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by henrik_w 9y ago
This is exactly my experience too. When I started working as a SW developer, I expected to use a lot of the clever algorithms I had studied at university. That didn't happen. Instead, the tricky problem was having lots and lots of simp
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Testing in Production, the safe way(medium.com)
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by henrik_w 9y ago
In a lot of ways I think writing a text is similar to writing code. In both cases, I think there is a lot of value in getting something down that can be refined. In coding, the refining is done with refactoring. In regular writing, it'
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by henrik_w 9y ago
Maybe not exactly, but this was recently in the news: "De-anonymizing programmers from executable binaries" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16598962
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Exercises in Programming Style(henrikwarne.com)
381 points by henrik_w 9y ago|55 comments
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Exercises in Programming Style(henrikwarne.com)
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Non-technical testing(medium.com)
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by henrik_w 9y ago
Not for posture per se, but two things that help me: - Using a standing desk, and alternating between sitting and standing during the day. - Using a break program (I use MacBreakZ) to do some stretches every 45 minutes or so.
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Fix error handling first(nedbatchelder.com)
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by henrik_w 9y ago
I took both of Tim Roughgarden's algorithm courses on Coursera, and in my opinion you don't need to know linear algebra to complete them.
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by henrik_w 9y ago
+1 for these. I took them a few years ago, and really enjoyed them! I reviewed both of them in detail: https://henrikwarne.com/2012/05/08/coursera-algorithms-cours... https://henrikwarne.com/2
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Moving a large and old codebase to Python3(medium.com)
5 points by henrik_w 9y ago|1 comments
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by henrik_w 9y ago
My first computer was a VIC-20 (I later got a Commodore 64), where you also start with a BASIC prompt. I too have been thinking about to the barriers to starting to code. Last fall, I helped in my son's grade 8 class to teach them pyth
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Bryan Caplan on the Case Against Education(econtalk.org)
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Learning to program is getting harder(allendowney.blogspot.com)
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by henrik_w 9y ago
+1 for the Learning How To Learn MOOC. Short and easy to follow, but high quality content.
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by henrik_w 9y ago
I wrote down everything I learnt from 13 years of solving tricky bugs (194 entries in the file). A very useful and interesting habit that I'm still following. I distilled the most important lessons here: https://henrikwarne.
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by henrik_w 9y ago
A new book focused on developer testing, reviewed here: https://henrikwarne.com/2017/08/20/developer-testing/
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by henrik_w 9y ago
Probably not exactly what you are asking, but "Site Reliability Engineering" from Google is available to read on-line: https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html
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by henrik_w 9y ago
Another good article in a similar vein: "Asking the Right Questions About AI" https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/asking-the-right-questions... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by henrik_w 9y ago
maybe deeper moat :-) (but I get the point)
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Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning(wired.com)
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by henrik_w 9y ago
Not sure if this is exactly what you have in mind, but I have had good success with my method of "learning from my bugs". Whenever I encounter a difficult bug, I write a short entry in my bugs file. I detail what happened, what I
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Donald Knuth celebrated his 80th birthday in Piteå(translate.google.se)
48 points by henrik_w 9y ago|12 comments
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by henrik_w 9y ago
I agree, I have the same experience.
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by henrik_w 9y ago
Really great book! The things that stood out for me: - Optimize for learning - Invest in time-saving tools - Shorten the debugging loop - Don’t sprint in the middle of a marathon - Recovery over prevention - Automate mechanics, not decision
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by henrik_w 9y ago
This fall, I helped teach programming to my son's grade 8 class. They had done Scratch before, and wanted to learn "real" programming, so we taught them a subset of Python. It turned out really well. With basically just for-l
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by henrik_w 9y ago
Fiction: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Nonfiction: The Banker's New Cloths by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig Full list: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2017/63629672
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A DevOps Christmas Carol(sysadvent.blogspot.com)
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Simulating Chutes and Ladders in Python(jakevdp.github.io)
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