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Ask HN: Advice for a beginner programmer on understanding systems?

Posted by statusanxiety on Thursday September 08, 2022 @09:01PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have recently started writing a web scraping bot to learn Selenium and have found that the problems that are truly stumping me are things related to the underlying systems of my computer. For instance, I didn't understand why Selenium was bringing up an import error when I'd definitely installed it. I later found I was using the wrong interpreter in vscode. I'm currently completely stuck on...

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Re:$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @09:09PM (#27828320)

Trees did not evolve solely for the purposes of carbon sequestration. Similarly, it would be silly to say that mammals are nature's best solution at sequestering oxygen.

Re:$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @09:00PM (#27828257)

One solution that I feel is regularly overlooked in these discussions is the establishment of kelp forests. Kelp grows at a far quicker rate than trees, requires no fresh water or land and has the added benefits of restoring marine ecosystems.

Re:Ask HN: What cutting edge subject would woo you back to school? on Sunday June 06, 2021 @08:12PM (#27417574)

Synthetic biology

Re:Ask HN: Recommend books that give you insight into other professions on Saturday December 05, 2020 @04:50PM (#25318747)

Down and out in Paris and London by George Orwell is an excellent insight into the life of a parisian dishwasher in the 1920s. Its also a great exploration of the lives of the working class in that time period.

Just Kids by Patti Smith is a beautiful look into the life of a poet and artist.

Ask HN: What skills should I learn?

Posted by statusanxiety on Saturday November 07, 2020 @04:53AM
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I'm 23 years old and have half a year left of my bachelor of Arts degree. I've been learning web design and python for the last 6 - 7 months and I'm enjoying it, but am worried that I've missed the boat on coding (too far behind at my age / the market for programmers is getting oversaturated).My ultimate goal is to work at (or potentially found) a company working to address climate change and...

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