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I have a twitter bot, that I've monetized through the sale of T-Shirts and I'm now working on a YouTube channel. Generates enough revenue to pay the rent so that's cool. https://tw…

Should be titled; "Most recommended programming books for non-programmers"

Not laid off but was just put on furlough

Seconding this. It's a fantastic book, a little outdated but easy to fill in the gaps. I think the best route is to read this, skip all of the books marketed to retail traders. Rea…

Check out hckrnews, It's Hacker News but sorted chronologically.

I bought an Alexa.

Thinking "This is going to be awesome" until "Rust".

Just watched a MicroConf talk mentioned "1000 fan" theory.

Good as a primer for those that aren't naturally hackers but decided to become computer science majors and have little to no experience with a unix-like operating system. I learned…

The website actually recommends using SICP accompanied by Brian Harvey's CS61A lectures. Highly recommended and then read The Little Schemer to get a strong grasp on recursion.

this is not how economics works

I've been obsessed with the Bloomberg terminal ever since I discovered my latent love for finance a few years back. I actually got to check one out, but didn't really get to play w…

I feel like I'm way behind on fundamentals so mostly textbooks. I'm focused on CS, maths, and finance mainly, not sure I'll achieve this in a year, kind of my perpetual read this w…

LinkedIn is just about the one and only thing I have "because everyone else has one"

I'd love to use this data and create some sort of feudal economic simulator and/or build an RPG with these prices as opposed to arbitrary "gp" values.

From French médiéval (“middle”), from Latin medium (“middle”) + aevum (“age”).

I already see a trend building behind functional programming and LISP. Oh brother, right after I started reading SICP.

Beautiful article explaining the downsides of cloud infrastructure but as a sysadmin I'd never dare to think of replacing that sales lady's M$ Office suite with LibreOffice.