David Foster Wallace on the internet, way back in 1996.
"Like at a certain point we're gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this.
Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get…
"They don't understand because they're a game developer" is total nonsense. Games are a superset domain. We make editors, servers, databases, build systems, large asset management, etc. If anything, if you're going to dismiss someone, dismiss people who haven't worked on games.
"They don't understand because they're a game developer" is total nonsense. Games are a superset domain. We make editors, servers, databases, build systems, large asset management, etc. If anything, if you're going to dismiss someone, dismiss people who haven't worked on games.
When a luminary mathematician, who co-founded the extraordinary Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences—home to the highest number of Abel Laureates—takes you through reflections on a series of events spanning over 2,500 years in barely 90 pages, I think you must read it!
What's interesting about leetcode problems is that you DO want to hire somebody who's doing them just as a hobby. The problem is that nobody does them as a hobby anymore. The industry yet again killed a good metric by making it a goal.
This really hits close to home for me. My whole career in tech was one big unsuccessful struggle to try to explain the distinction between these various modes of operation, and why you will fail miserably if you try to impose a single mindset for all of them.
When the best of low-level performance optimization techniques have all failed, and with both hands tied...
@jorandirkgreef will deconstruct/reconstruct one of the world's most popular interfaces, to show the power of an interface for performance.
When the best of low-level performance optimization techniques have all failed, and with both hands tied...
@jorandirkgreef will deconstruct/reconstruct one of the world's most popular interfaces, to show the power of an interface for performance. https://t.co/ioO0Rc1WvW
I have discovered that the secret to having a fulfilling career in programming is to never do ‘software development’.
Programming a computer is tonnes of fun. Software development on the other hand….
And never, under any circumstances, should one do software engineering.
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