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by jgn 2y ago
The book's technical reviewer is David Tolnay [0] who authored some of Rust's ubiquitous crates: `anyhow`, `thiserror`, `serde`. It's a good intermediate companion to the official Rust intro [1]. I found it most helpful when
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by jgn 3y ago
If optics and photolithography interest you I recommend Huygens Optics on YT [0]. Jeroen, the creator, has an engrossing passion for the material. Jeri's process [1] is wild compared to Sam's lab. [0] https://www.youtub
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by jgn 10y ago
Shoot me an email. It's in my profile.
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by jgn 10y ago
My email is in my profile. Drop me a line.
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by jgn 10y ago
I'd be happy to get you into the interview process, or at least point you in the right direction. My experience at Amazon has been great. I don't know anyone who cries at their desk, works 80 hours per week, or feels like they&#x2
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by jgn 11y ago
Where do you live? In Vancouver, Earls and Joeys don't have pictures on their menus. Red Robins and BP do, but they're definitely a tier below the former two.
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by jgn 11y ago
Thanks for posting this. In the future, could you please add the algorithm to the title? This feels a couple steps removed from clickbait. No offense intended; it's just a suggestion.
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by jgn 11y ago
As does Vancouver.
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by jgn 11y ago
UBC isn't really known for it's tech streams. No? Amazon, Google, and Microsoft hire aggressively out of UBC. Waterloo is an awful place. Asking people to move there is a hard sell. At least people would enjoy Vancouver.
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by jgn 14y ago
I love this, it's refreshing. Every time something goes down, I see a flood of hate and a torrent of comments suggesting everyone move somewhere else. That, coupled with HN's hate of MSFT, makes this one of the most refreshing posts I've se
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by jgn 14y ago
Where in Canada are you? I haven't seen a single Blackberry at UBC. The iPhone dominates and there's quite a few Android phones around, but virtually nothing else. Edit: It's worth noting my buses often pick up dozens of high school kids as
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by jgn 14y ago
It might be worth considering that some people just work/study so much that a normal relationship just isn't going to happen. I imagine grad school and early startup life is like this, to some extent. Personally, I just don't balance my lif
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by jgn 14y ago
It's not a PURE functional language, but it's certainly functional.
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Ask HN: How to overcome hurdles of first engineering internship?
1 points by jgn 14y ago|0 comments
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by jgn 14y ago
I've been a "nice guy" my whole life, and sometimes it's socially detrimental (read: being too nice to girls that were hoping I'd be more than nice). At some level, I find the idea of brogramming attractive. Yes, I said it, and I know how a
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by jgn 14y ago
Shouldn't "classic" hacking be the days of yore in Bell Labs? When I think hackers I think Ritchie and Thompson working on C and Unix. The definition of hacking you're thinking of is the media's definition, i.e. the clueless one.
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by jgn 14y ago
I came across this in my intro to systems class and thanked the stars. For someone who loves C and systems programming, the Linux kernel can still be overwhelming. This is an awesome way for a kernel newbie to tackle a code base they can ha
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by jgn 15y ago
My first year out of high school I took a ton of philosophy. It's forever changed the way I view the world, other people and how I solve problems; it's been valuable for my CS and math education. Philosophy taught me to explore problems fro
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by jgn 15y ago
The voice of concerned Internet users, you mean, not just Americans.
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by jgn 15y ago
I don't take TPB's "press releases" too seriously, and I don't think they do either. It's interesting to hear how Hollywood came about but not significant or relevant to what TBP does. As far as arguments for piracy go, there was a much bet
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by jgn 15y ago
This sums it up for me: "The decline in driving by younger Americans is fed by many factors: the high cost of gas and insurance at a time of economic insecurity; tighter restrictions on teen drivers in many states; and roads that are more c
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by jgn 15y ago
Sorry about that, fixed now.
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All Programmers Are Self-Taught(jgneuf.wordpress.com)
247 points by jgn 15y ago|79 comments
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by jgn 15y ago
What am I seeing? The front page hasn't been updated since May 2010. I wanted to get into kernel development and a couple weeks ago I checked out Kernel Newbies. I was excited to see a list of projects that "Computer Science students" could
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by jgn 15y ago
The community is amazing. The forums are a wealth of information, and I've tracked down almost every single bug just by searching. The wiki is updated regularly and is just as rich. In my experience Arch users are very happy and proud to be
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by jgn 15y ago
I'm a student in the third year of my CS degree and I constantly worry about not being a good programmer. There's things on that list I need to work on.