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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why didn't the C64 come with Simons' BASIC in the box from 1983 onward?

Ask HN: Why didn't the C64 come with Simons' BASIC in the box from 1983 onward? 2 by amichail | 0 comments on Hacker News. And maybe they could have even given the cartridge for free to people who have already bought a C64 without it.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Did Messages get removed from Google Takeout?

Ask HN: Did Messages get removed from Google Takeout? 3 by MollyRealized | 0 comments on Hacker News. "Messages" appears to have disappeared from Google Takeout. Does anyone know why Google removed it, or if there is an official notice or explanation?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to learn how to develop real time applications?

Ask HN: How to learn how to develop real time applications? 4 by creatorcoder | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am a C++ programmer and I want to learn how to develop real-time programs. It looks like it's a "lost art" these days.I think we all use such programs every day to one degree or another. For example, if you work with a network, then you probably use wireshark. If you work with audio, then you probably use something from this field. What do I mean by real-time apps? These are applications where we have a part that creates data (or a data stream, with high frequency) and a part that processes it (or gui part, if we somehow process it). I would like to focus specifically on network applications. I'll say right away that I've already read Richard Stevens book[1], but it doesn't seem to be enough to develop applications of this level. [1] Richard Stevens - Unix Network Programming

New ask Hacker News story: Using games/cards to learn new skills

Using games/cards to learn new skills 4 by dominikz | 0 comments on Hacker News. I wear two hats: - I am making my living being a programmer - as a hobby I rock climb quite a lot (including ice climbing) Story 1 When I started going into avalanche terrain, I quickly realized that I need to get some professional training before something happens. I went to a 2 day course. The lecture for 8 hours in a classroom, even though was done by a really good professional, was hard to understand. Especially when the lecturer introduced something called 'professional method of assesing avalanche risk'. Nobody understood. But at the evening, we went to the bar, ordered a few beers and the lecturer pulled out something called 'Snow Safety Cards' (https://ift.tt/SHpIgGN). And even though we were getting more drunk with each beer, we started to understand that method. Story 2 I joined a new IT project. One of the veterans in our team convinced the founder that it would be great to in...

New ask Hacker News story: We were building infra for OpenClaw, and today I just tried Hermes and holy shit

We were building infra for OpenClaw, and today I just tried Hermes and holy shit 3 by Stanlyya | 1 comments on Hacker News. So, as some of you guys might have done, we started a hosting for Openclaw type of a business, and holy, this thing grew to 300k ARR and even got a YC interview. Last week was a bit hectic. We got a no from YC, and I was just thinking reflecting on the feedback we got. We were playing with this whole company brain thing as well. We are doing two pilots for that too. It's a Saturday. I just installed Hermes agent because Open Router Hermes agent was overtaking Openclaw, and holy shit, Hermes agent is so underrated, so so much underrated. Now I am rethinking my company.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to increase depth instead of breadth as 10 yoe as swe?

Ask HN: How to increase depth instead of breadth as 10 yoe as swe? 4 by Cheesebh | 2 comments on Hacker News. About my experience(10 yoe): - Tech stack: C, C++, python, OpenCL, GPU and DSP programming. Along with that some performance engineering and docker topics. Problem: - not feeling confident enough in my skillset. I feel that I have breadth of topics but deep expertise is missing. - I am with the same company(automotive supplier) for 8 years but switched teams after 4 years. Topics are random based on the customer project as there is no real sw product. I believe this hinders in becoming expert. - Finding new job is becoming harder day-by-day. Looking for advice/recommendations: - How can I turn the situation? - Has anyone here has faced similar situation and come out of it? What did you do?