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The Boot Camp Grad Who Got $250,000 Starting Salary(williampross.com)
1 points by rampage101 10y ago|0 comments
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7 Must Read Python Books(williampross.com)
1 points by rampage101 10y ago|0 comments
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by rampage101 10y ago
"For instance, if you have ever, at any time, become a friend of an author on Facebook or Goodreads, your honest review will be expunged." That sounds pretty strange and extreme. So Amazon is checking up on who's friends with
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by rampage101 10y ago
Wow that is shocking how much Hacker Rank is being used by companies... it seems experience should count much more than coding challenges.
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by rampage101 10y ago
Yea I agree. Their own site is programmed very poorly, yet they are supposed to be the graders of who is a good programmer?
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How I Became HackerRank #1 in Two Hours(williampross.com)
33 points by rampage101 10y ago|5 comments
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by rampage101 10y ago
Yea this article seems like an obvious promotion for Hacker Rank and boot camps in general. Nobody is becoming a "top ranked" Java developer in 3 months. I say this as somebody who spent many years developing in Java, and I was no
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by rampage101 10y ago
Their programming knowledge tests are very gimmicky questions where you often spend over half the time figuring out how to format the input because everything is read from standard in.
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Interview with Linux Guru Michael Kerrisk(williampross.com)
2 points by rampage101 10y ago|0 comments
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by rampage101 10y ago
"The GoF list of design patterns is very much tightly coupled to the peculiarities of Java at the time the book was written." The book is about C++ and Smalltalk. There is not a single mention of Java in their book.
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by rampage101 10y ago
TAOCP is so much superior to CLRS it is not even close. At the end of each section of CLRS they ususally mention Knuth anyways. Knuth's writing is clear and amazing. It really makes the history of computer interesting. Pretty typical o
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by rampage101 10y ago
I think the person interviewing in this article should have seen the person doing the interview was looking for short answers. It is not a perfect interview process but I am not shocked he did not get it as you can see his annoyance as the
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by rampage101 10y ago
A lot of people are only interested in crypto-currencies for use in the black markets. While probably a majority here are more interested in them from a computer science or investing perspective.
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by rampage101 10y ago
I missed that somehow haha... thanks
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by rampage101 10y ago
Yea you are correct. Just saying when you read a Django tutorial and they say a "View is not a View", meaning that the Django View is different... that is not exactly newbie friendly.
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by rampage101 10y ago
The difference in difficulty between Python/Django and WordPress is massive. To do Django you have to know Python, which is a big assumption. For Wordpress you need basically zero programming knowledge. Also compared to Flask, Django i
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by rampage101 10y ago
He does not seem to state any reasons he thinks "Winter is Coming". The earnings of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Google tell a different story than his.
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by rampage101 10y ago
That is so crazy that do login is needed if you are already signed into Google. I am also surprised they are sharing this feature with users.
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by rampage101 10y ago
The client is unable to understand the technical challenges, while the developer cannot read the client's mind. Not a mystery why the project in story failed. I am more familiar with AndroidStudio than iOS programming, and it just feel