sotojuan

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by sotojuan 10y ago
It completely depends on the airport. My parents home is in Houston, Texas and I flew to college at Hobby Airport. The waiting and gate area was large and big, it had free wifi and a ton of places where I can eat (breakfast, lunch, or dinne
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Vue, like Ember, is not controlled or authored by a large tech corporation. That doesn't make them better or worse, but it's an idea I like.
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Free Time and the Pressures of Employability(zedbooks.net)
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by sotojuan 10y ago
I guess I didn't explain my point well. I don't expect new grads to have "professional experience" (bad choice of words in my part), but a lot of companies expect them to have SOME sort of experience, be it an internship
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Yes, that's the problem and it doesn't seem like it'll be fixed any time soon.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
> What the hell do you expect them to do? They have to start somewhere. Internships are the best way, but open source and personal projects... anything like that works. In a perfect world companies would train new grads and stuff, and we
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by sotojuan 10y ago
In my experience it's not so much a shortage of people willing to work for peanuts but rather a shortage of "experts" whom the company doesn't have to train at all and will magically sit down in their desk and print mone
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by sotojuan 10y ago
The article seems to be mostly about the UK, but from my US perspective, there are just a lot of CS graduates with little to no professional coding experience either out of laziness or lack of knowledge (yes, there are people who expect a j
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Actually learn new stuff? Learn a second language, an instrument, math, programming—anything that takes you out of your comfort zone.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
I haven't seen those kind meetups that much aside from a few of the more popular meetups where I live (NYC) and even then it's only rarely. Where do you live that you get a lot of TED talks?
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by sotojuan 10y ago
There's engineering challenges in frontend but they only apply to Facebook-tier scale. There's also cooler stuff like data visualization, advanced animations/design and WebGL but those seem to be done by designers. For most o
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by sotojuan 10y ago
> Doing that sort of work now feels like I am sabotaging my career. Heh, I feel that way and I'm 22. Unfortunately the only language I know is JavaScript and the stuff I am interested in and learning isn't quite there yet in te
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by sotojuan 10y ago
The Webpack story is interesting because its author isn't (well, wasn't) even a JS developer in his day job or was part of the JS community. I don't hate Webpack but I really have no idea where it came from. Browserify was ma
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by sotojuan 10y ago
What's the last truly new thing you can think of? I'm interested because I am young (22) but have studied programming language paradigms and history and I also agree a lot of "new" stuff is old.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
"The world over, the joy of learning is being sucked out and education reduced to a dry, soulless process of ‘delivery’ dictated by the demands of standardised tests" Heh, a few word changes and this applies to programming too :-)
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by sotojuan 10y ago
A lot of people will get turned off by the idea of having to or wanting to study so much just for a job at a company. The way I see it though, this is a great list of resources to learn about a lot of programming-related things.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
FWIW I've been in the Node/JS community for a few years and I've honestly rarely seen MEAN or Mongo be mentioned outside of blogs and corporate Hackathons (where Mongo is usually a sponsor). Maybe companies use it (I rarely p
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by sotojuan 10y ago
It sucks because the Rethink site is well designed, they have a good brand design and mascot, the docs are great, and the team is (was?) open and responsive. They talked at conferences, did podcasts, etc. A little bit of sales work and mark
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Mongo also got there "first". I mean, Mongo isn't much compared to Rethink, but they're both in the "not a traditional SQL database" camp and Mongo came before and had all the hype first. I wouldn't be sur
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by sotojuan 10y ago
There's a lot to explore! Elixir is my favorite "new" language, and its style of functional programming is accessible and practical yet still very didactic. That said, there's always more mind bending things out there on
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by sotojuan 10y ago
I use Karabiner + Seil to make my Macbook Pro's Caps Lock be Escape when hit by itself and Control when hit with another key. Unfortunately this doesn't work on Sierra yet so still on El Cap.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Would like to see this for web apps.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
The good thing is you can do both. Sometimes I like watching or speeding through a talk and then looking for books about it. I'm not necessarily looking to get enlightened or become an expert from a talk but rather I'm seeing a qu
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by sotojuan 10y ago
The worst part about Medium is that it helps make terrible "Why You Should Use X Tech and Tech Y is Dead" posts by inexperienced people actually be read and posted on HN. In the mid 2000s no one paid attention to those.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
You can get quite far with TypeScript. RxJS, Cycle, and xstream (all functional libraries) are built on it and its source code doesn't use classes at all. It's no PureScript but there's no need to conflate it with OOP.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
I definitely see where you're coming from when saying the tech /startup industry has moved away from being "adult". I get not wanting to be an Office Space cubicle farm, but there's a good balance between that and w
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by sotojuan 10y ago
I'm not sure how this might work considering the fact that trucks are taking stuff to and from Manhattan businesses and homes almost 24/7. Barcelona might be a city, but it's scale and density is nowhere near that of New York
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Well yes, Erlang is pretty well-thought out, has a decent standard library, decades of serious production use, and couple of community-blessed books you can learn from.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
As an aside, the author of the article is one of the authors of Tachyons—the library I consider the tool that makes me not want to die when designing web pages: http://tachyons.io/
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Occasionally designers seem to seek credit merely for possessing a new technology, rather than using it to make better designs. Computers and their affiliated apparatus can do powerful things graphically, in part by turning out the hundreds

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