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by rpeden 10y ago
Are you saying that you don't dream of Express middleware, and that that you don't sing songs about the joy of promises and generators? Have you not accepted Babel into your heart? To transpile or not to transpile, that is the
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by rpeden 10y ago
You make good and fair points. The first answer I wrote assume you've already described your unique qualities, skills, perspectives earlier in the interview. Because all of those non-monetary contributions absolutely provide value. A
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You're absolutely right; the specific phrasing should definitely be tailored to the person or people you're addressing. I decided to err on the side of bluntness because blunt, to-the-point statements are probably easier for peopl
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In reality? You spend the entire interview being friendly, likable, and at ease while fluidly and competently answering the interviewer's questions. I know that sounds like a trite answer, sort of like the How to Draw an Owl instruct
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by rpeden 10y ago
I've given co-workers a bit of push-back in the past when they've wanted to give too much weight to passion-related questions when we interviewed candidates. Not that it can't be important; it can, but the downside is that pa
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by rpeden 10y ago
You're right; the delivery should definitely be tailored to the audience. In the past, I've interviewed with some early stage startup founders and CTOs who are intimately familiar with the company's bottom line, and who appre
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by rpeden 10y ago
Yes, this is predicated on actually being able to deliver. If you're looking to edge your way into a BigCo role where you can look busy without actually doing much (hey, I'm not going to judge you if that's your cup of tea),
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by rpeden 10y ago
Assuming they ask this at the end of the interview after you've shown your skills and discussed your experience: "I believe I've demonstrated that I'll deliver significantly more value with my work than I'll cost yo
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by rpeden 10y ago
I thought it made sense. I know lots of non technically inclined people who use software every day. Most of them have no idea what free software is. If you asked them, they say it's software they don't have to pay for. If you expl
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The main issue I've run into is having a high DPI 4k monitor as my primary display, and a 1920 x 1080 monitor as my secondary display. In the past, I've have been happy to tinker a bit to make it work, but these days I'm busy
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by rpeden 10y ago
Be careful about that enterprise assumption. I've worked for two startups in my career. The first used mainly Java, and the second used mostly .NET. Heck, lots of companies you'd consider to be enterprise are building cool project
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by rpeden 10y ago
When you're just starting out, it probably doesn't matter too much. Pick one, and pick a project to build using it. You'll learn lots no matter what language out framework you use, and most of that knowledge will be portable
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It's useful to consider not just download size, but also the time required to parse the extra code, and the extra memory used by the code that's parsed and loaded into memory, but not actually used. Probably not a concern for de
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by rpeden 10y ago
I've long felt that the front end community could benefit from making heavier use of the Closure Compiler. It has been very good for a very long time now. The downside to its age is that it likes to do things its own way; it's had
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by rpeden 10y ago
I don't disagree with you advice re: React. Angular 1's commit graph shows it is far from abandoned, though: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/graphs/contributors From what I've seen, Angul
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by rpeden 10y ago
They do exist[1], and you can get braille stickers to add to normal qwerty keyboards[2]. The reason there's not a wider movement to make braille QWERTY keyboards easily available is that most people just don't want them. [1] http
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by rpeden 10y ago
The awesome lists you'll find on Github sound like they might be what you want, e.g. awesome-docker, awesome-flask, awesome-elixir, etc etc. You can find a curated master list of awesome lists here: https://github.com/s
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by rpeden 10y ago
Most popular (and unpopular, for that matter) open source projects would probably appreciate someone who wants to write high quality documentation. A good approach might be to find some projects you're interested in on Github, and cont
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by rpeden 10y ago
I could see myself not Googling very thoroughly if I were trying to find an excuse to write a Turbo Pascal compiler. :) Maybe the author was in a similar situation, whether conscious or not.
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Or just cut out the care part and start robotically enhancing Japanese seniors.
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You'd probably want to combine them and run an elder-care business staffed by robots to get around the labor supply problem.
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by rpeden 10y ago
As others have mentioned, it will be difficult to work your way out of this if you're working more than 60 hours a week. I've seen quite a few employers who have health insurance that covers stress leave. You might qualify, since
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by rpeden 10y ago
I figured you were a victim of autocorrect. I was just having a bit of fun with it. I thought you might have been taking about the .NET Foundation but made a typo and it got mangled by autocorrect. Regardless, I agree with your point. The n
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by rpeden 10y ago
It's a useful model, but I've found that it can break down a bit on really large, complex apps. If a piece of state is being passed to multiple places via props (either manually or using something like Redux), it can be difficul
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by rpeden 10y ago
> .NET Standard, Canadian, .NET Core, Mono, .NET Framework Ahh yes, good old .NET Canadian. It's exactly the same as normal .NET, except all methods and properties referring to 'Color' have been changed to 'Colour&#
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How big a problem is that in practice? BS3 is so widely used at this point that point that I think it is fair to call it 'done'. Browsers aren't going to stop supporting the features it uses any time soon.
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Nice, thanks for adding that. My first programming experience happened on an Apple ][ we had in my kindergarten classroom. It's been a long time since I've used one, though, so I didn't remember the on-screen logo.
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Probably because that's exactly how it was written on the machine's original logo[1]. I think it changed later on, though. [1] http://www.vintage-computer.com/images/apple2logo.jpg
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Your English is very understandable! I only mentioned it because potential users will often just assume that a few small errors on your marketing site mean that your app isn't worth trying. I'm busy with work at the moment, but la
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by rpeden 10y ago
Thanks for sharing! Your product looks quite useful, but it looks like perhaps English isn't your first language? The grammar is a bit awkward in several places, and some things are pluralized when they shouldn't be. It doesn&#x27

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