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I'd make the case that turning their citizens into consumers like America has done could be considered a national security risk.

Education does not operate in a vacuum. Many students are incentivized by the social accreditation of completing a program. Institutions need some way to qualify that teaching is a…

“A shared fiction in the world to help frame interactions between people”. You sir are a natural philosopher. I think what’s universally important is to keep active and engaged in …

Anyone else fall into the trap of procrastinating watching YouTube or pg’s essays for advice?

My internship project involved a tool to look up individual IP addresses as well as checking a range of address blocks. I ended up implementing the trie data structure, which perfo…

A compiler is a theorem prover, sure, but compilers vary in terms of expressiveness of the propositions it is capable of proving (a Python interpreter would be a very weak theorem …

Writing only becomes better when you go on a journey of identifying your own intentions, and confronting your own trepidation. Thanks for writing this, I've been struggling to writ…

I don't agree with many of the points made in the article in regards to certifications (formal methods aren't there yet as an industry), but I did want to touch on that fact that "…

I also disagree with the author about certifications and the attempt to bridge similarities with other established engineering professions. I think what it important in this discus…

> For debugging and monitoring, developers can access the console output of the board through the built-in microUSB type-B connector. As a software developer who's interested in th…

Probably overkill, but I use Pandoc to generate tailored resumes for roles and jobs I’m interested in. I keep a list of all my skills, experience and education in a YAML file and h…

I agree wholeheartedly of doing something that you believe is valuable. The process of figuring out what's valuable is different from person to person. Some people know from a youn…

Should engineers from new grads to senior levels apply under Principal Engineer listing?

Anyone familiar with Breaking Bad? Walter White goes under the alias of Heisenberg. When he’s Walter, he’s anxious and fearful. It’s such a contrast compared to the calm, calculate…

Examples that I can think off the top of my head are 1) all-hands and 2) networking events. These tend to be formulaic from my experience, they consist of a catering plates full of…

When I worked at Amazon, our team decided to have a theme for each sprint consisting of breakfast items. Product launches & demos were small celebrations at the end of the sprint. …

Hey HN, I’m a founder of a startup trying to solve problems for coffee shops and cafes when it comes to catering through corporate channels. If your company has hosted a corporate …

100% agree that in object-oriented programming, only the object itself should care about its internal state. The object should know about its behaviors and what state changes are a…

Tech courses targetting recruiters. I'm interested in this as a beneficiary not as a direct participant. I wonder if recruiters would be interested in a course like this?

Thinking of interfaces as state machines can be valuable. An area that I think about a lot is how effective are companies at spreading useful information to the people who can best…

I love SequelPro but I've been thinking about switching to TablePlus from SequelPro for quite some time since SequelPro isn't available on Windows / Linux. Do you know how TablePlu…

I also use Things and Quiver (note taking) for 2 weeks now and it has grown on me. I use to write creative thoughts in a text document or Notes on iOS. I never revisited these note…

This. The code base should be the authoritative source of the behavior of the system. The comments should be the authoritative source of what is expected of the system.