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by songzme 9y ago
Not sure what you are trying to say here, but I'll try to indulge. 1. Your mom doesn't have enough money - You can still involve your parents by having them manage your property. You'd be surprised though, most parents have a
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> Sounds like the best thing that happened in this story was partnering with other wealthy people... I can see how you made this conclusion, which is semi-correct. You don't have to partner with other wealthy people though, it just
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After college, I paid $800/mo and lived modestly to save up money in SF. Two years later, I bought my first house in Berkeley and moved in. The tax savings from mortgage interest helps save alot of money. We rented out 2 remaining room
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by songzme 9y ago
> Do you think this is true of all "tech" or just software? We should always be improving humanity and ending suffering through tech, software, law, and everything else. > Do you think it similarly wasteful when a car manufa
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Thanks for sharing, I did not think about this use case when making my original statement.
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I wish I could understand the value add of yet another IDE. The whole reason for tech to exist is to improve things around the world, and yet brilliant minds are still spending years building one IDE after another. "Switching branch an
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I'm glad this is brought up. ever since I left Google my parents no longer have much to brag about when taking to relatives about me. I got to spend a year doing stuff I was passionate about without having to defend my decisions to any
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In the bay area, I'm currently paying 5 people 2k / mo and I've been paying them that much for about a year. They are incredibly hardworking and work about 12 hours / day. I mainly recruit from CalWorks (a public assista
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Apparently South Michigan is the safest place to live from natural disasters: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-safest-place-to-live-in-th...
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Programming reminds me of my stand up comedy days (2018)(medium.com)
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I run a nonprofit that teaches people how to code and for the past year we have hosted our own server / content at our offices. our students ssh into our server to write code and host their apps / content from there. Sometimes, Iv
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I might have missed your satire but Chinese people and the Chinese government are two very different concepts. It is wrong to use one too judge the other.
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It's not a practice we have read anywhere, it's something we experimented with and worked
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Don't write code. Break down a feature into tasks that you would take 30 mins or less to accomplish. Have them build each task one by one. If they take longer than 1 hour, you know that they are stuck on something so you can go help th
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Ask HN: How to help someone going through depression?
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I think its so awesome that you are not only bringing this up on HN, but you also seem to have a genuine desire to be successful. Its probably for a noble idea, perhaps it is to make your parents happy, perhaps it is to improve other people
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by songzme 9y ago
Signed up for my non-profit, the onboarding flow was simple and fast: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/LlcnOfXiu However, I have a few pointers. During the onboarding flow, I had to fill out the title, description, image /
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Learn Elm with 25 examples(github.com)
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I used to do alot of self-motivation hacks, but ultimately threw everything out the door because they were unsustainable and tiring. I eventually noticed that if I was helping people, I didn't need any kind of motivation. I do things b
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by songzme 9y ago
Please Callback me. Promise?
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The ideal hiring process imo is actually a training process that is less focused on 'finding the best' but rather focused on helping their local community become good engineers. Companies fund their own bootcamps and pay students
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I love this! We are going to broadcast this on the screen at our valentine's day event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fancy-date-with-javascript-tick...
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by songzme 9y ago
The ideal hiring process imo is actually a training process that is less focused on 'finding the best' but rather focused on helping their local community become great engineers. Companies fund their own bootcamps and pay students
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by songzme 9y ago
Thanks for sharing, perhaps my workflow could be improved. Here's how I usually work: 1. Build a prototype of the feature I need to build 2. After I have a prototype, I start to understand the complexities of the project and I start th
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by songzme 9y ago
Good article, but I personally hate Take-Home coding challenge: Some people spend an entire week on the coding challenge, which really set the bar unrealistically high. Once I turned in a project 2 hours after receiving the assignment and g
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by songzme 9y ago
I started this non-profit to address the bootcamp problem: https://garagescript.org/ After trying out different methods of teaching, here's what works for us: 1. We do peer to peer teaching. If a student learns arrays,
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delete
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by songzme 9y ago
Great points, thank you for sharing. Personally though, I have a few projects that are very well scoped that I redo over once in a while and it was interesting to experiment with different approaches on a project you know well.
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I think you should redo this project and see how your coding style have changed. I went through your code and I could see myself doing something similar at the time, but I would code it up very differently now.
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Recently I got asked to build a Minesweeper game during an interview onsite for a senior front end position and it was incredibly fun to build. If anyone wants a challenge, try building minesweeper in an hour! Here's my solution: http

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