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songzme

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About songzme

My name is Amay and I teach people about JavaScript at c0d3.com

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    I used to be addicted to youtube too, and when looking for a browser extension I found that just adding /etc/hosts entry (on a mac ) works well enough for me that I don't need an a…

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    good idea. FYI you can also `sudo vim /etc/hosts` and map any websites to 127.0.0.1, effectively blocking them. Your comment inspired me to do that thank you!

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    Comment #32652201

    if I want to replicate what the author did, what drawing tool / software should I get to do the initial drawing? I use ubuntu so preferably something compatible with that.

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    Comment #31867579

    I recently got interested in looking at the planets and constellations and I want to suggest these to anyone who is interested: This book introduced me to how the earth moves and h…

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    > recursion is "useless in industry" From my experience its true. I have never written recursive code in my 12 years of professional experience (primarily JS). But during interview…

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    I've been a SWE for 12 years and has been teaching people how to code during my free time ever since I started coding (so more than 12 years of teaching). I have taught around 30 s…

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    thanks these books look interesting to me added them to my kindle!

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    Comment #30718105

    thank you so much I will go learn Kubernetes and Terraform and how they work

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    sorry I should clarify the parts I don't know. I know how to build a full stack app with user accounts, deploy it to the cloud, then add websockets. I own https://www.c0d3.com I do…

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    Does this mean that it is final and that come winter I don't have to reset my clocks anymore? A bit sad because I have always correlated 12pm as the sun being at its highest point …

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    Ask HN: How to build something like Repl.it?

    I want to build something like repl.it but I don't know what I need to know. How do I go about learning how to build something like repl.it where I could create server instances fo…

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    Comment #30617075

    I thought about it, and I decided not to. TBH, I like vesting stocks and the stock growth helps me work alot less than I need to ( get to quit, take a year off and live off selling…

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    okay I will try this thank you for the suggestion!

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    I really struggle with 1:1s primarily because: 1. Do you want career growth? No, and its hard to tell that to my manager. More growth leads to more responsibility, which is more st…

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    I spend alot of time on Discord on multiple servers. With this outage, I couldn't access any of the servers I'm involved in, which gives me some time to look at open source self ho…

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    oh I see so when node v17.4.1 is released, I would be able to run node server.js --experimental-fetch

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    sorry if this is a stupid question, but how do I try this out? I ran node with the experimental flag on a file that calls fetch: node server.js --experimental-fetch Got 'fetch is n…

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    Comment #29941473

    you could start by creating a repository on github and gitlab, they have resources to help you track your source code with git and push your code to your repository. Then now you c…

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    Universities are places where you go for intellectual pursuit of your interests, which is why majors like "study of russian history", "Anthropology And Archeology" exists. The majo…

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    Stuff like postfix and dovecot also make my eyes cross I've been using nodemailin to receive all emails as POST requests. Set the DNS ip address to a vps on hostwinds (they don't s…

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    > I’ll be teaching my child possessions mean wealth That's what my mom taught me. > just how do you intend to compete with that? Because in that case, my lineage will take your res…

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    I teach my kids to buy less, reuse as much as possible (like keeping the glass jars to make pickles, etc). Fix up old furniture instead of buying new ones. Eventually you'll learn …