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For reasons that are economic and personal, I've had and lost many jobs as a software person. I am in the job hunt again. In this hunt, I think I've applied to about six hundred places thus far, and have gotten about a…

I recently deployed a Hugo blog that I'm locally hosting. I would like to know roughly how much traffic it's getting (almost nothing except friends right now, but I still would like some data). Obviously I could use…

Hi All! My dad recently published a book, using differential equations to try and directly quantify human emotion. I helped a bit with some of the coding, but he did all the math and computations on his own. Obviously I…

I'm unemployed yet again (2023 has just been a spectacular year for me), and so I'm once again in the process of spamming my resume to a million companies and deal with recruiters. My luck hasn't been great, and it…

I am starting a part time PhD next month, and I am nervous as hell about it. I was curious to anyone on HN who has managed to pull this off, do you have any tips that might help me get through this? What aspect did you…

In the last few months, I've noticed a slew of accounts posting anti-vax messaging on any COVID-19 related articles. These accounts will be less than a week old, and you'll see that their only posts will have been the…

My sister is trying to get into a PhD program. She has emailed about a dozen professors, and she's having a lot of trouble getting any of them to even respond back to her emails, let alone getting any information. Since…

I have a prototype for a project that I would like to sell, and I was curious to the steps involved with getting a funding from angels and/or VCs. I don't know that my project is big enough or interesting enough to get…

I recently purchased a bunch of ESP controllers online to play with, and I more or less understand NodeMCU at this point. However, per a discussion here [1] from yesterday, I saw that there exists 5 cent controllers.…

I have been working on a personal project for awhile now, and think that I could potentially monetize it in the nearish future. However, the product could (arguably) be considered a competitive product with something my…

I was reading this post [1] and while I found it interesting, I was curious if anyone has actually used the pure Lambda Calculus for a serious project. If so, why?…

I have heard the Rust is trying to go after the systems programming crowd, which is cool since it seems safer to me. I was mostly curious if someone has experience porting over a big-ish piece of code from C++ to Rust,…

I'm largely a self-taught math lover, and would like to get more into type-theory, set-theory, and category theory. Are there any good resources available for people to get started?