ioncube

Ask HN: Start many things and accomplish none?

Posted by ioncube on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @03:19PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I tend to go into rabbit holes easily, especially when I am at home trying to work on my side projects or learn new skills.Here is a recent example: I had an idea for an app so I started researching which language/framework I should use, I ended with two or three options. So I picked up one and went over the docs and decided to start building my app along the way.I did a small progress and I...

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Re:GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered: re3 on Friday February 26, 2021 @01:38PM (#26278142)

My favorite game.

GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas had mod allowing to play online (multiplayer) called "Multi Theft Auto" (for Vice City there was another one called VC:MP)

As far as I remember, the MTA project was started by a guy who initially tried to build a trainer by reverse engineering one of the GTA games, in the end he ended with a multiplayer mod. Fun times.

Re:PyTCP – TCP/IP Stack written in Python on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:26PM (#25294284)

Thanks for sharing

Re:Open-source self-hosted comments systems for static websites on Sunday October 04, 2020 @01:39AM (#24676756)

https://utteranc.es/ "A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues. Use GitHub issues for blog comments, wiki pages and more!"

Re:Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I le... on Friday August 14, 2020 @04:25AM (#24155306)

Theory: Database Lessons by Dr. Daniel Soper (watch at x2 speed) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1LIXLIF50uXWJ9alDSXC...

Learn by watching short videos and practicing: Mastery with SQL (paid course, $49) - https://www.masterywithsql.com/

Re:Ask HN: What's the most beautiful song or album you've ever listene... on Friday June 12, 2020 @12:24AM (#23496002)

Robert Miles - Remember Robert Miles

Re:Deno 1.0 on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:13PM (#23183223)

I think he meant Ryan Dahl's talk: Design Mistakes in Node https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BM9TB-8yA

Re:75-year-old woman with shovel accidentally took down Armenia's inte... on Friday April 24, 2020 @03:11AM (#22965438)

If cable gets cut somewhere, how they find out where it happened?

Re:Ask HN: Must Read from ACM Library? on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @03:27AM (#22810773)

I haven't read any of their book yet but I found they have page with book collections: https://dl.acm.org/collections

Re:ACM has made 'Concurrency: the Works of Leslie Lamport' free to dow... on Friday April 03, 2020 @01:46AM (#22766594)

Cambridge allowed everyone to access their library but then they changed it to "available online to students through their university library regardless of whether they were previously purchased" https://www.cambridge.org/about-us/covid-19/

O'Reilly – In March 2020 the Members Library will be shutting down

Posted by ioncube on Thursday October 31, 2019 @03:00PM
from the self-post dept.

Remember to download your ebooks until March 2020. https://members.oreilly.com/

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Re:Hiring Is Broken on Friday January 18, 2019 @02:37AM (#18937646)

This article is from 2016. We are in 2019, I'm curious what happened to the author, did he eventually found a job? switched career?

Re:AlphaGo Beats Lee Sedol in Final Game on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @05:15AM (#11288363)

Anybody knows the music playing in the background?

-EDIT- Thats what Shazaam was able to recognize Hit Me! - Dreamliner - https://soundcloud.com/hit-me-music-production/dreamliner