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Wishing Everyone a very Happy New Year 2024. Looking forward to more new learnings on HN as before!

I am a software developer just like many users of the wonderful HN community and an ardent HN user myself for around 7 years . It has inspired me to pursue software Dev/Tech as a c…

MIT Open Course Ware seems to be a good reference

I started running a especially early in the morning. All this was to prepare for a 10K (6.3 miles) run. The aim was to improve my time. I went from 56 mins to 50 mins and finally a…

Reading the conclusion of 'Decision against the operation' > In the end, convinced that the political risks outweighed the possible benefits, he decided against the intervention. I…

Today I ran a 10K (10 Kms) in 50 minutes. This was my second 10K, and saw a 6 mins improvement , since the last one , around a month back. 50 mins is still an average time , but an…

I have no regrets as such on choosing this profession, since its been a passion since the very first time I saw a computer. The regret however, is doing this for over 6 years now a…

Any game devs here who started off building standard business apps? If so, would you say you became a better dev or more passionate about the craft i.e. software dev? Things learne…

This will be a long one so bear with me and read along. I have been at my current company for around 3.5 years. Its been a good experience. But I feel i am not challenging myself e…

Ambient noise generators like mynoise and noisli have been a great help in getting dev and documentation work done amidst noisy workplaces. What about you? Is there anyone out ther…

Going through job descriptions of a 'Software Dev Engineer' role; I often see "Strong background in data structures and algorithms". I know this has probably been asked and discuss…

Going through job descriptions of a 'Software Dev Engineer' role; I often see "Strong background in data structures and algorithms". I know this has probably been asked and discuss…

Its essential in my opinion , for junior web developers to familiarize themselves with the excellent resources and forums existing on the web easily searchable via few keystrokes o…

Thanks for the advice!I did the same and with two minds together got this done

Appreciate your advice! I called off the demo,finally built that feature after a long week and weekend, and have scheduled to demo this week.

Appreciate if you can share your experience at the interview. Good Luck!

I am facing something that every developer does on a number of occassions in their careers i.e. a challenging and an insurmountable problem to solve , build and deliver a complex f…

I am facing something that every developer does on a number of occassions in their careers i.e. a challenging and an insurmountable problem to solve , build and deliver a complex f…

As a developer I've always despised having to spend countless hours manually drafting , formatting and getting requirements & design documents reviewed. In spite of the obvious val…

That's the spirit ...Good Luck!

I was thinking the exact same thing a few days back when I got my package delivered. With the volume of packages that get unpacked each day around the world, it is bewildering to t…

Learn new tech stacks , and get into Big data & ML. TO not be a generalist dev anymore, and get into either Amazon or Microsoft. May be find the right girl and get married. Lesser …

its back up now!

Its offline for me and I suppose globally