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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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mikst wrote: post #470
yjhoney wrote: post #181

I'm writing a book that teaches people coding using JavaScript, the book that takes you from 0 (no coding background) to getting a job as a JS engineer. 2 years I ago, I had a hypothesis to see if anybody could learn coding if they tried. To test that, I reached out to random people with no coding background, most of them from underprivileged backgrounds. I figured they have fewer opportunities and are more likely to…

Hi, could you teach me how to navigate hiring phase? I have more than 2 years of JS experience, python, shell and whatnot, still 130k sounds good for me.

1. Foundations. How are your foundations? Given an array of promises, could you run them serially (instead of running them in parallel like Promise.all).

2. Do you have experience working with technologies that are trending? If not, start a side project using them.

3. How's your speed? Given the assets, could you build this in an hour? (this was an actual hands on interview problem) https://www.google.com/logos/2011/worldsfair11-hp.html?hl=en

During the day our students do practice problems that drill these concepts.

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Post by cjblomqvist »

Fixing sourcing of footwear - i.e. helping brands find new footwear factories in a modern way.

Check out www.findsourcing.com to learn more. We believe we can be a magnitude better on all metrics (time, cost, effort, quality) and believe in transparency and opening up this industry which still work by handshakes (if you don't know the right people you are screwed).

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Post by justinchan »

samcrawford wrote: post #139

As a side project, I'm working on a route planning app for running. I'm a long distance runner and travel for work a lot, so I frequently find myself planning a run on one of the many existing apps at 5am in a new city whilst jetlagged. My bugbear is that all the existing apps suck. I want a way to say "give me a running route that lasts approximately 10km and is as scenic (greenery, water, mountains, etc) as possibl…

That’s neat. Reminds me of this episode of a Smart Cities podcast where someone talked of building (or built?) a Google Maps equivalent that optimized for pleasure instead of time. One thing that was mentioned was a way to crowdsource data on which routes or POI people most enjoyed walking across. Could use that data to help decide the weights on the graph

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Post by yjhoney »

atm0sphere wrote: post #204
yjhoney wrote: post #181

I'm writing a book that teaches people coding using JavaScript, the book that takes you from 0 (no coding background) to getting a job as a JS engineer. 2 years I ago, I had a hypothesis to see if anybody could learn coding if they tried. To test that, I reached out to random people with no coding background, most of them from underprivileged backgrounds. I figured they have fewer opportunities and are more likely to…

That's actually really cool. Where are you located and was everyone learning from you/others in person?

> Where are you located and was everyone learning from you/others in person?

San Jose (Bay Area). Yes, everyone is learning in person. I plan to release a (free) book capturing what I learned and wrap up this project (or let someone else take over)

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Post by rmdashrfstar »

yjhoney wrote: post #500
fhbdukfrh wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is 130k realistic for someone with less than 2 years of not just experience but total exposure? I'm not aware of any market supporting that sort of value proposition; that's one hell of a book...

YMMV. I don't expect everyone to get 130k TC, but that has been the case so far. A few things that helps: 1. Content must be lean. Learn foundations. 2. Really drill down those foundations. 3. Work experience: most of a student's journey is actually working together as a team to build / launch products. I role play as a project manager and run weekly sprints. 4. Relevant Technologies: I work as an engineering lead du…

In what way did you determine that GraphQL and React are industry trends? Isn't GraphQL a fairly niche solution to relatively uncommon problems that benefit from using a graph database?

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Post by halfjoking »

masiulis wrote: post #397

Creating a visual tool to replace CSS https://github.com/masiulis/Ugnis So that anyone could create a nice UI by drag’n’drop, without writting a single line of CSS. It also works as a design system, so companies can create their own component library quickly. After 3 years of trial and error, finally getting really close to beta version.

I couldn't find how to drag and drop components. I was expecting a "grid view" and then just to drag components from the left to the gridview and put them in cells.

I've actually had this same idea since grid is so flexible and the order of components don't matter for the container grid, so the structure of the HTML doesn't have to change by moving things around in a grid, just the CSS rules generated. Anyway good luck on launching the Beta version.

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Post by ivelostn »

A fun thing I’ve been putting together is growing Oyster mushrooms on wood. There’s actually a lot that goes into getting it to work. The mycelium has to fully inhabit the log before it can produce fruit. That can take 6-12 months. That, and the log has to stay very moist so you have to soak it for awhile before you can put the plugs of mycelium into the wood. Then you seal it with a wax and water it every couple of days. Apparently, a single piece of wood can fruit multiple times.

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Post by halfjoking »

westoncb wrote: post #172

Whenever I get free time I work on my 'abstract visual debugger' project. I've been doing that since late 2014 though, so recently I'm trying a new tack to free up some time for myself: I've been building a little desktop utility with three.js + Electron + Rust, that I'm going to sell in the Microsoft store (eventually elsewhere too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-ANWHLvARM I'll start beta testing in about a week…

Nice demo. Now do it in VR so I can be Jonny Mneumonic!

The dolphin could be included in the Premium Version.

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Post by yjhoney »

rmdashrfstar wrote: post #505
yjhoney wrote: post #500

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YMMV. I don't expect everyone to get 130k TC, but that has been the case so far. A few things that helps: 1. Content must be lean. Learn foundations. 2. Really drill down those foundations. 3. Work experience: most of a student's journey is actually working together as a team to build / launch products. I role play as a project manager and run weekly sprints. 4. Relevant Technologies: I work as an engineering lead du…

In what way did you determine that GraphQL and React are industry trends? Isn't GraphQL a fairly niche solution to relatively uncommon problems that benefit from using a graph database?

> Isn't GraphQL a fairly niche solution

Everyone around me seems to be implementing a GraphQl layer, and most of them don't have a graph database. I'm still not even sure what the `Graph` means in `GraphQl`.

Here's an overview of how Airbnb uses GraphQL: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/how-airbnb-is-moving-1...

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Post by halfjoking »

Ingon wrote: post #115

Since most of my side projects don’t end up seeing light, so somebody could do it before me: A photo app that lets me view (and make galleries to share) of my photos uploaded to s3, that is self/locally hosted.

If you didn't mind Wordpress you might be able to find a plugin that pulls all objects from an S3 bucket and then allows you to make posts from that data in your media library.

Not sure if that exists, but it sounds like someone should have made that.

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