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As part of my own ongoing learning I was thinking about writing a (intermediate to advanced) book about the mechanics of writing software in C++. As an example the book could inclu…

Slow Horses contains absolutely none of the complexity of Le Carre. They're in the same genre, but are not comparable.

It's not! In NZ at least. 57% of our electricity is hydro.

Perhaps the author made it for themselves and not you...

The most annoying thing when learning to program is that experienced programmers take your bullet points for granted -- and don't explain them well / don't explain them at all. But…

This was the point of the question :) To see what questions we need to ask if we're designing a software development environment in 2021. It may well be true that the current parad…

Why wouldn't this have much value to pharma? Is it because its application is actually really limited in scope?

Interesting! Could you explain? What C features doesn't C++ have?

Try half that salary for jobs in Australia and you might have more luck.

I've been thinking for a while that a (sort of) mix of the two would be worthwhile. 1. Personal knowledge bases seem to be high friction (have to manually add information and requi…

What technical projects do you think should exist in the world? What hard problems exist in your field? Where do you think the frontiers of science/technology lie? I'm interested i…

What technologies do we need to develop or promote to make it safer to return to a pre-coronavirus world? I.e: - Abundant passive fever cameras? - 'At home' salivary testing kits f…

During this quarantine period I'm looking for a biotech / bioinformatics side project to work on -- does anybody have any suggestions? I'm a software engineer, but if you have non …

fuck this was funny

Just realised that it is the default vscode light theme! I clearly have never used it ...

The argdown theme in vscode (that is recommended to install) is surprisingly nice as well. Does anyone know if it's a derivative of something?

Hi, Where does everyone go to find inspiration / existing side projects to work on? (Primarily in computer science / software engineering).