chriszhang
I now find me asking: What is a good reliable email provider out there? I know I can host my own email in my own server under my own domain name but on HN we have seen articles about people losing their domain names too. Is there truly no good way to have permanent email address?
Internet was given in our university for only 1 hour per day. It was possible to live in this manner even when I used to do programming. All programming documentation was available as PDFs or downloadable copies. I remember the MSDN documentation for C++ could be kept on the local machine. For Python I used to keep a PDF copy of the tutorial and reference i think.
These days I don't know anymore if that style of working will still work. Software has become so complex and error messages have become so many and so complex that I think we need access to internet all the time while programming. To see resolution to strange errors in Stack Overflow or on GitHub issues.
I wish all software developers did not assume that I am connected to the Internet all the time. It will be good if we can have a world where local-first internet-optional style of programming is still there.
If SiteA loads script/image from SiteB for logging hits, is it deemed tracking?
Don't ELF need "0x7F ELF" header? Don't Windows executable need "MZ" header? How is it fulfilling both requirements simultaneously?
Ask HN: Should you care about privacy policies if you have nothing to hide?
I meet people sometimes that don't care about privacy policy because they think they have nothing to hide. I think there were some stories on HN where someone thought they have nothing to hide but then got into problems because their privacy was misused or their data was misused. Those stories provide lesson that everyone should care about privacy and how their data is used. Cannot find such...
Do you have an opinion about Common Lisp? I know that Scheme is more minimal and cleaner but since you recommend Scheme I want to know what your opinion about Common Lisp is.
I never experienced the "I hate Python" phase. I think I went straight from "So exciting" to "productive" phase with Python.
Ask HN: What is a nice way to begin learning game programming these days?
One thing I want to avoid is start with heavy and complex beasts like Unity which abstracts away a lot of the basic concepts.I am looking for something more minimal. Game programming from scratch approach. Like the early days when people used to write programs in BASIC building all the graphical components and audio tones step by step.Is there something available today? My requirements:- No...
Still the state and the functions that operate on them can be separated out. Right? No reason why the state and the functions need to be tied together inside a class.
For contractors too the learning curve is part of the deal. The contractors get paid by the hour when they are climbing the learning curve. Managers seem fine with it.
I did not find anything narcissistic in the OP's post. It is a controversial topic but nothing about it came off as narcissistic.
There is really no need to be respond nicely to someone hiding behind their anonymity and calling you names and throwing personal attacks at you. Your parent comment's account should simply be flagged and banned.
This is needlessly insulting and aggressive. Flagged.
80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linus Torvalds
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Google AMP gets a shock to its system as advisor quits, lawsuit claims foul play
Embarking in a New Affair with Completions
What is the “N+1 selects problem” in ORM (Object-Relational Mapping)?
Significant new inventions in computing since 1980
So he replaced the model with a single line of code with one boolean expression made with those 4 parameters connected with logical operators.
Ask HN: What game-changing tricks did you learn about your editor/IDE in 2020?
Which editors/IDEs do you use? Did you learn new tricks or shortcuts or commands in your editors/IDEs this year? please share!
Ask HN: Do you use electric returns, rainbow parenthesis, etc. in your editor?
This is a question mainly for Lisp programmers but possible to be related to other languages too. Do you use fancy features like electric returns, rainbow parenthesis while coding? What about paredit? Are these additional helper plugins worth it?