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FOSS DEX alternative? Linux on android? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

I forgot to mention, I am using lineageOS with no google/Gapps.

How can I use it like my Linux comluter?

Small Data (a new KRAZAM video) in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Krazm is truly the goat of software memes

CS noob here: any advice? in c/cs_career_questions@programming.dev

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Don't focus too much on tools (languages,ide, editor, etc.)

Get strong fundamentals in math and software, code with C and a high level language like python for a couple of years and you're good on the tooling side.

Focus on your mathematics, logic and philosophy. These are what separate legendary engineers, scientists and visionaries from people who are only amazing at programming.

Remember that you are an engineer/scientist/philosopher not a cog in the machine that gets told what code to write and writes it.

I highly recommend reading the works of Feynman, Dijkstra, Turing and other greats to better see how they think and approach things.

(Maybe these aren't the direct answers to your questions, but wisdom. damn I wish someone told these stuff to me sooner)

What's your opinion on balancing ethicality and salary for a CS job? in c/cs_career_questions@programming.dev

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago

My take is, don't do explicitly bad stuff, like, don't create malicious software of work for military, or DARPA, cia, NSA, google, etc.

But also, your work shouldn't be necessarily divine. No work is. If you look Into it, even being a Linux kernel Dev isn't that divine. Just don't be a direct cause of bad things, and I think that is good enough.

And get payed good and use that money for good stuff. Kind of a robinhood job. If you can earn for example 200K from a not super evil company and give 30K to people who need it, is much better than earning 100K working in a open source startup or whatever and not help other people, and also be poorer.