christouphair's comments

On: Ask HN: When are you considered a “senior” program...

[christouphair]

Assess the new and shiny technologies and learn the ones that seem promising.

1 year later new and shiny will become the standard, there will be thousand of beginners and you'll be one of the few "senior" developers on that technology.

Of course you'll already be learning the new and shiny that will become the standard 1 year later.

On: KDE 2 Screenshots (2000-2002)

[christouphair]

I feel so old. I remember KDE beta, before 1.0. At the time, a graphical file manager under Linux was revolutionary. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Desktop_Environment_1

On: The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mas...

[christouphair]

What are the prerequisites to understand this book? I feel very intimidated by some equations.

[sn9 → christouphair]

Comfort with freshman physics and math is really all that's required.

You can always review those first.