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oumua_don17
8,747karma·1,337submissions·October 23, 2014
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* A polyglot programmable programmer.
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Sorry, not hiring currently but rest assured I've bookmarked this comment and will reach out when we do. I'm an IC and have three more engineers working alongside, so a very small team. We d…
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Nope not on ITA. I work at the intersection of HW and SW. Lisp is valued for its strengths and I haven't come across any tool better to explore complex problem space. Of course, the opportunities…
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>> said: lovely, but I ain't using it at work. Says who, you? Wrong. I use Common Lisp at work. edit: and not just use as in a side toy, design and writing software in CL is my primary resp…
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>> need to pay for questionable courses You're absolutely wrong here and without backing it up with strong justification. FWIW, I work at a FAANG as a HW/SW GPU Engineer, have enough e…
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If you really want to learn from first principles, I'd recommend writing a software renderer without any graphics API. If you're looking for a course, see [1]. Next up, extend the software r…
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>> Arguing with your boss in private Never do that if you're working under a toxic boss, in which case arguing in public is better if at all but one should anyways be working hard to find a…
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There's also Modern System-on-Chip Design on Arm textbook by David J. Greaves and it's available as a free download [1]. [1] https://www.arm.com/resources/education/…
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And probably a prototype deployed to production!!!
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From my experience, you become a lisper truly when your Lisp image is running for days on end, you miss the live editing power and loathe the exception handling system in other languages. It takes a w…
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The Chip War
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Why should I tell if it's supposed to be hidden? :-) But here we go, Common Lisp for rapid prototyping at my FAANG job, so I'm actually paid to do that!!! edit: minor typo
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>> spending cash on vacuous bullshit and being unhappy at work ... I don't find anything incorrect in your response per se but I hope those weren't your assumptions about my situation …
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How'd you handle the no compete and whatever you do is ours clauses pretty much the norm at FAANG's?
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I didn't mention other things like I'm living well within my means, no BS expenses except spending on leisure travel ensuring it's comfortable, no mortgages. I'm working in good te…
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Is there an option to buy this book as a pdf?
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This is very insightful and also aligns/overlaps with the rather unpopular don't follow your passion mindset. one can still find some work that's reasonably enjoyable even when it'…