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I really want COVID-19 to be over soon so I can go do some adult ski camps. There is a park skiing camp I can’t go to right now in Europe and a steep skiing clinic at Whistler in C…

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Khan Academy has everything from basic addition to multivariable calculus and linear algebra. All free and online. https://www.khanacademy.org/

Otters https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/otters-are-not... I highly recommend not learning this about otters

I’m considering taking on some freelance programming work and am looking at using https://www.and.co for tracking hours and invoices. It’s free which is a plus. Playing around with…

If you want to give a good demo don’t leave it to chance. Write a script and rehearse it. Keep practicing until you are comfortable and can do it in your sleep.

The one thing I would add is the JavaScript standard library is deserving of some blame for the micro-library problem. Being bundled with the browser or server side in node doublin…

Do you want 50% of a company with sales or 100% of a company with no sales. How many times does the inferior product with better marketing win? The reality is a lot.

One factor is programming is all random people. There is really no Beyoncé or Taylor Swift of programming that everyone in the world knows. A random developer saying “hey checkout …

You kinda answered your own question: YouTube is the site for this & unless it’s really good (or spectacularly bad) no one cares about music from random people.

No. There is no way that would ever be an acceptable work environment. If a company seriously tried it productivity would go to zero. You have invented a system that aligns the dev…

I picked up a google nexus 5x for a development device. A couple of people I know have nexus 7 tablets for doing their android work.

Not a book but you should definitely watch Erlang the movie. It's on YouTube. Then watch erlang the movie 2, it's hilarious.

If I find out a company I do business with is charging me more because of where I live I'm never giving them another penny.

One of the big problems with financial data is there is no standard API to get data out of the financial institutions. Mint is a glorified site scraper. As a user you are giving mi…

Depends on what you signed when you started your job. Standard I am not a lawyer disclaimer goes here. Seriously computers are cheap go buy one.

That sounds like a huge leap that because they are only going to test the solutions in chrome that he should have used angular.

To start as a couple of others have already pointed out you haven't implemented all the criteria. If I was evaluating your solution based on what they are asking for I would have p…

If you are a traditional SQL kinda person adequate record from tender love seems to offer some performance increases. There seem to be lots of effort to make some of the larger key…

I know several people who have architect titles that are horrible coders and over engineer everything they touch. None of them are as bad as your dream but none would be on my list…

35, enterprise consulting, I write code every day

Growth hacking - A BS, sometimes rage inducing buzz word synonym for marketing

From my experience there are a few things that I try to keep in mind while working. 1) Keep your code as simple as possible. In the real world if you can call your code complex or …

At work we are using rails-assets.org to include bower packages as ruby gems. rails-assets.org gets added as a source in the gemfile and run bundler as usual. We looked at a couple…

Averaged out I get about 6 hours of productive time a day at work. The project I am on I am one of the lucky ones. A couple of people on my team regularly spend all day in meetings…