wly_cdgr

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1. 1171.▲
   by wly_cdgr 6y ago

   Should Princeton stop using Java in their CS curriculum because Java is a commercial product?
2. 1172.▲
   by wly_cdgr 6y ago

   You will never, ever get a critical mass until your freedom-based burger tastes better than a real Google burger. It's not "not easy". It's Impossible
3. 1173.▲
   by wly_cdgr 6y ago

   That was more than one second. Fail.
4. 1174.▲
   by wly_cdgr 6y ago

   I love this book. At the same time, isn't the whole point of abstraction to make this knowledge irrelevant for people who build applications on top of it? Like, the knowledge should only have utility insofar as the abstraction designer
5. 1175.▲
   by wly_cdgr 6y ago

   Thanks Apple but I'm just gonna go ahead and hold on to my $30 KPH30i, lol.l.l
6. 1176.▲
   by wly_cdgr 6y ago

   All this kind of stuff just feels like cosplay unless you are gonna build out your own tier 1 (that also doesn't need other tier 1s) Which isn't to say you can't learn a lot of useful practical stuff from it, just like you ca
7. 1177.▲
   by wly_cdgr 6y ago

   Because it's the closest you can come to something that feels like meaningful agency in that dreary an environment
8. 1178.▲
   by wly_cdgr 6y ago

   His technical skills were not already "very strong" if briefly revisting college mathematics made them "considerably stronger", lol
9. 1179.▲
   by wly_cdgr 6y ago

   Crazy as it may seem, it's because it was done by Chinese scientists working and living in China
10. 1180.▲
    by wly_cdgr 6y ago

    Anything above 1080p doesn't give you any more usable screen space at that physical size. It's very debatable whether just having richer blacks is worth the battery life hit.
11. 1181.▲
    by wly_cdgr 6y ago

    You can have 64gb of RAM but you can't have a 1080p webcam :facepalm:
12. 1182.▲
    by wly_cdgr 6y ago

    You can have 64gb of RAM but you can't have a 1080p webcam in 2020, AKA the year remote went mainstream
13. 1183.▲
    by wly_cdgr 6y ago

    ...Cool?
14. 1184.▲
    by wly_cdgr 6y ago

    Ego death
15. 1185.▲
    by wly_cdgr 6y ago

    Constraints. Using simpler, less powerful tools; self-imposing arbitrary design restrictions; publicly committing to tight deadlines; etc. Makes your brain go into must-beat-this-game mode, stimulates creativity, and channels your energy.
16. 1186.▲
    by wly_cdgr 7y ago

    Coders At Work is fun, inspiring, informative, and serves as a useful reminder of the large number of ways to skin a >cat If you're after something more technical / textbooky, SICP, for its combination of rigor and playful enth
17. 1187.▲
    by wly_cdgr 7y ago

    Math. Anything math that you can frame as being relevant.
18. 1188.▲
    by wly_cdgr 7y ago

    * Facebook has been the best dating site for the last 15 years * Sites like HackerRank, Codility, etc. So fun. * https://teachyourselfcs.com/ * Loop Habit Tracker (Android app) * raylib * Anki (thanks, HN) * Queal * Virtual
19. 1189.▲
    by wly_cdgr 7y ago

    I misread that as "Get a good mistress", which is also good advice.
20. 1190.▲
    by wly_cdgr 7y ago

    I would ask the documentation fairy to decompose the code in a way that obviates the need for external documentation.