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Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:08PM (#22242131)
Nice -- they market the company as "made by former Google and Apple engineers", but built the product with...an intern?

Lmao.

Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:13PM (#22241615)
Checked their LinkedIn and the employees who work there. The founder is non-technical and there are two developers: one who is a "back-end intern" and the other is a front-end developer (both are fresh from bootcamps).

...Yikes.

Re:The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf] on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:38PM (#17145739)
For context, I'm in university, but during one of my internships, a lot of the older developers always seemed to use awk/sed in really powerful ways. At the same time, I noticed a lot of the younger developers hardly used it.

I'm not sure if it's a generational thing, but I thought that was interesting.

Anyways, are there any good resources to learn awk/sed effectively?

Re:Ask HN: Tech-related Twitter handles? on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @01:18PM (#17135961)
...sure, but I would rather have a Twitter feed with daily programming tips and anecdotes from industry experts, rather than snarky replies to people with differing political opinions. Thanks for the comment though.
Which company?
Re:How engineers can stand out from the applicant pool on Thursday April 19, 2018 @05:06PM (#16880173)
Not trying to be inflammatory here, but is there a reason why all the co-founders are women?
>Interior design wouldn't solve all these problems, but the aesthetic of a kindergarten or hipster daycare certainly exacerbated them.

LOL, that's an amazing description.

Side note: FB also developed a string library to replace std::string (https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/FBString...).

Here's a video from explaining the motivation behind the project (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPR8h4-qZdk).

Re:Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk? on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @02:08PM (#16757334)
Do you write C++ by chance? ;)
Re:Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++? on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @10:03AM (#16536827)
That's a pretty useless answer. It's easy to use C++, but in a non-idiomatic or C-style way. I think the OP is aware of this problem and is looking for concrete examples of modern C++.
Yeah, still in school (3rd year). I have intern experience, but it seems like these type of positions are way too advanced for me at the moment. Just unsure how to progress...
Unrelated: as a CS undergrad, I read this article and was immediately inspired. This is definitely the type of work I want to be doing when I graduate (infrastructure engineering). But my next thought was: where do I start?!

Any advice?

I certainly agree. However, if OP is simply referring to learning the typical algorithms presented in an undergraduate CS course, then linear algebra isn't a strict prerequisite.
No, I don't believe so (from my experience as a CS undergrad).
Re:C++ Coroutine Theory (2017) on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @05:02PM (#16320317)
Would you recommend CS 343?

I'm disappointed the course teaches μC++ rather than referencing C++11 threading support.

Re:Brushing up on operating systems and C programming on Monday January 22, 2018 @01:16PM (#16206526)
University of Waterloo also recommends Three Easy Pieces as a supplementary text for their OS course.