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by wtroughton 8mo ago
I'd make the case that turning their citizens into consumers like America has done could be considered a national security risk.
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by wtroughton 1y ago
Education does not operate in a vacuum. Many students are incentivized by the social accreditation of completing a program. Institutions need some way to qualify that teaching is actually being done. Whether it be an examination, a certific
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by wtroughton 2y ago
“A shared fiction in the world to help frame interactions between people”. You sir are a natural philosopher. I think what’s universally important is to keep active and engaged in what we’re doing. Some of us have to tell fictions that what
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by wtroughton 2y ago
Anyone else fall into the trap of procrastinating watching YouTube or pg’s essays for advice?
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by wtroughton 2y ago
My internship project involved a tool to look up individual IP addresses as well as checking a range of address blocks. I ended up implementing the trie data structure, which performed well in terms of storage and run-time efficiency. My in
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by wtroughton 3y ago
A compiler is a theorem prover, sure, but compilers vary in terms of expressiveness of the propositions it is capable of proving (a Python interpreter would be a very weak theorem prover ;) ) Consider: is there an equivalent concept of Turi
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I'm Done Making Good Videos(youtube.com)
2 points by wtroughton 6y ago|0 comments
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by wtroughton 6y ago
Writing only becomes better when you go on a journey of identifying your own intentions, and confronting your own trepidation. Thanks for writing this, I've been struggling to write about fallacies in software verification for over a
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by wtroughton 6y ago
I don't agree with many of the points made in the article in regards to certifications (formal methods aren't there yet as an industry), but I did want to touch on that fact that "software engineer" is an aspiration term
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by wtroughton 6y ago
I also disagree with the author about certifications and the attempt to bridge similarities with other established engineering professions. I think what it important in this discussion is the fact that "software engineer" right no
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Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers(theatlantic.com)
20 points by wtroughton 6y ago|25 comments
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by wtroughton 6y ago
> For debugging and monitoring, developers can access the console output of the board through the built-in microUSB type-B connector. As a software developer who's interested in this but has no experience with low-level hardware int
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by wtroughton 6y ago
Probably overkill, but I use Pandoc to generate tailored resumes for roles and jobs I’m interested in. I keep a list of all my skills, experience and education in a YAML file and have a LaTeX template that I clone when creating a new resume
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by wtroughton 6y ago
I agree wholeheartedly of doing something that you believe is valuable. The process of figuring out what's valuable is different from person to person. Some people know from a young age. Others figure it out in college or post-educatio
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by wtroughton 6y ago
Should engineers from new grads to senior levels apply under Principal Engineer listing?
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by wtroughton 6y ago
Anyone familiar with Breaking Bad? Walter White goes under the alias of Heisenberg. When he’s Walter, he’s anxious and fearful. It’s such a contrast compared to the calm, calculated Heisenberg. The writers did a phenomenal job of using an a
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by wtroughton 7y ago
Examples that I can think off the top of my head are 1) all-hands and 2) networking events. These tend to be formulaic from my experience, they consist of a catering plates full of finger foods like sandwiches, cheese, chips, cookies.
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by wtroughton 7y ago
When I worked at Amazon, our team decided to have a theme for each sprint consisting of breakfast items. Product launches & demos were small celebrations at the end of the sprint. So one sprint was Croissant Week, another may be Donut W
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Ask HN: Why does your company run corporate events?
1 points by wtroughton 7y ago|2 comments
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by wtroughton 8y ago
100% agree that in object-oriented programming, only the object itself should care about its internal state. The object should know about its behaviors and what state changes are actually valid. In Java, many projects overuse getters and se
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by wtroughton 8y ago
Tech courses targetting recruiters. I'm interested in this as a beneficiary not as a direct participant. I wonder if recruiters would be interested in a course like this?
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by wtroughton 8y ago
Thinking of interfaces as state machines can be valuable. An area that I think about a lot is how effective are companies at spreading useful information to the people who can best utilize that information. Internal tools are interfaces to
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by wtroughton 8y ago
I love SequelPro but I've been thinking about switching to TablePlus from SequelPro for quite some time since SequelPro isn't available on Windows / Linux. Do you know how TablePlus clients compare on Windows and Mac? Been wo
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by wtroughton 8y ago
I also use Things and Quiver (note taking) for 2 weeks now and it has grown on me. I use to write creative thoughts in a text document or Notes on iOS. I never revisited these notes. The most important thing is having a dedicated system tha
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by wtroughton 8y ago
This. The code base should be the authoritative source of the behavior of the system. The comments should be the authoritative source of what is expected of the system.
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What Information Can You Trust?(vladsch.com)
1 points by wtroughton 8y ago|0 comments
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by wtroughton 8y ago
I wonder the model is trained purely on the AST or if there are other inputs / metadata from Github that the model uses for prediction.
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by wtroughton 8y ago
This is a really cool demo. For common patterns like get, contains, ends with, etc, this could be helpful in code representation without having to go into the details.
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by wtroughton 8y ago
I'm surprised that there isn't more adoption of tools like this to help developers understand code. Even for statically typed languages like Java, I find the existing tools lacking in helping me understand the code thoroughly. I m
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by wtroughton 8y ago
I use Vimium plugin to navigate web pages. gg brings to the top of the page whereas Ctrl + G brings me to the bottom.

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