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plaguuuuuu • yesterday at 4:04 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Wait, you're saying that mathematics isn't useful to software engineers?

You should give it a go.


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craftkiller • yesterday at 4:29 AM

That is not an accurate read of my post. My post was about two things:

  1. The notation used
  2. The lack of concrete examples
I'm not saying they should remove any of the content, just put it in a form more accessible to us. For example, I can read and mostly understand a news article in French, but it will take a lot of time and effort. If it was written in English, it would be easy for me to read. The two news articles have exactly the same content, one is just written in a form easier for me to understand.

Well putting this article in math notation without defining any of the data structures behind it, that's not like putting the article in French, it's like putting the article in Japanese. I can't understand any of it. Some Japanese speakers on this site are saying "I don't understand the problem, just learn Japanese." which is pretty much the least constructive comment they could make.

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