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What would be your recommendations on resources that teach on how to abstract away and cope with complexity and hierarchy in technical domains?

I'm looking or a tool that will allow me to textually describe data/packet structures for the purposes of creating visual representations of the structures. If it's capable of expressing constraints or assertations that…

Hello HN, I just got off a two hour call where 30 engineers provided feedback on terminology being used to write a spec. This is important, and I get its important. I just sat there getting increasingly resentful on why…

If gurufocus is to be believed, he owns approx 1.76M shares. GOOGL closed at $98, up $5 today. Not bad for causing more hardship and pain on a +$100B reserve balance.

The headline is a little click-bait, humor me. I'm 39, have a PhD in CS from an older university in Cambridge, MA (not MIT). When there, I never published much, a couple of top-tier publications with collaborators and a…

I'm looking, in particular, for books that will teach: - the principles of congestion detection and control - How to design network protocols so they're efficient and easy to implement in hardware - Efficient host…

I'm looking for recommendations on who to follow; people who have a heavy technology focus and are able to provide evidence-based insight in broad fields.

I'm looking for the semiconductor equivalent of ycombinator where EE/HW/CED types hang out and share URLs, projects, ask questions etc. Is there an equivalent?

I've been well aware I suffer from low self-esteem for many years and have worked with a therapist to try and address this but it's obvious I've got as far as I can go with my current therapist. Before I just change…

CEOs, CTOs, entrepreneurs, politicians etc. I'm looking for examples for a class I'm giving.

I'm a SW engineer by trade, having worked in the area of hardware-software interface for the last decade. Recently (last 1.5 years) I've a new role that is leading to my contributing more at the hardware architecture…

For those of you with hardware-centric jobs, how do you get around the steep learning barriers for mastering hardware? Case in point -- the PCIe specification is 1300 pages long and even just reading the Mindshare book…

A friend once told me Google starts software design by designing data structures. I'm looking for information on how FAANG companies approach software design, are there any resources out there?

I am incredibly good at getting up and out of bed and going into work and doing 12 hour days. What I'm incredibly bad at is focusing on the task at hand. I will often go off on a tangent to learn how something works, or…

My workflow has me running tests, in an interactive and iterative way on up to 250 hosts at a time, with machines divided into one of a set of up to 6 roles (some may have multiple roles). I currently use GNU Parallel…

My company has a piece of software they want to demo to potential buyers by getting them to install the software on their machines. The software we produce binary rewrites other applications (e.g. Apache webserver and…

I feel so overwhelmed by my day job and my general ineptitude that I don't think I'll ever be able to found anything, yet the rational brain knows this is not true. I'm looking for stories on how you managed to get out…

I had an uncomfortable experience last week where I realized I'd forgotten the basics of condition variables (in particular, how to prevent the thundering herd problem). The week before, I had the problem of working out…

Often, I find I cannot absorb things as fast as others, cannot make the same connections, cannot have the same insight. It's getting to the point where I avoid trying to learn and develop because I always feel I'll be…

I have started working in Enterprise software and am very interested in soaking up ideas for potential new companies. Where did you guys get your ideas for a company? Did the idea pan out?

I'm researching the processes used to design modern web and mobile apps: (a) In particular, is the PRD -> SRD -> Design -> Implementation -> Testing flow still used? (b) What do you use to capture the UI aspects and…

I've been in academia for the last 15 years and a change in life circumstances (wife has been diagnosed with a degenerative disease that will disable her slowly and completely over a 20 year period) means that I have to…

I'm beginning to avoid starting new projects because of the sheer effort and pain I know it takes to build and debug things to the point where they're usable and can be improved. The more I progress in my career, the…