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by skylark 6y ago
If you're looking for something dead simple, I'd suggest Mithril. The API is tiny, but powerful, and will give you the tools you need to create reactive views that update to state changes. The major downside to using highly unopin
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by skylark 8y ago
This is a tough question to answer. What constitutes "back end" has changed significantly over the last 5-10 years - an Amazon AWS infrastructure engineer does vastly different day to day work from a small startup engineer. For yo
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by skylark 8y ago
You can do that in a few minutes using an extension which allows you to inject custom JavaScript code (e.g. TamperMonkey for Chrome.) This line should do the trick: for (const node of document.querySelectorAll('.commtext')) {node.
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by skylark 8y ago
Is Sublime Text already uncool? I'll open another editor if I feel like I need a power feature that's not available, but for general everyday coding it's still my go-to. Beyond that, any Unix environment is fine with me.
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by skylark 8y ago
I generally don't recommend EPI for interview prep. I've found that the questions are overtuned in difficulty, and don't resemble anything I've seen at even my Google, Facebook, etc. interviews. I echo what the other pos
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by skylark 8y ago
I've never had to pay for transportation to an interview - even rideshare/cabs are typically paid for. I would outright reject any company that tried to make me pay for my own airfare and lodging for an onsite interview.
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by skylark 8y ago
This reminds me of a court case a decade ago when Blizzard sued the creator of a popular World of Warcraft botting program called MMOGlider on the grounds of copyright infringement. Blizzard won and was awarded $6m. Not a lawyer, but maybe
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by skylark 8y ago
Hmmm, I suppose I objectively agree with some of the points the author made, but as someone who works with protocol buffers daily, those issues never actually come to be problematic in practice. In fact, I have nothing but positive things t
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by skylark 8y ago
1. Yes. Microsoft is still well respected, so having it on your resume will likely open doors for you in the future. 2. No. Microsoft's compensation is generally below Facebook/Google's compensation packages. Be sure to keep
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by skylark 8y ago
My main question is how this offering differs from a UI framework. At first glance, this looks similar to Ionic, Flutter, Cordova, Xamarin, React Native, etc. You're fighting an uphill battle because people these days either want to wr
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by skylark 8y ago
You're absolutely right - SPA bloat isn't directly due to the weight of the underlying frameworks. I think what I was touching on more was the fact that SPAs generally encourage engineering practices which lead to more complexity
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by skylark 8y ago
The "website obesity crisis" is related to the rise of single page applications and the growing popularity of frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular. Having worked on many SPAs in my career, I've noticed a similar pattern wh
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by skylark 8y ago
I think the excitement around using JavaScript as a server runtime has peaked. If you search for node/express on Google Trends, you'll notice the interest leveled off about a year ago. This matches up with my own personal experien
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by skylark 8y ago
It really depends on what kind of development you're doing. The majority of software engineers are application developers making CRUD websites or mobile apps, so that perspective is the one to come up most often. I also happen to be on
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by skylark 8y ago
I understand that place of employment is a big part of one's identity, but remember that you're a single Googler, not speaking on behalf of 50,000 of us. You should not be using the word "we" the way you are - it's
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by skylark 8y ago
I think the "right to be forgotten" law has larger scope than that actually, although I'm definitely not a lawyer. > After a request is filled, their removals team reviews the request, weighing "the individual's
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by skylark 8y ago
You're thinking of survivorship bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by skylark 9y ago
Good advice all around until that last point. While any individual might personally engage in risky behavior, it's not correct to make a blanket recommendation. As the number of people who follow risky advice increases, the chance of s
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by skylark 9y ago
It's even worse than that. Assuming a modest 5% stock market yield, you'll be at ~160k after a decade. At 8% you would have roughly doubled your 100k to 200k. The average person doesn't need Bitcoin. They need Vanguard.
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by skylark 9y ago
Less than 7 hours (6 or less) is typically considered a part time arrangement. If you're a high performer, you can try to negotiate for this kind of situation, but it's rare to start a job with that type of benefit. You should exp
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by skylark 9y ago
I currently work at Google and have received offers from Facebook and Amazon. I don't have a CS degree. Interview Cake should be your first stop - the questions are the closest to what you'll actually see in a tech giant interview
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by skylark 9y ago
All of the above. You should be ready to answer standard ds/alg whiteboard questions, have a strong grasp of JavaScript, and be ready to answer system design questions related to client side development.
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by skylark 9y ago
I went to Cal and saw many of my friends go through the same thing. EECS is one of the most impacted majors, so the weeder introductory classes are brutal by design. For those who made it into the major, it didn't seem nearly as bad.
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by skylark 9y ago
The parent provided one datapoint - his company. But I can tell you from personal experience that this is not the norm (at least in San Francisco.) I've interviewed at a wide variety of companies and I can't even remember the last
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by skylark 9y ago
It's a financially motivated decision. Banks have a high percentage of people who are tech illiterate. Many of these people don't use the password reset when they forget their password, they call tech support, which costs banks a
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by skylark 9y ago
I think the biggest factor is actually time. Raw time. In college I had 12+ hours/day I could spend doing anything I wanted, even accounting for classes, studying for midterms, etc. Multiply that across 4 years and you have 17,000 hour
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by skylark 9y ago
It's a weird situation. Your credit information is so crucial that the agencies need a workaround for everything - a user can't be allowed to get stuck in a state that locks them out of their credit forever. I'm still annoyed
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by skylark 9y ago
You're half right. Google doesn't hire purely frontend engineers. They have a job listing for them, but once inside everyone gets the same title: Software Engineer. At Google, the "frontend" work also usually includes th
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by skylark 9y ago
A credit freeze gives you a PIN that they'll ask for before the freeze can be lifted.
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by skylark 9y ago
There's a website where the author correlates random datasets against each other and displays the ones with really high R values. http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations With today's headline driven media,

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