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David Ernst
Personal blog · dsernst.comprogrammingwriting
David Ernst's personal blog at dsernst.com covers programming and writing. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on open source approaches to climate change. The post describes applying open source workflows to real-world issues through a generic web platform to locate, discuss and solve them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hi, welcome to my personal site.
What Hacker News says?
Sorry your experience was bad. All I can suggest is that other bootcamps may be better than GA? At Hack Reactor, the instructors never shied away from CS fundamentals. For example, less than two weeks into the course, my partner and I wrote an N-Queens Solver in Javascript, using bitwise logic. We even got it to work in multiple threads using Web Workers. We wrote about it here: http://dsernst.com/2014/12/22/nqueens…
Comment linking /2014/12/22/nqueens/
on “Ask HN: Does anyone actually hire from 'developer bootcamps'?”Submitted Meditation Is Garbage Collection for Your Mind as a story · 58 points
HN discussionI have recently thought about applying workflows and ideas of the open source and software world to real world issues. I was imagining a web platform to locate, describe, discuss and eventually solve issues together. While one of my "example" issues is climate change, I wouldn't dedicate the platform only to this issue but make it a generic tool. I have written down some of my thoughts about this and if someone is i…
Comment linking /2016/02/24/open-think-tank/
on “Ask HN: Is There Any Interest in an Open Source Solution for Climate Change”Submitted Super fast Sublime testing, without needing tests as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gmail to GitHub Issue as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Node and Mocha and Travis and Istanbul and Coveralls as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Awesome Time Complexity Visualizer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wheel of Life as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Single-Winner Voting Methods as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to make programmatic Google Forms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why ngrok is so awesome for server development as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons in pay-per-stream content and the new Encrypted Media Extension standard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bring Your Own Bash_Profile as a story · 1 points
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