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by stmw 2y ago
These kinds of books have really progressed since they first appeared -- this one could probably be fairly re-marketed as a two-volume set of 1. an advanced CS textbook and 2. a SWE candidate handbook, especially given the online resources
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by stmw 2y ago
This from a user whose previous HN comments included: "this will just encourage the further replacement of American citizens with H-1B's from India who will do whatever upper management demands, because they have no choice. I look
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by stmw 2y ago
I'm sorry, this is just non-sensical -- I do not mean to say that all interviewing practices are good or that there is not a lot of great humor in your post giving away the original book -- but as someone who has hired many software en
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by stmw 2y ago
bunch of them reviews on amazon (which has benefit of showing who actually bought it), here is a very positive one: "This is the best overall resource that I've seen for software engineering job searches and coding interviews. The
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Rust 2024 Song [video](youtube.com)
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Official sequel to Cracking the Coding Interview is out(interviewing.io)
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Brain Hyperconnectivity in Children with Autism and Its Links to Social Deficits (2013)(cell.com)
125 points by stmw 2y ago|119 comments
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by stmw 2y ago
He is exactly right. Complexity is eating the world. Faster CPUs, larger memories and faster networks have brought great capability -- but removed the natural governor on software complexity.
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by stmw 2y ago
Oh, I didn't even know they had that, thanks.. - OP
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by stmw 2y ago
I put Sun/Kealia/Arista et al in the original title but it got chopped out...
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Oral History of Andy Bechtolsheim (2015) [pdf](archive.computerhistory.org)
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by stmw 2y ago
dang - sorry, OP here, wasn't aware of those - thanks for satisfying the extra-curious
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The South Vietnamese pilot who landed a Cessna on a carrier to save his family (2019)(historynet.com)
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by stmw 2y ago
BTW, if not everyone knows who MIT's Liskov is - Turing award winner - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov
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by stmw 2y ago
Suprised Smithsonian does not provide more context on him in that link - here is a better write-up - "the fall of a prophet". https://quillette.com/2018/12/21/solzhenitsyn-the-fall-of-a-...
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by stmw 2y ago
I have seen this happen countless of times at companies large and small. The article is brilliant in humorously highlighting the denial (usually) or the lack of knowledge (sometimes) that leads engineers down this path again and again.
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MIT spinoff Sublime Systems, new way to make cement(news.mit.edu)
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by stmw 2y ago
How is this different than https://interviewing.io/ ?
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Maybe coders should learn to love analog? Could they?(planetanalog.com)
1 points by stmw 2y ago|1 comments
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Low-latency automotive vision with event cameras(nature.com)
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Prince of Persia Apple II source code (6502 asm)(github.com)
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Prof Frederick Hennie, computation expert and leader within MIT EECS, dies at 90(news.mit.edu)
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by stmw 3y ago
There are practice interview services available, with top-tier engineers.
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by stmw 3y ago
This exists, take a look at https://interviewing.io/ replays.
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by stmw 4y ago
This is an important technical discussion, one that the community needs to keep having to reduce unnecessary work and get more cross-platform support. There is a lot to be learned from (and reused) from history. For example, part of the pos
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What to Expect in 2023 in AI(hai.stanford.edu)
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MIT’s top research stories of 2022(news.mit.edu)
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by stmw 4y ago
Thank you for adding excellent context, as you usually do, dang. It's strange how so many discussions on this topic seem to proceed with no prior inputs, it's puzzling.
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MIT: Simulating neutron behavior in nuclear reactors(news.mit.edu)
2 points by stmw 4y ago|0 comments
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Death of an American company led to Chinese dominance in small drone market(jlhancock.com)
3 points by stmw 4y ago|0 comments

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