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xtony on Monday March 21, 2022 @01:00PM
from the ask-hn dept.
It's a common sentiment that the software engineering problems that command the highest pay aren't the most important ones to solve. If I don't care about getting paid anymore, I'd like to know the most effective ways I can use my software engineering skills to help the world and make a difference.This is obviously very subjective because it depends on how you think the best way to help the...
Took Spielman's spectral graph theory class back in the day. Was really cool to see the professor engage with students on open questions that pushed at the boundaries of research!
Maybe ask a friend who lives in China or a friend who has friends that live in China? They're also subject to fake news, but at least they can give you their experience of what daily life is like where they live. It's not like China is so locked down that it's impossible to communicate with their citizens.
By that logic, Hacker News should've been a subreddit too.
I don't think it's really that you lack imagination; it's that the human condition is quite universal in a lot of ways so the insights you gleaned were not particularly novel. But the real value is in actually taking the insights to heart, rather than dismissing them as empty platitudes.
To be fair, the scoreboard in the post displays the success of the deploys too, which would address the third and fourth point. But of course, people can still game the metric with a ton of insignificant incremental changes that don't do anything.
Engineers are probably not the audience of this post.
Caching is allowed (for up to 30 days). Here are the specific terms for the API in the article:
https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/maps-service-te..."Customer can temporarily cache latitude (lat) and longitude (lng) values from the Directions API for up to 30 consecutive calendar days, after which Customer must delete the cached latitude and longitude values."
The other person was able to use his/my SSN to "mistakenly" withdraw a large amount of money from my bank account. That was what first tipped me off.
Cool idea. YMMV with this, though. The government accidentally assigned me someone else's SSN (had the same first/last name as me and was born in the same hospital) and it took about 2 years to rectify.
How do you contact these places?
What does LRU (least recently used) have to do with picking the highest-priority problem?
But overall, pretty good overview and I appreciate the links to other sources.
>Sorry, "its" what? Copy editors, please.
Imagine the sentence "Alice tinkers with her health care system. Bob revamped his." It's the same concept, but with "its" as the pronoun.