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by azangru 4y ago
Nanodegrees was a later invention. They still have free courses in their catalog; but they are now about seven years old.
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> and years out of date This wasn't the case around 2014. They used to publish plenty of new courses back then.
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Ask HN: Whatever Happened to Udacity?
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> The author seems to suggest that React is reactive The word "React" never appears in the README.
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by azangru 4y ago
> Reactivity Without Virtual DOM I am confused. Why are the concepts of reactivity and of virtual DOM put together like this? Was Virtual DOM ever solving the reactivity problem?
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by azangru 4y ago
> Search should be democratized by governments. It is central and should be for everybody. No control. I am confused. Are you suggesting that governments should nationalize the search part of Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, etc.? Or tha
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> It is depressing that people dont recognize that Google has invented and perfected a parasitic business model ... The article aims to offer a preliminary analysis of whether Microsoft can become a better parasite In this model, are end
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> So what do we do when confronted with an anecdote from antiquity versus system inequities from our modern era? I guess, in the spirit of the analogy, your options are to either stop cutting off body parts from anyone, or to start cutti
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by azangru 4y ago
> So what does one do if you wish to have a level floor? Let me offer you a different metaphor about levels :-) In Greek mythology, there was a character named Procrustes. He had an iron bed of a certain size, to which he strapped his ca
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> Please take a moment and reflect on why these sorts of initiatives exist. These sorts of initiatives are trying to cure a racial or sexual bias with a different sort of racial or sexual bias. How does the question "why they exist&
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> How do you know that OP has a job at the expense of a white person? Which part of the parent's message says that he does? What it does say that if an organisation gives preferential treatment to a certain group based on their skin
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by azangru 4y ago
> Because it can literally write the code for you in many cases. It can help you find bugs in your code or refactor it. Do a code review for you instantly. So even if you believe for some reason that you should never use a tool like this
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by azangru 4y ago
phpBB forums were great for grouping discussions by topics. HackerNews still has this vibe; and maybe reddit as well. But media like twitter or mastodon instead connect you to a person, who may have multiple opinions on various subjects, of
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by azangru 4y ago
> Since the last few months, another key tool at least as important is ChatGPT. Could you elaborate on this? Why do you think it's such an important tool for software developers, and how would one go about learning or teaching it? A
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by azangru 4y ago
> any senior engineer who doesn’t is committing professional malpractice Interesting. Why not turn it around and say that any junior engineer who doesn't use comments left by his more experienced colleagues as a learning opportunity
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by azangru 4y ago
Thank you for the response. I feel that there is a bit of miscommunication here. You focus your efforts on arguing against React. I do not disagree. I would love nothing better than to throw away React and embrace Lit or native web componen
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by azangru 4y ago
> But how much of the "stuff" is actually necessary? That's up to the business (product owners) to decide, isn't it? Not up to developers. Take a look at a video page on youtube, and catalog how much interactivity is
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by azangru 4y ago
> Do you realise that you are talking of a really small minority of what these tools are used for? I absolutely do realise that; but the author seems to ignore them altogether (which is a bit odd, given his normally commendable spirit of
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by azangru 4y ago
> TL;DR: your JS is probably worse than you think. Write HTML and CSS instead. It will go better for everyone. Dear author, Could you explain to us how one would write Online Photoshop in HTML and CSS? Or Figma? Or Excalidraw? Or Youtube
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by azangru 4y ago
Took me a while to understand what "using Google to download software" means. Was there a hidden functionality I wasn't aware of? Turns out, what they mean is "don't use Google to search for software you wish to dow
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What if you are recording a conference or a lecture? May easily go over 30 minutes; does not always need theatrical quality.
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> lot folks who want the higher pay of the higher roles but none of the responsibility Isn't building a high-quality product with a sound architecture, while making correct technical decisions, and writing well-tested and properly d
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by azangru 4y ago
> ...Because OP is getting paid a big salary to do what the business requires, not what they wish their responsibility could be? Is this what the business truly requires though? As a person grows his skill in software development domain,
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by azangru 4y ago
> In your position, the expectation is that you are mostly a working through others and acting as a force multiplier of their work. OP said that his role is senior developer. Developer. Not a manager. Not a team lead. But someone who wan
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by azangru 4y ago
> Nobody is forcing anyone to go through all the different DE offerings. That's not quite right. Laptops purchased with Linux will come with a DE chosen by the vendor, and in many cases it is something custom. System 76 puts PopOS
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by azangru 4y ago
> I hear the hardware quality is quite good Word is, it's HP EliteBook 845 G8 ( https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/wc9d7a/hp_de... )
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by azangru 4y ago
I enjoyed Yuval Harari's course A Brief History of Humankind when it was available on Coursera (it can still be found on youtube, although at low video quality — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGhTQ4iruLc&list=PLE-
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by azangru 4y ago
> any author would be idiotic to read stolen source code and then decide to create a OSS library/project based on what they learn from it. What? Why? Isn't this what software developers do — they read a lot of code; they find i
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by azangru 4y ago
> How about just checking I know what I put on the resume and being done with it Which would bring us to another favorite Hacker News topic, i.e. venting about how tech interviews are terrible, and why don't interviewers just look a
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by azangru 4y ago
> I.e. rxjs code like this As with everything, we should be picky. For rx, Ben Lesh - always yes, obviously. Michael Hladky - yes. Deborah Kurata - maybe yes? Random youtuber - no.

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