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Ask HN: Which CS topic did you find interesting at first but not after study?
And why?
- eimrine 5y agoAsynchronous/multithread/lock-free programming. Too complicated, not so important in most programs, not always efficient on real-life processors (because of limitation of psychical bus between cores).
- eimrine 5y agoUPD: Seems I have a better answer - it is computers per se. When I began study of programming I was opinionated on idea to heavily learn system programming - C++, Asm, Rust had not been invented by that time, OS theory and things I have already mentioned. Now I hate all I know about computers and prefer interpret languages like JS. I haven't escaped from the needness to know about how a processor treats that binaries, but it is very boring and fast-obsoleting stuff and I wish I could tell myself younger not to bother about computers but rather to grok data types and algos.