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I don't think I have. I was an early employee at a startup that made it through a few rounds of funding. Somewhere in there the ship started sinking and it was pretty obvious. In t…

What's cool about this is now that you have a date generator, you can apply all kinds of fun things to your date ranges with Python's standard library. Apply generator expressions,…

I worked at a startup that operated for over five years with a similar amount of funding. We had a web app, webpage, native mobile apps on both platforms, marketing, customer servi…

I've never gotten burned out from working too hard. I get burned out by having no say or control over what we are working on or how it's done, and by getting stuck working on low-v…

This is pretty accurate when compared to my own experience, which really surprises me.

Another benefit is establishing team norms and best practices, which is also a goal of code review, but pairing accomplishes it in a bottom up way rather than a heavy top down way.…

I have major gripes with it too and don't use it unless a project enforces it. The main ones that get me are the whitespace (4 characters) and restrictive line length (79 character…

The old options were worthless because the acquisition price per share was below your strike?

Not the last, but near it. Also not the first, but near it. There's a huge difference between the two. In my experience a sinking ship doesn't start floating, so don't stick around…

I've often wanted to write a compiler that would accept a schema definition like protobufs or graphql as input and generate the required SQL to update the database if a schema chan…

Do you think it's necessary to have a rigorous understanding of all of those topics before creating a machine learning model? And that you don't learn from interacting with it, eve…

Thank you for creating these courses and putting them online! I started part 1 a few weeks ago. I couldn't agree more with your teaching style. I'm someone who started college as a…

Same, there have been several times I have had a question and someone thankfully asks the exact one I had. And Jeremy does a great job explaining it. It really helps to get at some…

Hiding the name of the company and what they do is my biggest annoyance. Yes, I really care about that. More than their tech stack, and way more than a buzzword soup that poorly de…

I'd be happy to. Can I ask first what you've tried and what you had trouble with? I think a lot of why d3 is considered low-level is that there are lot of external things you do ne…

I will say though that it's been a side-project idea of mine for several years now to build a JSX-like templating language that would generate d3 code. Never got around to it.

I guess I'm one of those people who thinks that d3's api is an amazing level of abstraction. It took a bit for it to click for me, but that was mostly because it was my first expos…

Huh... I had a Precision 5510 running Linux and I loved it

My first experience with programming was making a "dump file" editor for my Diablo character in 8th grade with Visual Basic. Someone had built a utility to dump the memory for your…

I would think the company benefits from a purely financial point of view because they don't need to provide an office or any of the other amenities that go with one. I personally h…

My Precision 5510 (last year's) gets almost 7 hours, and I have the high res screen too. I also have the GPU but only run it for compute. I did go for the m2 drive so I could fit t…

There was a story a few years ago around my area where a kid who was in trouble with his parents took his father's work truck without asking to get cigarettes. His father called it…

Probably money and time. If they are common shareholders they likely had to pay out of their own pocket to exercise their options and also had to pay taxes on it. Not great news at…

With rent at $230/ac and land prices at $7k+, it's about a 3% annual return. So it's more like 30+ years to break even.

It is high, but typical. With rent around $200 an acre, land only generates around 3% annual cash flow at that price. And even that rate is killing farmers right now.