Hacker News: ahalbert

Ask HN: Best Books to Read Develop Your Career?

ahalbert — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 13:17:16 +0000

I recently read the pragmatic programmer, and want to read more books with a theme of developing my career as a software engineer.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37534513

Points: 12

# Comments: 5

New comment by ahalbert in "Ask HN: Any Vim users who are sticking with Vim over Neovim?"

ahalbert — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 17:39:59 +0000

Inertia, I guess - I'd have to get it set up and all and vim works fine for me now.

New comment by ahalbert in "The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century"

ahalbert — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:41:49 +0000

The author thinks that porn literacy is a good thing, but she notes that it's difficult to teach students to read texts you can't show them.

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

ahalbert — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 12:59:48 +0000

Article URL: https://ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/07/14/the_right_to_sex.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36723332

Points: 62

# Comments: 83

Fast Joins in Apache Beam

ahalbert — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 00:42:40 +0000

Article URL: https://ahalbert.com/technology/2023/07/08/fast_beam_joins.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36650239

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ahalbert in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

ahalbert — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:16:32 +0000

My blog: https://ahalbert.com/

I just got back to public writing, but I like to share summaries of the books I read.

My most recent post is the secret history of cold war submarine espionage: https://ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/07/01/blind_mans_bluff.htm...

This recently was featured on hacker news's front page: https://ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/06/04/the_culture_map.html

New comment by ahalbert in "Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage"

ahalbert — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 17:54:33 +0000

Yes. I summarize books I read and share what I learned.

New comment by ahalbert in "Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage"

ahalbert — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 17:08:30 +0000

It's ok. It's quite long and there's a lot of stories.

New comment by ahalbert in "Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage"

ahalbert — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 14:56:06 +0000

That's what I said in the article.

New comment by ahalbert in "Forget Bob Woodward. These Are the Political Books You Want to Read"

ahalbert — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 13:33:49 +0000

As far as my favorite poltical biographies go, I think the ones that gave me the most understanding of politics was the Robert A Caro biographies, "The Power Broker" and "The Years of Lyndon Johnson".

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

ahalbert — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 13:18:11 +0000

Article URL: https://ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/07/01/blind_mans_bluff.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36561229

Points: 6

# Comments: 6

It's Our Turn to Eat: Corruption in Modern Kenya

ahalbert — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 18:39:03 +0000

Article URL: https://ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/07/01/its_our_turn_to_eat.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36553525

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ahalbert in "Why write?"

ahalbert — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 21:53:36 +0000

I don't know, but I wrote nearly 3000 words on the last book review I did. I'd say I spend less time than 90 minutes per chapter. I'm also sharing the reviews, which I find the most rewarding part.

New comment by ahalbert in "Why write?"

ahalbert — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:49:38 +0000

I do it on my college alum slack channel, but I recently wrote one up that made it to the front page of HN:

https://ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/06/04/the_culture_map.html

I took some inspiration from the book review contests of "Astral Codex Ten"

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-publi...

New comment by ahalbert in "Why write?"

ahalbert — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 14:27:37 +0000

I recently started writing reviews of each book I read. I found it helps me retain the contents of the book and often people give positive feedback about what they learned from my review.

New comment by ahalbert in "The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition"

ahalbert — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:41:53 +0000

I love using Awk, the only thing I miss is that it can't handle complex csv files. Does anyone know how to handle quoted CSV strings like

> "foo","bar,baz"

New comment by ahalbert in "The Biologist Blowing Our Minds"

ahalbert — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 02:57:22 +0000

I'm not a biologist, but I know from other biologist that is often difficult to cultivate cells in a lab. Kudos to him for mastering such a difficult art

New comment by ahalbert in "OpenOrca: open source dataset and instruct-tuned LLMs"

ahalbert — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 02:53:55 +0000

When will the model be available?