The mechanics behind the basic barbell movements (working on becoming a Strength Coach on the side).
I'm about to order tools for leather work as well. I want to make a leather wallet and a sunglasses case.
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#42... Don't laugh: C I learnt programming mainly through various scripting languages, some of which had some relatively simple visual output available, which I personally found invaluable for learning and visualizing. I realized that better visual output was the main thing holding me back from doing more in C since there are so many options, often complex, involving much boilerplate. So my mini project is essentially e…
Out of interest, why would people laugh at someone learning C? I know plenty of people using C in all manner of domains, choosing it over C++ or Rust for fair and sensible reasons - I'm not a C person myself, but it certainly seems extremely useful to have in the toolkit!
I've noticed this a lot on hackernews, there is an apprehesion to say certain things as though there is some sort of pedigree or gating when discussing topics, especially when it's personal...there isn't.
Case in point: The comment below mine...
Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?
#43Looking at some llvm code, in particular the clang's OpenMP implementation
Getting familiar with OpenMP - MPI (are those used in real life?)
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#44... Don't laugh: C I learnt programming mainly through various scripting languages, some of which had some relatively simple visual output available, which I personally found invaluable for learning and visualizing. I realized that better visual output was the main thing holding me back from doing more in C since there are so many options, often complex, involving much boilerplate. So my mini project is essentially e…
Out of interest, why would people laugh at someone learning C? I know plenty of people using C in all manner of domains, choosing it over C++ or Rust for fair and sensible reasons - I'm not a C person myself, but it certainly seems extremely useful to have in the toolkit!
I want to learn C not (only) because I think it's useful, but because I think I might like it. I have a particular interpreted language that I like, enjoy and know inside out, now I want to know a compiled one in a similar way.
To answer your question: I get the impression from various tech news on "hot new languages" that C is the incumbent systems language that people put up with but don't really love, and yet I want to try and love it. I've developed a taste for minimalism, simplicity and a degree of brevity in programming, I have a feeling I might find C more suited to me than C++, Rust, Go, Java etc for this reason despite the lack of "modern" features.
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#45I've been devops/infra for the last few years and my web dev skills have fallen into disrepair. So I'm doing a side project with Django REST API, Golang Job Runners and React SPA to bring myself back up to par.
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#46VR hand tracking SDK
and am reading 50k word TOS (not sure 'learning' is the verb there but *)
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#47I built an expense tracker app using Flutter a while ago that I've been using for a year. It has really helped me in understanding where my money is going. To build it quick, it uses Google Sheets as a backend and BigQuery for running sql queries over the data. While everything works, it's quite slow so I'm looking at building the API server with rust warp and sqlite to store all transactions.
How easy are you using flutter to use so far? I have been thinking about learning about flutter for a long time, but still unsure about how much support is there in terms of 3rd party libraries, and whether that can hinder development at some point.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, soon to be obsolete, abandoned by s/Adobe/Google/g? :-p Just kidding, I'm building the mobile client for https://histre.com/ in Flutter and I love it. Google, please don't kill it yet.
Ha! Let's hope not, in fact let's pray that it becomes the de facto standard for Android dev :D
How much "better"/different is flutter compared to native Android development in your experience?
I am currently being forced to do learn native Android development with Java and hate every second of it.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of interest, why would people laugh at someone learning C? I know plenty of people using C in all manner of domains, choosing it over C++ or Rust for fair and sensible reasons - I'm not a C person myself, but it certainly seems extremely useful to have in the toolkit!
>choosing it over C++ or Rust for fair and sensible reasons I don't think such reasons exist. I don't think C/C++ should be used when superior alternatives exist (Rust). It's like smoking; you're just hurting yourself. Unless you're being like the programming equivalent of a steam engine enthusiast or a historian. (In a world where most of the industry is still using steam engines cuz we're in too deep and must ride…
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Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?
#50WebGL and animations, put together a NPM package to load GLTF files and show them with animations and materials. Quite tricky to get right but fun. Planning to use it for a game idea I have.