charliewrites

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What it's like to become a full time programmer out of high school(triplebyte.com)
1 points by charliewrites 7y ago|0 comments
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‘Flying over Traffic’: Short-Hop Services Multiply(theinformation.com)
1 points by charliewrites 8y ago|0 comments
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Economist Bryan Caplan on CS Degrees, Educational Signaling, and Child Labor(triplebyte.com)
3 points by charliewrites 8y ago|0 comments
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Interview with a Programmer Who Retired at 34(triplebyte.com)
25 points by charliewrites 8y ago|17 comments
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by charliewrites 8y ago
“Most of what you study in school you are highly unlikely to ever use in a job—if you even remember it.” I wish I had asked Bryan about the value of universal education for society in terms of creating opportunities for specialization: Most
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CS Degrees Are Mostly Just Signaling – An Interview with Economist Bryan Caplan(triplebyte.com)
10 points by charliewrites 8y ago|4 comments
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by charliewrites 8y ago
I also liked these quotes from the original interview, but didn't include them for the sake of brevity: On favorite languages/frameworks: Ruby on Rails, definitely. I just fell in love with it, it was so much easier to get some
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by charliewrites 8y ago
Some quotes that didn't make the final edit (but that I liked): On being extreme with finances: Personally, I'm pretty extreme. Every time I spend money, it's like the worst case scenario. So much thought process has gone
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by charliewrites 8y ago
Not only proving to companies what you know, but knowing what you know yourself: "I think for a long time I wanted to work at a company and do software development in a professional setting. But that was a really big stressor for me, b
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Interview with a self-taught programmer who used Triplebyte(triplebyte.com)
2 points by charliewrites 8y ago|1 comments
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by charliewrites 8y ago
Another clarification: this data only applies to general programming exercises and not domain-specific knowledge. For example, if your role requires bio-informatics knowledge (or ML or AI etc.), then by all means ask about bio-informatics—e
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Triplebyte Editor Report: The Rise of Visual Studio Code(triplebyte.com)
6 points by charliewrites 8y ago|0 comments
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by charliewrites 8y ago
"There are a lot of intelligent people out there with skills that are being wasted. They could be making products that are going to further society, in the “greater good” sense. There's a disconnect between these good engineers an
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by charliewrites 8y ago
As someone who just started working at a startup, I definitely resonate with the idea that you learn a lot more quickly and get to operate above your level. Of course, for him that meant creating Gmail.