A few years ago it was https://coursera.org - they were a powerful beacon of high-quality knowledge first-hand from world-class experts. I still try to learn as much as possible there, but my feeling of the site being intrusively optimized for business and short-term gain is increasing every day.
Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?
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#82Farnam Street @ https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/:
"Farnam Street is devoted to helping you develop an understanding of how the world really works, make better decisions, and live a better life. We address such topics as mental models, decision making, learning, reading, and the art of living."
Re: Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?
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Is there a secret area on HN where people worship CSS/JS with blind faith? Because whichever post related to it I visit, there's a healthy dose of skepticism, especially in Electron/ReactNative/AnyOtherJSWrapper posts. Further down you replied to someone else complaining about how other's work is belittled, then you write this > somebody mentioned that Microsoft Band needs a realtime OS so someone proposed javascript…
I'm scared to mention electron on here, always draws out the torch and pitchforks
People on HN will rather gently point out that Electron, being convenient to you, is at the same time a horrible resource hog and exactly the opposite of what an elegantly-written, efficient and optimized application would be.
Especially for some of us who actually create native apps using Electron might just be laziness - or inability to really care about the user.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm scared to mention electron on here, always draws out the torch and pitchforks
People on HN will rather gently point out that Electron, being convenient to you, is at the same time a horrible resource hog and exactly the opposite of what an elegantly-written, efficient and optimized application would be. Especially for some of us who actually create native apps using Electron might just be laziness - or inability to really care about the user.
> Electron might just be laziness - or inability to really care about the user.
Or it might be that it is just good enough for the target user. My 2013 Macbook has enough power to run all the Electron apps I need without slowing down...well it did once I removed Atom and learned to love Visual Studio Code.
I think that Atom's performance woes and resource hogging tends to be a stand-in for all atom apps.
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#87https://gwern.net and https://atlasobscura.com
For inspiration on UI, I browse https://dribbble.com https://codepen.io and https://uplabs.com
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#88Might sound dull, but I recommend Wikipedia. There is a word for it, which I forgot, when you look something up on Wikipedia, the article contains a link to another article, and you go, "Oooh, that sounds interesting", open it in another tab, then, when reading the second article, you come across two or three more of such links, and before you know what is going on, you have dozens of tabs open. The only limit is you…
I built an app based on that exact concept: http://thewikigame.com which has been running for many years, and is now quite popular.
The database of the site now contains a large record of millions of game plays of players trying to go from one Wikipedia link to another. See here for some interesting academic research that has been done on the site's dataset: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jSGFRZYrJnlDUBhGbQrO9e-n...
Re: Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?
#89https://news.ycombinator.com/news
you don't need the /news
Re: Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?
#90Blogs by cs profs.. mostly theory of compsci guys. Always interesting to see what they think about current events/ what latest cs theory stuff is like...although often times I can only recall a couple words in their posts from the discrete math courses all those years ago.
http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/ is a pretty good one