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New comment by albertojacini in "A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science"

albertojacini — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:05:35 +0000

I started when I was 34, for the same motivations that you describe. It become my profession and my hobby. I'm now 47 and I'm still enjoying the ride a lot.

New comment by albertojacini in "Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck"

albertojacini — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:23:39 +0000

The title says it all

New comment by albertojacini in "IMG_0001"

albertojacini — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:40:23 +0000

Watching a cat failing to open a jar, I noticed that my brain expects cats to succeed at all they do.

New comment by albertojacini in "'Thirsty' ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought"

albertojacini — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 09:14:46 +0000

Can be true, but it applies to Disneyland as well.

New comment by albertojacini in "Video reveals progress of 170-km-long skyscraper through Saudi desert"

albertojacini — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:20:43 +0000

Fear not. It's zero emissions ;)

New comment by albertojacini in "Ask HN: Best resources to learn django in 2017?"

albertojacini — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:02:13 +0000

What helped me the most from the basics to being a Django professional has been Two Scoops of Django. The best about this book is that is authoritatively opinionated about which are the best practices in the Django world. This really helps you not to get lost. See: https://www.twoscoopspress.com/products/two-scoops-of-django...

New comment by albertojacini in "Machine Learning in a Year"

albertojacini — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 15:31:35 +0000

I completely agree. It was also very well balanced between theory and practice.

Oil #5: Imagine a World Without Oil

albertojacini — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 15:08:28 +0000

Article URL: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/24/491216303/oil-5-imagine-a-world-without-oil

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12419461

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by albertojacini in "“Eat, sleep, code, repeat” is such bullshit"

albertojacini — Sat, 21 May 2016 15:16:47 +0000

> horrifying

is definitively too much. And also the interpretation is too strict. Why being outraged for something like this?

New comment by albertojacini in "The slow death of purposeless walking (2014)"

albertojacini — Mon, 16 May 2016 10:27:06 +0000

Walking helps me in solving programming issues.

When I find myself stuck and my mind starts to loop around, I need to force myself to take a purposeless walk, around my office's block or little more. During the walk I stop thinking about the problem for a while and then resume from a new angle. It normally works very well.

New comment by albertojacini in "Being a Developer After 40"

albertojacini — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:31:23 +0000

It wouldn't have been smart either. What one should charge is what one can charge. And it's unrelated to what the cost of living is in a given country.

New comment by albertojacini in "Open-Source Recycling"

albertojacini — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:50:12 +0000

New comment by albertojacini in "Open-Source Recycling"

albertojacini — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:53:52 +0000

I'm obsessed with not throwing away things and really appreciate a cool project like this. But nonetheless, I would like to emphasize that recycling is no substitute for not producing and not consuming plastic, which is by far the best way to fight what is depicted in the Why? section!