As part of my own ongoing learning I was thinking about writing a (intermediate to advanced) book about the mechanics of writing software in C++.As an example the book could include a practical language guide to C++ itself, a chapter on CMake (and what actually happens during linking), testing, using the debugger, profiling / benchmarking etc.Obviously this would be a huge undertaking and I...
The same is true when you're experienced -- programmers often say that programming is easy, which is because _syntax_ is often easy. It's the mechanics of how everything fits together that is difficult, and is often overlooked as a concept.
1. Personal knowledge bases seem to be high friction (have to manually add information and requires consistency).
2. Google is leaky, you search for something, open a bunch of tabs, and then probably just close them all. What happens when you need that info again?
I was thinking that a dashboard built on top of Google search would be helpful. Something that keeps a note of what content is related to the search I made, and keeps a record / makes it easy to retrieve again later.
(Yes I know the manual effort involved in documenting what you learn is beneficial).
What technical projects do you think should exist in the world? What hard problems exist in your field? Where do you think the frontiers of science/technology lie?I'm interested in learning about hard technical problems you think are worth solving.
What technologies do we need to develop or promote to make it safer to return to a pre-coronavirus world?I.e: - Abundant passive fever cameras? - 'At home' salivary testing kits for contagious diseases? - Handheld devices for detecting pathogens on surfaces?
During this quarantine period I'm looking for a biotech / bioinformatics side project to work on -- does anybody have any suggestions?I'm a software engineer, but if you have non software related ideas then please share those too for anyone else that is interested.Another way of framing this question: what projects are worth working on right now?Thank you!
Hi,Where does everyone go to find inspiration / existing side projects to work on? (Primarily in computer science / software engineering).