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Comment #41960198
Did you read the article? The sugared JS would be a superset of the target JS. So you would only need to learn the sugared.
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Comment #40616594
...and people criticise node's node_modules. At least you don't spend hours doing this
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Comment #40316914
So were the developments before the last AI winter..
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Comment #40295759
Wait until you see China. There are multiple cities bigger than NYC or London that most people have never heard of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_pop...
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Comment #28688620
Not everyone here is American, "they" is more ambigous in the UK and Australia.
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Comment #28487557
^ This is the real answer that actually reliability works
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Comment #28454553
They're trying to buy enough time to get enough people vaccinated before they "let it rip". Delta has an extremely high R value and will come back in force. This way we eliminate m…
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Comment #28432239
Let's be honest, the media is just giving the people what they want, people subconsciously want bias news, its not pleasent to read news that disagrees with your own views. Why do …
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Comment #28390669
I can't think of a witty response. I fold.
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Comment #28361685
Grinding leetcode != software engineering. That is my entire point, not sure why you're confused.
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Comment #28361547
I'm in London, can you name these companies? I'm earning 150k GBP a year at the moment (average senior/lead as I understand is about 80 or 90?), and have interviewed at a bunch of …
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Comment #28361373
This is definitely not true. I've been contracting for 6 years in London, and am currently in an inside IR35 role, and have quite a few friends in the same space but in frontend/de…
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Comment #28361292
While I agree with you that theres a few like that, you have forgotten about the candidates that genuinely don't want to spend their spare time grinding leetcode. I worked at faceb…
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Comment #28361072
Isn't contract work looked down upon in the US? Here in the UK, its the opposite, contractors make atleast 2x the money, and most wouldn't dream of going back to salary position be…
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Comment #28311939
Isn't it pretty much everywhere doesn't require leetcode, except the US? UK, Aus, and NZ definitely don't unless its with some American company.
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Comment #28311757
This. I have a 4 year old MBP with a screen issue that's obviously not my fault. Apple refuses to fix it.
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Comment #28286033
Please stop talking garbage on here. This isn't facebook.
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Comment #28246387
This is why you need to ask everyone who interviews "What is Container vs Presentational, and why is it good/bad". If you cannot give you a good answer don't hire them.
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Comment #28179892
Most other countries provide universal health care, private health insurance is optional.
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Comment #28179383
Kind of ironic isn't it, the people against universal medicare are the same ones spouting "freedom", but infact universal medicare would give them more real individual freedom than…
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Comment #28167127
Wont we achieve herd immunity via natural infecion then? Unless the virus starts to become like flu, which evades the the natural immunty very easily.
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Comment #28065826
Do thousands then and get back to me. It's all patterns, this "inspiration", is just patterns, your just not seeing it yet. Its true on some degree, that you need some intelligence…