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by otras 6y ago
Here's a guide on learning physics, aptly titled "So You Want to Learn Physics...": https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-l... Here are some old HN discussions about i
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by otras 6y ago
This reminds of a colleague's joke: what do you call a physicist a few years after they get their degree? A data scientist! I only completed my undergrad in physics before shifting to tech, but I've seen many instances of people w
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by otras 6y ago
> Most humans in a matter of a few hours can operate any multi-ton vehicle in most weather anywhere in the world. As road conditions change humans instantaneously adapt control response and safety protocols. I would bet that the author h
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by otras 6y ago
I've heard good things about Writing A Compiler In Go, which is a sequel to Writing An Interpreter In Go. I've worked through some of the latter and have enjoyed it so far. https://compilerbook.com/
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by otras 6y ago
> I'm not interested in FAANG as I worked at Amazon early in my career and found the culture / work stress to be a poor fit It may be worth noting that the culture can vary dramatically between companies and between teams in a
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by otras 6y 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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Checking if the Pi is done: Basic monitoring for a Raspberry Pi cluster(alexanderell.is)
1 points by otras 6y ago|0 comments
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by otras 6y ago
One of my colleagues jokes that we'll know we have truly self-driving cars when they can handle driving through Powder House Square, one of the Boston area's strangest "roundabouts". https://www.google.com&#x2
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Building a Raspberry Pi Cluster for Building Toy Distributed Systems(alexanderell.is)
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by otras 6y ago
Is Discord profitable? An estimated $120M sounds like a hefty chunk of change, but I wonder what their expenses look like, especially if they're relied heavily on VC money in the past to subsidize having the servers be free.
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by otras 6y ago
> a happy position with a great work life balance that encourages and enables you to both improve yourself and - particularly - your non-worklife Any advice for scoring this on my personal OKRs? I’m vacillating between 0.6 and 0.7 for th
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by otras 6y ago
This is actually a dark pattern on their part, surely designed to boost email signups. The sign up page has an email box and a continue button, but you can press continue without entering an email.
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by otras 6y ago
Re: side project ideas, you could work through the programming assignments for MIT's 6.824: Distributed Systems (taught by Robert Morris, of both Morris worm and Viaweb/Y Combinator fame). The assignments include auto-graded test
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- Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first? Although I really enjoy it now, I originally got into software work for the job. After graduating with a degree in physics and French and having a tough time finding a satisf
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Debugging a Launch-Blocking Issue(alexanderell.is)
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by otras 6y ago
I can't speak to the quality, but I've seen this "no whiteboard" job posting website mentioned before: https://nowhiteboards.io/ . That being said, it seems like many of them (at least on the front page)
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by otras 6y ago
I posted this recently, but 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
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by otras 6y ago
MIT's 6.824: Distributed Systems (taught by Robert Morris) is completely open and available online, and it includes video lectures, notes, readings, and programming assignments from as recent as Spring 2020 (including half of the lectu
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by otras 6y ago
I actually just wrote a blog post the other week about this exact feeling: https://alexanderell.is/posts/me-and-my-work/ I think it’s very important to separate your work from your worth and to view review comment
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by otras 6y ago
Along the lines of correct stroke ordering, I learned from a colleague that studied a large amount of Japanese that they had used a visual dictionary for translating Kanji to English that both allowed you to draw the symbols and required th
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Code Review and Criticism: Separating my work from my worth(alexanderell.is)
1 points by otras 6y ago|0 comments
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by otras 6y ago
> As far as I understood (correct me if I’m wrong please), the point of using the React framework is that it’s all “modular” and that the cost of switching developers is lower. I think your mental model of React may be incorrect. The poi
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by otras 6y ago
I do something very similar, although I hesitate to claim that I’m doing it old school. I use a Hugo blog hosted on GitHub pages, and my biggest expense is paying ISNIC (the Icelandic domain registry) for a .is site that works well with my
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by otras 6y ago
> "your work today was goo" body language While this is an unfortunate typo, imagining this body language makes for a great visual.
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by otras 6y ago
I was working on a frontend issue related to CSS and shadows. There was a card element with a photograph on the left and a white container on the right with some information, and it looked like the shadow below the card was a different colo
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Honestly it started as a way to get a better job. I had graduated with a degree in Physics and French, and after attempting to get a policy-related job in DC, I ended up working as a tutor for high school students. During the second year, w
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by otras 7y ago
Building things is a great way to learn. That being said, the way this is presented leaves a bad taste in my mouth. > If you want to be a software engineer and you do not have any code to present in an interview, you can not call yoursel
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Ask HN: Recommendations for Working from Home?
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by otras 7y ago
Apologies for the unrelated comment, but is “noughties” a common term for the 2000-2009 decade? I’m on the East Coast of the US, and though it makes sense, I haven’t seen it before.
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by otras 7y ago
Highly recommend Flexbox Froggy ( https://flexboxfroggy.com/ ) for learning about Flexbox. There's also Grid Garden for learning CSS Grid ( https://codepip.com/games/grid-garden/ ).

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