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IMHO CS, software engineering and computer programming are very different but closely related fields. Each field focus and work on different (but complementary) set of activities in order to efficiently solve a computation-based automation problems. Based on the scale and complexity level of software artifacts, you'll see an individual, a small team or very large team are working on a given challenge/problem[1].

CS is, with mathematics as its foundation, focused more on the abstract and computational aspects[2] of a computational problems/challenges. As expected, CS solutions are usually very generic and independent of any specific programming language, it presents its solution in abstract forms and along with some code (written in some programming language). From CS's point of view, the coding part of its solution is primarily[3] for demonstrating that the solution of a specified problem is computable and efficient (for some practical purpose) and can be verified independently if needed.

Now, computer programming languages are just one of the tools which helps us write those codes to "communicate" our solutions to computers and fellow programmers (who, as part of the team, need to understand in order to help developing and maintaining the software program). And, there're other alternative programming languages available which practically does the same job (though some of them are more appropriate and suitable than others, due to reasons/concerns outside the scope of a particular programming language[4]).

Having said all the above, I think I understand the core of the problem(s) you (and students in similar position as you) described here, in your post. I think I've faced similar challenges while trying to understand some non-CS course (for example, accounting and finance). Being new to any field of STEM/business/..., it's easy to get pulled into non-important areas of studies instead of focusing on the core ideas/concepts of the course. And I believe it's always course instructor primary responsibility making sure that core concepts/ideas are made very clear at the course and individual lectures level and, similarly, corresponding supporting concepts/activities which make up the course and its core concepts.

NOTE:

I've few more thoughts on the subject; however, I think, my current post is already getting too long so I stop this post, at this point.

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[1] - Btw, as you may already know, team size alone doesn't indicate that they're working on a easy or difficult problem. Sometimes it's just a consequence of some financing/time constraints or inefficient team management.

[2] - For example; data model, data structure and algorithm.

[3] - Other benefits are secondary and can be considered as bonus.

[3] - Reasons/concerns related to either CS or software engineering.
To incentivise car owners to plug in, participants in the Octopus trial are being paid a generous sum of 15p per kilowatt hour for the electricity they send to the grid

On the 11th February 2022, the current Octopus Energy fixed 12-month tariff is 37.29p per kWh for electricity

"generous sum" indeed - they get to sell you electricity at 37.29p to fill up your battery, buy it back for 15p and sell to you again an hour or so later for 37.29p - repeat and rinse overnight and you have infinity pence.
Calif. sues Tesla over alleged rampant discrimination against Black employees
Imagine you're arguing with a child, "I don't want to!" says they, and you respond "Why not?", what answer comes next? "I don't like it!", perhaps "Because."

I think there's a long chain of conditioning that we undergo, and I think it presses people into a genuinely inhumane sense that rationality must be prioritized, that you have to justify everything with some rational argument. The thing is we're human, and there's sort of two sides to every truth[0]. And there's autonomy, viewpoint, personal ethics, emotions, and all sorts of confounding processes that go on that simply can't be explained, but the conditioning compels one to explain it anyways, thus we seek confirmation, without regard for truth. To some extent I think that's what feeds the "misinformation" and "disinformation" markets. Society makes little room for the abstract man, society needs exact predictable units for its theories to function in practice. No free radicals.

[0]Quashing infant mortality appears to be good, but there's the argument that it has effectively manufactured population booms in societies that aren't organized for the mass of people, viola, you've got a developing world population that suffers extremes of poverty on a totally unprecedented scale. But that latter argument would probably be discounted, right? It's a little indirect, correlation rather than causative, it presses certain intractable things like the concept of suffering, economic wellbeing, comparitive analysis with historical human condition shit...
I'm not trying to support either side here but I find a bit odd that Russia is depicted as the 'bad guy' for keeping troops within its borders while the US are depicted as the 'good guys' for moving troops abroad and next to Russia and for threatening a pipeline between Russia and Germany.

It might also be worth pointing out that Ukraine is not in NATO.

The whole situation feels strange to me and I can't help but thinking that a lot more is happening than we are told or made to believe.

Edit: the US seem the most active and effectively are the ones warmongering and it's hard to imagine that they care so much about Ukraine. But looking at Russian pipelines and China's Belt and Road perhaps they actually aim at creating a clash and a new iron curtain to prevent growing links between Europe and Russia/China in order to keep control of Europe.
No reason to get weirdly defensive. The reality is that realistically no one in the corporate espionage sector uses lasers to either exfiltrate or infiltrate data, because there are a million easier ways to do so which aren't a nightmare to implement. There has been a very, very, very tiny amount of times lasers have been employed for state espionage, let alone corporate espionage.
It's not a precise definition (and I'm not sure how actionable it is) but it is a term of art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_maturity

Some people are better with math than others. Undergrad math majors thought the major was pretty easy. Many of us in engineering majors--who weren't that bad at math (it was a good school)--could no more have graduated with a degree in math (or physics) than have flapped our arms and flown.
I got a significant bump well over inflation numbers just by switching jobs. The current inflation situation and shortage of qualified engineers coupled with my experience is giving me insane leverage when negotiating.
canned 'This message brought to you, in part, by Pfizer'
Full circle, back to using dead trees.
Chromium is worse though. And directly supports Googles plan to eliminate competition. Let's see how much you like a google only internet? You won't. At all.

The move here is to financially support a fork of Firefox. The issue is picking which one.
Big discussion of this study yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30297544
Literary criticism being left isn't new. Most literary criticism in the early 20th century was Freudian, then it became Marxist partially out of desperation (Freudian criticism is stream-of-consciousness nonsense), and partially because the CIA was funding a lot of literary magazines in Europe, trying to turn the intelligentsia into anti-communist socialists.

Without a framework, literary criticism seems completely pointless, though. There's only so far you can go with trying to figure out what the author is trying to say - the author is usually very articulate and said it.
Knowing Dijkstra's algorithm off the top of your hand doesn't show a general competence in computing. It shows that you've memorised Dijkstra's algorithm and can get through leetcode "problems". Does the person you're hiring need this knowledge to do their daily job? If not, then you shouldn't be wasting your time questioning them about it.
There's a lot of schadenfreude on any crypto thread in HN.
Civil disobedience assumes repercussions usually. I have yet to see anything actually happen to these protestors.

I don't want them hurt. I just find it odd to contrast how they are treated vs how other protests are usually treated.
This is fucking ridiculous. I like the sentiment but the dude is selling notecards and a wooden box for $100 + recurring subscription. This is like a caricature of modern day entrepreneurship.
I have a video for the sequel when I released it on Xbox 360, although that's not what I linked to at first. The first link is Newgrounds, an old flash animation/game website that I first released the original game on 17 years ago (oh man, it's really been that long?).

https://youtu.be/Yqe0hS7AvOE

I'm also currently working on a new version for desktop and hopefully eventually consoles that uses 3D models, larger maps, 8 team local support, map editor, hopefully either a campaign or challenge mode (eventually, maybe not on first release), and hoping to add support for up to 150-ish stream viewers to join various teams and play on one of the 8 teams (where they vote for moves kind of like in Twitch Plays Pokemon).

Here's a year old video when I was just starting the project, I desperately need to make a newer video (hopefully this weekend finally):

https://youtu.be/0IAx9fsBuus

But I still would love to have a weekend project at some point of making a retro version.
in a way, harddrive or solid state sectors could be likened to real estate.

so a virtual acre would map out to certain amount of storage space ,probably based on complexity of the world space, rather than rendered spatial boundries
There are many forks of Firefox these days. Librewolf on desktops, Mull on mobile. I haven't vetted them yet, but today I'm going to start.
You'd be surprised what a difference it makes. Just the symbolic act of moving helps a lot to get the mind in a different 'mode'.
Sounds like it's time for a class action, if there are thousands of people impacted...
"It is the most common way of trying to cope with novelty: by means of metaphors and analogies we try to link the new to the old, the novel to the familiar. Under sufficiently slow and gradual change, it works reasonably well; in the case of a sharp discontinuity, however, the method breaks down: though we may glorify it with the name "common sense", our past experience is no longer relevant, the analogies become too shallow, and the metaphors become more misleading than illuminating. ... On the historical evidence I shall be short. Carl Friedrich Gauss, the Prince of Mathematicians but also somewhat of a coward, was certainly aware of the fate of Galileo —and could probably have predicted the calumniation of Einstein— when he decided to suppress his discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, thus leaving it to Bolyai and Lobatchewsky to receive the flak. It is probably more illuminating to go a little bit further back, to the Middle Ages. One of its characteristics was that "reasoning by analogy" was rampant; another characteristic was almost total intellectual stagnation, and we now see why the two go together. A reason for mentioning this is to point out that, by developing a keen ear for unwarranted analogies, one can detect a lot of medieval thinking today."

-- https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD103...
>It seems to mostly be a me problem, on reviews of other coworkers PRs her comment seem reasonable. That could just be not fully understanding scope or task at hand.

What do you think explains the difference?

* Are there ways you can explain yourself better that others are doing?

* Could the problem honestly be with your code being hard to understand? Could you simplify?

* Could you deliver in smaller chunks, that are each easier to understand?

* Is it about working on a tech or product area that they aren't so familiar with? Perhaps you can help bridge that gap with a lightning talk or some new documentation?

>I have not had a direct conversation as I'm not sure how to go about it or phrase it. We seem to have a good relationship and I don't want to potentially ruin it going about this in the wrong way.

You've got to place trust in your colleagues that you can have adult conversations about what's working well and what's not. It doesn't have to be a big deal!

It could be as simple as:

"Hey <name>, I feel like a few times lately PR reviews hasn't been smooth. Have you noticed that too? Is there anything you think I could do differently?"

>We have basic standards

One thing that could help here is improving your team standards for a PR author! E.g. at my company, we have a PR template which encourages you to add a screenshot/screencast of your feature working.

We also encourage adding test steps to our PR template, to make it easy for reviewers to try the thing themselves. Good test steps might look like:

* Run the app as normal

* Turn on feature flag XYZ

* Head to localhost:3000/new-page and click all the widgets

* You should see the widgets created in your db with this query:

It sounds like work, but it's probably the steps you did anyway before you put the PR up! so it's more of a mindset thing
Yeah, I don't think Facebook wants to let people see how quickly they'd adapt and overcome to any of their services going away.
How did Clubhouse pulled off the FOMO effect?
For example, Clubhouse created a successful momentum with FOMO effect; how did they grow in early days, and how did they manage to curate their early users: E Musk, Oprah and others
They weren't hungry, though. Fictional people don't get hungry unless the author wants them to be. They're completely made up.

edit: In real life, talking about meaning and purpose and God is a matter of opinion and culture (or maybe direct revelation, I don't know your experiences) but in fiction, there's always a God, and it's the person who wrote it.
are you saying that taking your money with you is not important? and since you asked, i know a lot of people who did not leave major conflict zones because they would have nothing. for example one person very close to me sent his children and wife overseas when fighting in former yugoslavia started while he stayed to protect their house from looters. next day he was kidnapped but luckily he survived and reunited with his family. shared this story only for sake of a different perspective
Please don't take HN threads into tedious nationalistic or ideological flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. You started a doozy here—exactly what we don't need.

No, that's not a defense of "China" (whatever that's supposed to mean in internet comments). It's just a defense of HN for its intended mandate, which is curious conversation. Flamewar talking points are incompatible with that.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Seems like there's an opportunity for a "Virta Health for hypertension". But, a reason Virta works so well is that you can measure blood ketones really easily, which gives a fairly binary signal of compliance. So - what's a signal for compliance with a hypertension-friendly diet that a clinician could measure remotely?
“High Literary” writer here—- or, at least, aspiring. The field currently is intended to showcase expertise and is FOR people who love the complexity. It’s too elite to have a broad-enough market. Its exclusivity is part of its appeal due to the challenge and extreme beauty.

However, very few people have the energy, care, or knowledge base for the deep reading these texts require. Some of our best writers knew this and used their wit to get around it. For example, Robert Frost wrote expert poetry FOR the people in his rural community. However, his work can also be read on multiple levels, which appeals to the rare reader who lives for literary pyrotechnics.

So maybe writers need to work on multiple levels like Frost. The market is telling us that what we’re producing isn’t up to snuff, and rather than blaming the market, we should ask ourselves whether our creations actually reflect people’s lives back to them. Should the reader come to us, like the article is implying—-people just aren’t appreciating art enough, etc—-or should we go to the reader?
> single inheritance allows C++ to implement fast polymorphism via virtual function

Multiple inheritance can be implemented to be as fast as single inheritance regarding virtual function calls, and typically is in C++ by keeping multiple virtual table pointers per object. The problem this brings is that we can have pointers/references to the different parts of the same same object. A Child* may point to the start of the object, but Parent* may point to somewhere in the middle (because that's where the parent's vtable pointer happens to be). This also means that casting a pointer can change it. This can introduce some "interesting" bugs, as you can imagine.

OTOH, there are languages like C# that don't do that, but require 2 "hops" when calling an interface method, causing a slight performance penalty (a class can inherit from at most one other class, but can implement multiple interfaces). But a reference to an object always points to the object's start, which is very important for garbage collector.
Is this a sincere comment, or is there sarcasm that I am missing? I went from consistently-slightly-high to consistently-low BP by losing a little (~5% bf) weight and biking.
Congrats on the launch!

I have considered this in the past, but had a some questions on the investment (and typically high recurring cost):

1. How many years will cord blood usable when frozen?

2. Do you think ongoing research like the way Harvard researchers found ways to reprogram skin cells to stem cells [1], if eventually commercialized, would be a headwind for your business?

[1] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/10/converting-sk...
I went to a high school that did not offer competitive programming, number theory or discrete math. I probably wouldn’t have had time since I worked through most of high school

Does it stand to reason that I have no business studying CS?

What are students who come from a less privileged background to do, self select out of good programs?
Ah, I see, apologies if I misread because I agree with you.
The Official Licensing Site of Albert Einstein
Interesting. What services to you provide to help manage and analyze material from multiple siblings, and do or will you take any special continuity measures?
Being the accepted term in the field doesn't it make it not click-bait. That just comes down to whether or not using the term in the headline baits people to click.

The abstract refers to it as "sub-Earth", and a "Earth-mass".
My databases course was very much a "select * from users" kinda course. Oh there was a little bit about good practice for relational DBs and what not but I wouldn't call it a math class. Obviously this is going to depend on your school, program, etc. I took a lot of math and CS besides my discrete math CS course and algorithms I wouldn't really call them math courses any more than I would economics or chemistry. Sure there's math sometimes but it's not the focus.

General electives like a math major having to take a literature course is very different from a core required piece of the major being literature.
China can't stay locked down to the extent they are forever. Hopefully they will have a chance to get their population substantially vaccinated before most there are exposed though.
No luck for my semi-bricked wm8850 netbook. It would be an ideal platform (cortex a9, 512MB of RAM) to play/work with a CLI + CWM oriented environment...
I'm sure xk of seeing this take. If you buy a stock (even Tesla!) There's generally an actual profit making company producing things behind it.
> What about those murderous caravans from South America Fox News keeps telling us about

Rhetoric. Look at mostly-absent-from-media immigration numbers, and see if you notice any dramatic drops during Republican administrations.

> Democrats are enforcing immigration laws, for better or worse.

What are sanctuary cities if not deliberate impediments to enforcing immigration laws? And it's not just sanctuary cities - the number of areas where immigration law isn't enforced is rising: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/us/politics/biden-immigra...
>This probably also means people have to be willing to accept that they have to pay for more things. Someone has to foot the bill after all.

I don't buy this. My entire OS is free. Libre and as-in-beer. No ads. No telemetry. Much of it even requires nontrivial infrastructure to maintain - build farms, package servers - and nontrivial human maintenance. A perplexing economic mystery, by capitalist standards, and yet here we are. Are websites fundamentally different? I say no. In fact I've visited many labor-of-love websites with no ads. They tend to be the best ones, too.

An ad-free web would sink many business models, to be sure, but I can't say I can bring myself to care about that.
After watching this expose [0] on the global crisis that is Fast Fashion, I'm grateful to have this list of brands that produce clothes in countries that have higher standards (even if it is a small list and the domain name is politically charged).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6R_WTDdx7I
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30295532
> levying brutal taxes

One of the reasons why Roman empire was so stable was that Roman taxes were actually lower and simpler than whatever taxes the local kings imposed previously. This makes sense if you think about it: Romans only really cared about Italy, and they didn't have to extract much resources from all the provinces to enrich Italy significantly. Previous rulers typically had only their small kingdom to tax, so they taxed it heavily.
"Step 3

Rip up large fractions of the setup and lay them out again with more straight lines and sensibility"

Newb.

You don't rip the first spaghetti base up and rebuild, that's a waste of time.

The first base only exists to get you to the point where you can build a main belt line and then make everything nice and straight and coherent.

The old base just sits abandoned, until the new belt line eventually encroachs, and then you just unceremoniously raze it.
Don't forget toner has firmware in it these days ;)
Computer Science degrees also require literature. And some math, but not all.

But then UT Austin may not be a reputable university, computer science-wise.

[Certainly, they've redone the curriculum since I was there, and I don't like what they've done.]
Seems like this should just link to the source? https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2022/02/a-walk-throug...
Please don't start tedious ideological flamewars. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30266534.
There is a wonderful historian who talks in length about Roman history with some basic visual aids and animations.

I'll leave a link to the playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9qlNBBoFG4&list=PLODnBH8ken...

I highly suggest taking a look at the episode that covers the battle of Alesia for example.
I still remember very well the defensive bormardment of Belgrad.