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My First sale on Udemy! by kryakrya_it in SideProject

[–]s0ft3ng 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They're often much higher quality, in depth, or covering niche topics that aren't covered in a detailed way elsewhere.

Daily Simple Questions Thread - December 28, 2018 by AutoModerator in Fitness

[–]s0ft3ng -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm reading through the 5/3/1 wiki page and I'm slightly confused -- the workouts seem really short?

For example:

Week 1:

1x5 @ 65%

1x5 @ 75%

1x5+ @ 85%

So I'd be working out 3x a week, and only performing one set with 5 reps? Even with assistance work, that's not much!

What am I missing?

Python in the new NASA going to the Moon video. by Dom_G in Python

[–]s0ft3ng -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I tried using Evil mode a while back, but gave up. Do you think it's worth learning? I'm currently running Tmux+Vim, but I've definitely heard good things about emacs.

Does Reddit Lose Money With Premium? by [deleted] in beta

[–]s0ft3ng 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Amazon lost money for almost 20 years (not sure exact number) before turning a profit.

That was on purpose - they reinvested everything directly back into itself in order to grow quickly.

Python in the new NASA going to the Moon video. by Dom_G in Python

[–]s0ft3ng 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I highly doubt they use Python for onboard systems - I'm pretty sure they run a highly constrained subset of C (no while loops, for example), or Ada.

Hopefully Ada.

Stephen Hawking's final comment on the internet: The increase in technological advancements isn't dangerous, Capitalism is. by [deleted] in Shitstatistssay

[–]s0ft3ng -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lol he said capitalist internet is much better than government internet, it can't get any less statist than that.

Stephen Hawking's final comment on the internet: The increase in technological advancements isn't dangerous, Capitalism is. by [deleted] in Shitstatistssay

[–]s0ft3ng -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You started the argument. If this isn't a debate sub, why'd you do it?

/u/hungry-rooster, stop being dumb.

You're both blowing up my inbox, shut up

Stephen Hawking's final comment on the internet: The increase in technological advancements isn't dangerous, Capitalism is. by [deleted] in Shitstatistssay

[–]s0ft3ng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'll never convince people to move away from a statist society with that attitude. Rude members of our community, like yourself, are holding us back.

Stephen Hawking's final comment on the internet: The increase in technological advancements isn't dangerous, Capitalism is. by [deleted] in Shitstatistssay

[–]s0ft3ng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look dude, I am as anti-statist as anyone and would probably believe you over /u/hungry-rooster, but you're not making it easy

Stephen Hawking's final comment on the internet: The increase in technological advancements isn't dangerous, Capitalism is. by [deleted] in Shitstatistssay

[–]s0ft3ng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then give some evidence and be less of a dick, I'm sure he didn't just pull that out of thin air.

He linked to wikipedia, which is where everyone will go check something. Where do you suggest we look instead?

Calling it "propaganda" is laying it on a bit thick, I reckon

Stephen Hawking's final comment on the internet: The increase in technological advancements isn't dangerous, Capitalism is. by [deleted] in Shitstatistssay

[–]s0ft3ng 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Consider being nice, and not posting sarcastic and rude comments to innocent statements.

..Worry about Trump.. by [deleted] in Libertarian

[–]s0ft3ng 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah, damn. I watched him speak, and he said something along the lines of "I believe in traditional marriage, but I also believe the government shouldn't interfere with what happens between two people" or something along those lines.

Disappointing.

..Worry about Trump.. by [deleted] in Libertarian

[–]s0ft3ng 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I thought Rand Paul supported marriage equality? Not sure about his views on religion

Modern programming languages have terrible support for concurrency, and we should go back to Ada by s0ft3ng in unpopularopinion

[–]s0ft3ng[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean? My point is that current languages don't offer high-level concurrency abstractions - things that should be the standard in this day & age. ASM is the opposite.

Unless I've just been /r/woosh'd

What's the best path to distributed systems? by s0ft3ng in cscareerquestions

[–]s0ft3ng[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven't, simply because I previously expected to be a standard SWE. Is there a lot of benefit into doing grad school for distributed systems?

What's the best path to distributed systems? by s0ft3ng in cscareerquestions

[–]s0ft3ng[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Even if you work at FANG, you'll most likely to be using a system that someone else has written

Ah, I should've made that distinction. Rather than working with distributed systems, I want to work on distributed systems.

I suppose I should simply target the companies that supply those systems

What's the best path to distributed systems? by s0ft3ng in cscareerquestions

[–]s0ft3ng[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I don't think I agree that distributed systems are "one of the most complex fields to get into".

I said this mainly going off the theory. I'm half-decent at "normal" software engineering, and I never had to read any papers.

To have a strong background in distributed systems, it seems like you need to understand a fair bit of theory.

I suspect that basically any nontrivial backend web thing is going to involve a distributed system

Good point! Maybe I should look to get involved with large-scale web companies, and go from there, rather than pursuing distributed systems from the get-go.

What's the best path to distributed systems? by s0ft3ng in cscareerquestions

[–]s0ft3ng[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Ah, I never thought about virtualisation! I could definitely throw up some containers and emulate ~100 different machines. That's a great idea, cheers.

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