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gothrowaway

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    Comment #14530912

    After some yoga I'm not happy about how that thread went down. I'm not going to breath more life into it. As for the subthread, there's a two hour limit to edit/delete, heh. I had …

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    Comment #14530102

    That's the the only thing that was detached, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14519547 was. It had 20 points. Are you sure you wanted to detach that thread, and not just https:…

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    Comment #14530092

    Why? To add to it, did you hell-ban me? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14525098 That had 3 points.

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    Comment #14525098

    Workplaces over-intellectualize what they do. It's an epidemic. Go to school to learn all this data structures and do these fancy whiteboard tests at Microsoft. Your day-to-day? Me…

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    Comment #14523826

    It'd be helpful for the people in this thread to see your YouTube and Github to support your claims. We'd like to understand your motives and the veracity of the veracity of the te…

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    Comment #14523702

    OK, so you're sincere. You have a genuine intellectual interest. Good heart. And an honest worker. But the brutal world of supply and demand, no one cares about your feelings, hone…

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    Comment #14523499

    See the above? This is what codecamps do to innocent people. They prey on the weak, act authoritative, and take advantage of their hopes of getting jobs. You should demand your mon…

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    Comment #14522592

    > Bootcamp grad here who mentioned it prominently in my resume and blogged my experience and put up a YouTube video once a week while I was going through. Mind telling us who you a…

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    Comment #14519608

    > Is there _anyone_ in this industry that needs to actively seek out recruiters? You don't. Recruiters could also mean the people who pour over resumes when people apply for jobs. …

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    Comment #14519594

    More like: A couple of years at startups where the hiring bar is lower. A couple of github projects. A couple of presentations at local meetup groups. And having a really really go…

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    Comment #14519547

    I got paid to learn to program. 45k a yr to start off with. Then 70k a few months later. You don't need to pay a school to learn to code. The sad truth is, there are recruiters who…

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    Comment #14519515

    (For anyone looking at this in the future, this user just signed up to make this post) Care to tell who you are and what the company is? How did you find the article? How did you g…

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    Comment #14519497

    You signed up just to give a review? How did you find this article?

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    Comment #14485509

    They're also "js.io": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14240175 Nothing adds up. I've never heard of their products before. And they've been around for a heck of a long time in…

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    Comment #14470899

    You know, people can see when you fib about salaries. According to Glassdoor, this employer's salary to an engineer is 97-104k. According to the Department of Labor, you are paying…

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    Comment #13960337

    It's indefensible to have code that tightly compacted, throwing functions around and not documented. Don't care if it's Python (basically pseudocode), Javascript, Haskell or Erlang…

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    Comment #13960186

    > languages with other features/language constructs than you're used to just seem worthless, complex, without value and foreign to you. Document the Haskell code and not stuff so m…

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    Comment #13960078

    > Postgrest is a great example of a real-world Haskell codebase. It's hard to read. Very messy . https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest/tree/master/src/PostgR... Despite 15 years of…

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    Comment #13914155

    Golang irritates people for various reasons. For some reason I've begun to feel the language is was partly designed to put prima donnas who push theoretical languages in blogs all …

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    Comment #13909749

    It's my experience and opinion. Also, I looked through your history, you're a Haskell programmer. Due to the context of my thread, I'd appreciate it if you disclosed your relation …