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by groundCode 7y ago
I think it goes both ways. Yes the student has to expend effort to understand, but teachers can make a huge difference. With Stackoverflow, I think often the simple questions point to a possibility that technical documentation isn’t all tha
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by groundCode 7y ago
I think Rails is a good framework. What absolutely sells it to me is Ruby. I was a miserable C# developer. Now I’m a happy Ruby developer.
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by groundCode 7y ago
I’m waiting for a comment about why the author chose to Write the fictional project in JavaScript to take the top comment spot and the language wars to begin....
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Ask HN: Have you released software on the Microsoft store?
6 points by groundCode 7y ago|4 comments
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by groundCode 8y ago
Everyone starts from somewhere. No matter how “developed” a field is. I think we should encourage the learning no matter what level people are instead of being scornful of how “advanced” a field of study or the people within it are. There a
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by groundCode 8y ago
I once saw a company that interviewed like this. The also paid the candidate for the afternoon. The thinking was if you are working on our codebase you should be compensated.
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by groundCode 8y ago
We don’t know that the author didn’t google and try a few things. And it’s perfectly possible to be a computer scientist and not know how to tune a web server. There are lots of specialisms and paths. Personally I admire someone who, despit
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by groundCode 8y ago
Inconsolata https://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
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by groundCode 8y ago
To be fair, government gateway isn’t actually developed or maintained by GDS (the organisation responsible for GOV.UK)
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by groundCode 8y ago
Exactly what I thought when I read that. I wonder how much stopping slack meant they all just jumped on twitter
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by groundCode 8y ago
Realising that maintenance is the job and when you get to looking at legacy code, that it's not crap, but just represents a person/team's point in time understanding of a domain. Your understanding is different or maybe the d
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by groundCode 8y ago
David malan’s CS50 course has some nice material on this. Some of the clearest well presented and enthusiastic lectures I’ve seen.
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by groundCode 8y ago
I always thought it neatly mimicked the way we think of age. When you are born you start at 0. You only turn 1 after you have lived a year.
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by groundCode 9y ago
Nitpick s/he said s/he couldn’t run the repo. If someone posted that in our slack someone would jump in and ask what errors s/he was getting. Once we found a solution we would get the docs updated, usually by the person who f
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Open Spending – search, visualise and analyse fiscal data in the public sphere(openspending.org)
2 points by groundCode 9y ago|0 comments
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by groundCode 9y ago
On the subject of motel living, Willy Vlautin’s book This Motel Life is an excellent read.
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by groundCode 9y ago
I'm old fashioned. Pen and paper. Take notes, recall from memory and review with decreasing regularity until it becomes base knowledge. If my brain feels like it's hurting that's good :)
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by groundCode 9y ago
This is good advice. If you want the internship/job at a company, you have to get your foot in the door. That means going through the recruitment team. Cutting off your nose to spite your face doesn't often result in job offers. G
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by groundCode 9y ago
Somewhat brilliant in that by forcing me offline I was distraction free in reading the piece. Basically it fostered an environment in which I was more likely to read to the end of the article
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by groundCode 9y ago
I'm always happy to read Troy's writing and heed his advice. I'm not sure about the whole "Perhaps Neil Patel is hoping that people will be too distracted looking at him in his pyjamas to notice" thing though. I do
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by groundCode 9y ago
I think dysfunction like you describe comes from organisations that don't value developer opinion. I don't particularly blame some contractors for taking advantage of that and making a living from it, but it reflects the organisat
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by groundCode 9y ago
Somehow very swiftly ended up with an atomic bomb......
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by groundCode 9y ago
My main gripe is that in general, I don't think it puts the user first. It's flashy for the sake of it and I find it a terrible user experience. This is certainly subjective, but it's not helping my impression of the product
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by groundCode 9y ago
Hope the product is better than the website....
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Chris Cornell: Audioslave and Soundgarden singer dies aged 52(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by groundCode 9y ago|0 comments
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The man who catches marathon cheats(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by groundCode 9y ago|0 comments
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by groundCode 10y ago
I type on dvorak and use vim. I've not changed the vim keybindings at all. So when I want to switch to insert mode I hit the "i" key where it is on the dvorak layout. In qwerty terms, I hit the key where "g" would b
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by groundCode 10y ago
I came across CS unplugged a while ago. Looks like it might be useful http://csunplugged.org/
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by groundCode 10y ago
Personally, I'm basing my startup on the brexit fallout depressing the value of the pound, making outsourcing development to the uk cheaper than ever :) to wit I have set up http://brexitlabs.com In all seriousness, I don&#
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by groundCode 10y ago
> Otherwise, raising a child requires a great deal of self-sacrifice with absolutely no guarantee that you'll even get the satisfaction of a job well done. It's a total crap shoot and even the emotional return on your investmen

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