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Re:Digital Ocean promo code for Aug 2014 on Saturday August 09, 2014 @02:33AM (#8156367)
Thanks. My side project found a new home :-)
Re:Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C on Monday August 04, 2014 @06:32AM (#8131048)
>The goal is to try and build a small (and decently reliable) VM from the ground up, learning more and more C as I go.

The author explicitly mentions, he is in the process of learning C while he's building something using it.

This is interesting because the folks at [osdev.org](http://wiki.osdev.org) keep stressing that you must be a god-level expert in C, before you even think of getting into systems programming.