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kalimatason Beauty in my backyard

Unrelated to the article: The drawings in the top image are beautiful. What's the name of the style for it? I would love to learn this technique.

kalimatason Willingness to look stupid

On top of fear of looking stupid, my bigger concern is lack of novelty in my work. Seems like any idea I have for a blog post or book, or any photo I'm planning has already been explored in depths by someone else. I know the joy is in the process mostly, not the result. But doing something while knowing it is certainly not original make it really hard.

kalimatason Yaak is now open source

Like the look of the blog. Is it a completely custom blog engine and theme, or some standard thing?

kalimatason Product Quantization: Compressing high-dimensional vectors

I wonder what tool was used to create such beautiful diagrams.

kalimatason KDE.org migrated to Hugo

> KDE.org now uses the Hugo.

But in the footer there is "Powered by Jekyll with Type Theme". Hm...

kalimatason Show HN: Turn your website console into a chat that connects website visitors

The project was done for fun to satisfy curiosity, I believe. I can appreciate it even if it isn't a perfect "product".

kalimatason Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?

"Only Forward" by Michael Marshall Smith. Unexpected.

kalimatason Joe, a Postgres query optimization bot

Just learned about Database Lab. Amazing! Thanks for sharing!

kalimatason Nasa's Voyager 2 probe 'leaves the Solar System'

> Voyager 1 will not approach another star for nearly 40,000 years That's a lonely ride...

kalimatason Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced

The irony is: I get "Your connection is not secure" when trying to open the link.

kalimatason Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?

Peter F. Hamilton, "Commonwealth Saga" and "Void Trilogy". Among the best Sci-Fi I've ever read.

kalimatason OpenSimpleLidar

It's kinda surprising to find comments in Russian in code :) https://github.com/iliasam/OpenSimpleLidar/blob/master/Firmw...

kalimatason Ask HN: How can I learn computer security?

https://www.hacksplaining.com/

kalimatason Ask HN: Should I move to Berlin?

I live in Berlin. I would say, money is not why you would want to move to Germany. It's social & medical insurance/stability/security.

I've been to Dubai for vacation, and I found it pretty boring TBH. In Europe you'll have more opportunities to find something interesting, even if now you're a type of guy who would spend much of his time in front of the laptop. Maybe that's because there is just boring in Dubai?

kalimatason Ask HN: What's your working day like?

Profession: Software Engineer

[7:30 - 8:00] Wake up & morning exercises & breakfast

[8:00 - 9:00] Time to work on personal projects

[9:00 - 9:45] Commute to the office

[9:45 - 10:00] Cup of tea (actually, I have tea like ~7 times a day), catch up with what happened yesterday

[10:00 - 11:00] Working

[11:00 - 11:10] Daily standup with the team

[12:00 - 13:00] Lunch

[13:00 - 18:30] Work, meetings

[18:30 - 19:15] Commute back to home

[19:15 - 00:00] Dinner, family, maybe going out, reading articles/books, movies, etc. Let's call it - free time.

kalimatason Most used words in programming languages

And PHP has "div", which seems to be HTML tag name.

kalimatason Ask HN: Any recommendations on resources for learning one algorithm a day?

http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ has a collection of algorithms and puzzles split by topics.

kalimatason Raspberry Pi Bare Metal Programming with Rust

Thanks for sharing!

kalimatason Window Functions in PostgreSQL

Thanks for sharing!

kalimatason Lessons from a Silicon Valley job search

Thanks for sharing. Helpful reading.

kalimatason Obscure C++ Features

I knew about the first sentence, but the second really obscure.

    Accessing an element of an array via ptr[3] is actually just short for *(ptr + 3). 
    This can be equivalently written as *(3 + ptr) and therefore as 3[ptr], which turns out to be completely valid code.

kalimatason Fuck Off As A Service

Technology serves people! Nice joke :)

kalimatason What to Write About

Just a few advice about blogging http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/07/dont-be-a-commodity...

kalimatason Code sucks

We're constantly developing as programmers and I'm sure where you open your code written a year ago you first intention is to say "What a crap!"

kalimatason Abandoning VIM

Thanks :)) English isn't my native language and sometimes (may be more than I want to) I make mistypes.

kalimatason Abandoning VIM

Of course I still use it to edit source code on production servers sometimes. Learning VIM for a long time was quite good experience that helps me a lot.

kalimatason Abandoning VIM

I knew that VIM was an editor, but I hoped I could turn into powerfull IDE as many articles suggested. I was wrong unfortunately.

kalimatason Abandoning VIM

Of you are interested I switched to PhpStorm. I like it very much. And it has a plugin that allow you to edit source code with VIM bindings :)

kalimatason Introducing Prose: A Content Editor for GitHub

Just awesome!

kalimatason Ask HN: I don't like programming anymore. Help on a new career please?

I think you should think twice before taking this step. I love programming, but sometimes I feel the same. Sometimes I think maybe I've chosen wrong career and I should really become a taxi driver. But it's all from sameness. Try to change not your career for now but, for example, the project you are working on, or try another programming language (this helps me a lot). At last try to create your own project, even small, but it'll bring you joy back!