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Re:Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software? on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @05:23AM (#30160716)
Its because of JIRA :P
Re:Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (2005) on Saturday November 09, 2019 @08:54AM (#21491540)
Are you sure you cannot handle this using conditional types in typescript?
Re:NPM Bans Terminal Ads on Friday August 30, 2019 @11:09AM (#20839347)
i loved those things
Re:The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic on Monday June 24, 2019 @01:18AM (#20260733)
use electronjs
Re:The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic on Monday June 24, 2019 @01:15AM (#20260725)
stopped reading after the third time the author dissed javascript
Re:Avoid Indirection in Code on Monday June 24, 2019 @12:39AM (#20260600)
i regularly see functions that are over 300 lines of code that make no other function calls except ajax. That shit is hard to read.
Re:Writing HTML in HTML on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:52PM (#20239743)
Step1: Write pages in pure html Step2: Organize your html into folders that are similar Step3: Write some scripts to generate more folders easily Step4: Write some sed scripts to make changes across files Step5: Release your scripts as your own site generator

Or you could just spend 15 minutes trying to patch your existing site generator to suite your needs. This article sucks. Downvote.

Re:Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops wi... on Friday February 22, 2019 @05:12AM (#19224256)
i will not read an o'riley book if you paid me to do it
Re:Flutter on desktop, a real competitor to Electron on Sunday December 02, 2018 @02:37AM (#18581287)
pyside and pyqt4 both take away a lot from the power of qt. Not worth it if you ask me.
Re:Ask HN: What about an online library of e-books? on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @06:30AM (#16167067)
I see. This is awesome!

Ask HN: What about an online library of e-books?

Posted by gautam1168 on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @06:11AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I was wondering if such a library will be desirable. There is a lot of piracy in ebooks. But what if there was a library with a fixed number of digital copies (with DRM) and anybody could checkout a copy while they are free. The app could also put adds in the book and send the proceeds directly to the authors (might add up to more than the royalty?). And one could imagine discussion thread and...

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Re:Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Googl... on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:32PM (#16076273)
Thankyou. This helped.
Re:Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Googl... on Thursday January 04, 2018 @09:54AM (#16070679)
No I'm not trolling. But I will post this to job search too if you think that is a better place.
Re:Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Googl... on Thursday January 04, 2018 @09:24AM (#16070474)
Only slightly related. Since many google employees will be here: How can I plan to land a job with google in 2 years if I have a physics masters and 1.5 years of web development + little exp. with other software stacks? I am trying to figure out a strategy to make it happen and I am willing to do anything, even go back to school.

* How can I get an interview? It seems simply sending my resume through the online portal will not work because I don't have a stellar academic record or much experience.

* How can I figure out what to apply for? I have experience in UI but does google even do that? I want to work at google because I want to work with the people there who are just the smartest people around. But I don't really care what I work on.

* How and how long should I prepare for the interview? I am working through the Cormen's algorithms book but I don't really have a solid CS education. And I hear that they just want you to know everything. So should I just go back to school?

* I have heard that one way is to participate and excel in coding competitions. Should I then focus my entire energy on this front? Or will this be misguided?

Re:Analog Computers on Thursday July 06, 2017 @09:57PM (#14715470)
this feels like forcibly renaming electronics engineering as programming