JDiculous

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by JDiculous 7y ago
Did I say that? Also, did you read the article?
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by JDiculous 7y ago
What is the breaking point that forces us to create a more distributed, fault-tolerant internet that doesn't have us reliant on central authorities?
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by JDiculous 7y ago
Ok let's say you make $300k/yr at a FAANG. Lose 40% to taxes and you're looking at $180k/yr. Living in SV your expenses will roughly be at least $45k/yr. So you save $135k/yr (180 - 45). That's great, but
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by JDiculous 7y ago
Google just loves to waste your time. A close friend of mine interviewed there, was flown out to Mountain View, and one interviewer showed up to the interview over 30 minutes late, with only about 5-10 minutes to spare. He didn't get t
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by JDiculous 7y ago
> will make you a millionare in a few years if you play it right. This is a pretty steep exaggeration.
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by JDiculous 7y ago
I'd have to see some stats to believe that because that's certainly not the trend I'm seeing. Nodejs is pretty strong, and generally the bottleneck is dev speed and network latency, not CPU performance.
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by JDiculous 7y ago
While we're at it why don't we ban poor people from trading stocks because they're too stupid to manage their own money? /s Funny how these rules don't apply to gambling and lottery tickets.
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by JDiculous 7y ago
Here's a free minimal text editor I wrote: https://www.writepad.xyz (or https://writepad.netlify.com ) Features: - Works offline - Autosaves to local storage - Downloadable as PWA (Progressive Web App) on mobile
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by JDiculous 7y ago
They also have a lot more student loans. Doctors graduate with $300k+ in student debt.
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by JDiculous 7y ago
He didn't mention bullying actually, he was just referring to not having friends due to "anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem". I can relate. I wasn't bullied in middle school, but I had no social skills and no confi
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by JDiculous 7y ago
Because it's not actually taught anywhere. There are no widely adopted standards. Web development is literally a patchwork of random libraries and npm modules stitched together. Computer science programs don't teach students how t
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by JDiculous 7y ago
Seeing well architected code bases is how I went from total noob to "professional". You can't know what's good code if you've never seen good code before. There really should be a list of "good" codebases
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by JDiculous 7y ago
That's false. In Clojure pretty much every single line of code has a minimum of two parenthesis (opening and closing). You can get all defensive about it, and of course one's perception of it is entirely subjective, but it's
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by JDiculous 7y ago
This actually looks pretty cool. It's extraordinarily ambitious to create one's own language for frontend development, but I think you did a decent job.
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by JDiculous 7y ago
Well for starters you don't have to put parenthesis everywhere
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by JDiculous 7y ago
I recently took 2 years off, and it took a grand total of 2 weeks to interview at the company that I ended up getting an offer at and working for. I just told interviewers honestly that I had taken a sabbatical to fulfill one of my life goa
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by JDiculous 7y ago
Regardless of the maturity length of the debt instruments the Fed is buying, it is an increase in the money supply unless you're literally defining the money supply to include what the Fed is purchasing. So yea if U.S. government debt
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by JDiculous 7y ago
One of the things I used to love the most about HN was that comments weren't downvoted simply due to disagreement, unlike Reddit where any opinion against the hivemind gets downvoted to oblivian. Making it acceptable to downvote based
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by JDiculous 7y ago
The fact that SQLite is serverless is common knowledge and not interesting unless you're brand new to databases
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by JDiculous 7y ago
This is not new or unknown information, why is this on the front page?
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by JDiculous 7y ago
Ok yes my statement applies more to fields like CS and math and not to fields that require a lot of physical equipment (eg. chemistry). I'm not claiming that the best way to learn is alone in your room, I don't even believe that t
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by JDiculous 7y ago
Why the hell am I being downvoted? If you disagree, then explain why. Don't just downvote people because you disagree with their opinion, this is not Reddit (or at least it didn't used to be).
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by JDiculous 7y ago
> "let's attack poverty, and if necessary damage wealth in the process." This is a pretty good article as Paul distinguishes the "good" (creating wealth) and "bad" (rent seeking) sources of economic ine
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by JDiculous 7y ago
Yea those would be the exception. But then again, how many people majoring in biology or chemistry actually end up using anything they learn? I'd wager it's probably a small minority.
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by JDiculous 7y ago
CS fundamentals are great, thankfully you don't need to physically go to any university and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition to learn them. The alternative isn't just being an intern taking on grunt work, there are
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by JDiculous 7y ago
Please name me one piece of any STEM undergraduate curriculum that I can't learn for free on the internet, and then I'll take back my statement.
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by JDiculous 7y ago
I only got my degree because everyone tells you to get one and most employers will throw your resume in the garbage without a college degree, though thankfully that's now changing.
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by JDiculous 7y ago
> This is categorically false. Face-to-face time... Just because talking to an expert is valuable doesn't mean you can't learn it for free on the internet. Also most undergrad curriculums are teaching old stuff - not exactly cu
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by JDiculous 7y ago
> I don't know why people think getting a credential does nothing Then actually pay attention to the arguments they're making instead of talking about how offended you are because it goes against your self-interest as a degree
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by JDiculous 7y ago
Google search is absymal at generic questions like the one the author mentioned about the best phones, or others like "Redux vs. Mobx" or "styled-components vs emotion". I end up just searching Reddit (or sometimes stack

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