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by lanstin 2y ago
You could be my kid writing, but I didn't push too hard; I am still disappointed they didn't take up more math, but each person has their own life to live. They understood negative numbers and square roots in early elementary scho
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by lanstin 2y ago
Also the young with relatively less to do. When I was little, I started reading calculus books in about 4th grade; I couldn't understand them much but with a few years of trying I finally mostly got it at a conceptual level (tho I did
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by lanstin 2y ago
Residency isn't independent study, it's pretty tightly directed by the hierarchy. And I'd hire a math major with limited software experience over a boot camp or self-taught person that only knows code any day. In fact, I&#x27
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by lanstin 2y ago
"We are at the point where everything that could be said has been said, but not everyone has said it."
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by lanstin 2y ago
For protocols, you might be worrying about the bytes and use a 1 2 4 or 8 byte len, or some complicated variable length integer like ASN.1 or something homegrown (but actually, with the slower networks, if you have a 2M msg, you'd spli
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by lanstin 2y ago
I had thought I had seen everything but kudos - Excel to generate C code is some sort of local extremum for software hacks.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Weird: HN is supposed to be technical but the people behind Asahi Linux have proven themselves to be technical wizards; meanwhile HN seems more interested in money and pseudo-libertarian politics than transformitive technical excellence. Bu
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by lanstin 2y ago
A distressing number of softwar engineers have overly accurate memories and don't notice when things become excessively cryptic or arcane. However the implementations being much more open source now means a lot of bad documentation can
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by lanstin 2y ago
You must be thinking of c++? There is no object in C just structs which is just a little bit of organization of the contiguous memory. C exists to make writing portable CPU level software easier than assembler. It was astonishingly successf
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by lanstin 2y ago
They put in scheduled fix the course burns, as there's a lot of uncertainty outside the math - the fuel burns probably can't be controlled to 5 sig figs, for example. Also, although I have no idea if this matters, N-body orbital
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by lanstin 2y ago
The types that C knows about are the types that the assembly knows about. Strings, especially unicode strings, aren't something that the raw processor knows about (as far as I know). At the machine level, it is all ad-hoc juggling of
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by lanstin 2y ago
In the 90s, as a working C programmer, I would make it a practice to read thru man 2 and man 3 from time to time, as well as to read all the options for gcc. The man pages were pretty good at covering the differences, if not all the implica
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by lanstin 2y ago
I don't think we are supposed to use HN for humor only posts.
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by lanstin 2y ago
There are teams that want to improve the code but get tired of fighting management, but if you go in as senior IC and encourage them, showing it as a heroic fight for the good, the true and the beautiful, they will respond with relief and e
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by lanstin 2y ago
Someone once had me code review a 2500 line bash script, written like a Cobol program, but with no error checking of anything. I'm not sure what my point is, but sometimes I am surprised civilization still works as well as it does.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Unless there's something about leap years that you don't understand and miss in both tests and implementation. Not an impossible situation.
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by lanstin 2y ago
I love the US/Pacific IST difference two windows for interaction each day. On the other hand Europe is very hard to work with. And the actual reason to hire in more cities is to find the precious resource of brilliant people. Cost savi
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by lanstin 2y ago
A second countable language basis.
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by lanstin 2y ago
I think the US:south India for companies like Intuit (as opposed to FANG) is down to 3:1 or less. And closing steadily.
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by lanstin 2y ago
That last sentence sounds snarkier than I meant. For instance,for all my classmates they are enjoying the learning and also trying to make a career out of it somehow. Different altogether than my fun based curriculum
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by lanstin 2y ago
Having a lot of cheap electricity is also a trope in an anarcho-syndicalist utopian paradise for all the people.
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by lanstin 2y ago
They killed people thru giant fires exacerbated by climate change then get sued and pay billions of dollars in restitution and then raise the rates for the regular folks.
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by lanstin 2y ago
I have only gotten jobs because of people I have worked with before. I have written all kinds of software for all kinds of systems and products but I just don't come across as smart on a first meeting. And to be fair I almost invariabl
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by lanstin 2y ago
I am in my fifties, a software engineer, and I am enrolled in a masters program for mathematics and really learning at a ferocious rate compared to my job, where I can alternate learning with using what I've learned. For me, learning a
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by lanstin 2y ago
Often the sequence of topics will be deeply significant once you are up to speed. Also for really hard work, knowing someone that knows the material is going to grade your homework is (at least for me) extremely motivating to do my best to
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by lanstin 2y ago
I love that whole series but when I reread it now I am like where are all the Chinese and Indians in high tech science? Folks from Africa? It's a very California in the 1990s sort of multinational scene.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Life isn't some contest where we only need challenges. Pleasure is a fine part of creation. And I had some wonderful teachers in mass education who inspired me quite a bit on the virtue of curiosity and striving for what exceeds my gra
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by lanstin 2y ago
e.e. cummings
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by lanstin 2y ago
This ability to look things up on the fly is why I love ereaders, despite the newproblem of finishing one book on my TBR list and having bought more than one book referred to in the first book. A divergent sequence of books I fear.
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by lanstin 2y ago
The problem here is that hell is exciting and heaven is dull. I enjoyed the John Ciardi translation of hell a lot and purgatory in a sort of academic way and couldn't make progress thru heaven.

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