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by q845712 8y ago
i audited university of Chicago's undergrad "hard-track" real analysis (i forget the name, but iirc there was an easier version of the course available). The problem sets would have several questions you were expected to solv
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by q845712 8y ago
Like many on this thread I think it's entirely possible you're not giving yourself enough credit. I've been working as a software engineer at companies that don't ask riddles for about 8 years, and I've been on both
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by q845712 8y ago
In my work book club we've been reading the book "zero bugs" by Kate Thompson. The first half is some fun writing with stock good advice for software development, and the second half is a bunch of code examples the author fin
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by q845712 9y ago
It's a little trite but the best thing college taught me was how to read critically and teach myself as needed. The second best thing was providing plentiful examples of good pedagogy (I went to a teaching college, not a research U.) w
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by q845712 9y ago
> "The xenophobia of rural whites is vastly oversold" I look vaguely non-white in a way that gets interpreted differently by different viewers, and my personal experience has been that I struggle to convince others just how rea
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by q845712 9y ago
I was just trying to point this out! Though in a more pedagogic setting: I have a very smart coworker who's been out of school for ~1.5 years. He works quickly and tends to create bugs he has to fix later. I got him to contrast his st
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by q845712 9y ago
I bought a subscription to Consumer Reports and have been happy with the two purchases I made on their recommendation (headphones in the $100 range, and a new food processor). Do you consider them compromised? It's actually just abou
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by q845712 9y ago
friends and/or a membership in a community can be nice too, and is one of those "often correlates highly with happiness" kinda things, so i'm just adding specificity from my life to an item in your list.
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by q845712 9y ago
Don't underestimate the number of desktops used in business enterprises. I'm currently developing a product in a Windows environment. We're trapped in Windows for historical reasons- the first draft of the codebase 10 years a
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by q845712 9y ago
My background is a CS degree from a liberal arts college, and I've found that my coursework in compilers and operating systems has often come in very useful. Additionally I've found that recent grads who have "computer *&quot
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by q845712 9y ago
Mozart's requiem, Beethoven's late string quartets, ... here's an entire Slate article. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2011/11/famous_... I think there are actually ver
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by q845712 9y ago
Living in coastal California, I wish I could buy a reasonable house in a decent neighborhood for close to 1/2 million dollars. In the neighborhood where i'm currently renting it's strictly 800k+, and I'm in one of the le
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by q845712 9y ago
Completely agree, but I'd even add internships. Relatively often while trying to help a fresh-from-school hire I'll ask myself silently "when and how did I learn this" and realize it happened before my first day as a ful
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by q845712 10y ago
I've lived without a car for most of my adult life (mid-30s now), and never owned one. In rough order of my own preferences, I've tried all of: 1.) I buy it someplace close and walk. 2.) I have larger-than-usual bags for my bicy
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by q845712 12y ago
i think part of the challenge is how to count hours spent in the office but not coding. Some amount of discussion is necessary to get a group on the same page, and some time socializing about things that aren't work lubricates those di
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by q845712 12y ago
i think she's wrong that time is the only absurd thing: i've often wished i could hibernate; there's a ton of victorian art that shows a clear obsession with humans flying like birds; i spent many childhood afternoons trying
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by q845712 12y ago
agreed!
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by q845712 12y ago
i enjoy chopping vegetables much more than most people, and i'm told i'm quite good at e.g. making sauerkraut - an activity i truly enjoy. but i get paid a lot more to write software, which is also reasonably fun. to be honest i
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by q845712 12y ago
i believe there's goodness in everybody- part of the challenge is structuring your own words+actions in a way that affords them a response that contains some measure of kindness or compassion. This is what the author of the post was d
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by q845712 12y ago
yes! i just have a milk-crate, but it makes all the difference. yes also to OP on the "bicycling to work wakes me up super well" - i did in a northern US city for 6 years, and the icy/cold months when i had to rely on transit
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by q845712 12y ago
i don't make myself take notes, but if i'm working on a recipe i try to make it every 1-3 weeks so that i remember the lessons as i iterate. notes sound like a great idea!
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by q845712 12y ago
1. i view cooking and writing software as a creative act. Making food is a pleasant contrast to making software because the projects are short and the asthetics are straightforward: do i, and whomever else i'm cooking for, think this i
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by q845712 12y ago
toward the end of undergrad i started thinking along the same lines you are now. I wound in a graduate program in neuroscience - a move i generally regret. First, although modern science requires a lot of software, scientists refuse to reco
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by q845712 13y ago
i agree that in languages without compiler defined types, but with other tools such as named arguments, the class of errors described here can be to some extent avoided by making good use of named arguments. I'm gonna do this more oft
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by q845712 13y ago
when i clicked on the link the page came up blank and i thought it was a brilliant critique on reading blogs. I hit reload to make sure and was disappointed to find a "do what you love" article, uncritical and un-self-aware of all
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by q845712 13y ago
packaging and distribution are definitely python's weak points... for deploying to (internal) servers i've really been liking docker.
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by q845712 13y ago
"Imagine if [...] plugs changed every few months, with appliancemakers all adopting the newest backwards-incompatible version" like apple?