sotojuan

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by sotojuan 9y ago
Japanese, because it's difficult and fun. Tech wise I learn enough at work.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
IDK about the people in warehouses, but regular Target store employees are not treated badly. I mean, it's a low hourly wage job so the expectations are low, but I didn't dislike working there. They were happy to train me across m
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by sotojuan 9y ago
The "problem" is that Nintendo consoles usually have a decent amount third party titles, but they a) tend to be of niche genres b) most Western Nintendo consumers specifically buy their consoles for the first party titles c) eithe
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Chemex, Aeropress, or Cafe Bustelo + Moka Pot. Really depends on how lazy I feel and how many beans I have left.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
When people say waking up at 5am/sleeping at 10 or earlier is hard, they don't mean the physical act of waking up or sleeping early is hard - that just takes some time/body adjustment. In my experience people fail to do it be
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama - verbose but fun writing. Very good analysis of the painter, his life, and how it was reflected in his art.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
In my experience for "good" salaried jobs, background checks come with or after the job offer (in NY it's after). Do these kinds of laws affect that? If I had a record, I'd rather know up front than accept an offer and t
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Next time post this kind of stuff on your blog, not HN comments.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
GP just means poker as an example it vehicle bores him. I agree - same with deck of card exercises.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Yeah I stopped taking notes after I realized I never looked at them. Even when studying for an exam, I'd always make new notes from scratch rather than rewrite or read old ones. It doesn't work for all classes, but I found that li
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by sotojuan 9y ago
As a technology gathers hype around it, it is normal to see people try to make a quick buck out of it through books or only courses. I'd recommend interested developers to go read Phoenix' own website and form their own opinion.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Many times I've read a game review by someone who has no interest or experience in the genre. While a different point of view is always interesting, I personally enjoy reviews and writing by someone at least knowledgeable about the sub
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Agreed. As a child, I read up on technology/computers as well as history (still a big hobby of mine), archeology, and random subjects found in the encyclopedias my parents bought me. I went through a bunch of phases (dinosaurs, Egypt
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Yep. In fact I'll go one step ahead and say most COL discussions are fruitless unless you know a person's location and lifestyle (kids/dependents? students loans/debt?).
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by sotojuan 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/BikiniBottomTwitter/ as someone who was a huge Spongebob fan as a kid.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Soulseek is still alive with the same system. The program does not make you share anything but users can disable sharing files with users who don't share files. At least in 2012-14 Soulseek was very popular with extremely niche and obs
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by sotojuan 9y ago
As much as I respect Mr Newport, a lot of books like his could be one long form blog post (or paragraph!) instead of a 200~ page book.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
> Wow, I wonder where people are getting the idea that they need to learn Redux Because everyone with a React job or substantial React project uses Redux (or a similar library). It is common for junior devs to rush through learning libra
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by sotojuan 9y ago
If you are already familiar with Python and basic server framework concepts (request, response, models, etc), just read the documentation and start building your own projects. It'll always be up to date.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Sorry for the non-answer but my advice is to not have many projects going on at once. 3-6 months feels like a long time but they'll go by quickly. Maybe it's just me but every time I try do more than a few things at once, even if
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by sotojuan 9y ago
The problem with Sails is that unlike Rails or Django, it's not very popular. This not only means a lot less documentation and help for you but also help for the maintainer (financial or code-wise). This means a slow rate of developmen
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Outside of industry towns I think it's the opposite that is rare - a large city will almost always have a diverse workforce. Perhaps the Bay Area (which is not "one" city) is unique in that it's largely centered around t
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by sotojuan 9y ago
If you live in an urban area, I highly recommend walking to a coffee shop instead of using whatever you have in the office kitchen. While it costs money, I've found it a great way to take a break from work.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
I don't currently have any (serious) side projects but I play around with Elixir and if I were to build a tech business or money-generating side project I would build it with that language.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
We already had a ton of Rails devs who didn't know Ruby or OOP well. If Elixir becomes very popular, we will have Elixir devs that don't know OTP, functional programming (outside of pure functions/immutability), or Erlang. Th
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by sotojuan 9y ago
That's fair, thanks for explaining. To me it's fine to treat it as a huge bonus if the engineer can maintain a long lasting project with diligence. I just know a lot of people find side projects fun because they can let loose a bi
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Why? A lot of people (if not most) treat their non-work GitHub as a place to host random experiments and projects. Unless one plans to publish projects for others to use, no one should be forced to have perfect code for a one off idea if th
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by sotojuan 9y ago
I'm starting to like the Elixir development methodology more than the language itself. The Elixir team is quick to adopt useful features from other ecosystems and make them first class. This specific formatter will help a lot of people
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Meh, don't want to get into a console war argument, sorry. I'll just say this: Xbox One is doing poorly compared to PS4 and its exclusives are becoming nothing special. This is especially true this year when many high profile cons
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Xbox line has always lost MS money (even back in the glory days of the 360) and Xbox One has lagged way behind PS4 since it launched. "Dead" was an exaggeration, I admit. But it has mediocre if not poor sales.

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