qwrshr

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by qwrshr 1y ago
As a quick anecdatum, I'm on macos and I'm definitely more than 20 years old, and there is a quite perceptible difference in responsiveness between Zed and a VSCode-based IDE for me. (Though then again I did play fast-twitched gam
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by qwrshr 3y ago
Highly recommend it as well. I'm a junior developer; that course gave me a much better sense for how to design software and answered a lot of software engineering / design-related questions that had coming up over and over again.
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by qwrshr 4y ago
Is there by any chance a publicly available recording of this presentation on purely functional data structures?
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by qwrshr 4y ago
out of curiosity, how much applied math should one bone up on? (Obviously the more the better, but diminishing marginal returns and all that.)
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by qwrshr 5y ago
I think it depends a lot on the specific school. I'm at an Ivy League school that tries to make its classes accessible even to people without previous experience.
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by qwrshr 5y ago
there are languages that have better support with dependencies though, e.g. Julia (every time I have to debug dependency issues in some other person's Python code/requirements.txt, I find myself wishing it had been written in Juli
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by qwrshr 6y ago
Another, lower-risk option: at some universities, it's quite possible for undergraduates to take graduate classes, especially if they've had the relevant background. So you could try applying to be an undergrad at such an institut
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by qwrshr 6y ago
What other classes that you've tried would you recommend?
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by qwrshr 6y ago
one example: https://about.sourcegraph.com/strange-loop/strange-loop-2019... another: I have RSI, and while I use speech recognition, my voice gets fatigued really easily. Also, using speech recognition in public can a
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by qwrshr 7y ago
the art of problem solving series
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by qwrshr 7y ago
I'm a philosophy grad student who is currently doing some data science classes. First, I think the connection might've been clearer if you had taken an intro ethics or political philosophy class. For instance, the free speech clas