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coderKen

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    Comment #40557902

    I recently started building VR apps for VR headsets with Kotlin/Android after five years as a front-end/full-stack engineer. It has been humbling and scary, but I'm learning and lo…

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    Ask HN: Would an app for cross-border collaborative family budgeting be useful?

    I have an idea born from a problem I experienced. Coming from a poorer country and now living in Western Europe, I regularly send money back home to support my family. Fortunately,…

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    Comment #39271892

    This is awesome! What is the performance like? particularly around WASM compiled Whisper.

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    Comment #38365411

    no offence but you sound completely confused

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    Comment #37085371

    I see this a lot, but I will go out on a limb to tell you ADHD is not the reason for your failures. You probably already know this, but it feels better to blame it on something you…

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    Comment #36595331

    No, Leetcode interviews are very much alive. I have interviewed at all three companies you mentioned for frontend roles & they all ask Leetcode questions, but to varying degrees. F…

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    Comment #11840603

    and we are wondering why a lot of Americans are obese. Simple tasks like these help burn a few calories.

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    Comment #11836308

    I'm really sorry if you took my words the wrong way, I guess it came out wrong. I'm not downplaying your efforts, on the contrary I think they are great, most people give up after …

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    Comment #11807031

    Really sucks man. Most times companies are looking for people with experience, most self-taught programmers like myself built up that experience over the year(regardless of what la…

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    Ask HN: How to get started with Machine Learning

    How can an absolute beginner get started with machine learning, especially in the area of natural language processing. It's something I find very fascinating. Thanks. My background…

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    Comment #11660419

    "Then came Javascript, a language designed to make a monkey dance in a webpage. And all hell broke loose." this cracked me up :)

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    Comment #11643370

    JS will be valuable for a long time. It's the core of the web and the web will be around for a long time, if not forever.

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    Comment #11643300

    Really interesting responses from people on here, thanks for sharing. I've learnt a lot. I live in Africa where taking your career seriously is something one cannot afford to take …

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    Comment #11631722

    When I first learnt to code I started out building stuff to solve problems around me, turns out it wasn't a problem to people. while in college - myrumate.com [2011] I built a basi…

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    Comment #11619779

    First world problems.

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    Comment #11605035

    1. Focusing on my hobby which was programming while in school and skipping a lot of classes. 2. Invested a lot of my time in learning more(Data structures/algorithms, advanced Java…

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    Comment #11605018

    This is so true right now especially for me. You sir, have a wealth of experience. I actually focused on teaching my self programming while in school and skipped a lot of classes a…

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    Comment #11594001

    I really do know the feeling of no feedback. I agree that hiring is really broken, only 2 months back I went on various interview rounds for a Front-end position and couldn't quite…

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    Comment #11510518

    Thanks for sharing this, been planning to get into Machine learning this year.

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    Comment #11509787

    Buy a mac.

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    Comment #11448368

    Thanks for sharing this. I just started working remotely and need all the advice I can get.

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    Comment #11372805

    1. Visible results, easily shared, just send a link. 2. Over-tooling and complex architectures, look at NPM and Flux(react) 3. Inbuilt dependency management by browser, Grunt/Gulp/…