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It always blows my mind how most interview in our field. When I first started in tech I was afraid to talk about not knowing leetcode to my peers. 15 years in and I now can confide…

I've read through some of the comments and there is some solid advice. I work at a large company and see this fairly frequently. You have to approach these things as what do you wa…

Small improvements on every feature you write. Just keep iterating, sometimes things look bad and you want to delete useless lines. But those useless lines may be there for edgecas…

I can appreciate this point of view but I think you are missing out. We learn as programmer's by making mistakes and experience. Familiarizing yourself with a crappy codebase (you …

A group of us like going to hackathons sporadically. We are mostly python devs and android-ios. We never have a designer so if someone is interested in joining us for fun please le…

I wonder how much it would hurt gmail if amazon offered their own version.

i cant wait to make lawnmower man a realtiy

But couldn't you do this with win32com.client already?

My dev friend and I were looking into doing a similar product a few years back. We stopped because of laws that prevent you from putting anything that may obstruct you or another d…

This is such a great project. I remember when it started back when I used to work in perl. The main devs on it are awesome. If I ever build anything in perl again that needs an web…

I do most the interviewing for our tech team. I will rarely even ask a technical question. I look for passion, confidence and that they can keep a dialog on the topic of tech going…

thanks everyone, some solid advice here

Thanks, right now I feel like im ok on nerves.

I wrote a framework that has gotten very popular at my company. I have only ever given a 15-20 min talk on it in the past to groups of 20, 30 people. My next talk has >170 online v…

Cool, but why not just use web sockets?

If they really want to help developers they should patch ie7/8 so people auto update

If they really want to help developers they should patch ie7/8 so people auto update

Real world code doesnt suck in my opinion. The issue is that a lot of the time it solves problems that these books don't need to. Its easy to build an alogirthm and print it when y…

I never realized deploying code was so complicated

Another dev friend and I have been making mobile apps for the past year. We turn them out pretty quick. However we end up making social/utility apps because we lack the skills to d…

I would add a check if pasted text is a url to an image and load that in