Inspired in part by Iran's Islamic Revolution, a young Egyptian army lieutenant emptied his machine gun into President Anwar Sadat in 1981, killing a leader who made peace with Israel and offered the shah a refuge after his overthrow.
Protesters stone home of Haiti president, clash with police
Protesters have stoned the Haitian president's home and clashed with police, leaving at least one demonstrator dead in the third straight day of demonstrations against economic mismanagement and corruption.
Ask HN: Alternative HN-Like Communities?
53 by pmohun | 18 comments on Hacker News. I've bounced around my fair share of online forums since ~2006. Inevitably, a shift in culture/moderation/interests with cause me to seek out new communities. HN has been fairly consistent in it's discussion since I've joined, and I'd like to find some similar sites.
Learn C and its lower levels interactively, in the browser
5 by vasyop | 0 comments on Hacker News. I made a simple virtual machine that runs C in the browser.This project is made as an experiment to see if C can be learned easier if the lower level is covered in paralel. Sandbox: http://bit.ly/2Gz9oHR Tutorial part 1: http://bit.ly/2E49shf More info: http://bit.ly/2GAdMqe Please support this project: http://bit.ly/2E17JJB
Ask HN: Alternative HN-Like Communities?
49 by pmohun | 18 comments on Hacker News. I've bounced around my fair share of online forums since ~2006. Inevitably, a shift in culture/moderation/interests with cause me to seek out new communities. HN has been fairly consistent in it's discussion since I've joined, and I'd like to find some similar sites.
Ask HN: What technical books are you reading?
17 by 6ak74rfy | 6 comments on Hacker News. I remember reading somewhere that many (most?) software developers don't read even one technical book a year. I was curious what books the HN community is reading? I recently picked up Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces because I need to brush up my OS knowledge for work.
Ask HN: Business insurance for SaaS startup
9 by saas_startup | 3 comments on Hacker News. We are starting to offer our SaaS product to the clients. We incorporated a company and I am looking at what other things we should be getting. The largest possible risk for us is that in a freak accident all our databases get wiped out and the clients need to go back to paper-based process or use another vendor. The service we offer costs $100 a month. I assume in first year we will make $20k or less. In T&C we have we don't guarantee that any level of service will be provided or the fact their data will be available to them at a constant basis.
Ask HN: How do you write efficient and elegant systems / APIs?
12 by julius_set | 5 comments on Hacker News. I have seen very elegant and efficient open source repositories. Recently I had a few breakthroughs, where instead of searching for an answer from the bottom up, I visualized the solution from the top down. I imagined how I would access the API as another engineer and that helped a lot. How does one improve their skill at making / writing a more elegant and efficient system or architecture?
Ask HN: How do you manage state in your React application?
55 by thamizhan2611 | 36 comments on Hacker News. Is it recommended to use redux to share state across different components while you are using react-apollo client to sync remote data between client and server? Looking forward to your views