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cabernalon Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?

Just give me web access to your FTP server ffs.

When I think of punks of the tech industry I think of the Homebrew Computer Club. I've tried looking for a similar community but these seem to be few and far between.

I lot of the tech communities around where I live seem to only be interested in "startupping", seed funding and networking rather than experimenting and pushing tech itself. Hackathons, where I used to find a few punks years ago, are now filled with people mildly interested in tech and big corporate sponsors.

Maybe it's the fact that technology keeps getting more complex and thus a few punk hackers are not enough to really disrupt it.

cabernalon Rx – Extensible pixel editor implemented in Rust, inspired by Vi

Modal editing seems like an overlap between the two.

cabernalon Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding

Reminds me of the jwz quote:

"I know it’s kind of a cliché but it comes back to worse is better. If you spend the time to build the perfect framework that’s going to do what you want and that’s going to carry you from release 1.0 through release 5.0 and everything’s going to be great; well guess what: release 1.0 is going to take you three years to ship and your competitor is going to ship their 1.0 in six months and now you’re out of the game. You never shipped your 1.0 because someone else ate your lunch."

cabernalon Productivity brought by Clojure [slides]

There is a version of Clojure that runs on BEAM: https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl

cabernalon Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity

This reminds of the GNOME 3 debacle.

cabernalon Racket 7.3

Here you go: https://docs.racket-lang.org/racket-language-server/index.ht...

cabernalon Darknet – A neural network framework written in C and CUDA

AlexeyAB's fork [0] has a ton of improvements on the original implementation linked here.

[0] https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet

cabernalon New Planes That May Change Travel

You might care about quality when you're in a 12+ hour flight.

cabernalon The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess

I would say there's no comparison between what a developer makes in the US with the rest of the world.

cabernalon Work in Silicon Valley and Spooked About Trump? Canada Wants You

This is true, a lot of startups (in the Toronto area at least) work on ad/marketing tech, but if you look closely you can find places that are working on interesting projects (WealthSimple, Quandl, TopHat)

cabernalon Writing device drivers in Linux: A brief tutorial (2006)

I have zero experience with microprocessor programming , any recommendations in terms of resources and hardware to get for absolute beginners?

cabernalon Valve's GDC Talk: Porting Source to Linux [pdf]

You might be interested in the Eclispe Linux Tools project[0], which integrates a lot of popular Linux profiling and debugging tools with Eclipse.

[0]http://www.eclipse.org/linuxtools/