yjhoney

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by yjhoney 7y ago
> Where are you located and was everyone learning from you/others in person? San Jose (Bay Area). Yes, everyone is learning in person. I plan to release a (free) book capturing what I learned and wrap up this project (or let someone
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by yjhoney 7y ago
1. Foundations. How are your foundations? Given an array of promises, could you run them serially (instead of running them in parallel like Promise.all). 2. Do you have experience working with technologies that are trending? If not, start a
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by yjhoney 7y ago
YMMV. I don't expect everyone to get 130k TC, but that has been the case so far. A few things that helps: 1. Content must be lean. Learn foundations. 2. Really drill down those foundations. 3. Work experience: most of a student's
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by yjhoney 7y ago
> That's kind of like saying "anyone can run a marathon" and then qualifying it to "if they enter an organized event and complete the appropriate training for it". Yes. That was what I was trying to figure out i
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by yjhoney 7y ago
2-3 months is really aggressive and the ones who do well are usually incredibly motivated and smart. Bootcamps that are 3 months long usually will involve an interview to make sure the student is motivated enough.
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by yjhoney 7y ago
I'm writing a book that teaches people coding using JavaScript, the book that takes you from 0 (no coding background) to getting a job as a JS engineer. 2 years I ago, I had a hypothesis to see if anybody could learn coding if they tri
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by yjhoney 7y ago
The cat is a Flerken
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by yjhoney 7y ago
If you are open to the possibility to go against society's norms: 1. A brief history of humankind: This opens your mind to the possibility that maybe our society is not as good as you think. What if the foundation that our society is b
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by yjhoney 7y ago
> How anyone can experience it and keep acting like nothing's happening beats me. I look around my workplace, nobody seems to be compelled to change their lifestyle. Nobody seems to mind using a disposable cup every day, buying
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by yjhoney 7y ago
> what if the example were about a highly accurate system for detecting kidnappers or people traffickers or something? That is always the argument for total surveillance state. In Singapore, crime rates are close to 0, but to be effectiv
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by yjhoney 7y ago
I feel that someone who really respects their privacy should not hang out with friends who don't respect their own privacy. Because inevitably, their friends will post enough material to compromise the privacy of everyone in the circle
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by yjhoney 7y ago
what about someone making $50 / day? Lets imagine you are making just enough to get by and now government wants to roll out an automatic way to take money from your account for minor infractions. How unhappy would you be? Also on a sid
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by yjhoney 7y ago
> Would such a system (and automated enforcement) be OK? Yes. But as you pointed out, `automated enforcement via a fine, without knowing the identity of the perpetrator` is hard. And as others have pointed out, Point 1 and Point 3 are al
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by yjhoney 7y ago
Build a LED that lights up on the spot and does not use any batteries. During the demo, just take a wire, wind it around your hand a few dozen times, connect the ends to the LED, and put it close to a wireless Qi charger. It should light up
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by yjhoney 7y ago
This Ted talk gave me hope to reverse climate change and seems plausible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI&t=163s Does anyone know / have experience whether this actually works?
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by yjhoney 7y ago
sorry for being dense, but I can't seem to save files or do anything seemingly practical. Is there any practical use cases for this library, or is this purely along the lines of "Hey checkout this cool hack!"
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by yjhoney 8y ago
Thank you
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by yjhoney 8y ago
I have a separate credit card that I use for all business expenses and I write everything off from the credit card statement during tax season. Is there still value for me to use KeeperTax?
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by yjhoney 8y ago
I've spent alot of time thinking about this, and I've concluded with this: Hire local people minimum wage to learn and teach each other coding structured around your company's codebase. Once they get to know the basics, have
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by yjhoney 8y ago
its so interesting that you have this opinion. wow!
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by yjhoney 8y ago
If anybody empathizes with the post, what helped me was volunteering. Helping others and working with a group to help others gives me a lot of appreciation for all the little things that I have. Also, going out of my way to make someone els
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by yjhoney 8y ago
I know I'm nitpicking here, but I find it annoying when people say things like: "If you’ve yet to read these x books, do yourself a favor and buy them today". Did myself a "favor" a few times in the past and every s
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by yjhoney 8y ago
Advice: Don't shy away from doing something you want to do because you think you're not good enough / not qualified.
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by yjhoney 8y ago
They have donated, yes. Most of the donations came from friends made at previous companies I've worked at (Google and Apple). Apple is the most generous when it came to company matching. I haven't had time to look for sponsorship
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by yjhoney 8y ago
Sort of. We didn't have an official way to screen it was more of seeing the same people showing up to learn every weekend at the library and then offering them an opportunity to learn full time.
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by yjhoney 8y ago
When it comes to nonprofits, donations and goodwill are not the same as investments.
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by yjhoney 8y ago
Its not financially stable. I have a hard time telling my mom where all my money is going to and I feel guilty every time I go home for family dinner.
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by yjhoney 8y ago
I remembered one of our students has a brother who has severe ADHD (to the point where he had to be heavily medicated). He comes in and tries to learn but couldn't seem to hold his attention for more than a few minutes before disappear
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by yjhoney 8y ago
shoot me an email song at garagescript.org

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