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by jstx1 4y ago
Maybe it is but the guy is a snake oil salesman who doesn't deserve more attention for saying this.
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by jstx1 4y ago
C, JavaScript, any other general purpose language as long as you have a good teacher. I think the importance of which language you pick first is really overrated.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Importantly it's a decision made as a solo developer at a tiny company. Otherwise it's not like there are any Nim jobs out there, or any serious mindshare/momentum, or significant investment from big companies.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Excuse me what? Is this legit? It makes no sense to me. Why would they buy a football team?
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by jstx1 4y ago
Maybe the other way around - his ignore file has "Tesla" in it?
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by jstx1 4y ago
I'll mix up a few different languages and I'll probably be taking it easy after the halfway mark, and looking up a lot of the solutions. Last year's was very tedious, the instructions get so contrived that just reading throug
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by jstx1 4y ago
You can only avoid so many meetings though. In software most teams have some kind of regular standup schedule. How do you know that the standup times of 2-3 jobs won't overlap before starting those jobs? Or what if the standup schedule
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by jstx1 4y ago
What do you mean fall out with someone? Like a serious personal disagreement? That's the part that sticks out, and if it keeps happening everywhere, then yes, it's probably you. If you mean switching jobs every 3-5 years, that par
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by jstx1 4y ago
CS50 > prefer starting with a working program rather than with pointers and structs. It starts with Scratch. And then gets into lower level C stuff and back to higher level Python/JavaScript/SQL.
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by jstx1 4y ago
It seems fine to me, IMDB is on the first page of results for the few random movies I just looked up.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Not a book but MIT have an open course called Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Ionizing Radiation - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61FVzAxBP09...
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by jstx1 4y ago
I don't follow anything, the big and important things either bubble up on places like HN/reddit or I'll find them when I need to (if I'm working on a specific problem, I can always look up what the latest / state of
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by jstx1 4y ago
Technical books on a kanban board along with all of my other technical learning, nontechnical books in a note called reading list.
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by jstx1 4y ago
If the point is that DSLs will be around, sure. They already are. If the point is that we'll replace complex full-featured languages with a stack of DSLs - no way.
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by jstx1 4y ago
If you feel insecure with hardly any reason, you’ll feel insecure anywhere so moving won’t help at all.
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by jstx1 4y ago
There's nothing in what you wrote that suggests that you could be fired / laid off. Of course anyone could be fired / laid off even without much of a warning but you're making a big leap from "workload is decreasing
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by jstx1 4y ago
Do not trust your gut. You're new to the industry and full of insecurities, doubt, impostor syndrome etc. Many people are. Your gut is telling you all sorts of things that are completely false. Do not trust your gut.
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by jstx1 4y ago
I think you're underestimating how difficult operating at that scale is. There's no "just" here. It's hundreds of millions of people, all over the world, using your app 24/7, with the expectation that your plat
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by jstx1 4y ago
It's not that it allows it, it doesn't say anything about a similar-but-different version of the code running on a different network in parallel.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Maybe it's overblown, I don't know if consultants are really the fix though. What kind of consultant jumps into a completely new codebase of a massive distributed system with hundreds of millions of users that has broken down to t
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by jstx1 4y ago
The cesspool in the responses is fascinating as always.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> I’d rather work on a project that builds something and the effort accumulates into something more tangible than an analysis report. There are data science jobs in which your output is at most a report, and there are data science jobs i
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by jstx1 4y ago
And Theranos.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> Well when I say max out pension it isn't really an investment decision more than it is "this is how much money the government said I need to pay them for them to take care of me when I'm 70" Depends on what you mean
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by jstx1 4y ago
This seems very contradictory. When you pay into a pension, what's the money held in? It will be either cash or some fund (actively mangaged, passive index fund, ETF, a bond fund etc). When you save (point 2), what's the money hel
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by jstx1 4y ago
The specifics depend on the country you’re in. In the UK for example there’s a type of investment account (ISA) in which you don’t have to pay tax on any income from capital gains or dividends. There are also private pensions that have othe
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by jstx1 4y ago
> there will be more role reductions as leaders continue to make adjustments. Those decisions will be shared with impacted employees and organizations early in 2023. We haven’t concluded yet exactly how many other roles will be impacted
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by jstx1 4y ago
My point is that the interview request isn't special like your title suggests. You could say "they're a fraud BS company" in response to any single thing this company does (and you might be right, that's besides the
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by jstx1 4y ago
This is just mocking the company. Which seems fair but it has nothing to do with interviewing or hiring. Have the asked for anything unreasonable? Are they supposed to not hire right now?
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by jstx1 4y ago
Have you ever done CRUD for hundreds of millions of users distributed globally accessing your service 24/7? It's much more complicated than updating a database. Then you have ranking algorithms, search, ad serving, moderation...

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