tacoluv

Making them homeless might be a bit of an overkill for that transgression, no?

Yeah - so the fair thing to do is to make him homeless when he is 80, right? Dude, does it ever occur to you that some rules are wrong and humans making decisions might be wrong? You are responding to the wrong sentiment.

Can we sue California for abusing a person who has done nothing wrong?

Agreed with all points. Also, look at the comment histories of most of the negative commenters. Haters gonna hate.

that looks pretty

I have been thinking about it too. I think you definitely need people who are more algorithmically inclined in software, but you also need people who can "engineer".

My current take is that the tech industry is so young that we are still struggling with proper definitions of titles and division of labor.

In my experience, after school I could do all the hard mathy/algo/data structure things, but I had no idea what REST even meant. So all startups instantly rejected me, while FAANG was very excited to have me. I felt like a huge imposter also, because if I were smart, how come I didn't know all the cool stuff that people at hackathons know.

My 2 cents: The author presumably goes to Princeton - the ivy league is in general a tough place to "start learning" things, especially STEM. Few of the staff would teach you the basics of anything, mostly because you are attending a research college, where teaching is the professors' side gig.

I went to an ivy league school, and a large portion of the people in the CS program did competitive programming/knew number theory and discrete math from high school etc. All the problems we got as homework were really intense - I'd consistently do more than 60-70 hours of studying outside of classes to keep up. Mind you, for me CS was/is like crack - I feel like I'd have put in even more time if I didn't need to sleep or want to hang out with my friends.

There are some intro classes, of course, but the quality of those varies a lot.

Edit: I don't mean to discourage people with this post. I was actually one of the few people who didn't have much of a CS/quanty background in my CS classes. My advisor told me to have a backup major in case I fail the tougher required classes, but I made it through.

That is true, but depending on how you are living your life, being disciplined can be differently challenging.

Start going to the gym and make sure you do cardio

Does anyone know of a way to send some money to the author? I know he says "free" a lot but this is so awesome I want to treat them to something.

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