Stories by freetonik
Systems Ideas that Sound Good But Almost Never Work—"Let's just…"
(hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)
I gave this talk at PyCon Estonia recently, and thought it may be interesting to someone here. It's an overview of what quantum computing is in principle, how a particular technology (superconducting QC) attempts to implement it, how the full stack looks like (from chip fabrication to high-level alg...
Hi all,
I had this idea of explaining filter/map/reduce with fruits and graders for a while, and last week finally filmed it. The quality isn't that great, but I still wonder if this could be helpful to beginners. The idea is not to explain these things from scratch, but rather provide a mental i...
Hi all,
Often I'm not sure if a particular open source project (especially a library I want to add as a dependency) is maintained well enough. So I created this small analyzer.
If you have experience working in industries unrelated to software engineering, could you describe how does the hiring process look like for regular and senior professionals?<p>I'm curious to know if endless rounds of interviews, take-home assignments, multi-month timelines, the need to prove y...
Hey HN,<p>I wrote a short book about the fundamental aspects of Clojure. The target audience is programmers with at least minimal experience who want to learn how to express solutions in Clojure (and perhaps in LISP, generally).<p>If the price is a bit too steep for you, send me an email (address i...
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Last week I finished my hopefully unusual and different free course, and I'm looking for any feedback. The idea was to create a highly visual picture, explain important programming concepts using real world analogies without focusing on tools or language syntax, and produce something that wi...