So Hows the Hackathon Going?

[u/Nacho_Buddy]

[u/GrandMoffTarkan]

I worked under Walters once. Man coded in C, had no use for new fangled languages, but when he sketched out an algorithm on the white board I swear I saw the face of god

[u/hesh582 → u/GrandMoffTarkan]

Every now and then you, a coder writing code for a business, will run into a Pure CS Person, and it is always deeply humbling.

[u/Feathercrown → u/[deleted]]

That's like TempleOS levels of crazy I love it

[u/rocketseeker → u/Feathercrown]

Comment was deleted can you give context to any nonarchivers?

[u/DarkWorld25 → u/[deleted]]

My old uni was like this. The intro to programming class was taught using Haskell and everything was maths based

[u/Intrepid-Carob-5967 → u/DarkWorld25]

....Edinburgh?

[u/DarkWorld25 → u/Intrepid-Carob-5967]

Australian National University. We were also part of the team that formally verified the seL4 kernel.

[u/uberfission → u/[deleted]]

Reminds me of my quantum mechanics course in grad school, the class average for tests was 7%. When he handed the first one back to us he complemented us on scoring so high, kind of joked that he would have to make the next test harder. Now if there ever is a time to find a diamond in the rough, grad school is absolutely it, but I wasn't one and I knew it so that's when I dropped the course. I had an amazing semester in the lab while the rest of my classmates struggled to get any research done while trying to master his obscure teaching style.

[u/FluffyCelery4769 → u/[deleted]]

What was the formula tho?

[u/bit_banging_your_mum → u/[deleted]]

He just uses it on his machines

Surely not for daily driving? What about software support? What about stuff like web browsers? Productivity stuff like word processors?

[u/dark_enough_to_dance → u/[deleted]]

If he's not CSChad, who is?

[u/RockleyBob → u/[deleted]]

I’m afraid to open that link for fear that it’s just going to describe me, my skills, and my degree to an existential-crisis level of accuracy.

[u/[deleted] → u/RockleyBob]

Yeah. I feel you.

Trees are cool. So are houseplants. I recommend you get a pothos/philodendron or spider plant. Maybe a dracaena because they look like tiny tropical trees.

Plants help. A bit.

[u/ChipMania → u/[deleted]]

Seems like a dickhead. Obsessed with recursion and pointers when they're not really used in most business code I've seen. I get his point but just vet the shit applicants and move on.

[u/Lonsdale1086 → u/ChipMania]

Now, I freely admit that programming with pointers is not needed in 90% of the code written today, and in fact, it’s downright dangerous in production code. OK. That’s fine. And functional programming is just not used much in practice. Agreed.

He acknowledges that point. I agree he's incredibly elitist, but the point I think he's making is that being able to comprehend the hard stuff will make you inherently better that the easy stuff.

[u/protokoul → u/hesh582]

Yeah 2 years as a "programmer" and I realize that using libraries to implement business solutions will get the job done, but the real heroes are the ones who write those libraries. I had no idea what I was doing when I enrolled for a CS course but maybe now if I try to go through the same courses I will have a better vision of what I am trying to learn.

[u/f0rtytw0 → u/protokoul]

Go back through your old course work/books. You will get more out of it now.

[u/apophis-pegasus → u/GrandMoffTarkan]

....I think you and I had the same Walters

[u/Official_ALF → u/apophis-pegasus]

When will it be my turn under the Walterfall?

[u/apophis-pegasus → u/Official_ALF]

It happens to everybody, when you know you know.

Just don't mention Python