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This reminds me of one of my favorite books of all time, Mots D'Heures: Gousses, Rames , which plays with language and bad French pronunciation. Highly, highly recommend. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mots_d&#x2
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For a data point, when I applied and interviewed for a frontend-focused position at Google ~1 year ago, I had the option of one of my interviews being a front-end specific interview that would focus on FE rather than algorithms.
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> Obtrusive scrollbars: scrollbars that take up screen real estate. These do not overlay on top of the content, but appear next to it. > Unobtrusive scrollbars: scrollbars that sit on top of the content. These don’t subtract screen
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Here are a few: * Diffuse mode vs. focus mode. After focusing hard on a problem, letting your brain wander can do wonders for coming up with insights and ideas. The classic example is coming up with something in the shower after working on
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Levels.fyi leans towards the larger companies, but it can be valuable for getting a sense of the higher range of salaries in the area: https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer&s... https://w
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I use a Kinesis Freestyle2 split keyboard at my day job, mostly because it was one of the available split keyboards available through my work. I really enjoy it so far. The split lets my shoulders maintain a naturally open position, and the
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Learning How To Learn ( https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn ) and Barbara Oakley's book A Mind For Numbers . Completely changed my approach to studying and learning, and my academic efforts after
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This sounds similar to the natural way your brain works and transitions between "diffuse" and "focus" modes (to use the jargon from Learning How To Learn). Highly recommend the course! https://www.coursera.or
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For a counter example, I know that I didn’t finish a problem but did make it through. I’m not sure such blanket statements apply.
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One thing I’d add is that live coding exercises can vary widely in quality. > If you solve the problem, you’re scored highly. If you don’t, you’re scored poorly. In my own opinion, this is a terrible way to look at these problems, thou
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I've found that repeated practice and building the habit was very helpful for longer term goals like learning. One thing I've done is explicitly blocked time to work on learning. For example, when I jumped in to learn some UX&#x2
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Is she looking for a full course? If so, I highly, highly recommend Harvard's online CS50. Tremendous course, and I think it gives a really great foundation for algorithmic thinking. If she's looking for something a little less i
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Preface: this is going to sound like an advertisement, but I promise I'm not connected in any way. I just like the idea. Have you heard of NanaGram? ( https://nanagram.co/ ). It's a service that regularly mails phys
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First, I'd recommend being suspicious of survivorship bias and following in anyone's footsteps (including any mentioned here). Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1827/ After that, I'd recommend the Courser
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I use Hugo and GitHub pages. Here's my workflow: - Make a new markdown file with the hugo command line ("hugo new posts/my-work-flow.md") - Writing, writing, writing - Run the server locally with drafts ("hugo serv
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From it’s wiki: “Of note is the story of his first wife, Arline, who was diagnosed with tuberculosis. She died while Feynman was working on the Manhattan Project; the book's title is taken from a question she often put to him when he
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I'd recommend this thread from 9 months ago: Ask HN: Why did your startup fail and what did you learn? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18011332
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Have you tried the Google Travel explore page? There's a "Suggested day plans" section you may enjoy. For example, Barcelona: https://www.google.com/destination?q=barcelona+city&output=s... Disclaimer: I
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If you’re interested in a case of unnecessary optimization and effort, the infamous left-pad npm library has been refactored to only add to the string O(log(n)) times. It is short but not sweet. https://github.com/left-pad&#
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I would advise against mixing theory 's scientific meaning with the more common "guess" meaning. The heliocentric theory and cell theory would like a word.
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Is this a workshop you ran at a company?
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I'd highly recommend looking through the monthly Who is hiring? threads, especially if you're more interested in startups. Here's the one from May 1st, and from a quick control-f through it looks like there are many posting
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I use a very simple Hugo and GitHub Pages setup. I wanted to keep it as simple as possible, because for me it's very easy to tinker instead of writing.
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I did this exact method for my last round of algorithm interviewing and found it very helpful. I also did this for various college courses I’ve taken, and I’ve found that to be tremendous for practicing and recognizing patterns.
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When you say "things got hard", what exactly do you mean? I've encountered many different difficult aspects in tech as a mostly self-taught engineer. Here are a few of the different things that were difficult for me: - Self
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Glad to see you still going strong! I’ve been a supporter on Patreon since your job-quitting announcement 10 months ago. How has it been working full time on Zig? Did you end up relocating from NYC?
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Off topic, but I believe this thread was posted a few days ago but has reappeared as new (currently says 4 hours ago) after a delay. OP originally posted it two days ago, visible from their submissions page. I noticed this happen a few days
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I transitioned into tech without a CS degree and did a great deal of coding at home outside of my day job to learn. At first my day job was tutoring, then customer support and some dev work, then a junior programming position, and now a so
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I would say GP's claim applies best for the first job, where that question of the gap is most visible. I studied physics and later entered tech. The first proper development job was the hardest to get, because it was an uphill battle t

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