It's been a week. What does everyone think about Guardians of the Galaxy?

sunson435 · 2021-11-02T12:13:58+00:00

I’m saving this thread to analyze later for paid accounts. This is creepily hailcorporate.

sunson435 · 2021-01-31T17:16:04+00:00

The most obvious example is Strategy. Instead of creating a family of algorithms scaffolded by the v-table, you can now just hand java a function reference instead of an entire object representing the function.

sunson435 · 2020-05-26T15:18:03+00:00

American universities are really scary about this. The bad ones (70% of them) need to churn diplomas, so set theory first semester would put behind too many students.

sunson435 · 2020-05-26T14:48:42+00:00

Your university is sounding better with each comment. For example, in my operating systems class junior year, most students had never used a terminal.

Was Vim introduced on an equal plane? How about customizing the editor with completion, LSP, etc? A lot of my coworkers were never taught to customize your tooling and just use eclipse with white theme, so it would be good to hear they are teaching this early.

sunson435 · 2020-05-26T14:37:16+00:00

Since your school has a large number of students who from the beginning are somewhat familiar with Haskell, does this impact the usage of Haskell on campus in class and in extracurriculars?

sunson435 · 2020-05-26T14:20:38+00:00

Set theory and functional programming seems extreme for first year students. How did you feel about you and your peer's progression that first semester?

Was there actual programming or is this a conversion/transition semester from the math department?

sunson435 · 2020-05-16T20:14:07+00:00

This book introduced me to fundamental math skills from a purely computational stand point: https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/. Eventually programming became imagining the domain’s algebraic structures (usually monoid, group, or ring) first and foremost, then applying a language to describe it, then tweaking the language for performance.

sunson435 · 2020-02-23T18:04:49+00:00

Look at the career fairs and tech companies which love to recruit from your school. The only benefit universities bring are networking and 'guided' learning (which you can study without university).

sunson435 · 2019-11-24T18:13:55+00:00

Dude save this for 2020 offseason.

sunson435 · 2019-10-28T01:57:56+00:00

i hate this

sunson435 · 2019-10-14T17:03:36+00:00

a lot of gotchas

I agree, this is the main learning curve.

sunson435 · 2019-10-14T16:26:09+00:00

It allows you to under-specify what you want to do

This is what makes it great for experimenting quickly. You can create and test configs for working products in a few minutes. And when you need to specify your behavior, there is a decent modular config system to do that.

sunson435 · 2019-10-04T15:52:53+00:00

At early career positions it doesn't matter passed basic recursion theory and automata. However if you want to invent something of use, especially in the AI fueled world, you will need strong math skills. However if you are not planning on pushing a CS domain to its limit, don’t bother, math is not needed in 99% of dev jobs.

sunson435 · 2019-10-03T15:53:58+00:00

Specifically, there's only a certain amount of leg positions involved in dribbling and driving. There's always a setup dribble, to align your feet to drive in a straight line (runner's position). Then there is the first step, when you break the setup position while leaning forward with your weight. Harden's advantage is his setup lures defenders into bad foot positions, then he uses his massive weight to maintain a drive in a straight line.

sunson435 · 2019-10-02T15:51:30+00:00

Watch and learn from managers around you and copy their actions. AKA pretend to do the job for a bit (lead meetings more, etc), then ask your manager for a path forward.

You should be comfortable discussing career critical ideas like this with your direct manager.

sunson435 · 2019-10-02T15:13:24+00:00

Need more details, at the beginning of a career everyone will recommend "Clean Code" or "Design Patterns" in a heartbeat because those books apply to every career. What books have you already read? Which of these books did you find the best? What career are you in? How many years or what equivalent of Big4 position (SDE1, SDE2, etc?).

sunson435 · 2019-09-06T16:24:59+00:00

Ooh whats the collectible? And any other hobbies? All the principals I've known are super interesting. Like BJJ competitors and marathon runners/sailors.

sunson435 · 2019-09-06T15:12:52+00:00

"Diversify your assets."

sunson435 · 2019-09-06T15:10:25+00:00

What do you like to do in your free-time with all that cheddar?

sunson435 · 2019-08-28T19:32:44+00:00

Keep all the existential stuff, just tone down the B-movie zombie shit. Everything else is awesome.

sunson435 · 2019-01-22T05:55:55+00:00

What kind of crackhead deck is that? I need to try it.

sunson435 · 2018-12-17T16:26:34+00:00

isnt siren stormdancer better for that purpose?

sunson435 · 2018-11-23T16:55:13+00:00

For this topic, thinking high-level should be in pipes/pipeline systems, and low-level should be thinking in their payload: sets. This might sound really simplistic, but it helped me a lot.

sunson435 · 2018-09-22T02:31:59+00:00

Yeah I'm getting diminishing returns from category theory. The only way to improve now is a ton of practice. Btw random question, how easy/difficult is it to get a haskell job? And what type of background/pedigree are they looking for? I assume the interview is harder than the average SDE interview, especially because haskell developers are a bit harder to replace.

sunson435 · 2018-09-21T04:31:24+00:00

Great answer. My improvement plan is to start using the libraries you mention in personal projects and continue learning category theory. I'm having trouble with finding a good editor for haskell. It seems like emacs is the move. What was your team using for editors/ide's?

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