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by romanhn 4y ago
And just to make sure the aliens lose whatever shred of confidence they might still have in human civilisation, we should introduce them to time zones: https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY . My favorite video on the topic.
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Not just you. I felt like Black Swan was utterly forgettable and could be summarized as "shit happens". The name dropping and snobbery put me off reading anything else by him.
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In the article they theorize that he might have been considered a plague spreader. A burial would be a much better way to contain further spread compared to many of the other alternatives (though one might wonder why they didn't just b
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I wouldn't put too much stock in politicians' quotes. Based on some of the congressional hearings, it's clear these folks don't understand even basic smartphone operations, I suspect most modern technology is unidentifie
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PHP (and JavaScript for that matter) historically did not have a good implementation of OOP, nor a culture around it. As far as I know, things have changed on that front, but it certainly does not surprise me that you were able to deliver a
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by romanhn 4y ago
The show Silicon Valley had a great bit that mirrors this advice (on why you don't want revenue): https://youtu.be/BzAdXyPYKQo
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When I was there 20+ years ago, the intro course (CS61A) was definitely known to knock the unprepared/uncommitted out of the running. Back then it was taught with Scheme out of SICP.
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As someone writing a .NET-based API hosted on AWS Lambda, I assure you, startup time matters a ton. I spent a bunch of time getting cold start time down to a semi-reasonable number, but there's still a ton of room for improvement. I fo
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by romanhn 4y ago
Random host? Jon Stewart was huge, he defined political comedy for over 15 years. His audience though likely didn't overlap much with JRE due to different political leanings (well, that and age).
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I recently spoke with the tech lead of a team that is all in on .NET for web development, as well as using Xamarin.Forms to develop cross-platform mobile apps. While this achieved their goals, the lead felt that the complexity of dealing wi
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Quest 2 No Longer Requires a Facebook Account Starting Today(uploadvr.com)
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The image above is a tweet showing just that (after the outline drawing). Perhaps your browser didn't load it properly?
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If you haven't read it yet, I think The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier is probably among the most practical books on engineering management out there.
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One Rhonda Sollberger is fairly easily found on Facebook via Google (different last name currently). The others are trickier.
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The people that care are a tiny minority. Even fewer of them are hiring managers. Way more will see it as a positive signal, having worked at difficult-to-get-into, competitive company. Don't worry about it, do your thing.
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My needs are pretty basic, so it's been fairly smooth sailing so far. I love that I can use EF to generate join tables without needing to create entity classes for them, while still retaining the ability to customize field/table n
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by romanhn 4y ago
Not exactly a startup (yet?), but I'm using .NET 6 in my side project to build the API backing a React SPA. It was funny arriving at it, because I started out by trying to choose between Python and Elixir, having left the Microsoft eco
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Not worded in the friendliest way, but given OP is a direct person, perhaps this is the right medicine. Because there's a lot of wisdom here. I don't see any grinding in the original post, just coasting. Welcome to adult life, I g
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by romanhn 4y ago
When I have a specific technical question, I append "stackoverflow" to my search queries. When I want to read a discussion, I add "reddit" (or "hacker news").
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Magic links improve security on a couple of fronts. For one, they prevent users from making weak passwords, which let's face it, most people likely fall into this category. One could argue that strong password requirements do the same,
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These comments are very interesting to me. I first read War and Peace in abridged format in English as a high school assignment, and loved it enough to follow up immediately with unabridged in Russian (am a native speaker). Found it enthral
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by romanhn 4y ago
Exactly same here. Scaffolded a small project with Create React App. At one point tried to organize all the config files in a subfolder and ran into the problem of CRA literally hardcoding the location. Was annoyed enough to look at alterna
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I most certainly do not, hence the quotes :-) In fact, I think it actively selects _against_ the best candidates. Basically, it's optimized to quickly cut out the long tail of subpar employees (per whatever definition they might have),
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Right, you left out the next part from the quote - "(yes, there are people who have done it, they are the minority)". Congrats on being able to consistently pass without prep - I stand by my words that most passing candidates are
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by romanhn 4y ago
False positives surely exist, but in my experience the challenges are rigorous enough and preparation requires enough patience, that there's a certain competency floor here that makes this less of a problem for the company. Every singl
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It really is odd, and I think it shows how processes have inertia of their own, the bigger the company, the bigger is inertia. Too big to stop at this point. After our struggles to hire senior folks as a Bay Area startup I was expecting som
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Ex-FAANG here and I am firmly in the former camp. These interviews most definitely don't test anything you will be doing on the job. Thing is - that's not the point. These companies need a repeatable, trainable process that can sc
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> The fact that you give something away at no charge (but actually make money or even if you don't make money) is not a reason you can then walk away and not have any responsibility at all for anything and everything. (Or shouldn&#x
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An absolutely incredible achievement. Though to clarify - this is not Quake running on Game Boy, but rather a custom engine hand-written in assembly that can run Quake levels (or, I think, just the first level anyways). Which, in my mind, i
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by romanhn 4y ago
+1 to Replit. My 12yo has been doing some cool things with it. Started with basic HTML, JS and CSS, then progressed to backend Node.js/Express. They even have a basic key-value database. It was really neat to sit down with him and expl

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