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Nurdokon Site Is Closed on Sundays

In Israel, many sites are "closed" on Sabbath, unfortunately. This was a recent controversy about this: https://www.ynet.co.il/economy/article/rymwhdedmg (Hebrew)

Nurdokon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

http://amir.rachum.com

Nurdokon Show HN: A Haskell Poker Site

This brings up a pet peeve of mind in code repo README files - why no screenshot?? If your project has a UI, this is a must have in the description.

Nurdokon A second hexagon in the stratosphere of Saturn

Came in just to Ctrl+f "bestagon", was not disappointed.

Nurdokon Ask HN: How do you balance reading books vs. articles

This guy gets it.

Nurdokon Ask HN: What are some good methods to prove current time?

You can ask the person you wish to prove current time to, to provide a "challenge" that you will film ("put two fingers up", "hold up a USB cable").

Nurdokon Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

https://amir.rachum.com/

I'm a software engineer from Israel. I'm mainly a Pythonista, but I also dabble in C++ and Embedded Linux. I write about code, technology and my personal life - from a programmer's perspective.

Highlights:

Knowledge Debt https://amir.rachum.com/blog/2016/09/15/knowledge-debt/

Shared Libraries: Understanding Dynamic Loading https://amir.rachum.com/blog/2016/09/17/shared-libraries/

Python Entry Points Explained https://amir.rachum.com/blog/2017/07/28/python-entry-points/

Nurdokon [dead]

Looks like the link is broken.

Nurdokon Steal from the best, but don’t steal the wrong thing

Just because a decision is forced by scale doesn't necessarily mean it's bad for small scale. For example, Git was created for the Linux kernel project and is designed to be performant in scale, but it's still a good decision to use it when you're a single developer.

(Also, why bash ThinkPads? They're great laptops)

Nurdokon Shared Libraries: Understanding Dynamic Loading

Thanks for the correction, it's fixed now.

Nurdokon Does Music Help You Become More Productive?

I listen to the FTL Soundtrack: https://benprunty.bandcamp.com/album/ftl

Nurdokon Show HN: nextfeed – a minimalistic rss reader

What screenshots would you like to see? There's just a simple table for managing feeds and a link to bookmark (it's... minimalistic :) )

Nurdokon How I saved $39,420 by not buying a domain without a prototype

> 1 Year - 365 Ideas.

I don't believe someone can buy domains for a spur-of-the-moment idea back-to-back even 3 days before he'll realize he has a problem. I would think that you can at least remember than you bought a domain yesterday and try to work on it a little.

Nurdokon Uptime Robot

Why do I have to enter a password? Use OpenID so I can login with Google, Twitter, GitHub, Facebook, etc.

Nurdokon Django Vanilla Views 1.0 released.

I personally don't find the regular CBV to be difficult to use and I prefer CBV to FBV in 99% of cases. I actually find it easy that the flow is separated into different methods, so that when I want to change a specific behavior, I don't have to read the whole view. That being said, I do find that I have to look at the source code for CBV from time to time, even though the documentation is quite good - but maybe "looking through source code" isn't quite as intimidating to me as to more beginner programmers.

Nurdokon Ask HN: Starting on a new project, what programming language to use?

I develop web apps with Python + Django, and I enjoy every minute of it.

Nurdokon [dead]

This seems out of place here and on Github as well - unless I'm missing something.

Nurdokon Ask HN: What is the best program to produce graphs?

Graphs like pie charts of like the data structure?

Nurdokon Show HN: Minified.js – a fully-featured, 4K alternative to jQuery and MooTools

A novice question - how significant is the relative size here. Sure - 4 is smaller than 32, but is that really the biggest concern with a JS library (and modern internet speeds)?

Nurdokon Python: Common Newbie Mistakes, Part 1

Yeah, we are!

Nurdokon Show HN: HTMLify - Turn code snippets into HTML, for tech bloggers

It also escapes html tags and such.

Nurdokon Show HN: HTMLify - Turn code snippets into HTML, for tech bloggers

It also maintains whitespaces and escapes special html symbols (&, <, >). I know it doesn't do much. As I said, it's only a convenience.

Nurdokon Show HN: HTMLify - Turn code snippets into HTML, for tech bloggers

I blog with tumblr (http://blog.amir.rachum.com) and HTML is the only viable option I see there. Yeah, I probably need to change my venue :) In any case, this project (as stated in the footer) is more of an experience for me. I don't expect this to revolutionize anything. Just a nice tool which I personally need.

Nurdokon Show HN: HTMLify - Turn code snippets into HTML, for tech bloggers

Got a preview rendering to work. Check it out again. Thanks for the suggestion!

Nurdokon Show HN: HTMLify - Turn code snippets into HTML, for tech bloggers

What do you mean? It shows the output in the bottom text area.

Edit: you mean, show a rendering of the output in the page?

Nurdokon 65th anniversary of Nakba Day

How is this technology / startup related exactly?

Nurdokon Pyreshark v0.0.5 released – Wireshark plugins in Python

A version number of 0.0.5 is about the most untrustworthy and suspicious version number I've ever seen.

Nurdokon Python: The Dictionary Playbook

They are equivalent, but the latter version is more readable.

Nurdokon FOSS Developers: Make Your Products Easy to Build

I'm not saying it's particularly hard, I'm saying it should be easy as hell.

Nurdokon Damn You, Microsoft Word. Damn You.

As I pointed out, I prefer LyX (which is a LaTeX graphical frontent).