Lorin Hochstein
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As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career.How well a CS degree prepares you for these tasks (and whether it
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It's not that "there's no root cause". You can always come up with a way to define one if you like. It's just not a *useful* way to think about
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A free association thread about lifelong learning and the role of college. I'm assuming in this thread that the ability to learn on your own is an important skill for
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OK, here's why I found weak fairness confusing, a thread that nobody will care about except possibly @hillelogram https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1279103160045404161 I'll probably get something technically incorrect in this t
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You think distributed systems is about trying to accomplish complex tasks, and then you read the literature and it's like "consider the problem of incrementing a counter", and it turns
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