a better way to go about it but that just becomes a glorified notes app.

Do you actually go back to your KB to look something up? I feel like having a KB is merely a way of reinforcing retention of new information.

This video popped in my recommendations just a couple of days ago. A welcome surprise. It made me think about how music changed since the medieval ages, not in terms of technology, but in terms of composition, rules and etc. And I haven't yet come to any definitive understanding. Maybe because I don't know the first thing about music theory.

Thanks for the book recommendation. Yes, I would love to have a PDF of that. How would I be able to get my hands on it?

Could you elaborate on how working with shell taught you to program?

Thank you for your advice.

> what's actually happening is the shell is searching directories that are listed in your $PATH environment

These kinds of explanations is what I actually need. Many tutorials I have followed explained which command to use when I want to have X done. Instead, I need to know what those commands actually do on a lower level.

Hey, thanks for sharing these! I will definitely check them out. And yes, zsh is the default shell on Catalina, although bash and other common ones are available and easy to switch to.

That’s understandable. Make sure you Show-HN it when it’s ready!

Hi! I would not consider myself a movie buff but I really enjoy watching movies and your project sounds very interesting. I am a frontend dev, and I would very much like to contribute to your web app. If you are interested, please shoot me an email at azatsdev@gmail.com.

It’s a small company that creates software for the public sector in Kazakhstan.

We use OpenLayers at our company. We are building an interactive map with a bunch of tools for measuring distance, calculating routes, drawing features, displaying diagrams right on top of the map, and OpenLayers is doing wonders for us. It has a steep learning curve but once you grasp the fundamentals, you can figure out how to do all kinds of magic tricks with it.

A quick search through the Elements tab in the Developer's console does not yield any anchor tags with the page's url. So it seems no.

What stands out about this book for me is how it starts with absolute basics like what electrons are and linearly builds complexity. It never lost me for a moment and I thoroughly enjoyed its lighthearted tone. This is a perfect book for those who had no formal CS education and are starting out with computers and programming.

> it depends entirely on what you want from it

The biggest appeal of twitter for me is being able to get insights into the technologies of my interest from the very people that develop and maintain them. Many of those developers, however, do not have the time or willingness to run a blog. And twitter, due to its short and straightforward format, is where they can easily engage in discussions and express opinions, from which I, the lurker, can extract applicable knowledge. The down side is that the same twitter format encourages the quantity-over-quality attitude, which results in me, the lurker, having to dig through layers of idle talk, announcements, and retweets.

> the shorter the format the worse it gets

I tried looking into longer-format platforms, namely medium, but much of the content there is either surface-level or does not instill confidence in its credibility.

Anyway, thanks for the great reply, it has certainly helped me build a clearer picture of what to expect, should I decide to join twitter. I guess, I should just stick to HN without needlessly dispersing my focus.