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by Ologn 6y ago
> Software engineers are best analyzed on a bell curve and once identified according to such plotting relative to other developers the criteria becomes clear Absolutely. Four out of six software engineers are average and interchangeable
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by Ologn 6y ago
Yes. Oh my goodness, look through the open issues. Look at the pull requests. What is the big O run time of the various functions? Sometimes someone pops in from a university and knows how to improve an algorithm and shrink its runtime,
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For sure. I was flying weekly as a consultant to and from an AA hub last year. I was hired down here this year, so no more corporate expensed AAdvantage points for me. I just got my AAdvantage card so I can earn airline points when I buy
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by Ologn 6y ago
My college said I should spend at least three hours studying for every hour in class. So in a sense, three of my four years at college were getting "a quality education remotely. Also, most of college can be learned free online or in
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by Ologn 6y ago
I posted about this a few days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24246341 I would stress the end part. Think now of what success is. "Success" means you are still making small margins, but your volume i
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by Ologn 6y ago
If we just think of something that is part of the fabric of a prominent university like a university press - MIT Press was formed in 1932. Oxford University press was founded in 1586. Tsinghua University Press was founded in 1980. The uni
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by Ologn 6y ago
I used to sell a particular 3M product via the mail. I generally did not drop ship it, I ordered it in bulk from a wholesaler and then sold it on eBay, as well as on a website I maintained, which ran a heavily modified version of osCommerc
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I had a similar reaction. I do not consider a new project, and then consider what stack to use. I first consider what stack to use, then I consider projects which are suitable for that stack. Most projects I might consider that are on ot
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by Ologn 6y ago
I have been using a 17" Serval WS System 76 Ubuntu laptop for ten months, particularly heavily since March (when Covid started). I have been happy with it. I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 at the beginning of July and that has had no probl
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by Ologn 6y ago
Any commodity could be held. If we look back half a century in the US, the commodity held was gold. Or rather, federal reserve notes redeemable for gold. Gold makes a good currency as it has the properties of a commodity that makes a good
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by Ologn 6y ago
> The faster I can write and deploy code the more motivated and energized I am to do more of it. Compile time, local source control, one-click deployment The best programmers I have worked with always pay attention to this. They quickly
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The question is, is this different from how humans learn to write and speak a particular language?
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> 1) which classes I would come to enjoy, and 2) which subjects I would actually use every day at work. Another thing that is easy to misgauge - how much work it takes to understand a topic. All told, across several classes, I probably
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by Ologn 6y ago
With Covid prevalent in the United States, I don't know what the situation would be for students looking to take the fall 2020 semester. In college, we were told to spend at least three hours studying for every hour in the class. So I
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by Ologn 6y ago
Andy Bechtolsheim said when Bill Joy worked at CSRG, he figured out how much longer it took him to write an e-mail when he had to hit the shift key versus when typing in all lowercase. Subsequently, all his CSRG e-mails seem to be in lower
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by Ologn 6y ago
On the island of Ireland, there are only three places where people regularly speak Gaelic in conversation, all of which are way at the west coast away from Dublin - in Munster, in Connacht and in Ulster. My mother's parents happen to
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by Ologn 6y ago
> I am learning to build apps in android. Most of the tutorials and even books I come across have quite small examples to follow, usually 2 activity files Two activity files? That's a lot. With Jetpack Navigation, you can have sub
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by Ologn 6y ago
I think these are good times for this theory of not needing a CS degree to be tested. I am thinking of Google's recent rescinding of offers to thousands of contractors, or the latest from https://layoffs.fyi/tracker .
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In recent times I have been taking night and weekend classes to finish my CS bachelors along students half my age, so I will tell you what I told them. One thing is we took CS classes, and also some English courses in writing. Even on the
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by Ologn 6y ago
Tesseract is the best FOSS one I found when I looked a bit back. I don't conceive of a superior FOSS one any time soon unless a commercial one open sources, or some one utilizing deep learning comes out.
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I think this is a big part of it. At work, I am coding to one platform. For my personal projects - I set up the Linux server, I set up the MySQL/MariaDB instance, I design the database schema which follows first normal form, second no
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by Ologn 6y ago
For self-study, or study in general, I am kind of surprised how many people don't implement what they learned after they study. In school I learned Java, computer graphics, ML/AI and other things, and during or after school I i
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by Ologn 6y ago
I took night/weekend college classes in CS, often alongside teenagers. For our computer graphics class, one kid was excited, anticipating he was going to find out how to point and click his way to make a dragon appear in a video game
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by Ologn 7y ago
Of course, Conway was a serious mathematician who was slightly vexed that the thing he might be most remembered for is what he considered a cast-off game that he dabbled with in the late 1960s. Conway talked about determinism (and free will
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by Ologn 7y ago
There is a LGPL library that I am familiar with that handles it https://jackcess.sourceforge.io I have a very bare bones Android app which uses the library https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=
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by Ologn 7y ago
> Nagios, MRTG I am used to rolling my own and use Nagios to make sure my servers and web sites are up and URLs and scripts functioning. I used to use MRTG and RRDTool in days past when I was responsible for monitoring many servers, swit
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by Ologn 7y ago
Kotlin can run on the JVM and, Kotlin-on-the-JVM needs Java to even bootstrap. Also it seems that most of the interest for Kotlin comes from the JVM community and this aspect of the language. That is certainly the case for Android program
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by Ologn 7y ago
> the constant push we get to finish and the fact that we enrolled in a class and in school and have to finish...not having elite level self-control Especially for the slightly more esoteric things relating to programming, like the mathe
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by Ologn 7y ago
As so many programming positions pay 3x that amount in a year - and more, over a course of a career, I would say yes. You will earn it back in four months of working. Also people talk about the downturn in tech around 2000-2001 - I was wor
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by Ologn 7y ago
My focus is building native mobile apps, primarily Android, but I have built iOS apps as well. With iOS, Apple has it so that you more or less need a MacOS running XCode. While the Mac I use has Android Studio on it, I find myself switchin

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