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by valbaca 3y ago
'learn to code' was a refrain during the incredibly hot dev market of the past couple of years. Hell, I'd have every plumber and electrician that came to work on my house ask which programming language they should learn. It w
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by valbaca 3y ago
Yep
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by valbaca 3y ago
> projects That's exactly what "Zero To Production" is about. Actually most of what makes Rust intro material good is that you are building things, not just going on about syntax and language particulars. For example, &q
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by valbaca 3y ago
I'm not personally familiar with it, but I think you want to take a look at Elixir. I've heard it often in the same vein as Rust but for web. Not exactly the same, but in terms of a high-quality language. https://elixir
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by valbaca 4y ago
go one level up: https://deck.of.cards/
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by valbaca 4y ago
They're all/mostly websites about the state of the Rust language ecosystem. For example, can you write games in Rust ( https://arewegameyet.rs/ ) or what's the state of the async ( https://areweasyncy
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by valbaca 4y ago
No, they don't. If you give money to charity at checkout you can claim it on YOUR taxes. Period. No ifs ands or buts.
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by valbaca 4y ago
Can OP just keep charging them? As in build in a recurring rate into the contract. If they ghost, you keep charging them until they decide to cancel the contract. Just like how a doctor will charge a cancellation fee, you could probably do
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by valbaca 4y ago
For the full "Build Your Own X" list: https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
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by valbaca 4y ago
Previous thread on Aug 8, 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10027893 Notable comments: > Your downside risk remains the same (lose loaned money), but your upside gains increase substantially (interest vs interest
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by valbaca 4y ago
It was literally ALL over CNN's home page. I saw at least six articles written about it the day it was announced. News just moves fast and it's been a day.
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by valbaca 4y ago
born in '88 and didn't get the reference
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by valbaca 4y ago
yep, that's it. The "gag" is more that there are so many mundane things that we all experience but are so mundane that they're invisible until pointed out. I think my #1 favorite from last year was a guy whose lanyard wa
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by valbaca 4y ago
Finding unique values (i.e. Deduplicating) using a Set/HashSet; hell, even just using a HashMap with boolean keys would give a passing grade (esp in languages like Go where that's how it's done).
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by valbaca 4y ago
The same way you improve any skill: Do it. A lot. With feedback; preferably quick feedback from people more skilled but any feedback is better than none.
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by valbaca 4y ago
no. vaxed with all boosters, work from home, don't go out much, regular testing and all negative and no symptoms. When I did go out, I'd mask and distance. Now, easing up on that but still avoiding crowded areas and places. I have
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by valbaca 4y ago
Or, go with December 31, 1969 just to test their system. A little mini-bobby tables.
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by valbaca 4y ago
It's pretty obvious that Musk is willfully (or ignorantly) forcing people out of the company in order to pre-filter before layoffs. If you're at Twitter and can get a job elsewhere, don't panic. Save up, apply elsewhere, quie
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by valbaca 4y ago
> instead tried to do it systematically Exception proving the rule. Yes, sometimes for something as deep as adding currency you do just need to fully refactor BUT I think you're still doing it in the spirit of "One Problem At a
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by valbaca 4y ago
The Grift is over. The bubble popped and we’re all better off just letting crypto die.
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by valbaca 4y ago
SD cards are the storage equivalent of writing on a one-ply sheet of toilet paper. Nowhere near identical to SSDs
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by valbaca 4y ago
Jakarta, the city, is the largest city on the island of Java. They needed to pick "some" name and went with the "Java island" naming option, rather than some "Java coffee" or other naming scheme. Wikipedia: The
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by valbaca 4y ago
If I dare to be optimistic for once, cure cancer via simulated protein folding.
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by valbaca 4y ago
These pods were good for pre-covid (in-office) virtual interviews. You step away from your desk, hop in a pod and do a virtual interview or phone screen. Or if you just needed a quiet moment away. But yes, they get very hot and suffocating
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by valbaca 4y ago
"legacy Java" is legacy, but it doesn't necessarily mean that "Java is legacy"
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by valbaca 4y ago
I buy physical copies of two books for each language I work with: - The <Language> Language book - Effective <Language> book, if I actually start using the language professionally For example, for JavaScript, this was "Eloq
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by valbaca 4y ago
If you're wanting pricing simplicity, cannot go much simpler than Digital Ocean: you pay monthly for a server. The end.
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by valbaca 4y ago
Hobbyists hosting on AWS is a fast track to personal bankruptcy. All it takes is one hug of death.
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by valbaca 4y ago
Because…it is? I’m a senior dev that’s mostly worked with Java and JS and my Java skills are in HIGH demand. Java may be passé in the startup world but so many businesses run on Java. Not to mention Android development. Cross-platform apps
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by valbaca 4y ago
I was seeing this as well, it looks like it was just fixed

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