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by nhgiang 4y ago
(b)(aaa...) Each char can be an a or b, then repeat, not "a repeating seq of either a or b only" (a|b)* = X* = x1x2x3... where each xi can be "a" or "b"
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Ask HN: Good ideas that died too soon?
3 points by nhgiang 4y ago|3 comments
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by nhgiang 4y ago
Could you elaborate? Was it a lack of good practices (source control, staging, testing, etc.) or sth else? I was mid-senior when I changed to a research SWE job. Might be able to offer some insight on some specific problems. But in general,
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by nhgiang 4y ago
Why not post the original URL?? https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/ What is this dichchankinh.com domain?
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by nhgiang 4y ago
Probably both. It'll be the new programming. There'll be both super and average prompt engineers/devs. At first, only a few talented people can do this. Then as the tools they develop get better, the job will be more accessib
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by nhgiang 4y ago
Ask if someone in your team could pair program with you. This is 100% the fastest way to get up-to-speed in large codebases
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Ask HN: Recommendations for an in-depth book/video series about economics
2 points by nhgiang 4y ago|6 comments
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by nhgiang 4y ago
I thought that was a good idea? Why isn't it so? What should be the alternative?
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Ask HN: What did Linux not do right?
67 points by nhgiang 4y ago|168 comments
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by nhgiang 4y ago
OP created an account 3 days ago to ask a question and Terry Tao answered. Must be an awesome feeling.
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Ask HN: How do you get the most out of your 1-to-1 meetings?
3 points by nhgiang 4y ago|2 comments
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by nhgiang 4y ago
Look up property-based testing, too. It helps you forget about coming up with specific test values and edge cases. The Hypothesis library for Python has a pretty good docs explaining property-based testing and how to use it.
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by nhgiang 4y ago
There is a significant Erlang/Elixir job market in Europe and UK.
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Ask HN: SSD or HDD for data hoarding?
2 points by nhgiang 4y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: Best Use of 900Mbps Internet?
4 points by nhgiang 4y ago|9 comments
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Ask HN: Why did you buy Atlassian products for your business?
3 points by nhgiang 4y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Good non-elite CS Schools in the US?
1 points by nhgiang 5y ago|2 comments
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by nhgiang 5y ago
I recommend apply a lot, because you never know, but preface/make it clear with every one of them that you are a self-learner. The key point is that you don't show them you're insecure about it. Finding niche areas such as Ru
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by nhgiang 5y ago
So...I learned Rust in high school?
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by nhgiang 5y ago
I think it's simply that (and this is from my memory only): Node.js was THE first back-end JS thing, and its "micro" philosophy kind of set the precedent for everything else that follow in that space. It was the time when peo
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by nhgiang 5y ago
https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/
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Ask HN: Could you share your experience applying for a TLD (top-level domain)?
2 points by nhgiang 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How can computer science help people?
1 points by nhgiang 5y ago|1 comments
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by nhgiang 5y ago
Maybe it's because you don't know how to hide your entitlement.
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by nhgiang 5y ago
> I'm feeling a bit guilty Don't shoot yourself in the foot. The moment you let job#1's managers know about job#2, you will only have a part-time job left
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by nhgiang 5y ago
I think that's as good as anybody. I think on the Internet, CV advice is no better than medical advice lol. Don't get fixated on FAANG or any company for that matter. That's vain.
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by nhgiang 5y ago
Sorry for the late reply. It's been ~10 years in total for me. I first learned programming in high school. They taught us how to use flowchart[1] for easier visualisation of the logic and state transitions in a program. Then in college
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by nhgiang 5y ago
Just my 2 cents: Could it be that the way you present your experience is not focused? You've mastered many difficult topics and proved yourself in many intellectual demanding jobs, that would've made you a desire for many non-FAAN
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by nhgiang 5y ago
For me, the intuition stops at tree and graph. Anything more complicated (probability, matrix, etc.), I need a reference every time I work with.
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by nhgiang 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_structure#Windows_10 The AppData folder is for per-user files (config files), whereas Program Files is for files that can be shared system-wide (e.g. executables). Linux/UNI

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