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by sotojuan 10y ago
Fair enough. Maybe I just don't like self-help books as much as others do.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
It's also a waste of time because it's a book. Deep Work, along with many other non-fiction "self help" books HN loves, could just be a couple of long blog posts. As a book it gets repetitive and tiring after the first h
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by sotojuan 10y ago
The 00s decade in general seems to have been the high point for small/idependent/hobby-based online communities in general.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Not just gigantic companies... plenty of startup employees have empty profiles as well and are doing fine. Companies that open source are actually pretty rare.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
I can confirm from the employee side. I've worked with 40-60 people total that I at least sort of remember. Sure, that's not many people and I'm still new to the industry, but I can tell you that of all of these people only o
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by sotojuan 10y ago
> It's not too obvious, but this is a Github "Story" This should be part of the title.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Tinkering wins most of the time. Honestly, unless it's a completely new concept or way of thinking (or for a lack of a better term, "academic" concept), tinkering and building stuff will be faster and more fun. I only read bo
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by sotojuan 10y ago
I actually find the Chemex as simple as the Aeropress. It has replaced it for my morning coffee.
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TestCheck – Generative property testing for JavaScript(leebyron.com)
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by sotojuan 10y ago
JS is a pretty bad first language to learn—too many quirks and random syntax in the last few years. Python is dead simple—I recently had to take on a project written in it having never programmed in Python before and I essentially did not h
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by sotojuan 10y ago
This first came out in 2013 or 14 IIRC. I remember signing up for it then.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
I personally think there's more than enough time in 4 years to both teach "theory"/computer science and practical skills. A lot of classes and colleges just move too slow.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
If you think that's crazy, my friend's professor has the students join a Slack room he created that allows for anonymous usernames to discuss classroom stuff. He has the chat open in a projector during class. It's an interest
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by sotojuan 10y ago
If the company is not a startup or otherwise very young, then a lack of training or mentoring. I'm expected to be a cheaper version of a mid/senior dev, perhaps just a bit slower.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Early 2015 13" rMBP. Have no complaints—works perfectly.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
80% salary assuming my significant other is working either in the same schedule or a 5-day a week now. If not, I'd still do it but I'll probably need to do some budgeting :-) 4 days of work and 3 days of rest is, IMO, the perfect
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by sotojuan 10y ago
It's just a category/brand. I do like being able to search "awesome x" for anything when I want to browse libraries or tips. Better than guessing what the repo name would be.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
This happens often with coworkers who spend a lot of work time reading books that go way beyond the material needed for their task (which is usually covered by official documentation).
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by sotojuan 10y ago
> Honestly I find that the experience you gain by reading/writing Go code and consuming online content is more beneficial than the book. This applies to almost all languages and technologies!
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by sotojuan 10y ago
With Webpack 2 or Rollup and a judicious attitude towards dependencies you can get most of the way there.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
I don't. I learn and do one thing at a time, close down everything else, and visit HN/Lobsters/etc as little as possible. I take notes by hand but that's just a habit—I don't go back to them often. I casually update
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by sotojuan 10y ago
That's crazy. I pay $1,900 for a 800sqft in Brooklyn and I thought that was bad!
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by sotojuan 10y ago
I think the biggest problem with COL is the fact that COL is a very personal matter. Here in NYC, most college graduates (programmers or not) share an apartment with flatmates. If you're a programmer, as long as at least one person in
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by sotojuan 10y ago
I think the importance of that varies from person to person... I don't dislike inside jokes but also don't care if I miss them—I'm just there to do my best work. That said, I completely understand why someone would feel diffe
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by sotojuan 10y ago
It's probably set up to attract cheap Eastern European devs.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
It works at our company because the only remote guy is the only one in his "domain" (iOS). He probably doesn't care about the frontend watercooler chat and anything important about the backend will be mentioned in standup.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
It's more expensive in terms of opportunity than money. Sure, an expensive SAT tutor will help but lower class kids usually have to work or take care of a substantial amount of chores in the household. That takes time away from the act
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Stanford takes care of tuition for families under $125k of assets, but even that means the upper middle classes will spend tons because they'll fall out of that range.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
> I've tried to get other people to get involved with Elixir but most people don't understand Functional Programming I really don't get this. Elixir is barely FP—just immutability and first class functions. Is it really th
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by sotojuan 10y ago
This already exists in book, blog post, and video formats.

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