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Re:Books I recommend to my software engineering students on Friday April 24, 2020 @01:19AM (#22964903)
I'm genuinely curious why Gladwell is a negative control. The name sounds familiar but I don't know much about him
Re:Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020? on Sunday January 05, 2020 @06:02PM (#21964836)
What topics/ideas would say someone needs to understand in order to really understand relational databases? Also, can you recommend any resources?
Re:The SpaceX Starship is a big deal on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @10:55AM (#21398406)
>Mars city building is about robots building potato farming robots and humans facilitating a nearly-automated industrial stack.

Who's going to build these robots? This sounds like something I would really enjoy working on.

Re:Questions to ask a company during a job interview on Friday September 13, 2019 @01:34AM (#20959453)
My manager does this. He is incredibly wary of adding process so he tries to automate it and it never gets implemented. For example, every quarter he tries to come up with some automated system for assigning code checks. It usually has some jank that causes it to go unused and we fall back on just asking one another as needed until he tries again.