snakey

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by snakey 2mo ago
This is the most american centric take I’ve seen all week! Bravo! There are many other nations with just as much influence in sports outside of the US. The only difference being that the US doesn’t care about them. Football is a global game
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by snakey 2y ago
I’ve also thought about this in quite some depth. I think people would be willing to pay a premium for simple, quality electronics. I also think there could be a good opportunity to expand this to kitchen appliances too. Premium quality but
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by snakey 2y ago
Along the same lines, I also find it useful to have a text log for each sizeable task I undertake. This could contain anything, notes of module structure, code & data snippets for testing, everything! Like one of the top comments mentio
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by snakey 3y ago
I’ve been doing something similar. If I read a blog post / paper, etc. where I learn a lot on a topic I’m interested in, I will catalogue a pdf of it in Obsidian with a tag and an optional note. This makes it easy to access informatio
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by snakey 3y ago
Slightly off topic but does anyone have any recommendations for a similar style of book that focuses on ARM and/or RISC assembly programming?
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by snakey 3y ago
There’s read.cv which is a network, portfolio and job posting site that’s more focused towards the design community. I have seen software dev jobs posted in there too. I’ve also struggled to find an alternative to LinkedIn (which is unbear
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by snakey 3y ago
Excellent point. Giving my perspective as a relative newbie (~5 years) to the industry with no comp. sci. background. It was around the year 3-4 mark that I decided to knuckle down and try to improve my fundamentals (data structures, algori
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by snakey 3y ago
> Getting a job becomes more of a random toss than assessment of my skills. I’ve coined a term for this throughout my long job search, it’s called the “leetcode lottery” (patent pending). You can do a couple of hundred leetcode problems
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by snakey 3y ago
They did! They wrote an excellent blog post about it too: https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/
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by snakey 3y ago
Thanks so much for your advice! I agree, having the opportunity to use the language as part of your daily-work helps massively, and is one of the best but most difficult options to realize. I'm aware this will come with some sacrific
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by snakey 3y ago
Location: London, U.K Remote: Yes | Hybrid Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Typescript, React, (Learning C) Dream role: I would love the opportunity to work with C (or Rust) in a professional setting. I think there are a lot of
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by snakey 3y ago
I’m also a “full-stack” web developer and would love to transfer to a career in C (or Rust also?). There’s such a wide variety of interesting problems to be solved over many applications. I’m not sure how I would begin making a career trans
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by snakey 3y ago
An unrolled version kindly posted by a user in the original thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1667252413051424773.html Hopefully much easier to read.
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by snakey 3y ago
Thank you for your incredible work! I have been reading Algorithms for Modern Hardware as part of my after-work study and I have found it invaluable—I reference it daily. I can’t wait for Part II :)
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by snakey 3y ago
I too am a beginner with concurrent programming—it's a difficult topic to get your head around at first. Some resources that I've found super helpful: - Dmitry Vyukov's Lockless Algorithms: https://www.1024cores.ne
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by snakey 4y ago
A little bit of a digression from the original topic but I have found sleeplikethedead[1] useful in the past for sleep related products (not affiliated with them). I hope it helps your search :) [1] https://www.sleeplikethedead.c
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by snakey 4y ago
Thanks for this! I've been diving into the basics of lock-free datastructures recently. Some posts that I've been working through which I've found useful: - https://moodycamel.com/blog/2013/a-fast-lo
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by snakey 4y ago
Great explanation, as someone who is new to C++ and actively learning, these perspectives are invaluable. I have been using some shared pointers in a personal project because of its ease of use but I aim to review and refactor this code to
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by snakey 4y ago
OP, I’m also a twenty something that moved from a fast paced start-up to a Behemoth. It’s been 7 months so far and throughout the first 6 months, I have fought and resisted how BigCo operates—it left me tired and even more miserable. Within
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by snakey 4y ago
Forgive me for this digression and for sounding selfish, but as a junior, I’ve really struggled for the last 2+ years to fully adapt to remote / hybrid working. I’m wondering if anyone has advice on how I can continue to grow and becom
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by snakey 5y ago
I really needed to see this today. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.