15:[[21894847,{"by":"yesenadam","descendants":16,"id":21894847,"kids":[21895393,21895532,21903620,21907952,21903298,21894983,21902271,21894960,21901820,21897321,21908294,21895350,21909876],"score":15,"text":"What is a non-mainstream programming language you've used and enjoyed? What's unique about it? What paradigm/type/etc is it? What did you love about it? How did it change your thinking?

By 'non-mainstream' I mean languages most people won't have tried, not in the top few dozen used nowadays. And especially languages that changed the way you thought about programming, and were more than a bit different from others you had tried.

Also, maybe, what were the best, most helpful books or resources on it that you came across?

Thanks!","time":1577482205,"title":"Ask HN: Your favourite non-mainstream programming language?","type":"story"}],[21896885,{"by":"_spoonman","descendants":4,"id":21896885,"kids":[21902194,21899598],"score":11,"text":"Hello!

I’m looking for recommendations for a good resource on financial mathematics, maybe from first principles. Ideally, I’d like to understand more complex topics such as Monte Carlo simulations, expected value, Black-Shoales, etc.

My goal is not to be a quant but to be able to speak intelligently about the field. (I don’t play baseball but I know what an ERA is, kind of thing).

Any help is appreciated.

Merry Christmas!","time":1577503933,"title":"Ask HN: Resource for Mathematics of Finance","type":"story"}],[21901903,{"by":"YuukiRey","descendants":4,"id":21901903,"kids":[21902711,21905404,21902080],"score":5,"text":"I built a blog that also has a members-only area. It's for a family member and the users of the website are mostly 50 years and older.

The public facing content is created and maintained in Contentful. The site itself is hosted on Netlify and built with Gatsby. I used Material UI so I don't have to spend too much time on UX and design questions. The members only area is built with Firebase auth and firestore. Firestore because they create events, and then other members (~ 50 people) can sign up for those events. They can also invite new members and I built some lightweight user management functionality (assign users to roles, such as admin). For signup emails I created a SendGrid account. This would also be used for emails sent to all members notifying them of new events.

This all worked out quite well but it feels like the opposite of boring technology and KISS. I don't have anyone experienced enough I could ask, so I thought I'd ask HN.

What would you have used?","time":1577568899,"title":"Ask HN: Suggest simpler tech for blog with members area","type":"story"}],[21899198,{"by":"ronaldsvilcins","descendants":1,"id":21899198,"kids":[21899384],"score":3,"time":1577545129,"title":"Top Monospaced Fonts for Coding","type":"story","url":"https://www.ronaldsvilcins.com/2016/11/27/top-monospaced-fonts-for-coding"}],[21899214,{"by":"DrNuke","descendants":5,"id":21899214,"kids":[21899235,21901094,21899342,21899442,21899326],"score":3,"text":"I met a nephew of mine for Christmas after a few years, he is now a teenager and does not want to study at university level, so his parents asked me for a technological path forward and a job. I am torn between suggesting the Python language as a scalable ecosystem (easy enough to pick the basics, good in the case he will reconsider studying in the future) and the MS Excel as a swiss-knife, door-opening skill for employment. What do you think about? Thanks and Happy 2020!","time":1577545357,"title":"Ask HN: Teenager’s parents asking for tech: Python vs Excel.","type":"story"}]]

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