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I tried to read it but the random bolding of words was too distracting to me.

by quest88 10y ago

castratikron 10y ago
What, you don't think "rule of the thumb" deserves to be in bold?
webaholic 10y ago
just read the takeaways...
Cenk 10y ago
Came here to say exactly this. Why make them bold? I don’t get it.
- sean_patel 10y ago
  > Why make them bold? It's an Indian thing. And I can say it cos I am also Indian (American), so don't cry "racist". I worked with quite a few off-shore devs during my internship at Goldman and I noticed this in a lot of blogs and GH Project README.md / Landing pages of my off-shore Indian peers. I even asked a couple of them and they said "SEO!". But I've read on mattcutts.com and other SEO blogs that bold-ing / making keywords strong is no longer a factor in determining SEO Rank, atleast with google.
  - rahulchowdhury 10y ago
    Well I just thought that bolding certain sentences in the story which are important in the story would be helpful in keeping people engaged in a long story like this. But guess I was wrong, and I reverted back to normal formatting. :-)
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0942v8653 10y ago
paste to console var e = document.getElementsByClassName('markup--strong');for (var i = 0; i < e.length; i++) {e[i].style.fontWeight = 'normal'}
- rahulchowdhury 10y ago
  Thanks for the command, but I have already done it myself :-D :-P
- jffry 10y ago
  I do a lot of fiddling around in the console for things like these, and the advent of ES2016 for..of loops makes this quite a lot simpler nowadays: for (let a of document.querySelectorAll('a')) { a.style.fontWeight = 'normal' } Alternatively, you can use the more functional: Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('a')).map(a => a.style.fontWeight = 'bold') If your browser supports the spread operator you could equivalently do: [...document.querySelectorAll('a')].map(a => a.style.fontWeight = 'bold')
jmiserez 10y ago
It's not just the formatting, the content is also rather unimpressive. How can you not be able to find your way through a startup codebase if you came from a corporate job, where presumably you worked on much bigger projects? My takeaway: Not every startup founder needs to write blog articles and post them to HN.
- macspoofing 10y ago
  >Not every startup founder needs to write blog articles and post them to HN. What's the point of joining a startup then?
- rahulchowdhury 10y ago
  I was on my initial training there, I quit halfway during my training, so I didn't get a chance to work on a real big project in that company.
- WhitneyLand 10y ago
  With that lack of respect, I doubt you've ever started a company, but if you have, you know it's one long string of running into things you've never done before. Even strictly on the technical side that's usually true because there are so many unique aspects to every code base. I choose to disagree, and thank Rahul for sharing real life experience, and hope that he and others continue to do so. Anyone who has the balls to quit and start from nothing I assume has at least one interesting thing I can learn from their journey (not to exclude women with the colloquialism).
  - jmiserez 10y ago
    I'm sorry if my comment came across as lacking respect, I meant no disrespect towards the author as a person. I would like to apologize if I insulted the author in any way. It's just that given the title (i.e. corp->startup) I expected something different from all the other, similar articles.
- coldtea 10y ago
  >How can you not be able to find your way through a startup codebase if you came from a corporate job, where presumably you worked on much bigger projects? You'd be surprised. Enterprise might mean tons of legacy visual basic apps, or crappy add-ons to some proprierary platform, not "much bigger projects". Just because you e.g. work for a branch of Unilever somewhere, it doesn't mean you work on their payroll system or anything close to it.
whenwillitstop 10y ago
Weird, I was thinking the same
rahulchowdhury 10y ago
I am very sorry for my incorrect formatting, I have rectified the mistake, thanks for pointing this out to me :-)

I tried to read it but the random bolding of words was too distracting to me.

by quest88 10y ago

I tried to read it but the random bolding of words was too distracting to me.

castratikron 10y ago

What, you don't think "rule of the thumb" deserves to be in bold?

webaholic 10y ago

just read the takeaways...

Cenk 10y ago

Came here to say exactly this. Why make them bold? I don’t get it.

sean_patel 10y ago
> Why make them bold? It's an Indian thing. And I can say it cos I am also Indian (American), so don't cry "racist". I worked with quite a few off-shore devs during my internship at Goldman and I noticed this in a lot of blogs and GH Project README.md / Landing pages of my off-shore Indian peers. I even asked a couple of them and they said "SEO!". But I've read on mattcutts.com and other SEO blogs that bold-ing / making keywords strong is no longer a factor in determining SEO Rank, atleast with google.
- rahulchowdhury 10y ago
  Well I just thought that bolding certain sentences in the story which are important in the story would be helpful in keeping people engaged in a long story like this. But guess I was wrong, and I reverted back to normal formatting. :-)

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0942v8653 10y ago

paste to console var e = document.getElementsByClassName('markup--strong');for (var i = 0; i < e.length; i++) {e[i].style.fontWeight = 'normal'}

rahulchowdhury 10y ago
Thanks for the command, but I have already done it myself :-D :-P
jffry 10y ago
I do a lot of fiddling around in the console for things like these, and the advent of ES2016 for..of loops makes this quite a lot simpler nowadays: for (let a of document.querySelectorAll('a')) { a.style.fontWeight = 'normal' } Alternatively, you can use the more functional: Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('a')).map(a => a.style.fontWeight = 'bold') If your browser supports the spread operator you could equivalently do: [...document.querySelectorAll('a')].map(a => a.style.fontWeight = 'bold')

jmiserez 10y ago

It's not just the formatting, the content is also rather unimpressive. How can you not be able to find your way through a startup codebase if you came from a corporate job, where presumably you worked on much bigger projects? My takeaway: Not every startup founder needs to write blog articles and post them to HN.

macspoofing 10y ago
>Not every startup founder needs to write blog articles and post them to HN. What's the point of joining a startup then?
rahulchowdhury 10y ago
I was on my initial training there, I quit halfway during my training, so I didn't get a chance to work on a real big project in that company.
WhitneyLand 10y ago
With that lack of respect, I doubt you've ever started a company, but if you have, you know it's one long string of running into things you've never done before. Even strictly on the technical side that's usually true because there are so many unique aspects to every code base. I choose to disagree, and thank Rahul for sharing real life experience, and hope that he and others continue to do so. Anyone who has the balls to quit and start from nothing I assume has at least one interesting thing I can learn from their journey (not to exclude women with the colloquialism).
- jmiserez 10y ago
  I'm sorry if my comment came across as lacking respect, I meant no disrespect towards the author as a person. I would like to apologize if I insulted the author in any way. It's just that given the title (i.e. corp->startup) I expected something different from all the other, similar articles.
coldtea 10y ago
>How can you not be able to find your way through a startup codebase if you came from a corporate job, where presumably you worked on much bigger projects? You'd be surprised. Enterprise might mean tons of legacy visual basic apps, or crappy add-ons to some proprierary platform, not "much bigger projects". Just because you e.g. work for a branch of Unilever somewhere, it doesn't mean you work on their payroll system or anything close to it.

whenwillitstop 10y ago

Weird, I was thinking the same

rahulchowdhury 10y ago

I am very sorry for my incorrect formatting, I have rectified the mistake, thanks for pointing this out to me :-)