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Aside from that, I'm also participating in Leetcode 30 days of code challenge [2]
[1] https://www.edx.org/course/masterpieces-of-world-literature [2] https://leetcode.com/explore/featured/card/30-day-leetcoding...
The business side: How do you find your customers, position a product, and create demand. What about new markets, segmentation, downstream and upstream? Bad technology that gets this part right almost always does phenomenally, astoundingly, inconceivably better than great technology that gets it wrong. I'm tired of building things that only I and a few people really like, like some underground band only a few people…
What are some resources you’re using to learn that stuff?
For a 90s take on that theme, try this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_Led_by_Bill_Gates
It's worth quoting how microsoft responded to some groundbreaking technology from Go computing by Microsoft putting together a fabricated circus claiming they had matched the technology:
Eller's group kluged up this demo for videotape that showed how
edit in place would work. He launched Excel with a chart in it. Then
he launched Word with the chart cut from the Excel program. The
smaller Excel window was hiding in the background, and the Word
window was bigger so the audience couldn't see Excel. Eller drew a
gesture on the chart sitting in Word, which called Excel to the top.
As long as Excel was in the right place, it came right up on top of
where Word was, and it didn't look like anything had moved. It
looked like Word had just popped up the Excel menus right into the
middle of the Word documents so it could be edited. Eller made the
changes in Excel and closed it. He hooked up a software instruction
that told Excel to move to the background and disappear behind
Word. Then it looked like he was working again in Word with the
proper Excel document embedded in it.
It looked great on the tape, but it was total bull, pure smoke and
mirrors, the apotheosis of vaporware. There was no linking or embedding
occurring. Eller was simply pulling one application to the
front of the other one.
At the company meeting, executive Mike Maples stepped up to
the podium.
"Okay, here's this other thing we're working on," Maples said.
"Here I have my document, and I have my tablet here." He held the
pen up and waved it.
"Now I can go into my Word document here, and I can write."
While Maples was talking, charts and images flashed on the
screen, and everybody thought he was actually writing on the pen
tablet as he spoke at the podium. In actuality, he was just waving his
pencil over blank paper while the videotape ran.
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Logic programming is badly underapplied in general, I think. Most of the amazing work in this area never seems to have gotten far out of academia (if at all) -- Prolog being the almost singular exception. Would be awesome to see some motivating examples for this application. It sounds really cool!
In synthetic biology, the application is super clear. Let's say we want to make cocaine (or related compounds) in yeast ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11588-w ). Well, we know the biosynthetic pathway to get to that molecule ( https://biocyc.org/META/new-image?type=PATHWAY&object=PWY-58... ), and we know the biosynthetic pathways in yeast that intersect with that pathway. In the tropane paper, they expr…
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Let's stay on topic rather than make passive aggressive comments on my intelligence. You're implying that my comments are stupid and arrogant. Prove it if you can, let's get to the bottom of whether or not "architects" is a worthless specialty or not. I think you know I'm right and the only thing you have left are personal comments on my intelligence.
Honestly, I also had a long reply but I thought why bother? You haven’t gotten past the first step to knowing what you don’t know. We all thought we were the smartest people in the room at one point, you’ll grow out of it too one day.
Again with the insults.
Why bother? Because you can learn and I can learn. I don't come here to trade insults. I come here to lay down the actual reality of what I see unimpeded by social norms. Yeah I'm sure I touched nerve here, but it's nothing personal, the internet allows me to talk about truths that are uncomfortable and forces me to face those truths as well.
I've been proven wrong tons of times on HN, so I'm hoping that if you disagree, you can prove me wrong and I can learn something and I'll return the favor in turn if you're the one that's actually wrong.
I find that this isn't the case with most people, they don't want to face reality. The fact that you turn to personal insults and have this whole "why bother" attitude seems to me as a cover. You don't bother because you got absolutely Nothing to offer.
Stanford's CS143 Compilers course: https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:StanfordOnline+SOE... I've always been interested in making things that make other things, and compilers definitely fall into that category. In the middle of the second assignment, the parser. It's a lot to consume, but I feel like the theory isn't particularly difficult, about half my learning has been getting to know the tools (so far: fle…
The class assignments are missing a more thorough look at optimization. Might have to rely more on the lectures for that.
Quantum Entanglement (lectures by Leonard Susskind at Stanford)
creative building in Minecraft :)
(I already knew how to make sourdough from before)
I'll probably get a lot of shit for this, but LeetCode. I've recently been furloughed, and I think that redundancies aren't too far away. There aren't many companies hiring in my area at the moment, and if I'm going to move it's going to be for a big company, so I'm dusting off the CV and am applying to some Big N companies. A recruiter recently reached out to me, and I've got an interview with one Big N company comi…
Most of the times when I end up seeing the solution ot makes sense, but uses data structures in ways I wouldn't think. Part of the reason for that I think is because my daily work for one operates on much different types of data (business entities vs arbitrary collections of integers) and also because the logic in the applications I work on is not very algorithm heavy.
Another reason is because of high level abstractions I've been spoiled by. I could probably hack many of the problems together with LINQ but that's not gonna hold up very well.