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by peruvian 8y ago
I used to be vehemtly against self help/business books but the podcast Bookworms helped me find some valuable ones. The hosts go through a book and summarize or talk about it. But in general I agree - I don’t want to read about I can b
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by peruvian 8y ago
One of the reasons for this is that NYC is very livable with a tech salary. I’ve never been in the Bay Area, but here you can make just above $100k and live comfortably with a <60 mins commute to work. I know that because that’s what I d
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by peruvian 8y ago
Notes: Apple Notes - it's on every device I use and online, so it has the lowest friction. I use Apple Notes for grocery lists (using checkboxes), semi-permanent notes, and sometimes as an inbox of things to process later. Task Managem
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by peruvian 8y ago
> What's causing the rise of these curated lists? People with good intentions that want a repo with a high star count. Getting over 500 stars on these readme-only/awesome/"curated" list is very easy. The problem
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by peruvian 8y ago
It's better to just not be on the computer consuming online content instead of switching websites. I don't go on reddit and am here only occasionally (would be 100% gone if I could delete my account). Instead of replacing reddit&#
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by peruvian 8y ago
Or to sell themselves. Or worse, writing a subpar programming tutorial to have "online presence".
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by peruvian 8y ago
https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/2014/SelfPaced/abou...
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by peruvian 8y ago
High level dynamic language with a good standard library (Python, Ruby). I've seen applicants waste half their interview time writing helper functions in C or write a bunch of classes in Java before getting started with the actual prob
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by peruvian 9y ago
> I've had fruitless discussions on this very site where people will argue that it doesn't matter how you use the language if, ultimately, the message somehow manages to get conveyed. Most of the time terrible language does man
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by peruvian 9y ago
In the 90s a lot of companies (including big ones like Square Enix) simply deleted the source code once the game launched. They truly thought they had no need for it any more.
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by peruvian 9y ago
> I partially blame every tutorial and contrived example of how you should use Redux. Partially? No. The culture of side projects/GitHub/blog post had led people to over engineer their learning materials and side projects to lo
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Ask HN: Any “bootcamps” or courses for intermediate/advanced people?
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by peruvian 9y ago
> It always frustrates me when commenters are overwhelmingly undereducated about a topic but continue to make broad, sweeping generalizations. This sentences describes about 80% of the comments in HN. We computer nerds like to think we k
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by peruvian 9y ago
It's hard to take these kind of posts seriously when Reddit mobile site is one of the worst performing SPAs I've ever used.
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by peruvian 9y ago
I'm definitely falling into the "X.com used to be so much better back then!!" trope but I really hate how much /pol/ culture spread throughout 4chan. I spent a lot of time between 2006-2014 on various boards like &#
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by peruvian 9y ago
Did you read his next point? Emergency fund is for when your car breaks and you have to take money out of savings to fix it.
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by peruvian 9y ago
Once a week? I think once a month is max for "organized" (as opposed to casual invites) team activities outside of 9-5. We do have fun offsites every few months though.
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by peruvian 9y ago
Agreed. I'd rather read books in my couch at my own pace than feel stressed about finishing the latest non fiction self help book. The best way to read more books is to make time for it and read books you enjoy.
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by peruvian 9y ago
People go on social apps to waste time and have fun. I get your frustration but it's not surprising no one cares about discourse in Yik Yak.
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by peruvian 10y ago
I really don't think there's much difference between learning as an adult or a teenager. It's just that we have less time. A few months ago I wanted to learn to appreciate and listen to classical music. I woke up an hour earl
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by peruvian 10y ago
Yeah right. Most developers wouldn't be able to even start writing a package manager, let alone maintain it for years as it becomes the most used one for a particular platform.
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by peruvian 10y ago
And others are spending time with friends, families, taking care of their sick relatives, their kids, going hiking, reading, volunteering, etc. There's no need to say X is "wasting time" in such an objective tone. For many, s
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by peruvian 10y ago
> Though I tend to prefer languages that are at least somewhat functional (eg. python, go). Can't think of any less functional languages than these.
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by peruvian 10y ago
Over the weekend? I can't do it. Even if I forced myself to read for 6 hours Saturday and Sunday I'd forget everything during the weekdays. An hour or so every day is much better and realistic.
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by peruvian 10y ago
An interesting tidbit is that Ada's mother "forced" (maybe too strong a word, but obsessively encouraged her) to study the opposite of what Lord Byron did (poetry, arts) in fear that Ada would turn out like him and thus she s
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by peruvian 10y ago
In real life, I agree. But if I'm trying to solve an array sorting problem, why can't they just give me an array? LeetCode does it and it works fine. I get to focus on how to sort the array. The other commenter (natdempk) makes so
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by peruvian 10y ago
FWIW I found Rethink easier than Mongo, especially the query language. ReQL is actual JavaScript—Mongo's query language always seemed weird to me. Mongo was "there" first and generated a lot of hype through sales and marketin
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by peruvian 10y ago
> Strangely, I see so many new developers rushing toward the front-end "Easiest" area of programming to get a decent job and enter the industry. It's so much easier to find a job in big cities if you know Angular or React.
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by peruvian 10y ago
FWIW Elixir has first class macros that go way beyond Ruby's metaprogramming, so you may want to try that.
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by peruvian 10y ago
It goes both ways. People constantly say they're triggered when they're just offended or inconvenienced. If everyone followed your definition, we'd never had problems.

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