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by otras 5y ago
Whoops sorry about that, added a note to make it clearer. Thanks for the suggestion!
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by otras 5y ago
Plenty of love for UML :) That's a good point that I omitted it. I was more thinking about things as the individual diagrams/views into the system (e.g. class diagrams, structure diagrams, sequence diagrams), and to me, UML seems
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How do you visualize code?(alexanderell.is)
160 points by otras 5y ago|86 comments
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A children's book story: distributed systems as understood by a small dog(alexanderell.is)
1 points by otras 5y ago|0 comments
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by otras 5y ago
That's a good question, and there are a few things behind the "why" that I didn't go into in the write up, including: - Enjoying taking classes - Interest in learning about breadth of material that I wasn'
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Completing a part-time Master's in computer science while working(alexanderell.is)
197 points by otras 5y ago|156 comments
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by otras 5y ago
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29349836 It looks like this submission may have been picked up by the second chance feature, as this instance is visible on the pool page ( https://news.ycombi
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by otras 5y ago
For anyone else interested in the interview, it looks like it's this one ( https://vimeo.com/308851217 ), and the comment about using every Greek letter is at 1:41 or so.
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by otras 5y ago
The closest fit at Google that I’m aware of would be the UX Engineer role. From a current job posting ( https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/86353428625662662-ux... ): As a UX Engineer, you'll work as part
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by otras 5y ago
IC is a commonly used acronym (at least at some of the big tech companies) for Individual Contributor. For instance, when the author says "customer ICs", I imagine that means the internal engineers that would be using the databas
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by otras 5y ago
As many others have mentioned, the job title is largely arbitrary (at least in the US), and the easiest way to become a software engineer is probably to get hired for a job with that title! As for whether or not you consider yourself to be
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by otras 5y ago
Are you worried specifically about algorithms and data structures for interviewing, or are you interested in a more general CS foundation? If the former, it may be worthwhile to take an algorithms class or two (or even just work through the
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by otras 5y ago
I think that requirement of “high enough” is why I was surprised, given that a) it was a 1/3 scale model, b) it was a trial run, and c) things frequently go wrong. I guess sitting below it shows their confidence in its ability to get t
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by otras 5y ago
I did see that, and that’s what I would expect for the full version (much like launching rockets over the Atlantic from Cape Canaveral). Just a little surprised to see it looking a little more vertical for the trial run.
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by otras 5y ago
This is probably a silly question, but for the test run, did they launch the rocket straight up? From my limited understanding of gravity, I’d expect it to come straight down if anything went wrong, and it looked like there were quite a few
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by otras 5y ago
Did you do any internships during your Master's program? That's one of the things I always recommend to people learning to program, and from talking to undergrads, that's where a lot of the real job-specific learning happens.
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by otras 5y ago
One of the more interesting points from The Atlantic's recent article on meth [0] that was new to me was the economics of producers moving from marijuana to meth and how marijuana legalization may have encouraged the shift towards meth
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The strange path of accepting how your brain works(alexanderell.is)
127 points by otras 5y ago|38 comments
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by otras 5y ago
I enjoyed patio11’s take on this and the subtweet (quoted tweet?) thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/patio11/status/145450635389285580... TL;DR: Pedigree is heavily used when filtering candidates, and different st
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by otras 5y ago
The main thing that needs decoupling for me is the idea of _a_ Metaverse, which is what the author focuses on as the evolution of the internet, and Facebook's efforts to be a leading player in the space and define what the Metaverse is
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by otras 5y ago
The closest hybrid to me seems to be wing assisted climbing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing-assisted_incline_runnin... It’s as if Leonardo had to climb up a ramp and used some of the generated propeller lift to r
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by otras 5y ago
I agree with the other poster that starting with HTML and JavaScript is beneficial to have a better understanding of React and what it does for you. I’d recommend the curriculum at FreeCodeCamp, where you can work through the HTML course, t
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by otras 5y ago
I’m still relatively early in my career, but I’ve greatly enjoyed The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier ( https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-managers-path/97814... ) as a way to learn more about men
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by otras 5y ago
What do you call a physicist a few years after they get their degree? A data scientist! I got my undergrad degree in physics and transitioned into tech after hitting a similar wall after graduation. I went for the regular software route (st
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by otras 5y ago
MIT's 6.824: Distributed Systems (taught by Robert Morris, of both Morris worm and Viaweb/Y Combinator fame) is completely open and available online, and it includes video lectures, notes, readings, and programming assignments fro
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by otras 5y ago
If you’re looking for a deeper look beyond the anecdotes, I’d recommend James Gleick’s Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman . It covers much more of the ideas he had and what drove him.
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by otras 5y ago
This comment from 2012 comes to mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247615
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by otras 5y ago
> It’s not about “what could be handy” but about what is needed to cover character encoding already in broad usage. I’m pretty unfamiliar with Unicode, and this is interesting to read about. What’s your take on something like Linear A be
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Writing an RPC from scratch(alexanderell.is)
4 points by otras 5y ago|0 comments
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You're Reading This in the Future(alexanderell.is)
1 points by otras 5y ago|0 comments

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