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New comment by stewvsshark in "Citing new evidence, families sue feds, Raytheon, Lockheed over 1996 TWA crash"

stewvsshark — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 17:10:31 +0000

Great write up/summary of the crash: https://imgur.com/a/zin7CRo

New comment by stewvsshark in "Reading academic computer science papers"

stewvsshark — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 01:55:01 +0000

Unless you’re working on something that has the potential to be directly influenced by a paper, I’ve found trying to stumble through academic papers to be a huge waste of time. Remember that academic papers are by and large written for other academics, not for general purpose or even specialized engineers (obviously it depends how specialized you are). Take something like merge sort - I’d recommend the Khan academy video before recommending the academic paper if you want to understand how it works. I get that you should understand “why” it works from an academic perspective, but I don’t know that you really get much value from that level of understanding.

New comment by stewvsshark in "Decentralization isn’t important, until it suddenly is"

stewvsshark — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 05:35:20 +0000

This is true of literally everything that’s ever been important before it was important. I love naval but I feel like sometimes he gets away with tweeting ethereal nonsense

New comment by stewvsshark in "System Design Primer: Learn how to design large-scale systems"

stewvsshark — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 02:05:01 +0000

Any books you’d recommend on the subject?

New comment by stewvsshark in "Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe"

stewvsshark — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 02:54:31 +0000

Talk about great HR support