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Ask HN: What is the most technically interesting thing you've learned recently?
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#2I write JavaScript for my day job, but I only recently started learning how engines optimize it. I had a ton of fun reading this article: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/shapes-ics (which I discovered in another HN post somewhere)
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#3Actually, fsm while working with GOAP. It's practical to use and didn't encountered it before
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#4Actually, fsm while working with GOAP. It's practical to use and didn't encountered it before
FSMs are amazing, and are the one thing I learned from a programming book. I could not resist teaching it to an interviewer during a coding challenge... don't they cover FSMs in code camps?
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#5When creating spacial geography point in sql server, the longitude comes first (lng, lat). I always thought it would be latitude then longitude.
Interestingly, some points that I've inserted passed the validation, but later I realized the values were swapped when I tried to query nearest neighbor and the points were no where near.
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#6Idris and dependent types via Type-Driven Development. It's an excellent book, very clearly written and approachable. May be a bit more challenging if you haven't used Haskell/SML/OCaml or similar languages before.
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#7ways to send traffic between two data centers over public and private network and their options and pros and cons
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#8I recently read about Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme, created by Adi Shamir, one of the creators of RSA. I've been fascinated by its elegance and simplicity.
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#9When creating spacial geography point in sql server, the longitude comes first (lng, lat). I always thought it would be latitude then longitude. Interestingly, some points that I've inserted passed the validation, but later I realized the values were swapped when I tried to query nearest neighbor and the points were no where near.
There is a geography data type
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/spatial-geography...
Re: Ask HN: What is the most technically interesting thing you've learned recently?
#10If it counts, I read an introduction to the Fourier transformation and was blown away by its idea.