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by dwoot 8y ago
In the 2018 SO Dev Survey, only about 25% of developers don't have any degree: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#education
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by dwoot 8y ago
Interesting. Did you glance at the latest Google I/O? There are a ton of things on the horizon that will continue to keep Google very relevant and generate money. For one, I'd like to point out Waymo. Autonomous transport seems li
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by dwoot 8y ago
That last sentence is so true now. I think Facebook lost itself as it has begun to try to become everything to everyone. The best version of the newsfeed was a newsfeed that could be filtered by content type. It was great when I could view
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by dwoot 8y ago
Hey Michael - if you don't mind sharing, which team did you work on and why did you feel the pressure to lean into strengths instead of learning something new? Could it be that this was just your perspective on it at the moment? The al
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by dwoot 8y ago
Your experience is very anecdotal as is what I'm about to share. For comparisons, we always need a reference point. I believe your reference point is where you currently reside in America. And the misery described in the article may no
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by dwoot 10y ago
I second this. Gary Bernhardt is well-respected and I've learned so much from him when I first started doing Ruby and Rails. He has some good ideas about software and he's very good with his tools (vim, zsh, git). He doesn't
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by dwoot 10y ago
Works smoothly for me - i5 and 16 gigs of RAM.
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by dwoot 10y ago
And here I was thinking HN didn't have much soul. I'm so glad that you shared this. I will definitely give this a read or listen. I was born and raised in San Francisco and am first generation Chinese-American. However, as a son o
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by dwoot 11y ago
We call it the "capture" operator. What it does is it captures the nth parameter of the anonymous function. Like some have already said, the number just signifies which parameter you're making a reference to in the function b
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Ask HN: Any large companies/startups built by people met at meetups?
1 points by dwoot 12y ago|0 comments
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by dwoot 12y ago
Todd Motto also has a great style guide, as well, that could be used as sort of a best practices: https://github.com/toddmotto/angularjs-styleguide
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by dwoot 12y ago
Didn't realize how sensitive to costs I was. I read, "try Polis free," but as I scrolled down it wasn't difficult to notice the image with $15/hour and it almost made me close my browser until I watched the video an
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by dwoot 12y ago
WSK left it out on purpose because it doesn't want to dictate how you manage dependencies or module loading. I don't use Bower. I build AngularJS applications and I prefer CommonJS over AMD, where I use Browserify for Node-like re
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by dwoot 12y ago
Have you come across Scott Young's feat? http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/mit-challenge/ I believe in the real world, you are best represented by a body of work and/or the ability to demonstrate that you
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Ask HN: REJECTED. Would you be willing to contract-to-hire?
2 points by dwoot 12y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Are there any fun games found on the iPad or iOS that teach programming?
1 points by dwoot 14y ago|2 comments
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by dwoot 14y ago
suneel, many people make this mistake. I went almost EXACTLY the same route you did. Although, I had already known HTML, CSS, and some Javascript, I was wildly unprepared for what I would encounter next just to learn how to get a working pr
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by dwoot 14y ago
You make some valid points. However, had you not taken the road you did, the material you read much later on probably wouldn't have made much sense and probably could have made you turn away from it all right at the start, right? You get ex
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by dwoot 14y ago
We're alike in many ways, J. I am a self-taught web-designer who, in his 10 years, learned HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator, and SOME Javascript on his own. I'm no pro by any means, but I've built some pretty neat looking things without be