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acpetrov | 6 years ago | on: The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Algebra (1963)

I stopped enjoying math for about this reason. My university tried to teach with proofs, which to me is about as far from an intuitive understanding as possible

Looking for recommendations on lectures / course that goes over linear algebra in this way

acpetrov | 6 years ago | on: The Man Behind “Fortnite”

I graduated high school 5 years ago, and in that generation (of video game culture) our social game was League of Legends.

Everyone was always online. Ya, we liked the game, some even cared about their rank, but the beauty was playing with all your friends and talking over Skype. I'm glad that kids have the opportunity to be social in a time where technology often makes us lonelier

acpetrov | 6 years ago | on: The XY Problem (2014)

> People are there to voluntarily give help. They also get loads of really stupid questions and venting does help with keeping them providing help.

Ha, imagine hearing this about volunteers at a hospice. SO boards are infinitely less important, but volunteers shouldn't be losing their calm at the same people they're helping

acpetrov | 7 years ago | on: “It's done in hardware so it's cheap” (2012)

The Alexa bit really shows that processing speed or "cheapness" doesn't always matter. The VM in AWS that eventually does that hex addition could have done 10^N more of those same additions in the time it takes Alexa to hear the question and respond.

But, humans are big and laggy, and I don't know if I could type in the question to Google or even a terminal faster than getting the answer from Alexa.

acpetrov | 7 years ago | on: H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads

There's a side-effect, however, that's being ignored.

If US companies don't like/trust the talent coming out of US colleges, they should have a stake in improving those programs. But if their solution is just to hire immigrants, it cheats colleges out of feedback from industry.

Colleges really need more practical courses, at least starting in upper years, that set developers up for success in the workforce. How many devs today come out of college needing 3-6 months of learning just the basics? That shouldn't be happening.

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