ktran03

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by ktran03 6y ago
broken link?
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Layed off leetcoding full time, will employment gap hurt me?
1 points by ktran03 6y ago|2 comments
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by ktran03 7y ago
Depressed people feel lonely. When you hear a sad song, you relate to the artist. Knowing someone else out there has also been in your situation, makes you feel less lonely.
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by ktran03 11y ago
Anyone work out of a co-working space? Totally recommended? I been doing the work from home for 2 years now. It's getting a little meh. Love the freedom, but it would be nice to have actual physical co-workers, or something like it.
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by ktran03 11y ago
That's an employers decision, my post was not meant to comment on how well someone can program, given their qualifications. Best programmer I know does not have an engineering degree. Not sure why I got down voted. A quick google searc
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by ktran03 11y ago
This varies with where you live. In Canada, a programmer is certainly not an engineer. And for Canadians going for a TN visa to work in the US, programmers are not allowed. Usually they try to slip in as 'Systems analysts' or craf
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by ktran03 12y ago
I took that ethics course. I don't think that course really made much of a difference in anyone's career. The material was mostly common sense ethical questions.
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by ktran03 12y ago
I think that's their goal, is to be accepted again. Their late rash of investments seem to insinuate that. Back in the 90's, it was cool to be a Microsoft fan. Not so much over the last decade. They're trying hard to change t
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by ktran03 12y ago
As far as I know, this wouldn't work for U.S. citizens, as they are taxed on world wide income. Residents of countries (like Canada) do not pay tax on world wide income, if person in question is considered a non-resident for tax purpos
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by ktran03 12y ago
That's not true. I played and studied poker for a many years, and I will say for certain that physical cues is a huge part of live games, and definitely not ignored by good players.
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by ktran03 12y ago
I've had n4/n5 and all the iPhones since 3GS. Disagree that iOS is behind overall. It's behind in features yes, but usability I still like iOS more. Droid: -more os features -more customizability -like the notification centre
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by ktran03 12y ago
Xcode 6.1.1 fixed most of the problems you mentioned in the first paragraph for me. Sourcekit crashes was the biggest annoyance, ughh.
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by ktran03 12y ago
Initially I was ripping my hair out with Swift, but after couple months of using it full time, things are much smoother now. I still have doubts on it's production-readiness though. And the strictness is pretty badass imo. Objective-c
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by ktran03 12y ago
There's a 1440p monitor 32" Benq. About $600. VA. Believe theres a 4k version of this also.
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by ktran03 12y ago
I struggled with those, but after a few years doing iOS dev, it isn't so bad. It all eventually sticks. And autolayout is freakin awesome imo, though I hear a lot of people groak about it.
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by ktran03 12y ago
You are thinking of the traditional conception of MVC, where the model notifies the views of updates and changes (i.e. they can talk to each other) Cocoa does not use the traditional notion of MVC. All documented here very clearly MVC as a
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by ktran03 12y ago
Same sentiments here. Microsoft was the admirable company of the 90's for me, and more recently it's Apple and Google. I really hope Google doesn't continue on this path, though it seems to be unavoidable in some ways. Don&#x
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The Metal Framework Gives iOS A Lead In Gaming For The Foreseeable Future(techcrunch.com)
2 points by ktran03 12y ago|0 comments
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by ktran03 12y ago
“The value of a constant doesn’t need to be known at compile time, but you must assign it a value exactly once.” Excerpt From: Inc, Apple. “The Swift Programming Language.” Apple Inc. Check out this book on the iBooks Store: https:/&#
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by ktran03 12y ago
Not officially yet, but in due time I think it's inevitable.
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by ktran03 12y ago
Same here. All you have to do is get over named parameters, square bracket message passing, and overall verbosity, and you know enough to read/understand Objective-C code. If you can get past those three differences, Objective-C is rem
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by ktran03 12y ago
I never understood what the fuss was all about either. If you know one other language really well, Objective-C should take a week or two to get use to. To understand all the design patters, apple HIG, XCode, profiling, libraries, debugging,
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by ktran03 12y ago
I didn't call anyone crazy, it's the idea of copying and pasting code into a professional project that I think is crazy. That's how I was schooled by senior devs, whose opinion I have profound respect for. The reasoning is so
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Are programmers engineers? (2003)(ericsink.com)
2 points by ktran03 12y ago|2 comments
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by ktran03 12y ago
Same. I'm actually a little shocked HNers think regularly coping and pasting code snippets off the web is ok. That's, kind of crazy. This is bad especially for young developers (such as myself). Not to mention jeopardizing the sec
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by ktran03 12y ago
Personally, I think we are at a peak for outrageous programmer salaries. The market is currently correcting itself.
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by ktran03 12y ago
I hear this a lot, somewhat-technical people inserting 'macs are for dum people that don't know computers'. Truth is, a lot of mac users do know computers (obviously), and it's not that we can't mess with drivers an
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by ktran03 12y ago
It's quite plausible exactly zero people in your audience ever had that impression.
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by ktran03 12y ago
Wiki: The law of conservation of mass, or principle of mass conservation, states that for any system closed to all transfers of matter and energy (both of which have mass), the mass of the system must remain constant over time, as system ma
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by ktran03 12y ago
I'd argue that it's precisely because of this decades 'gold rush' that a cultural shift has ensued towards nerds being the new cool. Suggestive evidence of this cultural shift? Have a look at the sitcoms/shows that

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