robinrheem
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Searching for problems that I'll solve to make the capacity to solve all the widest known problems in the world.
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Comment · 4 years ago
Not aggressive at all! I'm just grateful for your knowledge. It looks like procrastination but I don't have any intentions of avoiding work. I just like satisfying my curiosity. If I come to the dashboard example again, I want to know when it was made, how it was made, who made it, with what process. I don't like history books that just makes a story and facts. But I do want to know how Darwin got interested in species, what he wrote down in his journals, how he got to think about it, how he thought about it, etc. Same thing with the creator of dashboards.
To make it more precise, if I want to make something with Ruby on Rails for example, I tend to learn everything about Ruby on Rails. What kind of components it has, how the magic works, watch every video about its best practices, distilling everything. Then I find about DHH(creator of Ruby on Rails) and find how he built it in the first place. What thought process he had, what needs he had, how he got to build it, what he was thinking when he wrote the first version of Ruby on Rails, etc. Once I need a job processing library, I do that again.
Comment · 4 years ago
If I were in your situation I would be studying about all the static site generators, onpremise self-served blog services, any type of new blog service that are good for writing about art and math. Okay, then what theme would be best? Survey them on each platform. What markup language would be best to write about art and math? Find about LaTeX, org-mode, Markdown, etc. I pretty much tend to do this kind of thing for anything I do!
PS. Good luck with the blog! Hope I get to read your entries some day :)
Comment · 4 years ago
I did try to do the way as you said in your 2 cents but the more I solve problems like that I tend to feel empty. It feels that I don't know anything and I just know some exceptions or just some solutions to some problems. I don't feel I have a fundamental knowledge base that lets me think from my own neural networks.
Comment · 4 years ago
Going too deep in the rabbit hole feels like procrastinating sometimes. I also do get stuff done but mostly when a hard deadline is set. So I tend to go into the rabbit hole until I only have a few days left. I also have good feelings since I love studying about things.
I did an experiment on myself where I just design a project and start implementing it right away without any research. When I get trapped, I just did a quick Google search and solved the problem right away instead of trying to study about other solutions or other variables about the problem. I got the project done rather quickly but code quality, solutions that came from the top of my head weren't that impressive. I know iterating will enhance quality, but before I iterate I need to study better solutions or at least research to get ideas for better solutions in order to iterate.
The result of that experiment was just that I was able to get things done a bit quicker if I just did things without studying and only "find solutions" when I encounter problems. Going deeper needs knowledge, but when to start building again when I acquire "enough"?
Comment · 4 years ago
Mighty thanks for clearing out on what problem I'm having! Do you have your own system for not getting into analysis paralysis?
Comment · 4 years ago
It's so nice to see these examples are increasing every now and then. Hope to learn a lot and I also would like to know about the use cases of nslookup dot io. One thing that's coming out of my head would be if I would ought to make a non-targeting crawler of some sort and not implement my own dns crawling infrastructure and just use nslookup.io and just cache the results.
Comment · 5 years ago
Location: South Korea, Seoul
Remote: Sure!
Willing to relocate: Only to the US!
Technologies: Python, Java
Resume/CV: https://kr.linkedin.com/in/robinrheem
Email: [email protected]
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I’ve been doing software engineering for about 8 years. I love learning anything that’s related to software engineering. I’m learning Haskell and Rust at the moment to expand the way I program and think. I’ve been working with dating services, webtoon services, chat apps, content search engines, and high frequency trading. Most of my skills are used for backend and DevOps related work.
Hope to find a place where the engineers are enthusiastic about engineering and love to talk with users so they can design and implement the software at the same time.
Comment · 6 years ago
Thank you very much for your kind reply. So does that mean the algorithm, which is in the hot path will just broadcast via a messaging system like ZeroMQ or Kafka to another subscriber that’ll just save the order and position data to the database right? Plus the messaging system will be nonblocking and just do a fire and forget style.
Comment · 7 years ago
Woah thanks for your shares!!! I really, really appreciate it. Could you give me what kind of things to study to actually experience the problem myself? Or is it a real hard job to get?