Looks like a cool project. We get a computer with VGA output, FDD and RS232 ports.

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- Conferences, not my thing, but if you are new, you may learn a trick or two there. No just go there, try talking to the people. Approach a few senior looking guys and ask them for advice.

- Confs can be quite expensive, a cheaper alternative is local user groups. You can try to find the closest ones via Meetup.

- ChatGPT (yup, hallucinates but still has a reasonable answer for 90% of the questions).

As for your situation:

- You are responsible for hiring. Try to hire people with more experience than you.

- "to the highest standards of the industry" isn't that perfectionism? Most production code has much much lower quality than what we see in open source.

- I think for the time being (the job market is really bad right now), just concentrate on delivering stuff. Learn if you have some time left, but delivering solutions should be your prio #1 in my opinion.

I find that blogs and small sites do not have a chance when looking for a commercial products or when trying to find a review for a product. There is too much SEO spam and fighting for the top positions.

But if you are doing something that cannot be commercialised easily or is very niche your blog will have easy time on Google (programming is not a niche anymore).

My recommendation is that the learning app should:

- Interact with an SQL database

- Expose an HTTP endpoint (REST or GraphQL)

- Use a logging framework

- Use concurrency

- Use a unit testing framework and a few integration tests

- Build should be automated using GitHub actions

In my opinion that's the fastest way to learn a language or more broadly a platform (as every language now is a kind of platform with its own set of libraries, conventions, idioms and untold rules).

PS. My list is probably not good for a system language like Rust or C++, but should work for languages from Ruby & Python, though Java & C#, up to Go and Erlang.

For me the most time intensive part of learning a new language is learning the new libraries. I don't mean here the standard library but rather things like library for interacting with SQL database, how mocking works in the new language, how concurrency works, web API framework.

Learning "just" a language can be done over the weekend. Learning to properly use its standard lib and the entire environment of libraries may take years.

This work is based on an earlier attempt: http://www.tinyvga.com/avr-isa-vga

What I did basically was to simplify the code and fix some bugs (there was one nasty bug related to font loading).

Sharing as this may be of interest to people interested in retro computing or building their own SBC.

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ehm... jokes aside. I think a more reasonable way is to setup a foundation, composed of biggest players in tech, also companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft, Mozilla Foundation, Linux Foundation, Apple and EFF. The foundation should steer the further development of Chrome. In that way Chrome will be owned by community just like e.g. Linux Kernel or standards like C++ lang spec.

If Chrome would be bought by a private entity, that entity would probably start milking the current user base straight away. Expect adds in bookmarks bar, more address bar spyware (e.g. sending all phrases to the cloud) and paid extensions web store.

The most used and advanced browser that we have today must stay open source. It is more than a program, it is part of global internet infrastructure. We should not destroy it by a foolish political decision.

Returning to LLMs. I think the problem here may be that there is simply not enough learning material for LLM. Verilog comparing to C is a niche with little documentation and even less open source code. If open hw were more popular I think LLMs could learn to write better Verilog code. Maybe the key is to persuade hardware companies to share their closed source code to teach LLM for the industry benefit?

- Cracking the coding interview.

- Elements of programming interviews in Java|Python|whatever...

- leetcode & other sides with paid premium subscriptions...

- mock interview bootcamps...

It's no longer about skill, it's only about gaming the system.

Also my last comment sounds a bit harsh. That wasn't my intention. It is a great project.

Still it is impressive to create something complex like this in a matter of 4 days (looking at the commit history). And it is a good start to develop a full fledged IDE.

The more advanced features like syntax highlighting & autocomplete unfortunately are missing. I did not run it (I am on macOS) but I also expect there is no debugger.

Now I also want to share my childhood story: I started my dev journey first by using Turbo Pascal and then by switching to Delphi 7. Delphi was pretty much like VB6, you designed an app by dragging and dropping components on a form. My first app that I have created was a Notepad++ clone, I still keep the code for it but it is so awful that I cringe every time I try to look at it.

This is nothing new and was also described in this article: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240402-return-of-never-ending-job-interviews

Can you give me some advice, please? How much time should I give the company, e.g. 3 months? Can I assume that if they cannot decide after 3 months the job ad is just fake?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41997939

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Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Java, Scala, Gradle, Jenkins, k8s, NoSQL

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcin-chwedczuk/

Email: 0xmarcin (at) gmail (dot) com

I am looking for a backend developer position. Ideally in microservices environment.

Erlang and Smalltalk are both interesting languages based on message passing paradigm.

Verilog - a hardware description language. Tetris in hardware? No problem! There are free simulators out there but using real FPGA boards can be expensive.

CUDA/Shaders - massively parallel take at the programming.

I would not stress over it until that other person sets up a project webside and starts a marketing campaign. Most probably it is only about making a good looking GitHub profile.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41308128

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Ad 2024 the framework is seriously behind any other commercial GUI be it WPF or Qt. I found the SceneBuilder to be highly unstable, crashing often several times during development.

The idea to use CSS for styling is not bad, but there is absolutely no autocomplete in IntelliJ Community for it. Makes writing it hard. There is a JavaFX plugin for Eclipse but it looks abandoned.

All in all it works when you need to put a simple GUI for your hobby project but I would not recommend it for any serious app.