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rcharleson Why Does “=” Mean Assignment?

Some(all?) compilers transform your code into something like this internally. Its called static single assignment form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form

rcharleson One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC per month

Oh I hope NVIDIA/AMD start mining themselves to end this abomination.

rcharleson What It Felt Like in Hawaii When Warning of an In-Bound Missile Arrived

Flash flooding? Fill the bathtub!

rcharleson 26k blockchain projects launched in 2016, 92% are now dead

I wouldn't mind 100% now dead if it means GPUs are affordable again.

rcharleson Ask HN: Is getting my CompSci degree worth the lost work experience?

Professionally - Ruby and JavaScript.

I have some experience with other languages such as C, C++, Java(Java seems to be my school's favorite language), Python and a few other more obscure languages(Common Lisp, Haskell), but I have not been paid to write anything in those yet.

I realize potential future employers will probably only give me credit for Ruby and JavaScript unless I create some amazing open source projects in one of the other languages and that employer considers open source projects in their hiring decision.