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Re:Goodbye YC on Friday February 12, 2021 @08:27PM (#26120618)
Thank you Aaron! Appreciate everything you taught us and the all the support you gave us even when times got really tough.
Re:Ask HN: How to Guide a Junior Developer? on Thursday September 05, 2019 @07:42PM (#20891644)
This is a great answer. People have different learning styles.

Some mentees will also likely have a desire to impress you so they'll get good at doing things exactly how you want them to do it. This is also learning, but not the learning you want.

Re:Matias RGB Backlit Wired Aluminum Keyboard for Mac on Sunday June 30, 2019 @03:28AM (#20316895)
I had the same weird typing style but really wanted to use the split ortholinear keyboard layout due to some pain I was feeling in my forearm

Adapting to the layout was frustrating. It took me a week of standard use to not have typos. About a month to lock down the location of modifier keys and layer layouts.

Was it worth it? In my case, absolutely. The pain in my forearms disappeared. I also type "properly" on standard staggered keyboards now.

It turns out that in my case, the weird typing style was part of why I was feeling pain in my forearms in the first place.

Re:Scrum is fragile, not Agile on Sunday May 26, 2019 @08:47PM (#20018629)
Having dedicated communication time allows everyone to plan their dedicated focus or "deep work" time.
Re:Coursera Is Now a Unicorn on Thursday April 25, 2019 @06:57PM (#19753307)
Awesome to see how far Coursera has come. I still remember when Coursera exploded onto the scene and showed to the world there was incredible value in putting tons of good educational content online for everyone to access.

Now, online video based educational content is everywhere -- exists for all sorts of topics. Despite never needing to use it to find a new career, I'm definitely at a way better place in life.

Reading this now and agree that it's very well-written.
Re:Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:20PM (#19331918)
I've used it all over the place and it's great. I even opted for it once when my AirBnB host cancelled last minute.

I'm hoping this is basically the expansion that happens. When hosts have emergencies, AirBnB can offer a local backup :)

Re:A Case for a New Language on Saturday February 23, 2019 @07:45PM (#19236368)
I also agreed with this until very recently. Jumped into a new language and realized how language features can help shape great APIs.
Re:Why I Prefer Dynamic Typing Over Static Typing (2017) on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @10:56AM (#19199787)
This is likely going to lead to an error in both statically and dynamically typed languages.

In statically typed language, at least when troubleshooting it's an easy guess that the error is highly likely to be at the external boundary of your application code since the rest of it type checked.

Congratulations! Been looking for EXACTLY this for our app.
Re:Please do not attempt to simplify this code on Thursday December 27, 2018 @07:38PM (#18773935)
Seems like you have bad experiences with functional programming, but it's a little strange to rat on the advocates that are trying to figure out how to take potentially useful functional programming concepts and make them mainstream and/or explore alternative ways to quickly build robust systems.

Good examples of this translating to huge gains for the overall community are React + Redux.

I'm quick to admit that functional language ecosystems are not as mature, which might lead to lesser organizational productivity but no need to rat on functional programming in general.

Re:Ask HN: How can I get my children excited about programming? on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @12:29PM (#18016662)
There’s a great game called Human Resource Machine that might be a fun way to do that
I'm using apollo-server-hapi. I've briefly looked into schema stitching before but haven't done that recently. Is that something that you'd recommend doing with OneGraph?
Congrats on launching! This is really cool. How hard would it be to integrate OneGraph into an existing GraphQL endpoint that I'm already hosting to power my application?