pietroppeter's comments

On: The Art of Puzzles

[pietroppeter]

Thomas Snyder, the creator of this blog (who gathered a number of contributors throughout the years; recently slowed down the content) is a puzzle grandmaster and recently mind behind the popular LinkedIn queens game. Lots of great content on this website.

Related, interview about LinkedIn games: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/king-queens-world-sudoku-cham...

On: Master the Art of the Product Manager 'No'

[pietroppeter]

Gold

On: AI and Internet Hygiene

[pietroppeter]

Kate is not a technologist but writes beautifully. I find this a very interesting piece.

I particularly like this quote towards the end:

> At its core, the computer and the Internet are tools for creation, education, commerce, play, and communication.

On: Applied Mathematical Programming (1977)

[pietroppeter]

Currently doing this Discrete Optimization course by Pascal Van Hentenryck and it is great: https://www.coursera.org/learn/discrete-optimization

It has only week on Linear Programming which is nicely done but I think the real value is that it starts with the much more playful Constraint programming and focuses on intuitions and keeping you both entertained and trained which is really hard to do.

The course comes with assignments and the whole thing sort of has a Advent of Code flavor (I kind of have a half baked plan on make this year discrete optimization my AOC theme).

Not strong on the modeling part/business motivation.

[anunay_i → pietroppeter]

Thanks for sharing! interesting course, enrolled as well

On: Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting

[pietroppeter]

:starred_eyes:

On: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

[pietroppeter]

Zapping!

On: GitHub was down

[pietroppeter]

I should have looked for this before posting the same comment. Upvoted :)

On: GitHub was down

[pietroppeter]

@dang maybe the link could now be updated with this one https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/kz4khcgdsfdv

On: GitHub Down

[pietroppeter]

The link here is better than the dupe though

On: Constantine: Nim lang high-performance, zero-dependency cryptography stack

[pietroppeter]

I have never heard any serious criticism about this feature for anyone actually trying the language.

When there was a proposal to remove it just for the sake of this kind of arguments I actually took time to think about it and I actually ended it liking it.