mpblampo

Re:Advice for Coding Bootcamp Graduates on Friday February 09, 2018 @01:34PM (#16342677)

I don't hire engineers, but I am one. I've never heard this advice about not putting MOOCs on your resume, and if I were hiring, I would likely consider any MOOC (with a decent grade if applicable) to be better than nothing. Can the OP of the comment say more about the reasoning?

Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI on Friday January 26, 2018 @04:47PM (#16243163)

Thank you for this! I had no idea this existed. It is perfect for vim users. Very happy that I can now jump around to my heart's content without learning a new set of keyboard shortcuts.

Re:Regarding the Em Dash on Saturday January 06, 2018 @10:43PM (#16089013)

True on Android too.

Re:When is a dollar not a dollar? on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @08:29AM (#15860892)

tl;dr: When it's a jar.

Ask HN: What do you do before you start writing code?

Posted by mpblampo on Friday June 23, 2017 @09:20AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm a relatively junior engineer, but recently I've been working on a more complex project than I'm used to.On a couple of recent occasions, I've written a bunch of code, only to have my colleagues correctly point out some decisions I'd made in writing it that made the code more complicated, and harder to reason about, than necessary (e.g. which logic should belong in which function, or what...

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Re:Barcelona cracks down on Airbnb rentals with illegal apartment squads on Friday June 02, 2017 @02:07PM (#14472075)

I'm pretty sure "eye of the storm" refers to the calm in the center of a hurricane. This writer seems to use it to mean that AirBNB is suffering the worst damage.