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cake_42··on Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
nand2tetris.org Haven't finished it yet but it's all about building a full computer from a NAND to other logic gates (mux, dmux, and, or, etc) to higher level things like assembly, memory, cpu, and it keeps going to a tetris game. It's challenging, comprehensive and builds upon itself. It's awesome
cake_42··on My bag of tricks – loose notes, design patterns, rules-of-thumb
here's a general rule of thumb: a man whose backlog of books isn't as least 2x as long as the books read is either (logical or here) a) consistently reading intellectually shallow or uninteresting things b) not really learning anything from what is being read.
cake_42··on Show HN: Paperkast
Interesting! My first thought went to fermats library, as that's doing something very (and quite well I think) but they don't have a voting system
cake_42··on Ask HN: What has been your most rewarding job or project and why?
Curious, can you share a link to the OS project and the algorithmic art project?
cake_42··on Philosophy, the Sartre blend: uncovering the birth of existentialism
Also not for nothing, but Kiregaard is really the father of existentialism