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Here is what he needs to do. If he is a good mobile developer and knows English to pass an interview, first thing he should find a good-paying remote job. Couple of good places to start with are workatastartup.com and linkedin. Once he lands a remote position, he should spend couple of months to learn the company and workstyle and make himself comfortable with his job duties. After that he could easily find several hours a week for his research. Considering the fact he has no dependants, he should be able to do the work, do his research and generally live pretty decent life.

Main goal for him should be securing his life first (food, place to live) and only after that he can think about reaching his goals.

I'd recommend going through "Early history of Smalltalk" and "The Dream machine". First covers Kay's work and Smalltalk - how it started, what was the reasoning behind it. I'm still in progress with the second one, but it gives pretty deep dive in history of computing, covering a lot about personalities behind the field and their work.

Nice post, very well written! Just not sure why compare non-gc low-level statically-typed language with vm-based gc dynamic language.

There is one thing I'm always thinking about: a mesh network of autonomous devices that scattered across a field or a forest and a base nearby. These devices can have temperature sensors and someone can rather quickly see that something is going wrong either by temperature or if some amount of devices went down (say burnt in fire). I think those things called sensor networks or something like this.

It’ll be very helpful to hear what steps did you take before building your product. Did you try to reach out potential users with just the idea to discuss it? Also did you check other similar tools, what people like and dislike about it? Do your potential users have enough pain with current tools (or lack of them) to consider paying for your project?

Oh, man, you just have written my exact thoughts! I also have a problem revisiting my notes, ideas, etc. I was thinking about creating a note-taking app with reminder. I know, that there is a whole world of note apps as well as reminder apps, but i wanted to have specific tool. Also, what is the point to be a programmer if you don’t create things for yourself, right?)

Thought it were my "miss clicks"! Now its becoming interesting...

(i'm on mojave and latest chrome)

Doesn’t work for me already couple of hours. Mobile app says can’t reach reddit. However old.reddit.com works :)

The site says: Sorry, we have failed you. Try refreshing!

Hi! You probably don’t want to go with all users, you just need to pick matched once. When a new user signs up, you need to take his books and genres and find users with the same or mostly the same.

One think that I could understand to the time - there are no “hacks” in such kind of situations. There is no special routine that can keep you focused just by doing this routine. One thing we can do is constantly remind ourselves what we are doing and why. Every time you gonna start implementing new feature, make requirements and a plan. “I need my users to be able to log into the system. I’m gonna create login form, add empty-field checks and make request to the api”. Follow the plan, make it just work, deliver. Improve if needed. And don’t forget to always remind all of this to yourself, this is the only key - always working to be better. It’s hard, but there is no other way :)

Absolutely agreed. I think you can easily bet on CTO or Head of Development positions with such a great set of skills. I think these positions are very good to move to tech companies: amount of $ is still very good, you are not only developing and you can apply your business skills to the tech problems.

Just checked the video, very impressive. I should try it for sure

You should definitely post this link here at hacker news once again. Just set title, something like “Brand new visual programming tool” and post it.

You know, i'm a programming languages enthusiast and always happy to dig in some code. If you can show me the code, i can take a look & see if i can help. No money needed %)

I don’t think there is any service for that, but I think somebody from community can help. 60 lines is not so many:)

He is experienced developer with great coding skills

Actually, the question is related to employee, not a candidate:) He is working with us quite for a long time, and he writes really good code. But he can't make simple solutions, only the hardest way to solve a problem. And because of it, we can't plan work and estimate tasks.

Thanks! It is a good example)

Thanks a lot!

I think it would be hard to call dynamic groovy types from java

I'm using Kotlin in production about a year and can't see the difference in development before google announce and after :)

I think, one of the main features that makes Kotlin a bit better than other JVM languages is full compatibility with Java. And by full I mean 100% with no exceptions.

And Kotlin became good choice for android developers a long ago before io2017) Official support means a better tooling, nothing more