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    Nice catch! It probably would be good to switch to an IDENTITY column, but it shouldn't make too much of a difference because Chela manages the state of the index manually anyways.…

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    Thanks for the feedback. > Molerat specification says that the fragment part of the URL is included in the request. However, I think that the fragment part would be for the client'…

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    Ask HN: Is PGP-based web-environment-integrity possible?

    Recently, Google announced their new proposal for Web Environment Integrity in which "trusted" organizations may attest to the validity of a web request. Now I'm not a cryptography…

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    I like it! I gave it a try and it does exactly what I would expect from a link archiver. As others have mentioned, being able to store offline versions of pages would be nice, but …

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    Comment #36089582

    All of Beej's writing is very informational. I especially enjoyed his guide to C, although his guide to network programming is more well known. https://beej.us/guide/

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    Thank you, this is incredibly useful. My day one syllabus as I have it planned is going to focus on programming as a method of breaking problems into smaller problems that can be f…

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    Ask HN: Any Things You Wish You Were Told When Learning Programming?

    I'm going to be running a class teaching programming from scratch soon, and I want to make sure I don't confuse my students more than I teach them. If you have any topics or concep…

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    I'm honestly never sure how to feel about these things. One the one hand, this is incredible, it's the future, and it's the sort of thing I would read about in sci-fi books as a ki…

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    Ask HN: What's your favorite programmer niche?

    With so many 'sub genres' in programming (machine learning, networking, frontend, etc.), what's your favorite one? For me, I really like sockets/TCP type programming in Rust and C …

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    Comment #33181949

    I wonder it's because there's so many Windows users, so few Linux users, and that middle-but-still-reall-small number of Mac users that it seems like a good market to enter into. O…