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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?

Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better? 446 by qqqqquinnnnn | 625 comments on Hacker News. I've been studying viruses lately, and have found that the line between virus/exosome/self is much more blurry than I realized. But, given the niche interest in the subject, most articles are not written with an overview in mind. What sorts of topics make you feel this way?
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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness?

Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness? 476 by fickleycurious | 225 comments on Hacker News. I have realized that I easily give up when I face a hard problem. This is hurting my career prospects. I have been thinking and it may have become an issue because I grew up in a high pressure environment, where a lot is expected from you. How do I change myself ? I have observed that a lot of times I have a vague idea of a problem I am trying to solve but I don't put in the effort to nail it down. This affects my confidence and I don't want to lead whenever I get an opportunity. How do I get out of this habit ?
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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?

Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare? 453 by zachrip | 74 comments on Hacker News. I'm a 24 y/o full stack engineer (I know some of you are rolling your eyes right now, just highlighting that I have experience on frontend apps as well as backend architecture). I've been working professionally for ~7 years building mostly javascript projects but also some PHP. Two years ago I was diagnosed with a condition called "Usher's Syndrome" - characterized by hearing loss, balance issues, and progressive vision loss. I know there are blind software engineers out there. My main questions are: - Are there blind frontend engineers? - What kinds of software engineering lend themselves to someone with limited vision? Backend only? - Besides a screen reader, what are some of the best tools for building software with limited vision? - Does your company employ blind engineers? How well does it work? What kind of engineer are they? I'm really
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New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C

Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C 583 by rseacord | 670 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, We are members of the C Standard Committee and associated C experts, who have collaborated on a new book called Effective C, which was discussed recently here: https://ift.tt/39mgZnS . After that thread, dang invited me to do an AMA and I invited my colleagues so we upgraded it to an AUA. Ask us about C programming, the C Standard or C standardization, undefined Behavior, and anything C-related! The book is still forthcoming, but it's available for pre-order and early access from No Starch Press: https://ift.tt/3aqVqny . Here's who we are: rseacord - Robert C. Seacord is a Technical Director at NCC Group, and author of the new book by No Starch Press “Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming” and C Standards Committee (WG14) Expert. AaronBallman - Aaron Ballman is a compiler frontend engineer for GrammaTech, Inc. and works primarily on the static analysi
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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera 471 by Eugeleo | 122 comments on Hacker News. My university just provided us with free Coursera accounts until the end of summer. However, there's so many courses to choose from that I don't know where to start! Please recommend me a course that you liked, preferably from the following areas: - UX design - bioinformatics - statistics for data science - mathematical analysis - algebra or category theory But of course, you don't need to stick to those categories, I'd love to learn about anything new!
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New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom

Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer tricks as Zoom 456 by mmastrac | 118 comments on Hacker News. I noticed while installing WebEx today that the installer immediately terminated itself after popping up the pre-installation script. Running `strings` on the installation plugin (CWSPkgPlugin.bundle) shows why - it's using a similar process to what Zoom does [1] +[CWSUtilBase unzip:to:] /usr/bin/unzip Clean up temp unziped app done: %i unzip:to: [...] Cisco Webex pkg plugin, begin init work. Install CWS result: %i Launch CWS result: %i Terminate installer: %@ Terminate self: %@ [...] /usr/sbin/lsof forceTerminate Previously discussed here: https://ift.tt/3bFJezC [1] https://ift.tt/2VdcRSf...
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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How can I pick a side project and stick with it?

Ask HN: How can I pick a side project and stick with it? 499 by corecoder | 308 comments on Hacker News. I'm a web developer and DevOps engineer. I know a few languages and frameworks very well, I can find my way around with a good deal of other languages and frameworks, and I'd like to learn a lot more. My problem is that I cannot seem to be able to pick a project (any project) and stick with it long enough to do any meaningful progress, let alone finishing it. It's been several years since I've managed to work on a side project for more than two days continually. I sit before the computer thinking: I know! I'll write a roguelike in X! Five minutes later, I'm thinking: fuck roguelikes! I'll write a graphical solitar card game with Y! Five minutes later, I don't care for it anymore, and would rather write an isomorphic strategy game in Z. The same thing happens with tools I might need, applications I think about, experimental stuff, etc. Has anyone el
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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer? 429 by sureklix | 123 comments on Hacker News. Since low-coding is super trendy these days, I was wondering if there are actually useful apps not only for non-devs but also for lazy-devs? I tried couple of no-code apps, but found them inflexible –not really giving you the opportunity to dive-in and customize.
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New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners

Show HN: An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners 483 by asicsp | 43 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I recently published my ebook on GNU awk one-liners [1]. It starts from the basics of awk syntax and then discusses one-liner examples. There's a chapter on regular expressions as well. The github repo has the details on how to get the PDF version, all the example files and code snippets used in the book, sample chapters as well the markdown source used to generate the PDF. I made all my ebooks [2] free last month amidst the pandemic fears. These include GNU grep & ripgrep, GNU sed and three books on regular expressions (Python, Ruby, JavaScript). I'd appreciate your feedback and hope the books are useful. Happy learning :) [1] https://ift.tt/3bOKoIP [2] https://ift.tt/389FB3W
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