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by wturner 13y ago
The jump from understanding JavaScript to understanding how to grock MVC and the way different libraries and frameworks implement it is definitely something that is waiting for a simplified tutorial online. It's a pain point.
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by wturner 13y ago
I taught myself conventional programming with javascript over the last few years by virtue of my fascination with audio. The 'web audio api" exists hence a lever is in place to keep me going through the inevitable "trough of
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by wturner 13y ago
In JavaScript there are two instances where typeof lies. One is with null the other is with function.
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by wturner 13y ago
I would have got number 2 wrong. I would have assumed that adding to the prototype of String is hands down completely unacceptable bad practice.
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by wturner 13y ago
http://javascriptissexy.com Object orientated Javascript and inheritance explained well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMfcsYzj-9M
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Ask HN: Entitlement of entrepreneurs tricking you for free consulting.
1 points by wturner 13y ago|0 comments
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by wturner 13y ago
Well, I stand corrected then.
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by wturner 13y ago
The point was that it lends contrast. If you are forced to live without a hot shower for awhile it makes you appreciate it when you have one.
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by wturner 13y ago
I like massive attack instrumentals and hang drum solos.
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by wturner 13y ago
I don't mean to sound conspiratorial but I get the impression that when someone becomes president their is a manner by which the intelligence community implicitly says "Ok , you're the president now...here's how the worl
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by wturner 13y ago
I have a pretty sure fire way to solve this problem. Step 1. Call your local Manpower or Kelly temp work office. Step 2. Ask to do the most unskilled rote industrial labor intensive job they have. Step 3. Do this for a full 40 hour week. If
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by wturner 13y ago
From what I've read they've also entered the defense industry through Boston Dynamics and are now (I guess) "officially" in the business of war.
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by wturner 13y ago
The easiest way to speak publicly is to actually believe in what you're doing and talking about. The audience then becomes kind of like an omnipresent pressure that keeps you going. If you aren't 'locked into' what your
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by wturner 13y ago
I really liked how you challenged the assumption of the entire post. I was waiting for someone to do that. This post was partially motivated by some personal situations but also because of an email exchange with an entrepreneur that was ins
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by wturner 13y ago
Playing a touch of devils advocate here. I'm not really sure what 'scale' means in this context. I think a more realistic way to phrase it is "once I code something it's yours....and doesn't need to be done aga
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by wturner 13y ago
This is obviously a good point. It's also one that is based primarily on personal outlook of the people doing the work. I can see this point segue into a question about education and not the work itself pretty easily. I won't go i
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by wturner 13y ago
The problem with the post I made is that a whole swath of different assumptions can be made around the ideas surrounding it. It's definitely "easier" to get one of those jobs but it's harder to physically do them ....and
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by wturner 13y ago
I've spent the last 2-3 years teaching myself the minefield of technologies around web development and I have 13 years experience as a technical trainer. last week I did two days working at an industrial factory that makes vitamins (do
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Ask HN: Why do people who work harder get less pay?
15 points by wturner 13y ago|24 comments
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I approach the issue with the assumption that learning basic sorting algorithms and the like has very little to do with them perse'. It has to do with imbuing you with the mind frame to think along those lines - which takes time to ma
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by wturner 13y ago
Learn in a manner where you would have to teach it. The bad part about this approach is it forces you to confront how little you really know. The good part is...well, the same. If the cool kids at work won't let you into the 'teac
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by wturner 13y ago
"Daft Punk (and many other electronic artists) are mainly producers, and it's normal for producers of all kinds of music to hire sessions musicians and record them in the studio. Sampling is just another version of that." Thi
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by wturner 13y ago
If they're "good people" in your mind I would do the opposite. I would wholeheartedly encourage them to apply. Same goes for the intelligence community ( CIA etc). I might look at U.S. spy culture as unappealing but I look at
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by wturner 13y ago
When we get older we generally don't get wiser we simply get more habitual and become more of what we already were in the first place. If you have strong intellectual/creative habits early on in life (even if you ask lots of stupi
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by wturner 13y ago
I made a bunch of little inane things as a precursor to a gargantuan project idea I have that will take me years to complete, and after which flops will inevitably incentivize me to jump off a large cliff. weeee! http://helpknow.
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by wturner 13y ago
To each their own. I just have a contrarian nature and always feel obligated to express it.
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Many of those bootcamps cost an arm and a leg and are selective in that they target well-off kids that get good grades and basically fit in. They do this intentionally so they can sell their prospects to potential employees and keep their n
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by wturner 13y ago
Ask them why they want to learn it and insist they find something they are passionate about building as an end result. As far as really learning, tell them it will take 3-5 years of studying every day, building projects and adopting the pro
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The only belief that unites all religions as well as "non believers' is a general agreement that their is always something 'more' to life. In short the only thing anyone agrees on is their is always something 'more&
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This is what most likely will happen. Expect a complete dud. After you experience the 'dud' you with either feel the entire thing was a stupid idea and leave, or you will think 'wait .... that can't be right' and sc

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