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ghassenfaidi

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    Comment #49158361

    The thing is, often it's wrong and could mislead people. especially for beginners who would trust the tool too much. You could easily ask "is HTTP same as REST?" And you may receiv…

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    AI will always find a difference

    Ask AI "what's the difference between X and Y". It mostly would happily generate a table and compare them even if they are interchangeable in practice. Reminds me of a trick a teac…

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    Comment #48748308

    I realized many arguments end up not well because we keep focusing on the wrong thing and neglect the question that actually matter: why do you believe in what you believe; asking …

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    Do Course Certificates Matter?

    You probably already know the answer, which is no -- they don't matter much in the "real world." But I think that's not the complete picture. I found that certificates can be a rea…

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    Comment #48083776

    I also think it has something to do with Windows and growing up around GUIs, for instance, when I was starting out I used to think it's impossible to name a python file "script.mp4…

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    Beginners don't trust the command line

    After learning Git in the summer, I went to my some of my friends and classmates who study CS and told them: "I'm going to force you to learn Git". I don't want to work alone! One …

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    Comment #48060626

    Last year I actually took a course called Systematic Program Design which based on the book How to Design Programs, it was an amazing experience and I heard it has some resemblance…

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    Comment #48046310

    The plot twist was that programs are just files too -- what I meant earlier is processes and not programs.

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    Everything is just files and programs

    Last year, two years into my CS studies at college, I was reading Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach, at the end of chapter 2 it contained a list of project ideas to do. I wa…

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