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I've know a number of people who were really good at one thing or a handful of interrelated things. That might be a programming language or specific technology, some business domain or something else, but I've never…

My sleep schedule the past few months have been completely shocked. Often I'm up all for an entire night or two not being able to pass out till the sun is up (or on workdays, not till long after). The resulting day I…

In software development, it seems that many domains and industries prefer to hire people who have professional experience in that industry. In one particular case, I saw a job listing that strongly preferred people who…

I've been trying to find some network simulation software to play around with networks and software I've been writing, as I can't reasonably recreate these sort of networks irl. Preferable something cross platform…

I've been doing the same thing for several years and I hate it. Ideally I'd like to switch to something else, but it seems like so many industries want many years of experience specific to a certain domain, or in some…

I have a few cool projects in mind that would have me building some prototype hardware. As this hardware would probably go beyond what you could do with say an Arduino or similar MCU based board, and I'm not an hardware…

Languages (and users of languages) like Haskell, OCaml, Adga, Idris, etc. seem to be at least somewhat based on a lot of CS and mathematical concepts. The way people talk about and evangelize these languages makes it…

I remember reading a comment on an HN thread a while back where a commenters noted they initially wanted to be a developer, but ended up becoming a network engineer because they found it worked better with how their…

Right now, I'm in a weird position where I can't go to school affordably because of the obnoxious dependency / residency rules, but let's say I want to get an undergraduate degree in a couple years, when I will be…

I'm not sure how to explain it, but when I sit down to read a peice of text, my eyes see texr, my brain parses text, but that's about it. Its like my brain is "out of foucs".Often times I have to run over a single…

Just curious. I'm mainly asking in reference to both online undergraduate degrees and graduate degrees, primarily in STEM subjects (mostly CS, engineering, mathematics, sciences like physics or chemistry). Online…

As the title says I'm looking for resources to get an in-depth understanding of 802.11 in depth, ideally newer versions (at least 802.11n). The standards themselves are more than I'd like to pay, with the latest being…

I notice that DSP is something normal taught in an electrical engineering background, however I see it in job listings for lower level software development roles. I'm a software develope, both professionally and as a…

A lot of incredibly intelligent people I look up to are experts in their respective field / domain. They have deep knowledge in a handful of related subjects, while still being relatively knowledgeable about other…

There are swaths of masters programs out there that can be completed online, and are backed by legitimate, well respected institutions. bachelor degrees, on the other hand, seem to be pretty desolate. There are a…

So let's say, assuming I have something interesting to write about, I want to create a blog. In what ways can I attract traffic so that I can be confident in not writing hundreds of posts into a void that two people…

I dont want to spend the rest of my working life doing what I do now (basically just slapping together CRUD apps and loose integrations). It doesnt even feel like problem solving, someone else has solved the problem,…

It just seems that theres so many features, conventions, ways to do the same thing, etc. and it seems overwhelming to try to learn C++ let alone learning how to write good code in it. Especially as someone who has…

What are you experiences and how did you get started? Did you have a large existing network or capital?

There seen to be a numerous articles that delve into developing parsers / lexers, etc for compulers, but what about code generation? Does anyone have any resources that delve into code generation techniques and design…

So recently I've been trying to learn a lot of new things, and I'm beginning to realize just how expensive print books are. Many times I can get the same material got free in a PDF on the internet. Unfortunately I just…

It's been a huge trope for a while now about how you dont have to (or even in some cases shouldn't) go to school and get a CS degree to be a developer, but I deeply regret not going for a number of reasons, but have…

I'm talking mainly things like writing WDK drivers, understand how certain existing OS drivers. With Linux / BSDs / etc. there are dozens of resources including websites, IRC channels, Discord servers, subreddits,…