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+1 on vim with fzf and rg being enough for almost any task. I use that setup for most things and then when I need something with a little more syntactic awareness, I pop open my ID…

I think problem is that your argument seems to come from a prior point of view, and doesn't assume good faith on the behalf of people working on smart contract problems (declaring …

I don’t necessarily agree with either of those. Maybe a college tells me that a particular type of extra-curricular wasn’t valued as highly as I thought it was and I elect to pursu…

There's still lots of relevant work to do deeper in the stack. It might just not be at large internet scale companies (I doubt this but lets assume it's true). Most every universit…

I would prefer if schools just gave as concrete as possible feedback for why individual applicants are or are not admitted. i.e. Congrats, you got accepted. Your GPA ranked in the …

Do you mind being specific on how there are no longer hard engineering problems to be solved?

For any point of view on AI, I can probably find a decent number of non technical people who hold that POV. Technical illiteracy is a significant problem imo.

Workflow on midsized personal project with editor that I'm comfortable with and have customized over the majority of time I've been programming: work. Look, obviously VS Code has e…

Different things work for different people, but I'll give you my two cents. I got through college entirely through self study. What works for me is reading a textbook and re-writin…

I’d give the same advice I’d give to understand anything remotely complicated. Pick a real goal you want to accomplish that the thing you want to understand is a good fit for. Main…

Look at Chamath palihapitiya‘s description of social capital. This is what he states he’s attempting to address. The counter argument is addressed in a debate between Reid Hoffman …

I use Ubuntu as my main os for programming. I run into a few kinks every now and then, and for that I keep around a Windows and a macOS box. I’d say that Ubuntu is a sane desktop t…

It is essentially correct that the discussion on typing occurs at the least nuanced level of discourse. I've been at fault doing this myself. The distinction between different sort…

I second the use of iots. It has a decent learning curve but is very worth it in the end.

Could you share the 35 line library? I’m curious. I recently asked the Common Lisp subreddit why so many of their libraries lack extensive documentation and most agreed it is a war…

I made the mistake of recommending standardization of development tooling at one point. Not one of my finer moments.

Ha! I would agree that you might be taking it a bit too seriously. I was trying to make the point that sometimes things that might seem purposeless are useful simply because they a…

Like most things in life, I believe the answer involves finding balance between the two :)

M-x apropos tesseract

"I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out it was an awful lot of fun. Of course the paying customers got s…

Are you saying that the majority of the speed up is from caches and then there's a secondary, much smaller, speed up from the vectorization? Or are you saying all the speed up is f…

I can see how this wouldn’t be covered in an undergrad cs education. I took only a single computer architecture class which was extremely limited in scope. The only reason I knew a…

When I took data structures and algorithms, I believe almost every single lesson was concluded with the caveat that constants are important.

Interestingly enough I think that the core of rdf (the subject predicate object triple) is a quite elegant abstraction for knowledge graph representation. I do agree that the layer…

I have another comment on this thread that discusses the difference between research and engineering. The goal of this project is not to improve your google search results via the …