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   by kevintb 8y ago

   Watching videos passively cannot get you the same depth of knowledge as implementing it, applying it, and discussing it with others.
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   by kevintb 8y ago

   Ah yes, I see your point. I meant any education that reaches the depth of a CS university education. 3 month bootcamps don’t cut it, but there are of course ways to achieve that yourself. I commend the individual who goes above and beyond t
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   by kevintb 8y ago

   The commenter below (andreareina) is correct, I said I'm less qualified to say whether a CS education is needed or not for FE development because I’ve never done it myself, so I can’t authoritatively make such a statement. It was the o
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   by kevintb 8y ago

   > The universities do not know whom you see yourself as in the future, and even you often do not know that at the age of your enrolment. It is believed that it is better to teach you all the basics, than to miss something important. Defi
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   by kevintb 8y ago

   Agreed, but this is the default attitudes of most HN comments - to criticize or nitpick something small.
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   Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?

   276 points by kevintb 8y ago|243 comments
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   by kevintb 8y ago

   Wow. Thanks for the link
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   by kevintb 8y ago

   https://github.com/tamarit/edbc for those who want to see the implementation
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   Thought experiment: How would Amazon enter the venture capital business?(summation.net)

   1 points by kevintb 8y ago|0 comments
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    Hilarious! Good on Apple, I hope they continue doing this for all the other companies doing the same.
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    FB should have seen this coming, honestly. What did they expect?
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    Good on Apple.
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    For those who didn’t learn CS formally and taking this guide seriously: it seems too heavy on math and completely missing in many important areas IMO. Like - no sections for OS or networking?
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    Holy shit. This is beyond the pale.
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    This is a great way of putting it.
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    Not sure if it’s me but... This seems like an odd laundry list of things. “Software Engineering Interviews” next to “ Lamport Timestamps, Binary Search Tree, search, insert, and delete”?
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    Why is this flagged?
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    fast.ai courses are EXCELLENT. I've read/watched many interviews with both creators and have been even more impressed by their drive to bring deep learning to everyone, not just the AI specialists.
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    I generally wasn't impressed by his work, but learning that Eric Elliot changed his citations to suit his false claims for his article on TDD [1] has made me lose any form of respect for him [1] https://twitter.com/Hill
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    Agreed, although curious which technical subreddits you are following? I’ve been disappointed with the attitude/irrelevance of HN these years and am looking for new sources to read.
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    Excellent article! Love everything published by DAS.
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    > That said, I don't think it is entirely fair to pile on Oracle for this problem Excuse me? It is perfectly fair to “pile on” Oracle for widespread illegal discrimination in their labor practices.
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    Interesting, I think that textbook is one of the best I’ve read on networking. It gave me the foundational knowledge on approaching networks.
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    Yup - agreed 100%.
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    > I gave myself 9 hours per day to make progress on research. I gave the rest of my time to my family. I negotiated some exceptions with my wife (paper deadlines, conference travel, late meetings that others scheduled), Wait, missing a c
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    I never knew Mozilla had a toxic culture. Could you expand on this (or any other former Mozilla employees attest to this)?
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    I've never heard of either before, and they've really caught my attention. Thanks for bringing this up.
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    +1 to Typora, it shows you the folder contents which is great.
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    Great site!
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    by kevintb 8y ago

    This is a wonderful website. Love it.