Ask HN: Can't seem to remember basic things, should I give up on computing?
I'm really frustrated and it's getting the better of me. I just spent 3 hours getting a basic varint encoding and decoding set of functions right because I had forgotten how it's done, then I forgot how negative numbers are done, and when I did implement it, I forgot how two's complement is represented, looked it up wrongly and did the wrong thing.This is one example of where I forget basic...