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How Good at Math Does a Programmer Need to Be?

I'm working my way to a CS degree and am currently slogging my way through an 8-week Trig course. I barely passed College Algebra and have another Algebra and two Calculus classes ahead of me.

How much of this will I need in a programming job? And, more importantly, if I suck at Math, should I just find another career path?

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Volvo EX30 Is Crushing It in Europe: Is the U.S. Next?
  • I have a Mazda lease that's ending in December and looked really hard at the EX30. The delays in Volvo actually getting the car to the U.S. have been disappointing. Now, with the good things I've been hearing about the Equinox, I'm leaning towards the Chevy, which is something I never thought I'd say.

  • What's a handy terminal command you use often?
  • Let's say, for example, you have a directory of files named x01-001; x01-002; x02-001; x02-002; x03-001... and so on.

    I want to create subdirectories for each 'x' iteration and move each set to the corresponding subdirectory. My loop would look like this:

    for i in {1..3}; do mkdir Data_x0$i && mv x0$i* Data_x0$i; done

    I've also been using it if I need to rename large batches of files quickly.

  • You ever have a nightmare so good you wish you could rewatch it?

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    I spent ~$35 on new cables and my LAN speed increased 6x

    After seeing that my wireless speeds were much faster than the speeds I was getting over Ethernet, I decided to invest in some new cables. I didn't know it before, but I saw while I was changing them out that my current cables were Cat 5e. While putting my network together, I had just been grabbing whatever cables I could find in my scrap drawers. Now I have Cat 8 cables and my speeds jumped from 7MB/s to an average of over 40MB/s. It's a much bigger improvement than I expected, especially for such a small investment.

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    Destined for Mediocreness

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