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by gorpomon 8y ago
The front-end dev chart is only mislabeled, that's the amount of knowledge one needs to become a senior front-end dev. I'm in my seventh year of this career, and recently obtained a senior front-end role. I've worked my way
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by gorpomon 8y ago
Even fresh out of college with very little to offer (in a different industry than tech) I was not asked to do this. It sounds like you're dealing with some shady recruiters, and that's a shame because there are some good ones out
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by gorpomon 8y ago
In reference to the point she makes about people not assuming women are developers, I now make it a point to assume two things about most everyone (male and female identifying) that I meet in tech: 1) That they are competent and smart until
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by gorpomon 8y ago
On my first visit to Japan I went up to Takayama. I had never heard of Hida beef before that visit, but now I've eaten enough for a lifetime.
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by gorpomon 8y ago
Pretty disgusting stuff. There are plenty of places in the world where a video camera provides relief and safety, but work is rarely one. The engineers building this tech should be ashamed, they grew up to be the bad guys.
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by gorpomon 8y ago
I have to agree on the writing style. I think it's pretty anecdotal that it's "...almost considered child abuse to deprive your child of a mid-morning snack or after-school snack." I suspect the author has first hand exp
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by gorpomon 8y ago
I was an imperfect customer, frankly it figuratively stunk. I was charged $14-$18 per week for around a pound of produce. It was mostly just overstock. Honestly, weird shaped produce was part of the fun for me. It was always on the brink of
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by gorpomon 8y ago
This is really cool inspiring work. Julia Evans makes the world a better place.
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by gorpomon 8y ago
I'm cautious about over sentimentalizing Loggan, or on the other side getting angry about his situation. He seems like a person who could be a pretty good manager, but just never wanted to take that step up. It's easy to pillory t
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by gorpomon 8y ago
Get into therapy my friend, it will help in all aspects of life. It's not just for people who have mental illness or severe trauma. It's for all of us who have life experience that is unprocessed. I think it would be valuable for
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by gorpomon 8y ago
Serious question: whatever happened to mechanical solutions like seeding the atmosphere with a chemical that will reflect light? Are those things considered too risky to try? I remember hearing about those solutions some years ago, but they
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by gorpomon 8y ago
No need to get into it online. Simply put there are situations that can be successfully automated, like hailing taxis. There are also situations where we automate them to our detriment, like in this case. Also, yes! I would ask a librarian
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by gorpomon 8y ago
Absolutely disgusting, there's really not much more nuance to this. I can't fathom a situation where we want to automate what should be human interactions. Talking with children, in person, where they can learn from their mistakes
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by gorpomon 8y ago
This is a suggestion I see given a lot, but something that falls flat to me personally. The analogy I would put forth is that it feels like reading lots of different furniture assembly instructions in the the hopes of getting better at asse
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by gorpomon 8y ago
It's easy to get cynical about the gig economy. But I try and remember that the original spirit of it has been largely successful. The promise of the app economy was that you could take an idea like "I wish I could drive people ar
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by gorpomon 8y ago
At this point, the JS ecosystem with React is a bit too complicated for a hobbyist to learn quickly. I have friends spending months with just React, not including other libraries. But React is a tool for building complicated UI's, and
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by gorpomon 8y ago
I mean this in a nice way, I'd really appreciate a gist showing how you get the core concept of react-router in 50 lines. It's in a project of mine now and maybe it shouldn't be.
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by gorpomon 8y ago
Would a mind greater than I please weigh in on a potential path to using BrainFuck to do some type of meaningful task (simple server, cli tool, etc)? From what I can tell, the best bet is using it to to write the source code for another lan
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by gorpomon 9y ago
There's a lot of people, both here on HN and in our industry who roll their eyes when issues of diversity and inclusivity come up, but companies and spaces like WeWork are the result of not having those conversations. I spent ample tim
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by gorpomon 9y ago
I have two initial thoughts, at odds with each other. 1. Thus began the tale of the company that did too many things... 2. Ah, just like they turned their own cloud expertise into AWS, they're turning their logistics into its own offer
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by gorpomon 9y ago
A few really stuck out to me. The biggest one was pouring wine. I remember a few times I poured it kind of off and I got that distinct look of class violation. Haggling about splitting checks also got those looks often, the lesson I learned
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by gorpomon 9y ago
I spent a summer in NYC a few years ago. While living in NYC I did get a flavor of higher class living with some roommates of mine. It really is true that there are unspoken codes and mores to follow, and it was uncomfortable when I didn&#x
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by gorpomon 9y ago
I have a family member in DFW who has really embraced Uber, and wait times for the area are minimal, and they are around 20 miles from the Downtown area of Dallas (very mid-cities). I never thought that Uber would catch in DFW, and I'm
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by gorpomon 9y ago
This is actually a really common improv warm up. The group that's about to perform circles up, and one person says a word to someone else in the circle. That second person then passes the word to someone else, and so on. Eventually, af
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by gorpomon 9y ago
You learn something every day, thanks!
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by gorpomon 9y ago
I often wonder what the story of Sears means for Amazon. I think at first, my thinking was that what did Sears in was not noticing the shift to e-commerce like Amazon did, and that to unseat Amazon, it will take another shift that an upstar
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by gorpomon 9y ago
The desire to constantly switch JS frameworks is really confusing. I find each one different, exciting in their own way and fun to learn. However, and this is a big however, none of them radically change the work you'll create, so I&#x
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by gorpomon 9y ago
Not audio or even technical, but I recommend logic problems. The only downside is that they are so engrossing you might miss your stop.
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by gorpomon 9y ago
I half way agree here. Too many things are SPA's that don't need to be. An internal tool used by < 1000 people? Maybe let that stay server side rendered. A cutting edge app that promises a new clean way to bank/farm/h
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by gorpomon 9y ago
You are living my best life, kudos to you good sir.

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