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gautam1168on Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software?

Its because of JIRA :P

gautam1168on Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (2005)

Are you sure you cannot handle this using conditional types in typescript?

gautam1168on NPM Bans Terminal Ads

i loved those things

gautam1168on The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic

use electronjs

gautam1168on The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic

stopped reading after the third time the author dissed javascript

gautam1168on Avoid Indirection in Code

i regularly see functions that are over 300 lines of code that make no other function calls except ajax. That shit is hard to read.

gautam1168on Writing HTML in HTML

Step1: Write pages in pure html Step2: Organize your html into folders that are similar Step3: Write some scripts to generate more folders easily Step4: Write some sed scripts to make changes across files Step5: Release your scripts as your own site generator

Or you could just spend 15 minutes trying to patch your existing site generator to suite your needs. This article sucks. Downvote.

gautam1168on Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes

i will not read an o'riley book if you paid me to do it

gautam1168on Flutter on desktop, a real competitor to Electron

pyside and pyqt4 both take away a lot from the power of qt. Not worth it if you ask me.

gautam1168on Ask HN: What about an online library of e-books?

I see. This is awesome!

gautam1168on Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?

Thankyou. This helped.

gautam1168on Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?

No I'm not trolling. But I will post this to job search too if you think that is a better place.

gautam1168on Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?

Only slightly related. Since many google employees will be here: How can I plan to land a job with google in 2 years if I have a physics masters and 1.5 years of web development + little exp. with other software stacks? I am trying to figure out a strategy to make it happen and I am willing to do anything, even go back to school.

* How can I get an interview? It seems simply sending my resume through the online portal will not work because I don't have a stellar academic record or much experience.

* How can I figure out what to apply for? I have experience in UI but does google even do that? I want to work at google because I want to work with the people there who are just the smartest people around. But I don't really care what I work on.

* How and how long should I prepare for the interview? I am working through the Cormen's algorithms book but I don't really have a solid CS education. And I hear that they just want you to know everything. So should I just go back to school?

* I have heard that one way is to participate and excel in coding competitions. Should I then focus my entire energy on this front? Or will this be misguided?

gautam1168on Analog Computers

this feels like forcibly renaming electronics engineering as programming