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> It’s not too hard for a physics student who already writes R code to learn web development from a MOOC in order to get an entry position at a startup. As someone who did this, it was very hard to do and took a great deal of both hard
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> In the arms race for the most unique! most authentic! store currently underway, when only-in-person experience is what differentiates retail from e-tail, a cultural treasure surrounded by a puzzle straight out of a Dan Brown novel may
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It seems like you're opposed to TypeScript and jumping to a quick dismissal. A lack of responses on an Ask HN thread is not evidence that answers to your question don't exist.
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After my full day of interviewing at Google, when my recruiter asked what I was planning to do for the rest of the day I let him know I would probably just be sitting at the park with my dog looking at the trees. I would bet that with time
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> if they are accredited and recognized This jumped out at me. What do you think is analogous to that accreditation in the software industry?
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Similar to interviewing.io, Pramp is another site that pairs interviewees together for practice phone interviews with a shared document to type in. It also lets you play the role of interviewer for half the session which is a good experien
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You actually responded to the author (matthewjhughes), which also supports the typo hypothesis.
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Watching how the language grows can be very interesting. I highly recommend taking a look at TC39 proposals and the process. For example, SmooshGate: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/smo
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Important emphasis on the quotation marks around the word standard. From the readme: > But this isn't a real web standard! > Of course it's not! The style laid out here is not affiliated with any official web standards gro
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Just wanted to point out that Google bought Waze in 2013.
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On a similar note, Google used to have a "Guide to Technical Development" page for students. It now redirects to this link, but you can still find it archived [0]. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/201606280511
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Assuming you use Sketch and that you renew your license yearly, why do you prefer a yearly subscription vs a monthly subscription?
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I posted this in another thread recently, but highly recommend the article A Tiny Village in Vermont Was the Perfect Spot to Hide Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [0] to learn more about his life in Vermont. [0]: https://www.neh.gov/
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Along these lines, I've always been fascinated by Operation Paperclip [0], the US effort to collect Nazi scientists that including Wernher von Braun (of V2 infamy and Saturn V fame). As Tom Lehrer sang [1], " 'Once the rocket
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My apologies, I was trying to include a facetious comment about enjoying spending time here as part of my job, not that I would enjoy being an anonymous shill. That wasn't clear, and I've updated the GP to reflect that. I greatly
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Interestingly there was a Ask HN about Amazon using HN for advertising its product recently as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18553815 . It was around the time of reinvent, which makes sense, but it also made so
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I highly recommend the article A Tiny Village in Vermont Was the Perfect Spot to Hide Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [0] to learn more about his life in Vermont. His relationship to the town is very interesting and particularly interesting to me
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My initial reaction is to assume that they were rejected because of a lack of experience, which is unfortunate but understandable. They may have mentally attributed it to only their age, but it's very easy to assume your own suspicion
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I just commented this on another thread, but it's also relevant here: As someone who entered the field with a non-CS degree, I can tell you about my own experience. I graduated with a degree in physics without any programming experienc
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You may be interested in this HN comment from roughly a year ago, in which a user created a playful bash prompt script that displays the number of successful commands run in a row: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=155631
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I greatly enjoy parrot.live ( https://github.com/hugomd/parrot.live ). curl parrot.live Running Windows 95 in an Electron app is also amazing: https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/
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As someone who entered the field with a non-CS degree, I can tell you about my own experience. I graduated with a degree in the hard sciences without any programming experience and now work at one of the big tech companies. If I had to do
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I usually explain TypeScript to others as helping the next person working with the code, be it me or another developer. I've found that diving in to source code is made easier when it's in TypeScript, and although it may slow down
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One of my first dev jobs years ago was at a non-technical company that had outsourced some previous development work, and the resulting HTML templates had all classes and styles in Spanish. The first "encabezamiento" class name (
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From a previous comment of mine: Barbara Oakley's Learning How To Learn class [0] was immensely helpful for understanding how brains work and how I could learn efficiently. I made it through college with a combination of cramming and
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> Since the Nazis reset the codes nearly every day, the teams started from scratch each morning. Decoding them was a tall order, because the permutations were complex: Each rotor had 26 possible positions, and no letter was encoded to it
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I don't think it's safe to say that half of all interviewers interpret clarifying questions as bad performance. Interviewing a potential candidate is a skill that can vary widely from individual to individual, and you may have got
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I've found that the main factor that determines my productivity (for everything: day job, studying for classes outside of work, doing chores, etc) is sleep the past few nights before. Caffeine can sometimes bridge a small sleep defici
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Would you be willing to expand on why you think it's probably quite a good value?
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Perhaps you'll find the words in Hunter Thompson's obituary of Nixon [0] fitting: " Richard Nixon is gone now, and I am poorer for it. He was the real thing -- a political monster straight out of Grendel and a very dangerous

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