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volent··on 42 comes to Silicon Valley: free, non profit coding university
It is not only teaching development, it's teaching UNIX, 3d, Security and much more [0].

In fact, the most important thing it's teaching is to learn by yourself. Most people just don't know how to learn without a teacher and that's the best skill you can learn if you wish to work in the industry.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(school)#Academics

volent··on 42 comes to Silicon Valley: free, non profit coding university
Would it be tuition free ?
volent··on Programmer's Nightmare – Ruby Prank
If he's a beginner your comment might be a bit harsh.

If it's not interesting to you don't upvote the post but saying it's "dumb" and "ARGF exists for a reason" is just being rude.

volent··on Discover Flask
I found it very strange that the domain (discoverflask.com) is just a redirection to the Github repository.

Anyway, great content for Flask beginner. It's a wonderful framework for anybody wanting to write clean APIs and it's this kind of content that makes the community awesome.

volent··on Goodbye Docker on CentOS, Hello Ubuntu
"It makes you wonder how it's been this long and nobody stumbled upon an issue that you uncover 30 minutes into tool's use."

Either you're doing something wrong or everybody's extremely lucky. If you've used Docker for 30 minutes I would bet on the former :)

volent··on Show HN: Commit Comments – build commit messages in code comments
It's not the same thing at all.

Git blame displays the last commits that updated your files lines.

This gives you the ability to write your commit description while you code.

volent··on Making My Emacs Start Faster
After some investigation I found that the option and the env var are called "alternate editor" and not "alternative editor".
volent··on Advent of Code – solve a puzzle every day
The problems are fresh & fun. I loved the day 4, almost felt like mining bitcoins :)

Looking forward for the next puzzles !

volent··on React Native for Android
Thank you for your reply, you should add this information somewhere because right now there is now way to know you're working on it.
volent··on React Native for Android
"OS X - Only OS X is currently supported"

Why is this becoming popular ?

volent··on Yfitops: download Spotify tracks and playlists
Isn't Netflix the Spotify of movies ?
volent··on Show HN: Arrow Hero
Nice game, it's really well made !

Bonus point for open-sourcing it :)

volent··on Ask HN: Best host for a one-page website?
Github pages : https://pages.github.com/
volent··on Mattermost: Open-source, on-premises, Slack alternative
I don't really get why there is so many Slack alternatives coming up these days.

On every post like this there is tons of comment linking to other Slack alternatives, it's not like this is gonna be _the_ Slack-alternative.

Here is a non exhaustive list :

RocketChat : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9624737

Let's Chat : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9040841

Friends : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9461504

Gitter : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6739074

volent··on Show HN: Bananalert
Here is the github repo : https://github.com/singerbj/bananalert
volent··on How US students get a university degree for free in Germany
The tuition fees may be low but the cost of living is very high in Switzerland.
volent··on PyPy.js: A fast, compliant Python implementation for the web
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9497000 for the lazy :)
volent··on Elevator.js
There is a strange behavior on my computer. If I turn the volume up/down when the music is playing I instantly get to the top of the page !
volent··on Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition
Took me some time to find the english version, here it is if anybody wants it : http://www.bq.com/gb/ubuntu.html
volent··on Instant Cloud – SSD Bare Metal Servers
You can already do `docker run -ti ubuntu bash` and not be limited to 30 minutes test :)
volent··on Ruby-like string interpolation in Python
Looks fun but it doesn't seem to support unicode in python2.
volent··on Angular 2 Rendering Architecture
What is your last point exactly? How a new version of Angular would have made your project fail so miserably?

Change is great, it makes awesome things happen. New frameworks are here to give you a choice, you don't have to use all of them. Angular2 will come with a lot of new features and Google said that they will keep working on Angular1 until most of the users switched, what's bad about that?

volent··on Is the app-only economy going to kill the Internet ?
I think the title is wrong, apps cannot kill the Internet but they can kill the Web.
volent··on Learn Python the Hard Way
"A programmer may try to get you to install Python 3 and learn that. Say, "When all of the Python code on your computer is Python 3, then I'll try to learn it." That should keep them busy for about 10 years. I repeat, do not use Python 3. Python 3 is not used very much, and if you learn Python 2 you can easily learn Python 3 when you need it. If you learn Python 3 then you'll still have to learn Python 2 to get anything done. Just learn Python 2 and ignore people saying Python 3 is the future."

I don't think it is useful for a beginner to start with python3.

volent··on PDF Viewing
Wow, i don't know if it's because the pdf here is big but my computer froze when I opened this link.
volent··on Ask HN: Do Google ads work for user acquisition?
How do you define "it works" ?

The price of a user is defined by the following formula [0] : CPU = CPC * (C / U)

Google AdWords gives you the CPC and if you have a Google Analytics set up you should be able to know the C / U ratio. That will define how much you have to pay to get a user using Google AdWords.

For the C / U ratio to be precise you should use only the organic search numbers (people coming to your website from Google after a search) because it is closest behavior you can study.

[0] : * CPU : Cost per User

* CPC : Cost per Click [on ad]

* C : Click [visitor comes on the website from ad]

* U : User [visitor becomes a user after he clicked on the ad]

volent··on Show HN: HN Rank Chrome extension
Same here.

Version 40.0.2214.94 (64-bit) Ubuntu 14.04

volent··on The answer to the eternal question: “Where do I find a technical cofounder?”
Cached version : http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BXa1Cn2...
volent··on Parity, a numbers puzzle game
I don't know if it's a good feature or not but I enjoyed being able to finish the game using the solutions found in /parity/story.json.

Would not be a good feature if you want to create some sort of leaderboard.

volent··on Rules for Developing Safety Critical Code [pdf]
The rule about pointer is pretty limiting (no pointer function, no more than one level of dereferencing).

The reason is also pretty sad : "Pointers are easily misused, even by experienced programmers". I don't see how an experienced programmer has more chance to misuse pointers than anything else.

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