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Ask HN: Working Offline for 8 Hours?

1 points by MichaelRazum ↗ HN
I'm going on a long flight and would love to use the time for coding. Any tips how to do it ? I would love to download the whole internet or maybe just stack overflow and GitHub :)

Can work without it BUT for some interesting stuff it is really helpful. Also npm or pip require a internet connection that makes things harder to play around with new libraries.

Would appreciate any hint.

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PaulHoule
If you were programming in Python or many other languages you could download documentation and have a local copy.

In both Python and Java doing a mini-project I frequently challenge myself to only use the standard library. It's good for practicing HackerRank-rank style programming (the fun of single-file Java)

When I am waiting for builds I sometimes hack on this

https://github.com/paulhoule/pidove

because I don't really like the Streams API and want to perfect my mastery of generics and internal DSLs.

Now that I think of it, standard-library only for node seems like a good challenge for me because I code a lot of front-end Javascript but just barely know the node API.

I've also hacked on things that are data-science and A.I. related on the bus where I've very deliberately set up a Jupyter environment with everything I need before the trip.

MichaelRazum
Downloading docs is a good Idea. Will check if I can get all the docs for all the various packages. Basically that is not that important, because I already know them pretty well. Actually thought to do some stuff with cython, but guess for that I really need stack overflow to come fast forward.
roneoo
Doc can be downloaded with Zeal
MichaelRazum
Thanks a lot for the hint. That is very helpful!
helij
Why not the way we did it in 1995 most of the time? Out of the head and big fat book.
MichaelRazum
Guess depends on the problem, would love to do it this way. Kind of difficult if you are working with new frameworks.
helij
wget -r 'framework.docs'

Get as much of the documentation you can find downloaded.