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Ask HN: Is it still a good idea to learn Perl for a young developer?
Ask HN: Which domain name registrar do you use?
is it still a smart move to choose cloudfare considering the recent accidents? the prices are low and you have the guarantee they will not disappear in 10 years or sold to an ad agency (see Gandi).<p>P.S. i&#x27;m interested in users with their own website for personal use
Ask HN: Jews in Computer Science
I find fascinating the contributions to computer science by jewish computer scientists [0]. They really pioneered the field, especially cryptography, where they seem to dominate.<p>Is this a cultural thing? I&#x27;m not aware of any other field where a group of people has contributed as much as jews...
A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics (pimbook.org)
How to Become Unhealthy in One Week (breatheless.substack.com)
Ask HN: Vim, Emacs and the time spent configuring
Many developers spend a lot of time &quot;sharpening the axe&quot; for the alleged excuse of increased productivity. At what point this actually causes the opposite effect?<p>I&#x27;m proposing this question since I&#x27;ve come the realization that your tools aren&#x27;t as important as the interne...
The Lost Art of Logarithms (lostartoflogarithms.com)
Ask HN: Hands-On Guide to Writing Parsers?
Do you know any practical books that show how to implement a parser starting from a CF grammar (preferably in C)?<p>All compiler books lack the practical part. I would like to see how to build a LL parser algorithmically in a language like C that doesn&#x27;t abstract things away (I could use OCaml ...