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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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>> enforces time limits on challenges But there is a problem. In the past when I have worked on take home challenges which usually take 3 hours or thereabouts, I have done them in 3 sessions of …
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>> they had an uncompleted coat hunger from IKEA http://worknearyou.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ikea_job_i... …
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>> My concern is that oftentimes, there's a lot of context to absorb before being able to contribute, And that exactly is the problem with interviews where we can't measure what we sho…
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Common Lisp. Why? [0] [0]: http://p-cos.blogspot.in/2014/09/why-i-like-common-lisp.html Common Lisp / Scheme are great to learn about programming languages themselves. …
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@phire awesome, thanks for the link. This weekend is a trip to GpuLand!!!
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Does anyone have a strong recommendation for a in-depth book on GPU architecture? The most I can find is Nvidia white papers, a few posts on ARM blog about Mali GPU architecture (without a lot of prop…
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I guess part of it also has to be the fact that Scott Forstall was probably a better VP of iOS software than the one who replaced him, looking at the downgrade in quality. The one right at the top of …
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>> No good practices are being followed, there are no tests, huge components that should be modularized, no organized architecture at all. I am not blaming you here, but it's our job to ask…
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>> they shouldn't be in the job or may be we should find a job where constructive criticism is part of the culture and you then leave the current job! Relatively easier to find where the ch…
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Based on all the responses in the thread, I am now hardly surprised that my Ask HN to switch to hardware received 0 responses. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16054742 ) May be @…
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PS: Lots of assumptions as you haven't provided more details to provide specific advice. What industry are you currently working in? If you have accrued good domain knowledge, then you might have…
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Yes, it is.
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3 so far: 1. Elements of Computing Systems 2. On Lisp 3. Game Engine Architecture Edit: 2 -> 3
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>> I can pay who is willing to let me learn on the job. Nope, please do not do that, as other say. You have 10K and 7 months. - Find some part time gig (may be teach HTML, CSS) at local communi…
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And really all the blame has to be apportioned to the founding fathers and what not glorious terms used for the Indian IT body shopping industry leaders? (Kohli's, Murthy's blah blah) Sc w …
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>> We believe we do some serious engineering. I am not contesting that you do serious engineering, but just stating your beliefs is moot. >> There is this west fixation that serious engine…
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Purely, on a lighter note: 0 - All Time periods 1 - All Time Periods # - All Time Periods Please ensure your password contains at least one digit and one special character! Will we ever change?…
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I usually put up a milestone date and direct them to that date, quite a few times have to push that date to work on stuff that pays my bills. The best ones who pay are those who directly reach out wit…
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3D (OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal et al), GPGPU and AR. Not so sure about VR though.
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Once I was asked to start working on an app in a new domain, I had never worked in that domain and without good enough knowledge, working on that app would be crazy. The first 2 days in it and I reali…
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>> There are many different CL implementations out there that satisfy different use cases And now there is also CLASP (LLVM based), great for interfacing with C++ libraries. https://g…
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How about contributing to OSS, in case you are a software engineer, to overcome this fear/insecurity?