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New comment by kbrtalan in "Careless People"

kbrtalan — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:32:30 +0000

just the opposite. She put her money where her mouth was and didn't trade her dignity for some cash

New comment by kbrtalan in "Ask HN: I whant to Learn C++ not Rust!!"

kbrtalan — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 16:04:28 +0000

Most importantly, code something in c++! Being "book-smart" with nothing to show for it is pretty much useless. A simple Snake or Tetris clone in SDL is a super rewarding first project, or you could give Advent of Code a go as it lets you solve a lot of cool puzzles that fit in a couple of hours at worst. As for books, I can recommend Effective Modern C++ by Scott Meyers. CppCast is a great podcast that can get you up to speed on the C++ ecosystem.

Craft Docs Enters Public Beta

kbrtalan — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 12:56:18 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.craft.do

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30906064

Points: 1

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Some founders are recruiting developers who can’t speak English

kbrtalan — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 20:06:58 +0000

Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2022/latin-america-startup-developer-scarcity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30063244

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by kbrtalan in "So you want to compete with Roblox"

kbrtalan — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 10:58:04 +0000

> Roblox first launched in 2006, a full fifteen years ago – that's five years before Minecraft

So if Notch pitched the author Minecraft the answer would have been to abandon the project? This puts a huge dent in the credibility of the article

New comment by kbrtalan in "Ask HN: Neurological Effects of Computer Programming?"

kbrtalan — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 09:40:54 +0000

Stephen Wolfram, is that you?

New comment by kbrtalan in "Effect size is significantly more important than statistical significance"

kbrtalan — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 20:40:07 +0000

There’s a whole book about this idea, Antifragile by Nassim Taleb, highly recommended

New comment by kbrtalan in "Weird Languages"

kbrtalan — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 15:21:30 +0000

Why exactly? Current mainstream programming languages have just started to move away from the “fancy C” paradigm (only named functions, classes, imperative control flow constructs) to “prototype ML” paradigm (lambda functions, records, user-defined operators). These features make languages way more expressive (enabling things like SwiftUI), so understanding language nuances will become even more important as more advanced language features find their way into popular languages. Obviously you do not need to be a an expert on compilers, but most powerful languages need some time investment in order to be used at their fullest potential.

New comment by kbrtalan in "One Year in Hell (2013)"

kbrtalan — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 21:37:36 +0000

> Today, I know everything can collapse really fast. The real takeaway from the story

New comment by kbrtalan in "How hard did Steve Jobs work?"

kbrtalan — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 07:58:12 +0000

Such a great piece of Steve Jobs fanfiction

New comment by kbrtalan in "A 'Lamborghini' of Chariots Is Discovered at Pompeii"

kbrtalan — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 07:29:51 +0000

Sic transit, Gloria!

New comment by kbrtalan in "Text-only CNN"

kbrtalan — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 08:36:32 +0000

Imma crawl the shit out of this