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Beautifully put, poetic even. The only problem is that, in (*actual).reality, unsafe Rust is difficult to read, difficult to write, difficult to maintain, difficult to learn, has z…

For a good base, I recommend the book "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" by Marshall Kirk McKusick. It's really in depth and I was able to follow it wi…

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Don't forget about Objective-C++! That's where the true powers of the dark side are. Side Note: Objective-C is such a criminally underrated language. I often see people complaining…

Yes, agreed. IMO, curly braces would have made much more sense. It's not even bikesheding, really. It's just a fact that curly braces are less used in most written languages. I wou…

Check again. On the homepage scroll down to: > An Application " Using props and state, we can put together a small Todo application. This example uses state to track the current li…

The example in the article was lifted from the front page of the official React website [0]. [0] https://facebook.github.io/react/

> write a bunch of code to deal for various browsers jQuery helps here

I don't see where the parent suggested no framework. It's likely he or she prefers working a different framework or library, like vue.js or even jQuery. For me, jQuery is the bare …

Regardless of these complaints, the job market for React is just too damn good to ignore. I bit the bullet and began learning. As a newbie, I understand the sentiment of this artic…

If you're interested in iOS/Cocoa development, Swift is a top-notch statically typed language with lots of paradigm flexibility. Unfortunately, it isn't used as much outside of tha…

When I'm not on medication I'm prone to manic/psychotic episodes and usually begin to hear voices. Maybe drugging isn't the best solution, but for me it's the only one that lets me…

Hi HN, I feel so stuck. I'm 25 and live with my parents. I do not have a CS degree (I have a BA in Economics). A year ago, I quit my full-time job as maintainer of a legacy C++ cod…

Disclaimer: I am not a professional web developer. I have never seriously done front-end work. I am writing an web application in Elixir/Phoenix. It is an app with many categories …

I can't wait until May[0] for the new 'Programming Phoenix' book. I found the first edition to be a great learning experience. [0] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781680502268.do

There's an observable soft spot for Nintendo consoles in a lot of "PC master race" types. I'm definitely not a part of that community, but I agree a higher powered PC plus whatever…

Eclim is already fairly useful for Ruby developers. I use it for the "stellar omnifuncs" it provides YouCompleteMe as described in the official docs [0]. [0] https://github.com/Val…