coderKen

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   by coderKen 2y ago

   I recently started building VR apps for VR headsets with Kotlin/Android after five years as a front-end/full-stack engineer. It has been humbling and scary, but I'm learning and loving it. The switch was motivated by several
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   Ask HN: Would an app for cross-border collaborative family budgeting be useful?

   5 points by coderKen 2y ago|3 comments
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   by coderKen 3y ago

   This is awesome! What is the performance like? particularly around WASM compiled Whisper.
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   by coderKen 3y ago

   no offence but you sound completely confused
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   by coderKen 3y ago

   I see this a lot, but I will go out on a limb to tell you ADHD is not the reason for your failures. You probably already know this, but it feels better to blame it on something you think is beyond your control.
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   by coderKen 3y ago

   No, Leetcode interviews are very much alive. I have interviewed at all three companies you mentioned for frontend roles & they all ask Leetcode questions, but to varying degrees. FB: I currently work here. LC style questions but with a
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   by coderKen 10y ago

   and we are wondering why a lot of Americans are obese. Simple tasks like these help burn a few calories.
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   by coderKen 10y ago

   I'm really sorry if you took my words the wrong way, I guess it came out wrong. I'm not downplaying your efforts, on the contrary I think they are great, most people give up after 3days of debugging. IMHO I'm just saying that
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   by coderKen 10y ago

   Really sucks man. Most times companies are looking for people with experience, most self-taught programmers like myself built up that experience over the year(regardless of what language)s through side projects in college and stupid stuff f
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    by coderKen 10y ago

    "Then came Javascript, a language designed to make a monkey dance in a webpage. And all hell broke loose." this cracked me up :)
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    by coderKen 10y ago

    JS will be valuable for a long time. It's the core of the web and the web will be around for a long time, if not forever.
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    by coderKen 10y ago

    Spot on.
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    by coderKen 10y ago

    Really interesting responses from people on here, thanks for sharing. I've learnt a lot. I live in Africa where taking your career seriously is something one cannot afford to take for granted, we do not all have the luxury of traveling
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    by coderKen 10y ago

    When I first learnt to code I started out building stuff to solve problems around me, turns out it wasn't a problem to people. while in college - myrumate.com [2011] I built a basic web app to help students find roomates, especially st
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    by coderKen 10y ago

    First world problems.
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    by coderKen 10y ago

    1. Focusing on my hobby which was programming while in school and skipping a lot of classes. 2. Invested a lot of my time in learning more(Data structures/algorithms, advanced JavaScript) which gave me the courage to quit my soul sucki
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    by coderKen 10y ago

    This is so true right now especially for me. You sir, have a wealth of experience. I actually focused on teaching my self programming while in school and skipped a lot of classes and it paid off in the end $o much.
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    by coderKen 10y ago

    I really do know the feeling of no feedback. I agree that hiring is really broken, only 2 months back I went on various interview rounds for a Front-end position and couldn't quite understand how an Algorithm would help one with CSS fl
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    by coderKen 10y ago

    Thanks for sharing this, been planning to get into Machine learning this year.
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    by coderKen 10y ago

    Buy a mac.
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    by coderKen 10y ago

    Thanks for sharing this. I just started working remotely and need all the advice I can get.
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    by coderKen 10y ago

    1. Visible results, easily shared, just send a link. 2. Over-tooling and complex architectures, look at NPM and Flux(react) 3. Inbuilt dependency management by browser, Grunt/Gulp/Bower/Webpack/ the compression and minif
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    by coderKen 10y ago

    Found this really funny, thanks :)
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    Ask HN: How do you work remotely?

    2 points by coderKen 11y ago|0 comments
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    by coderKen 11y ago

    Interesting :)
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    by coderKen 11y ago

    IMHO I don't think the writer's work as a programmer ever had valuable impact. He probably spent all his career doing CRUD. Take Google for example, it's just a web page, and yes a colourful logo and a search box and yes that
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    by coderKen 11y ago

    As a front end engineer, I fell in love with Slack first time I used it. The UI is well crafted. Those buttons & their states...
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    by coderKen 11y ago

    IMHO HN is more effective, watch out for the Whoishiring thread and be sure to apply like hell. I'm currently on a remote contract Gig which I got via HN a few months ago. Have also gotten one time jobs via HN's who is freelancing
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    by coderKen 11y ago

    Become an expert link leads to 404
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    by coderKen 11y ago

    Have two repositories on Gitlab, no complaints so far.