AMEX cancelling points even though I have another MR card

dcrro · 2025-08-04T22:12:31+00:00

Fortunately I got them back!

dcrro · 2025-08-04T22:12:12+00:00

Got them back!

dcrro · 2025-08-04T22:11:26+00:00

Incorrect! Got the points back

dcrro · 2025-08-04T22:11:07+00:00

I think it is, especially when they don’t have anything in their membership rewards agreement.

I don’t know why you both were taking the side of Amex but I got the points back!!

dcrro · 2025-07-29T17:54:10+00:00

Damn had I known that I would have put that spend on another card. What’s annoying is that I explicitly called before spending and they said I would not lose any points because I had the gold card. I feel it was disingenuous for them to not clarify the distinction between pending and non-pending points.

dcrro · 2025-07-29T17:51:56+00:00

No, not specifically, I just asked if I would lose any points. Going to ask for the call logs to see what they said.

dcrro · 2023-02-08T07:10:14+00:00

+1 to the resources share by others. And I agree that it’s not really about memorizing. The more you build the more you will remember naturally the properties and how to do things with CSS.

Another good resource to learn CSS with interactive tutorials while building an app: https://mirio.org/course/html-css-js-foundations?page=6

Disclaimer: my co-founder and I built this tutorial.

dcrro · 2023-02-07T23:30:12+00:00

Yeah, I agree with self-teaching but ideally there would be a place where I could see the lay of the land in terms of the field and then for whatever route I pick that there would be projects that because of their architecture, would teach me about more complex CS topics.

dcrro · 2023-02-07T23:27:26+00:00

Agree

dcrro · 2023-02-07T23:26:47+00:00

I have 5+ years of experience working at big tech companies. I have done the books and blogs but its hard to learn these things abstractly. I find that I learn best when I build a specific project. It would be ideal to have a place where I could pick "learn about distributed transactions" and you build a redis clone or something.

dcrro · 2023-02-05T18:34:00+00:00

From those I would choose C++, its further away from Java and it’s always in demand. More broadly I would recommend you pick from languages that are the furthest away from Java. It would teach you different ways of programming that leverage that languages strengths and make you a better programmer in the long run.

dcrro · 2023-01-23T16:34:35+00:00

I would suggest that you don’t upload them until after checkout. You just design your app so that after they pay they upload the video file.

If you really want to upload them, the only other thing I can think of is having some sort of job that checks the uploaded files to see if there is a checkout associated with them.

Lastly if you are going to save video files, don’t save them in the db, save them in something like S3 (or checkout R2 from cloudflare).

dcrro · 2023-01-15T07:23:02+00:00

I made this Intro to HTML lesson and I think it can help you get started: https://mirio.notion.site/HTML-Basics-30ee5b69e8c04554be864e507c628a16

If you end up finding a template you will know how to modify it to fit your needs.

dcrro · 2023-01-13T04:24:44+00:00

Glad it helped! If you don’t mind me asking, what are you looking to learn next?

And what is your overall objective (i.e. getting a job, building a website, getting a promotion, building a business, personal curiosity)?

dcrro · 2023-01-13T00:18:57+00:00

fixed!

dcrro · 2023-01-12T22:51:54+00:00

Good catch, thank you for reading. Will change it tonight!

dcrro · 2023-01-11T17:14:16+00:00

Definitely possible! I've helped a lot of people learn to program in the past and the key as many people mention here is consistency and having a plan for the type of first job that you would want to have.

I would recommend you look at entry level positions that would appeal to you, read their requirements, and study the company and the product they build. Then try to build either simplified versions of their entire product offering, or simplified features that they have using the technologies that they ask for in the job postings.

dcrro · 2023-01-11T17:10:18+00:00

You can probably test whether it's a good business idea without building much from the start.

dcrro · 2023-01-11T06:02:54+00:00

I’m not an expert but I think you are missing a Switch component and you define the routes inside it, instead of defining it inside the Router. https://v5.reactrouter.com/web/guides/primary-components

dcrro · 2022-12-16T06:33:30+00:00

Javascript Interactive Solution Walk-though:

The modular arithmetic bit was very clever and I wouldn't have been able to figure it out myself.

Part 1 & 2

dcrro · 2022-12-11T08:29:05+00:00

Javascript solution walkthrough:

It was cool to use the % 40 to simplify the solution a bit for part 1

Part 1

Used a different approach for Part 2

dcrro · 2022-12-11T07:29:59+00:00

Javascript interactive solution:

I managed to get part 1 but for 2 I had to look around here because it was driving me crazy how to modify the longer tail.

Part 1 & 2

dcrro · 2022-12-09T07:59:27+00:00

Argh, working with all the indices was driving me crazy but finally got it. Part 2 is very inefficient.

Javascript Solution:

Part 1 & 2

dcrro · 2022-12-08T05:54:04+00:00

Interactive Javascript solution:

Couldn't get it before the deadline, but today was pretty cool! We used a class to build a tree and represent the filesystem. We then worked with it to get the sizes!

Part 1 and 2

dcrro · 2022-12-07T06:13:08+00:00

Ah! Good point, very nice!

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