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You'd think so, but a surprising amount of students are still attending. What else would they do? Most can't get a job. They can't join a program like the Peace Corps. Anything bey…

I appreciate the correction, but frankly this isn't what I hoped people would take away from my comment. My point was that race/gender/appearance plays a large role in gaining acce…

I've been thinking about this exact issue with respect to my accomplishments. How much benefit have I drawn from looking like a programmer? I'm an Asian American male with glasses.…

This article is bugging me for some reason. I don't disagree with it. It's certainly easier to make a language now, even more so than in 2016 when this article was published. But i…

Key point here is that you probably fixed your sleep schedule sometime after high school. Coffee dependency is a pretty common hotfix for a poor sleep schedule. Once you take away …

I agree and sympathize with what you're saying. Coding screens are a necessary evil. But perhaps they can be omitted in certain situations. I know I completed the Google foobar cha…

Agreed that it's tricky, but there needs to be some feedback loop. Otherwise you end up with seriously broken processes that never get fixed. Companies tend to care about false pos…

Also get feedback from candidates, especially rejected ones. The people who get offers will assume that the process works, since it validates their self-worth. Even if the process …

Is it just me or does Quora straight up not work on Firefox? Whenever I click the Continue Reading button, it fails to load more and gives me a generic "Something Went Wrong" error…

So happy to see the Dekalog here. It's hard to find it streaming. Dekalog 1 is a particularly relevant film for HN since it deals with a programmer and his idolization of technolog…

I misread that as Twitter's Dutch rival. MessageBird would be a hilarious name for a Twitter competitor.

I've tried to use iterators and closures in my code, but it's not as easy with error handling and lifetimes. Like I could figure out the magic incantation that lets me map over an …

Could use some linear algebra terms. Pivot? Eigen? Nullspace? Kernel? Determinant? Trace?

It’s a little too early to see the effects of Jony Ive’s departure. He left less than a year ago. He probably had a decent role in designing Big Sur. Plus all the remaining designe…

This is super super minor but it's JavaScript not Javascript. IMO the camel case makes it look so much better :D

I use a sous vide machine to keep the yogurt at a consistent temperature. If you're working with non dairy milks, that extra time can help a lot. If you're looking for another good…

I wonder how many people on HN have experienced being the only person of their race in the room. In my case I was put into a French public school where I was the only Asian student…

I highly recommend reading The Little Typer if you want a great book that bridges math and code. It starts out describing Pi, a Lisp with some interesting restrictions (limited rec…

Yeah you're quite similar to people I know, especially in your view of performance and choice of sources. I definitely agree that bottom line, seeking out info is a net benefit. I …

It's definitely not the worst to be overly well read in programming literature. But oh man does it get old arguing with someone who is taking advice from a very niche, very particu…

There's a particular brand of young developer where every opinion comes from a blog post, talk or HN comment. They have strong views on many different topics and believe that they'…

> YouTube was (and still largely is) written in Python, way before it was cool and well-known That's a good point. I wonder how many successful apps used tech that only appeared bo…

Yeah maybe "JS is best language ever!!!" is a better example. Or "JS is perfect!!!"

That's true, but JavaScript is something especially controversial :D. I've yet to find a programmer who doesn't have some sort of stance on JS Also yeah it is fine to say "I don't …

I'm starting to develop a theory that a person's stance on JavaScript reflects their ability to critique reasonably and therefore their maturity as a developer (to an extent). Java…