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by gordonzhu 9mo ago
Just a guess, but Buffett would often host undergrad and grad students at his home. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/warren-buffett-hosts-15-whar...
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Good Updates / Bad Updates: Rules for Useful Standups(watchandcode.com)
2 points by gordonzhu 2y ago|0 comments
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by gordonzhu 2y ago
I was going to say this as well. If you haven't done competitive interviews, it's easy to underestimate how much prep / skill is required.
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by gordonzhu 2y ago
I've been making algorithms videos that highlight how one could discover various solutions from first principles. Example: https://youtu.be/54yUPn3M0ds?si=IcKpUW8NO1rqiO4S I find it really annoying when people just p
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by gordonzhu 2y ago
21 I was interning at a small startup and made some financial models in Excel (using functions like index and match together). At the time, I told a programmer at the company that I wanted to learn programming. He looked at my work and told
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by gordonzhu 10y ago
Did you try reading the ui-router docs? https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/blob/master/README.m... The "Nested States & Views" section of the README links to a full working demo on Plu
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
Thanks for the perspective. This is why I encourage all developers to take some time to teach new people. The "everyone knows this obviously" attitude goes away very quickly if you start doing this. The aim of the video was to mak
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
Nowhere did I tell people to write an entire app in the style of hide and vote like you're implying. In my comparisons I mention a lot of choices people might make, like Angular vs. Ember vs. React that are ultimately meaningless to th
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
[I made the video] I don't think this is ironic at all. When I mentioned "framework of the week hype" in my initial comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11308043 ), I was thinking specifically about h
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
When you try to vote it will ask you to log in.
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
YES! totally agree For a subset of us, framework authors, open source contributors, etc. It's very useful to keep up to date on the latest trends. For example, the Angular team has borrowed techniques from React. It helps for them to k
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
The video mentions this was a dummy account created just for this video.
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
Without JS, return false from the vote function wouldn't happen, so I guess clicking upvote would follow node.href, which would send the vote to the server. It would work anyway, there would just be a redirect that would trigger a page
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
What's most fascinating to me about this isn't the simplicity, it's that this code has lived for so long with almost no changes. It's a great counter-example to all the recent articles about JavaScript fatigue. It's
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
Here are clickable links since I couldn't get them to work in the text post. Download to the thesis as a PDF: https://github.com/karma-runner/karma/raw/master/thesis.pdf The Karma site: https:&#x2F
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The master's thesis that led to the Karma Test Runner for JavaScript
3 points by gordonzhu 11y ago|2 comments
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
I just posted the first four videos to a new course I’m working on. It’s called Firebase Foundations. A lot of my Angular students loved using Firebase as they went through my Angular Course, so I thought it would be cool to extract just th
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Firebase Foundations for AngularJS(blog.watchandcode.com)
1 points by gordonzhu 11y ago|1 comments
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
I created a video course that addresses the exact problem you're describing and shows you how to build a full multi-page app backed by a database (but it's for Angular rather than React). http://www.angularcourse.com W
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
Based on code4startup this is a copy. https://twitter.com/Code4Startup/status/678340473614761984 What's weird is the founder/ceo of codeupstart used to work for code4startup.
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
I'm working on a draft blog post that talks about how I went from undergrad business school to tech (I'm currently the founder of watchandcode.com). Would be happy to share it with you and follow up with a chat about your situatio
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
The concept behind directives like ng-click is actually pretty simple underneath. The Angular parser will go through the elements in the DOM and look for attributes it knows about like ng-click. When it finds ng-click, it will run the expre
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
iObject actually does not sound malevolent at all. Quite the opposite actually. Reminds me of http://somebodyapp.com/
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
The Annotated Version of Eloquent JS (this was mentioned in the article) is similar except the annotations are for a book rather than a library. https://watchandcode.com/courses/eloquent-javascript-the-ann...
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
I should mention that this is a side project that became a main project. It currently makes several thousand a month on a consistent basis.
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
Oh wow small world. That's awesome. Email me at gordon[at]watchandcode[dot]com. Would love to get your feedback on what I can improve and what other things you'd like to learn! BTW This is the fourth time today someone has asked i
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
Click embed under a comment and it will generate embed code for the comment. Example: http://www.reddit.com/r/angularjs/comments/2f7ziz/i_quit_my_...
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
I made a video course that teaches you how to build apps with AngularJS. http://angularcourse.com
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
If medical school is something you're interested in (I think this is a safe assumption), I would choose Rice-Baylor's BSMD program. The reason is that many pre-med students (whether they will admit it or not) took a watered-down c
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by gordonzhu 11y ago
Thank you for saying this. For a complete beginner the book is total nonsense and worse than overwhelming. The only plausible outcome is frustration and a higher likelihood the person will give up learning. People need to please stop recomm

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