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Re:The Frog of War on Monday March 07, 2022 @03:27PM (#30592904)
This is just a list of events. The first half of which didnt even have a systemic impact on history. "9/11 was a transition from Peacekeeper to Warmaker" is cute coming from an author who lived through Vietnam, Korea, Chile, Angola, Nicaragua, Colombia, Panama, and Grenada.
Re:Ask HN: Stuck as a CS Major. Is there a way out? on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @10:50AM (#30361545)
Are you me? I got a degree in computer engineering, minor in CS and Math. I initially thought I hated programming and wanted nothing to do with it until I started making games in Unity. It turns out that what I really enjoy is learning and problem-solving. My CS coursework just didn't offer interesting problems to solve-- it was more about rote memorization of Data Structures and Algorithms. I think you should try and find a discipline of CS that interests you, and pull on that string. Do a little self-directed learning in your free time. For me that string was AI for games.
The webpack issue he's talking about was something I encountered when using Webpack and ES6 Typescript for the first time. I had to dive into Webpack, Rollup, Babel, and Typescript configurations. It took a week but I finally nailed down the issue as a noob. My background was in EE, debugging wires for logic gates etc, but the principles hold the same-- our job is to problem-solve.