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The book's technical reviewer is David Tolnay [0] who authored some of Rust's ubiquitous crates: `anyhow`, `thiserror`, `serde`. It's a good intermediate companion to the official …

If optics and photolithography interest you I recommend Huygens Optics on YT [0]. Jeroen, the creator, has an engrossing passion for the material. Jeri's process [1] is wild compar…

Shoot me an email. It's in my profile.

My email is in my profile. Drop me a line.

I'd be happy to get you into the interview process, or at least point you in the right direction. My experience at Amazon has been great. I don't know anyone who cries at their des…

Where do you live? In Vancouver, Earls and Joeys don't have pictures on their menus. Red Robins and BP do, but they're definitely a tier below the former two.

Thanks for posting this. In the future, could you please add the algorithm to the title? This feels a couple steps removed from clickbait. No offense intended; it's just a suggesti…

As does Vancouver.

UBC isn't really known for it's tech streams. No? Amazon, Google, and Microsoft hire aggressively out of UBC. Waterloo is an awful place. Asking people to move there is a hard sell…

I love this, it's refreshing. Every time something goes down, I see a flood of hate and a torrent of comments suggesting everyone move somewhere else. That, coupled with HN's hate …

Where in Canada are you? I haven't seen a single Blackberry at UBC. The iPhone dominates and there's quite a few Android phones around, but virtually nothing else. Edit: It's worth…

It might be worth considering that some people just work/study so much that a normal relationship just isn't going to happen. I imagine grad school and early startup life is like t…

It's not a PURE functional language, but it's certainly functional.

Hello wise engineers. I just started my first "real" job as a software engineering intern. I'm a CS student, and in school our projects are typically quite small (up to ~2,500 LOC)…

I've been a "nice guy" my whole life, and sometimes it's socially detrimental (read: being too nice to girls that were hoping I'd be more than nice). At some level, I find the idea…

Shouldn't "classic" hacking be the days of yore in Bell Labs? When I think hackers I think Ritchie and Thompson working on C and Unix. The definition of hacking you're thinking of …

I came across this in my intro to systems class and thanked the stars. For someone who loves C and systems programming, the Linux kernel can still be overwhelming. This is an aweso…

My first year out of high school I took a ton of philosophy. It's forever changed the way I view the world, other people and how I solve problems; it's been valuable for my CS and …

The voice of concerned Internet users, you mean, not just Americans.

I don't take TPB's "press releases" too seriously, and I don't think they do either. It's interesting to hear how Hollywood came about but not significant or relevant to what TBP d…

This sums it up for me: "The decline in driving by younger Americans is fed by many factors: the high cost of gas and insurance at a time of economic insecurity; tighter restrictio…

Sorry about that, fixed now.

What am I seeing? The front page hasn't been updated since May 2010. I wanted to get into kernel development and a couple weeks ago I checked out Kernel Newbies. I was excited to s…

The community is amazing. The forums are a wealth of information, and I've tracked down almost every single bug just by searching. The wiki is updated regularly and is just as rich…