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by jiaweihli 2643 days ago
What does reasoning about things from first principles mean?
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I once worked with someone who didn't understand the program stack whatsoever, leading to code that was (slowly but surely) infinitely recursive. Using flashcards to remember to use .put() versus .append() in some API is not really that person's path to 10x engineer.