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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @12:39PM (#22238463)
Learn and adopt a flexibility routine, perform all or some of it before doing a workout or just at night before bed... I suggest the Limbar 11 as a starting point https://youtu.be/FSSDLDhbacc
Re:Go's Tooling Is an Undervalued Technology on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @01:48AM (#22115208)
Agreed, debuggers can be nice to have but they are mostly a crutch.... Write modular code with unit tests and you find your need for debuggers is really a rarity
Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @01:44AM (#22115186)
You can also use the bang command at the end of your query.... Just learned this myself recently and makes changing your search engine quickly if you don't like the results
Re:Ask HN: Good Go codebases to read? on Thursday June 01, 2017 @01:49PM (#14462623)
check out the videos that Francesc Campoy is putting out on his youtube channel "JustForFunc", he does code reviews and the one of him implementing the context package is great for learning the go way of doing things.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_BzFbxG2za3bp5NRRRXJSw

https://github.com/campoy/justforfunc

Re:iPhone 7 on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:52PM (#12446861)
galaxy s7/note7 are both waterproof with 3.5mm jacks
Re:Emojicode: a static, strongly typed programming language on Thursday March 03, 2016 @08:55PM (#11221536)
this was inevitable
Re:Swift Ported to Android on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:08AM (#11175305)
You are correct but part of the work being done to get .NET native working is the aot compilation. https://blog.rendle.io/what-ive-learned-about-dotnet-native/
Re:Microsoft and Red Hat partner on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:48AM (#10507348)
This, I've recently been writing more Java lately and I miss C# quite a bit
Re:Kotlin: A New Hope in a Java 6 Wasteland on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @06:49PM (#10300365)

  // this hack is gross  
  final String[] val = new String[1];  
  Callable func = () -> val[0] = "Hello";  
  func.call();  
  System.out.print(val[0]);
Re:New iPod touch on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @11:48AM (#9891952)
these are also used by companies for their mobile POS devices
Re:Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days? on Thursday April 09, 2015 @10:53AM (#9347930)
The New Touring Omnibus, a dev who was interviewed on FogCreek's blog, Peteris Krumins, said that it was his favorite book of all time.