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by baron816 6y ago
I wouldn’t tell people directly that they should write those classes/methods, only hinted towards them. I don’t think anyone came up with the idea of writing “filter” on their own, and people often struggled with the implementation. Th
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by baron816 6y ago
I used to ask a linked list question. It was “write a function that takes a linked list where values are integers and return a new linked list, grouping the odd numbers first and the even numbers last.” I was very specific about what I was
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by baron816 6y ago
Hmm...maybe it’s time to try some alternatives to democracy. What if we chose councilors from a pool at random? To get into the pool, you’d have to take some training and pass a series of exams. Training consists of how to write laws, how t
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by baron816 6y ago
Product Manager
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by baron816 6y ago
Yeah it’s not like it was really that much of his fault or anything (though I found it a bit fishy why he couldn’t get another job). Everyone’s mentality up until ~September was “oh just another month or two then everything will be back to
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by baron816 6y ago
There was an article a saw a few weeks ago about some guys based out of Oakland (maybe someone else can find it) who has accumulated 5 figures worth of rental debt. It talks about how he had just moved into an expensive place at the beginni
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by baron816 6y ago
Sounds more like buying the Apple Watch was the contributor to you happiness. Had someone gifted it to you, might you have had the same outcome?
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by baron816 6y ago
I created a library that simplifies working with Context, and won't rerender the whole app when a Provider rerenders from a state change. https://github.com/baron816/galactic-context You can play around with a dem
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by baron816 6y ago
Whenever I hear people describe tech workplaces as “toxic”, I think about this kind of stuff. I’ve heard some anecdotes about bosses at small startups who just really didn’t know what they were doing, but nothing systematic like this. Tech
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by baron816 6y ago
> there are plenty of non-profit schools that offer useless degrees in the forms of useless/impractical majors. Ugh. This again. College != vocational school. You don’t go to college to learn a trade or gain skills to get your first
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Despite many high profile failures, government tech is slowing improving(economist.com)
2 points by baron816 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How did you spend your time while HN was down?
7 points by baron816 6y ago|5 comments
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by baron816 6y ago
> Kreuz, who typically enjoyed drinking 17 beers a day This was the point where I was hooked
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Ask HN: Will robots/AI ever be able to figure out touch?
1 points by baron816 6y ago|1 comments
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by baron816 6y ago
Let’s abolish time itself. We’re all too busy dealing with space, no one has time for time.
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by baron816 6y ago
Just abolish time altogether
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by baron816 6y ago
Yeah, what’s stopping schools from having their own “DST/Standard Time” switch. Schools should set their hours according to what makes sense for students. We don’t need the whole country to set its clock around students.
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by baron816 6y ago
The Left keeps referring to things as a “human right” (housing is a human right, healthcare is a human right, etc.). I don’t totally disagree, but they mean that if something is a human right, then the government should provide it to everyo
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It Is Costing San Francisco $5k/Month for Each Homeless Tent(sfist.com)
22 points by baron816 6y ago|11 comments
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by baron816 6y ago
> Senior probably means they've been doing JS for decades before TS was invented. JS has only been around for 25 years. I’m a “Senior person” and I’ve been seriously working with JS for less than 5 years.
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by baron816 6y ago
I’ve asked on HN before why this exact thing didn’t exist. Now it does. Cool to see.
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by baron816 6y ago
I just looked it up. Employees cannot.
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by baron816 6y ago
There are few things that make me angrier than when a Harley-Davidson style motorcycle (or a pack of them) drive past me while I’m walking down the street. I can’t believe cities haven’t prohibited them, especially at night. Those things ar
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by baron816 6y ago
Bands don’t seem to break up as often as they used to.
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by baron816 6y ago
I’ve had an empty Ally bank account open for at least a decade. Still get statements for it each month. Every time I’ve tried to close it, it’s accumulated $0.01 interest, which I have to transfer out before closing. That transfer takes a f
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by baron816 6y ago
I bought an Xbox just so I could play Red Dead Redemption 2. Had Stadia been around, or had I been interested in Cyberpunk, I would certainly play on that. I still think it’s a good idea, with a lot of people falling into the “who is this f
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by baron816 6y ago
Isn’t this a startup idea cliche?
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by baron816 6y ago
When I graduated from a coding boot camp, I struggled for ~3 years trying to get my first real SWE role. At a few points, I was literally begging startups to let me work for them practically for free, and they were still saying no. A lot of
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by baron816 6y ago
I think this makes for an EXCELLENT interview question. Engineers with strong opinions are better than engineers who just do whatever others want and haven't thought deeply about anything. But even better is an engineer whose opinion c
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by baron816 6y ago
Needing to scratch you face or rub your nose but not being able to is awful. They need to solve that problem first.

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