Andrew (he/him)

Got a Ph.D. looking for dark matter, but not finding any. Now I code full-time. Je parle un peu français.

Dublin, Ireland Joined on Sep 15, 2018 aww@awwsmm.com https://www.awwsmm.com/

Education

Ph.D. in [Astroparticle] Physics

Work

Software Development Engineer III at Workday

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Andrew (he/him)

Nov 9 '19

20 Small Steps to Become a Regex Master

#regex #beginners #tutorial #firstyearincode

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Oct 19 '19

20 Most-Recommended Books for Software Developers

#books #career #beginners

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Aug 18 '19

What I Learned From Bombing An Amazon Coding Assessment

#career #amazon #beginners #interview

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Jan 13 '19

101 Bash Commands and Tips for Beginners to Experts

#beginners #bash #linux #ubuntu

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Jul 13

Publish your Scala project to Maven in 5 minutes with Sonatype

#scala #maven #java #sbt

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Introducing Regcode - Create Regular Expressions Easily with Code

In a similar vein, this reminded me of the Rosie Pattern Lang...

Jun 1

Building a Raspberry Pi Hadoop / Spark Cluster

I don't know how how the 8GB ones would run (pretty hot, I im...

Feb 27

Building a Raspberry Pi Hadoop / Spark Cluster

In this setup, yes, there is enough space (a few mm above the...

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Feb 24

Using Bitwise Operators: Why Waste Space Use Many Bits When Few Bits Do Trick?

Upvoted on the title alone

Aug 9 '20

5 Tips for Writing Articles People Will Want to Read

Hi. I recommend that you don't work for a website that helps ...

Jul 23 '20

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

My favorite CS book by far 😍

Jul 8 '20

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Aug 9 '20

Understand Type Variances in 30 Seconds

#computerscience #inthirtyseconds #scala #java

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Aug 9 '20

Types vs. Classes

#beginners #inthirtyseconds #java #computerscience

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Jun 26 '20

Implementing a Ternary Operator in Scala

#scala #java #functional

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Andrew (he/him)

Jun 19 '20

5 Tips for Writing Articles People Will Want to Read

#writing #beginners #tutorial

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Andrew (he/him)

Jun 16 '20

Today I Learned: Pointer Swizzling

#todayilearned #basecs

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Jun 15 '20

What's your most embarrassing coding story?

#watercooler #beginners

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Andrew (he/him)

Jun 9 '20

How Does Liquid Cooling Work?

#computerscience #physics

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Andrew (he/him)

Jun 8 '20

Super Simple Markdown

#markdown #writing #beginners #tutorial

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Andrew (he/him)

Jun 3 '20

Code is Political

#news #blacklivesmatter #politics #history

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Andrew (he/him)

May 29 '20

I Wrote a BrainF*** Interpreter and REPL in TypeScript!

#showdev #esolangs #typescript #npm

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Andrew (he/him)

May 27 '20

Why No Modern Programming Language Should Have a 'Character' Data Type

#healthydebate #history #javascript

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Andrew (he/him)

May 26 '20

"The Lean Startup" 10 Years On: Have We Failed?

#healthydebate #books #startup

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Andrew (he/him)

May 17 '20

What Causes Overheating?

#computerscience #physics

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May 17 '20

But How Does It Really Work? :: Understanding the Physics Behind Concepts in Computing

#computerscience #basecs #datascience #physics

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Andrew (he/him)

May 15 '20

What's the Best Place to Learn TypeScript?

#discuss #typescript #javascript #beginners

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Andrew (he/him)

May 13 '20

20 Coolest Features of Non-Java JVM Languages

#java #scala #groovy #kotlin

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Andrew (he/him)

May 4 '20

Bits of Syntax: String Literals

#healthydebate #design #watercooler

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Andrew (he/him)

Mar 27 '20

Benchmarking Scala with ScalaMeter, Pt. 2 (Scala DCP #004)

#challenge #scala #beginners #dailycodingproblem

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Andrew (he/him)

Mar 21 '20

Benchmarking Scala with ScalaMeter, Pt. 1 (Scala DCP #004)

#challenge #scala #beginners #dailycodingproblem

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Andrew (he/him)

Mar 20 '20

Flatten a Ragged List N Levels Deep in Scala

#todayilearned #scala #functional #beginners

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Andrew (he/him)

Mar 9 '20

Custom (De)serialization with Scala (Scala DCP #003)

#challenge #scala #beginners #dailycodingproblem

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Andrew (he/him)

Mar 8 '20

Scala Daily Coding Problem #002

#challenge #scala #beginners #dailycodingproblem

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Andrew (he/him)

Mar 6 '20

Scala Daily Coding Problem #001

#challenge #scala #beginners #dailycodingproblem

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Andrew (he/him)

Mar 5 '20

I'm back!

#career #scala

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Andrew (he/him)

Jan 30 '20

I'm on a Podcast!

#techtalks #podcast #career

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Andrew (he/him)

Dec 13 '19

Installing and Running Hadoop and Spark on Ubuntu 18

#hadoop #spark #java #scala

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Andrew (he/him)

Dec 5 '19

Humbly Asking for your Help

#watercooler

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Andrew (he/him)

Dec 1 '19

What are your must-have Android apps?

#discuss #android #watercooler #healthydebate

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Andrew (he/him)

Dec 1 '19

Found My Old Zune... What Should I Do With It?

#watercooler #zune #discuss

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Andrew (he/him)

Nov 23 '19

20 Reasons to Move On from Java 8

#news #java

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Andrew (he/him)

Nov 16 '19

20 Intriguing, Unusual, and Goofy Programming Languages

#design #esolangs

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Andrew (he/him)

Nov 13 '19

What have you accomplished this decade?

#watercooler #discuss #career #yearinreview

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Andrew (he/him)

Nov 4 '19

Why is our source code so boring?

#discuss #design #healthydebate

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Andrew (he/him)

Nov 3 '19

"Haskell for the Front-End" :: Elm vs. PureScript

#requestforpost #elm #haskell #javascript

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Andrew (he/him)

Nov 2 '19

20 Ways to Fight Impostor Syndrome

#career #mentalhealth #firstyearincode #motivation

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Andrew (he/him)

Nov 1 '19

Darwinism in Programming Language Proliferation

#news #discuss #languagetheory

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Andrew (he/him)

Oct 28 '19

Concept of the Day: Homoiconicity

#todayilearned #lisp #java #javascript

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Andrew (he/him)

Oct 28 '19

Bits of Syntax: Function Application

#discuss #design #healthydebate #watercooler

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Andrew (he/him)

Oct 26 '19

Can someone explain Dev.To credits to me?

#meta

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Andrew (he/him)

Oct 26 '19

20 Fantastically Bad Predictions Made About Computing and Technology

#history

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Andrew (he/him)

Oct 24 '19

I think Dev's server is down...

#jokes

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Andrew (he/him)

Oct 23 '19

Underrepresented Authors Promotion Thread

#discuss #books #watercooler #healthydebate

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Oct 22 '19

Can we separate the artist from their art? Should we?

#news #watercooler #discuss

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Andrew (he/him)

Oct 21 '19

Is anyone else interested in #esolangs?

#discuss #esolangs #watercooler

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Andrew (he/him)

Oct 21 '19

"Haskell on the JVM" :: Frege vs. Eta

#help #discuss #java #haskell

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Oct 19 '19

Announcing: 20 Lists for 2020

#career #meta #yearinreview

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Oct 14 '19

Java Developers, What's in Your Toolkit?

#discuss #java #android #javascript

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Andrew (he/him)

Oct 8 '19

Sued for Being Inaccessible

#news #a11y #beginners #webdev

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Andrew (he/him)

Oct 5 '19

A Chrome Omnibox Extension to Search Oracle's Javadoc

#showdev #hacktoberfest #javascript #java

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Andrew (he/him)

Oct 2 '19

Java Daily Coding Problem #008

#challenge #java #beginners #devjournal

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Andrew (he/him)

Sep 27 '19

Unfixable iOS Vulnerability Affects 7 Generations of Devices

#news #apple #security #ios

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Andrew (he/him)

Sep 25 '19

Operator Overloading in R

#r #beginners #syntax #tutorial

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Andrew (he/him)

Sep 24 '19

Bits of Syntax: Assignment

#discuss #design #healthydebate #watercooler

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Andrew (he/him)

Sep 19 '19

Feedback on Small Java Package

#showdev #java #help

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Andrew (he/him)

Sep 7 '19

Java Daily Coding Problem #007

#challenge #java #beginners #devjournal

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Andrew (he/him)

Aug 10 '19

Java Daily Coding Problem #006

#challenge #java #beginners #dailycodingproblem

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Aug 1 '19

Book Review: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014)

#watercooler #bookreview #culture #history

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Andrew (he/him)

Jul 25 '19

Create a Dynamic Prompt String in Bash

#showdev #bash #shell #tutorial

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Jul 19 '19

Book Review: Refactoring UI (2018)

#bookreview #design #ux #ui

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