unabashedturtle

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   by unabashedturtle 11y ago

   I work with timestamps A LOT. In fact, I often have to deal with streams of 5 million + /second. Even worse, for most of them, microsecond precision is critical. I'm convinced most languages do timestamps wrong. Specifically, they
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   by unabashedturtle 11y ago

   For some of us, that 5% is incredibly valuable. Really, any HPC application is going to either be written in C/C++ or Fortran. It goes without saying that modern fortran is a hideous language (even though it's still better than Fo
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   by unabashedturtle 11y ago

   As someone that's done a fair bit of hiring for engineer and data scientist positions, my outlook on these 'coding academies' is pretty grim. If you want someone that can hack together a web app in rails/node.js/dja