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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
I appreciate the correction, but frankly this isn't what I hoped people would take away from my comment. My point was that race/gender/appearance plays a large role in gaining access to normally stratified resources
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
This article is bugging me for some reason. I don't disagree with it. It's certainly easier to make a language now, even more so than in 2016 when this article was published. But it feels like saying "it's easier to make
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Key point here is that you probably fixed your sleep schedule sometime after high school. Coffee dependency is a pretty common hotfix for a poor sleep schedule. Once you take away the poor sleep schedule, coffee becomes less necessary and m
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
I agree and sympathize with what you're saying. Coding screens are a necessary evil. But perhaps they can be omitted in certain situations. I know I completed the Google foobar challenge far enough to alert a recruiter, only for the re
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Agreed that it's tricky, but there needs to be some feedback loop. Otherwise you end up with seriously broken processes that never get fixed. Companies tend to care about false positives more than false negatives, but there's a de
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Is it just me or does Quora straight up not work on Firefox? Whenever I click the Continue Reading button, it fails to load more and gives me a generic "Something Went Wrong" error. Do people just not test on Firefox anymore?
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
So happy to see the Dekalog here. It's hard to find it streaming. Dekalog 1 is a particularly relevant film for HN since it deals with a programmer and his idolization of technology. There's a small moment at a shrine with wax tha
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
I've tried to use iterators and closures in my code, but it's not as easy with error handling and lifetimes. Like I could figure out the magic incantation that lets me map over an iterator with a function that returns a result. Or
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Could use some linear algebra terms. Pivot? Eigen? Nullspace? Kernel? Determinant? Trace?
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
It’s a little too early to see the effects of Jony Ive’s departure. He left less than a year ago. He probably had a decent role in designing Big Sur. Plus all the remaining designers were probably hired by Jony. I doubt we’ll see big change
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
This is super super minor but it's JavaScript not Javascript. IMO the camel case makes it look so much better :D
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
I use a sous vide machine to keep the yogurt at a consistent temperature. If you're working with non dairy milks, that extra time can help a lot. If you're looking for another good fermentation, kimchi is a great one. There's
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
I wonder how many people on HN have experienced being the only person of their race in the room. In my case I was put into a French public school where I was the only Asian student. It took me a bit to realize why I found that experience so
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
I highly recommend reading The Little Typer if you want a great book that bridges math and code. It starts out describing Pi, a Lisp with some interesting restrictions (limited recursion, types can have values, etc.). They build up some coo
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Yeah you're quite similar to people I know, especially in your view of performance and choice of sources. I definitely agree that bottom line, seeking out info is a net benefit. I have a fair amount of respect for game developers. Howe
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
It's definitely not the worst to be overly well read in programming literature. But oh man does it get old arguing with someone who is taking advice from a very niche, very particular field such as game development and applying it to g
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
There's a particular brand of young developer where every opinion comes from a blog post, talk or HN comment. They have strong views on many different topics and believe that they're knowledgeable and smarter than the average deve
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
> YouTube was (and still largely is) written in Python, way before it was cool and well-known That's a good point. I wonder how many successful apps used tech that only appeared boring after the fact. Rails is a fairly boring stack
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Yeah maybe "JS is best language ever!!!" is a better example. Or "JS is perfect!!!"
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
That's true, but JavaScript is something especially controversial :D. I've yet to find a programmer who doesn't have some sort of stance on JS Also yeah it is fine to say "I don't care for JS" sans explanation.
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
I'm starting to develop a theory that a person's stance on JavaScript reflects their ability to critique reasonably and therefore their maturity as a developer (to an extent). JavaScript undeniably has some problems. It's als
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
More modern example, Bong Joon Ho apparently storyboards the entire film before shooting. Parasite's storyboards: https://www.indiewire.com/2020/05/parasite-bong-joon-ho-stor... On the flip side, Terence Mali
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
I recently watched Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice which also deals with the threat of nuclear destruction. The main character is having a birthday dinner when the news informs everybody about the nuclear threat. The simplicity in which this
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
People in all countries get measles. Should we help every country equally? If, gasp , there's a rich kid in Pakistan who may get a free measles vaccine, is that evidence to stop fighting measles in Pakistan? White families have ten ti
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Atget, and Abbot after, were one of the great photographers who documented cities in flux. Paris for Atget and New York for Berenice Abbot. Another artist who I've been thinking about is Michelangelo Antonioni. There's something a
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Oh yeah we're on the same page that taking classes in a different, specific topic is a great way to amplify your existing CS skills. I'm mostly making the point that going into college with the mindset of double major or bust can
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Agreed. Taking non-CS classes? Definitely worth it. Getting the arbitrary extra words on your diploma? Less worth it
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Did Flux really bring one way data flow? Because that's a pretty essential part of React. Even if React adopted it later, it's a core part of React's appeal. Do you legitimately see no difference in websites from 2012 and 202
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Meh, React is great for more reasons than modularity. One way data flow combined with automatic updating and rendering is really really nice. I just wrote a simple UI for a terminal and having to manually call a function to paint to the scr
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
I've written a lot about this. If you want a job, start applying early. But don't feel like you have to get one immediately. If you're sufficiently motivated, consider taking time off to work on your own projects. 1. Don&#x27

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