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by hintymad 3y ago
Good to know. I guess education in the US has local standards? I have this impression of the US not teaching proof because in a number of introductory math classes in my college, the profs dedicated chapters to teach basics of induction, ho
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by hintymad 3y ago
It looks how do do proofs is at university level in the US. I wonder why other countries start to teach kids how to do proofs from grade 7. They start with rigorous proofs in Euclidean geometry, the move to solid geometry, then to proofs in
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by hintymad 3y ago
Well, we have a spectrum of talent. The point, though, is that great engineers know how to build, and practice so as well.
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by hintymad 3y ago
> Math is easy if you build up from fundamentals To a certain point, I guess. Most people hit a wall of abstraction at some point, either because the abstraction is too hard or because the abstraction stops being relevant so the person l
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by hintymad 3y ago
> The argument seems to be that your co-workers aren't your friends I find strong friendship in small companies and fast-growing companies with a reasonable culture. When a company grows fast and establishes a reasonably fair cultur
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by hintymad 3y ago
I kinda question how many project managers we really need. My role models in non-software engineers are Kelly Johnson, Wernher_von_Braun, and Oppenheimer. They are world-class experts in their own fields, down to theories. They tinkered, th
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by hintymad 3y ago
No argument here. I was just describing an organizational pattern instead of lamenting on personal choices. To be fair, even though I personally think building is more important, the companies may well need those kind of "coordinating&
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Thanks to low interest rate and phenomenal paradigm changes in the last 15 or 20 years, the tech sector has grown so much that engineers with three years of experience can become "tech leads" or "staff engineers" who spe
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by hintymad 3y ago
Speaking of queues, any book on in-depth practical queuing theory? This book is highly recommended by many people, including those on HN: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/PerformanceModeling/book.htm... . However, a
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by hintymad 3y ago
I wonder how Lockheed used to manage their successful projects like U2, which was delivered ahead of schedule and under budget. Joel Spolsky used to say that FogCreeks didn't need much project management because pretty much all the dep
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by hintymad 3y ago
> Boeing intentionally spread its operations to as many states as possible Interestingly, it is the senators who forced Boeing's hand, according to the ACQ podcast on Lockheed Martin. The senators were responsible to approve all kin
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by hintymad 3y ago
Wow! The golden 10 years (or the roaring 10s?) clearly are coming to the end. Welcome to the rusting 20s.
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by hintymad 3y ago
We've been having a phenomenon for years: engineers reported that it was hard to find a good job, while companies reported that they couldn't find good engineers. So, it may be that everyone can learn to code, but not everyone can
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by hintymad 3y ago
No doubt Gen AI has lots of use cases. I'm just not sure if the use cases can lift the entire IT sector for the next N years like mobile or e-commerce used to do.
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by hintymad 3y ago
Agreed. And lacking apparent growth area is another reason. We had social media and rapid development of e-commerce in the 2000s, mobile revolution in the 2010s. What do we have now that sweeps the entire industry? Gen AI? But many companie
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by hintymad 3y ago
> Duolingo should be on borrowed time, as a method to learn a language it’s inefficient to the point of being ineffective A lot of Duolingo's questions ask a user to pick and choose words to complete a sentence. That gives a false s
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by hintymad 3y ago
Unfortunately no. They are just an internal team that take internal requirements from different orgs and does not handle contractors or vendors.
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by hintymad 3y ago
> Most of those you'd consume in library form It seems having great libraries is both a blessing and a curse to software engineers. On one hand, we get to build increasingly more powerful systems with these libraries without being b
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by hintymad 3y ago
I did notice that many Mac apps, including Safari and Preview and Notes, do OCR on images automatically. It's pretty neat that I can easily select text in an image and copy and paste it somewhere else.
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by hintymad 3y ago
I wish so but I'm not so sure about that. Harvard CAPS had a poll that showed more than half of the young people support Hamas. The Squad have been steadily gaining popularity, so much so that a recent article in Spectator asked who wo
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by hintymad 3y ago
It's worth calling out two sad trends in the west as well. One is bad-faith defense of the plagiarism. It's really just the logic fallacy of attacking one's motives, and I can't believe so many western people bought into
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by hintymad 3y ago
What an inspiring video. I might go so far as to say it is this level of geekiness that moves our civilization forward.
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by hintymad 3y ago
> Pipelines, SDKs, and security are centralized. All components of a service team are self-contained as part of that team. It turns out that devops is a very expensive org chart. I wonder why it was not so expensive in Netflix, when Netf
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by hintymad 3y ago
Just curious, what if the novelty wears out even with two partners? I'd imagine it'd wear out twice as slow, but eventually familiarity will take over, right?
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by hintymad 3y ago
What I heard is that medicine can keep one up but does not really replace the sudden release of hormone, which gives one this voracious desire and burning sensation
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by hintymad 3y ago
I wonder how middle-aged couples deal with the sexual desires. Numerous reports, let alone anecdotes and shows, mentioned that couples with each other for many years lost sexual desire towards each other, while their libido still flowed fre
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by hintymad 3y ago
When I visited China's city Chengdu back in 2015, there was a single subway line, and it was about less than 5 miles long. 8 years later, including 3 years in Covid, this is what Chengdu's subway network looks like: http:/&#
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by hintymad 3y ago
Maybe it's hard to find enough technically strong engineers with a passion on testing. Microsoft used to advocate how technically challenging to be a SDET - software engineer in test. IBM used to tell its test teams that testing engine
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by hintymad 3y ago
I used to read a book about complex systems. The book told a story that a town decided to build speed bumps to slow down traffic in its downtown area. As a results, there are more cars on the road and more noise. I guess the reality is more
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by hintymad 3y ago
The view of the director or the screenwriter is very strange. There are so many things to film about, for loving or hating Napoleon, yet the film makers chose to show the well debunked hoaxes on Napoleon. Also, Napoleon shattered the world

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