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snakey

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    Comment #49115626

    This is the most american centric take I’ve seen all week! Bravo! There are many other nations with just as much influence in sports outside of the US. The only difference being th…

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    Comment #41890156

    I’ve also thought about this in quite some depth. I think people would be willing to pay a premium for simple, quality electronics. I also think there could be a good opportunity t…

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    Comment #40954027

    Along the same lines, I also find it useful to have a text log for each sizeable task I undertake. This could contain anything, notes of module structure, code & data snippets for …

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    Comment #39153443

    I’ve been doing something similar. If I read a blog post / paper, etc. where I learn a lot on a topic I’m interested in, I will catalogue a pdf of it in Obsidian with a tag and an …

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    Comment #38762683

    Slightly off topic but does anyone have any recommendations for a similar style of book that focuses on ARM and/or RISC assembly programming?

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    Comment #38010182

    There’s read.cv which is a network, portfolio and job posting site that’s more focused towards the design community. I have seen software dev jobs posted in there too. I’ve also st…

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    Comment #37966858

    Excellent point. Giving my perspective as a relative newbie (~5 years) to the industry with no comp. sci. background. It was around the year 3-4 mark that I decided to knuckle down…

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    Comment #37811252

    > Getting a job becomes more of a random toss than assessment of my skills. I’ve coined a term for this throughout my long job search, it’s called the “leetcode lottery” (patent pe…

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    Comment #37477960

    They did! They wrote an excellent blog post about it too: https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/

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    Comment #36659558

    Thanks so much for your advice! I agree, having the opportunity to use the language as part of your daily-work helps massively, and is one of the best but most difficult options to…

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    Comment #36659408

    Location: London, U.K Remote: Yes | Hybrid Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Typescript, React, (Learning C) Dream role: I would love the opportunity to work with C (or…

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    Comment #36658769

    I’m also a “full-stack” web developer and would love to transfer to a career in C (or Rust also?). There’s such a wide variety of interesting problems to be solved over many applic…

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    Comment #36284321

    An unrolled version kindly posted by a user in the original thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1667252413051424773.html Hopefully much easier to read.

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    Comment #35751273

    Thank you for your incredible work! I have been reading Algorithms for Modern Hardware as part of my after-work study and I have found it invaluable—I reference it daily. I can’t w…

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    Comment #35685243

    I too am a beginner with concurrent programming—it's a difficult topic to get your head around at first. Some resources that I've found super helpful: - Dmitry Vyukov's Lockless Al…

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    Comment #33475893

    A little bit of a digression from the original topic but I have found sleeplikethedead[1] useful in the past for sleep related products (not affiliated with them). I hope it helps …

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    Comment #32936651

    Thanks for this! I've been diving into the basics of lock-free datastructures recently. Some posts that I've been working through which I've found useful: - https://moodycamel.com/…

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    Comment #32594345

    Great explanation, as someone who is new to C++ and actively learning, these perspectives are invaluable. I have been using some shared pointers in a personal project because of it…

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    Comment #31671625

    OP, I’m also a twenty something that moved from a fast paced start-up to a Behemoth. It’s been 7 months so far and throughout the first 6 months, I have fought and resisted how Big…

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    Comment #30895324

    Forgive me for this digression and for sounding selfish, but as a junior, I’ve really struggled for the last 2+ years to fully adapt to remote / hybrid working. I’m wondering if an…

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    Comment #28692307

    I really needed to see this today. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.