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No I ended up going to a university where CS was probably the smallest major on campus. But I worked my ass off to learn CS on my own. The tests wouldn’t have predicted the outcome…

I didn’t do well on my SATs back in the 90s. I’m not a good standardized test taker and I was working at a dialup internet provider while in high school, probably 30 hours a week. …

A function that both opens a file and does something with its contents should be refactored. It’s painful to find code like this and happen to have a string or pointer to some buff…

No one even mentions Google X which rebranded to just X years ago. Clearly it’s been effective that no one even points this out. Yet another winning project.

The author is absolutely right. codesearch is amazing. Blaze/bazel is amazing. When will sourcegraph support bazel repos? :-)

Vim can do this 1. Open your script/code in vim editor 2. Enable syntax & set the required color scheme :syntax on :colorscheme darkblue 3. Print the file in PS file format :hardco…

The problem is that they tried to merge desktop and tablet user experiences in the first place. The idea of having to perform a full context switch / screen jump to launch a new ap…

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