jrookie

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   by jrookie 16y ago

   lol not really, but I do find myself using a Java hashmaps and not knowing how hashing works, using a regex that was copied and pasted from google without understanding what it does, programming in java and not knowing how the GC algorithms
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   by jrookie 16y ago

   Thanks, I tried reading that Godel book and I couldn't wrap my head around it, I will give it a second shot though.
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   by jrookie 16y ago

   Thanks for your words, no need to apologize :).
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   by jrookie 16y ago

   Yes I agree that there are algorithms that I would have never known about without hitting the books, I came across this recently. I was trying to solve one of ITA software hiring puzzles(Just for fun somebody mentioned it in SO) the "instan
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   by jrookie 16y ago

   Thanks for your words. Most of the stuff I've been doing for the last year or so is bug fixing as I have found that I'm better at finding and fixing bugs and even adding stuff to code that is already written and I really get excited when I
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   by jrookie 16y ago

   Thanks for your answer, The difficult part for me is that I have to force myself to ask the questions that you talk about, it's definitely not intuitive for me and my first reaction is not to think about the different solutions a problem co
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   by jrookie 16y ago

   Yes! thanks for mentioning that book I forgot about it but I plan on getting to it eventually, there's just so many things to learn, so many books...sometimes I feel overwhelmed. Thanks.
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   by jrookie 16y ago

   Thanks! And yes I really think I need a mentor, just haven't found one yet, or haven't looked hard enough.
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   by jrookie 16y ago

   Thanks for your answer. The last thing I want is to give up again, sadly the more I try the more these thoughts come in to my head and the harder it is to throw them away.
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    by jrookie 16y ago

    Thanks for your words. Sadly I have really bad social skills.
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    by jrookie 16y ago

    Thanks, I will give it a shot.
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    by jrookie 16y ago

    Thanks for this. I'm currently using Ubuntu as my primary OS at home but I will give Gentoo a shot.
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    by jrookie 16y ago

    Thanks for you answer, you tackle some of the other things I've been struggling with for the last few years. 1. I work with other experience programmers but they are not really into "mentoring", I have been looking for someone online who ca
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    by jrookie 16y ago

    Thanks for your words. I agree with you that formal education is valuable when you lack direction on "how" and "what" to learn as you stated.
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    by jrookie 16y ago

    Thanks for your words of encouragement.
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    by jrookie 16y ago

    Thanks for your answer. I would really like to learn more about machine learning and NLP, after reading a bit about them I found them to be incredibly interesting subjects, however my Math/Algorithms skills are a barrier into understanding
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    by jrookie 16y ago

    Thank you for your answer. I have already installed linux as my primary OS at home, I still have to stick to windows in my job though.
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    by jrookie 16y ago

    Thank you for the links I will check them out!
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    I'm a cargo cult programmer, help me

    202 points by jrookie 16y ago|158 comments
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    Ask HN: Java dev interview at Atlassian, any tips?

    1 points by jrookie 16y ago|0 comments