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Liam, brilliant! I am not saying you don't do this, but please please ensure you always sleep well, follow a good diet and go out and play. Sometimes, computers make us give up good habits! Kudos…

Please put the market rate. And how is this Ask post? This is more apt for the jobs section.

Then break that 'building something' into 'lots of stupid little puzzles'. That is the trick!

VTK - Visualization ToolKit - strongly recommended if you want to work on a widely used, probably defacto, scientific visualization library, a great 3D domain to work on IMHO. Backed by a ton of resou…

If I had to appear for such an interview, I would read: The Architecture of Open Source Applications[0] [0] http://aosabook.org/en/index.html …

Just want to say: "Fogleman, you are my Hero :-)". In my last interview, when asked who are the engineers that have inspired you, I mentioned your name! Thanks for all the inspiration, keep …

How to fail and win big - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_To_Fail_at_Almost_Everyt... …

Abstract Syntax Tree https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree

Which is : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x

Open source computing hardware. RISC V[0] [0] https://riscv.org/risc-v-foundation/

Michael Fogleman has a kickass representation of his work [1] with a good discussion on HN [2] I think what his portfolio shows is the importance of doing well scoped projects on the side and finishin…

>> Yet SICP, which is pretty much the bible of our world, has only three? pg posted his review on May 20, 2000, when it had 3 stars. From then till today, the book has 4.5 stars. What must have …

Can you recommend apps you use for SSH'ing to the servers? What do you use to write? I have just started with the Apple Pencil and love it, use Notability. Any recommendations here will help.

I have remapped Caps Lock to Ctrl and Escape to Ctrl + ].

Now when some one asks me why I am not on FB, I will just redirect to this :-). Thanks and I thank myself for having not wasted even a second on any Social NW site, not that I look down on others who …

You can look at MIAOW which is an open source implementation of the AMD Southern Islands GPU ISA.[0] The RTL can be found here [1] The best part is the white paper [2], PDF I had been looking around f…

>> One thing that was unusual is that all the technical people there understood all aspects of the machine Is this something 'Apple' specific culture wise, I remember SJ saying Apple w…

>> Also, python wants to be everything ( functional, OO, imperative, etc ) and hence is the worst language to learn programming language topics in my humble opinion. I think it doesn't get …

Because most languages treat edit, compile, test, debug phases. No organic evolution of your idea to code to running app all the while tweaking it without restarts, which are pit stops that completely…

Previous discussions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7530427 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10474717 …

John Carmack: "There is wisdom that only comes from complete product cycles -- no amount of job hopping can provide it." [1] [1] https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status…

>>takes a certain bent to put the effort into reading it Years back, I scanned through a few pages and realized it needed effort as you mention. OTOH, I think there are 2 kinds of great books: o…

>> CLI capabilities for live reloading/hotswapping See CEPL, in Common Lisp, if Lisp is your thing. I have done a from scratch but it was a prototype for a sports game with animations. For…

Recently I had a similar question. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17262538 I am waiting it out.…

>> EMACS + EVIL Spacemacs is a very viable alternative.