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by laddng 10y ago
Oh wow, this is why I love Hacker News - thank you for helping me overcome my mathematical anxieties in college as I was working on my Computer Science major. Your site really helped me gain an appreciation for math since I had terrible tea
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by laddng 10y ago
https://betterexplained.com/articles/developing-your-intuiti... This website does a really good job explaining complex calculus ideas to me. One of which is 'e', where the history and its origins will help yo
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by laddng 10y ago
"As a side note, if joining Amazon, go to AWS. If joining Facebook, go to the AI lab or Oculus. If joining Alphabet, go to DeepMind." I wonder who their target audience is - CS PhD from a top 5 school?
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Ask HN: What are the bibles of Computer Science?
105 points by laddng 10y ago|53 comments
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by laddng 10y ago
The link to the paper is dead. Is there a mirror? I am very curious to see it
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by laddng 10y ago
I've had a good, satisfying run with MacBook Pros, but now I'm stepping off the Apple train. I understand that Apple is trying to go in a new direction with the new MacBook Pros, and I won't complain about it. I am now simply
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by laddng 10y ago
One concern I have is that editing in vim is going to be more annoying since the escape key is so essential to the vim workflow and now it's a touch key. I know that some have mentioned that you can map the escape key to the caps lock
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by laddng 10y ago
If you're looking for a more CS intensive cyber security introduction, I would recommend OpenSecurityTraining at http://opensecuritytraining.info/ They dive deep into reverse engineering, assembly, and other CS intensi
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by laddng 10y ago
A few years ago I lived in Shanghai, and it was always fun to stop by the black markets to check out the fake iPhones and Apple gadgets that they were selling. It was amazing how close they were to copying a real iPhone in terms of the hard
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by laddng 10y ago
I have found that as a beginner programmer, one thing that is really important is to have patience and persistence. I have observed other beginners who want to rush to become a good programmer in X language and basically throw every questio