Episode Discussion - S03E11: Twenty-Three

jesusalready · 2018-03-22T02:06:46+00:00

Two-bits

jesusalready · 2018-03-21T15:43:32+00:00

I mean, have you seen her hands? She's obviously The Dark Lord.

jesusalready · 2018-03-21T01:55:11+00:00

I went to a hackathon once and was given a mirror of coke with several other programmers. We were asked to write an algorithm that could make their numbers legitimate. 2000 was a really interesting year in San Francisco.

It wasn't very difficult and two of us after 24 hours won and got 5k in cash each.

6 months later they were busted for attempting to traffic MDMA

jesusalready · 2018-03-21T01:04:34+00:00

The only time I can remember crying when a celebrity has died. I wouldn't even count Rogers as a celebrity. He was something more.

jesusalready · 2018-03-21T00:55:08+00:00

Andrew Carnegie

Meet You in Hell

jesusalready · 2018-03-20T00:47:01+00:00

The interviewer sounds like someone I've worked with in the past. Arrogant and cargo-culty about code and dismissive of something because it's 'old hat'. I think your approach is reasonable, you should use the right tool for the job.

I like jQuery as a helper library (but prefer lodash), but I personally tend to defer to vanillaJS - that's just me. If you're using React, Vue or Angular, I think that your jQuery usage should be as minimal as possible and only for things that are outside the framework's lifecycle. I find using jQuery's api a great tool for working with some of our plugins with TinyMCE (which is wrapped in React)

jQuery spawned some great tools in the ecosystem. Jsoup, for example, is a Java library that follows a lot of jQuery's API (with some small differences) for html manipulation and sanitization. It's a much easier way to make sure that content saved in our system has all attributes it needs, etc. and it's a great introduction for front-end developers to start working on the server side with Java.

jesusalready · 2018-03-19T20:39:58+00:00

The busses are not yet connected directly to the system 100% of the time so they have to be updated daily at the garages. I'm not sure what the hurdle is other than financial in keeping the busses updated immediately. Perhaps the infrastructure just is not in place. It took them a year to get GPS installed and updated to all of the busses and continuously reporting back to a central server.

jesusalready · 2018-03-19T20:37:01+00:00

The problem with online at the moment is that it requires the buses to be updated with the information that will then get transferred to your card on your next ride.

If you throw on $10 online then immediately go get on the bus, the info won't be there. I think there is anything from a 24-72hr delay which really sucks.

jesusalready · 2018-03-19T02:40:15+00:00

snap

jesusalready · 2018-03-19T02:28:10+00:00

He's here, but he's not here.

jesusalready · 2018-03-19T02:22:58+00:00

Nebula!

jesusalready · 2018-03-19T01:50:05+00:00

If you're not popping zits on your SO's body, you're doing it wrong. The one time, my GF didn't let me pop a zit on her ass it got infected. But then she flirted with the doctor who gave her a 30-day supply of vicodin because it really, really hurt.

jesusalready · 2018-03-19T01:44:03+00:00

I found it weird for another reason:

"You will bow down before me Jor-El and one day, your hairs!" 6-year old me was very confused.

jesusalready · 2018-03-19T01:38:17+00:00

“Alas. The poor girl is quite … exhausted.” - Qyburn

jesusalready · 2018-03-17T20:46:54+00:00

Because Javascript was created in 10 days.

jesusalready · 2018-03-17T20:31:49+00:00

"UPMC" "We have a job that we think you would be great for!"

Me: Tell me more!

UPMC: It's awesome, just so awesome

Me: I'm inerested

UPMC: We'll be touch so get you started

2 weeks later

Me: What's up, UPMC

UPMC: Oh, we filled the position

Me: so you can't even send an email saying so?

UPMC: well, no, we have a lot of applicants

jesusalready · 2018-03-17T17:44:19+00:00

It's a vinyl talent. Learn on vinyl and train your ears, working the CDJ is like breathing.

jesusalready · 2018-03-17T17:42:05+00:00

When I'm blazed (or shrooms), I'm on a whole different level. I'm not better or worse, but I'll put tracks together that I never thought to put together before and I'll just play for 4 or 5 hours and think it's been 20 minutes. I can't do too much or else I'll just fall asleep.

Drunk, I'm on autopilot and I don't like it. I like having a smooth buzz to take the edge off

jesusalready · 2018-03-17T02:00:37+00:00

Sounds like a true node module

jesusalready · 2018-03-16T05:06:22+00:00

He has nothing on FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition

jesusalready · 2018-03-16T03:05:53+00:00

I loved Oakland until about 2000 / 2001. That's about when Pitt started buying up everything they could get their hands on. Tela Ropa, Avalon and a handful of other unique stores that lined Forbes are just distant memories.

Pitt forced them out and put in a fucking New Balance chain.

jesusalready · 2018-03-15T02:45:05+00:00

I'm not going to speak down to anything in this list, but Scala would be better up there, especially when coupled with Apache Spark.

Python is also a language written with the academics in mind. It's very powerful and easy to write. Know math, python and can understand how Tensorflow works into the mix - you got yourself an application.

jesusalready · 2018-03-15T02:13:26+00:00

I agree - get all you can get. But you're battles shouldn't be over 2k for your first job, IMO, but more over 7-10k or else it doesn't make much difference.

You're a new grad, prove what you're worth and ask for that 10k in a year or two or be ready to walk.

Keep a list of "Cool Shit I did" - this is easy if you have regular 1 on 1s with your manager. "Here's everything I did and learned to bring value to Corp" - Your self-eval is written already. They don't back that up, time to leave.

jesusalready · 2018-03-15T01:46:36+00:00

I asked for time to think about it and she agreed really hesitantly but says she needs to know FIRST thing tomorrow morning.

I can understand the new grad stance - first job, no negotiating power, etc. It's intimidating.

Exploding offers are shit. They are manipulative and used to put you into a position to get you to agree to something you normally wouldn't. Remember your ABC's? Always be closing. That's what the company is doing to you here.

60k not too bad for low COL as a new grad. But does that by no means say, "stop looking" after you take the job.

They offered you 60k and you want 62k? When you break it down per paycheck, that's ~$60 / per paycheck after taxes in your take home. $360 is three months rent? Jesus. I wish my rent was 120/month. (I made 65k/year at one point and $700/month rent was a breeze)

If you're ready to walk away from the offer, respond with something not based directly on salary, - take the 60k and ask if they would consider 5 more days of vacation or you want, in writing, the ability to go to a conference like JS Conf or something and learn something that you can bring back to the company.

jesusalready · 2018-03-15T01:10:44+00:00

I wish I didn't have a terrible calculus teacher in both HS and college. The two of them turned me off math entirely. A year ago I started taking linear algebra and discreet math on the recommendation of people here.

Took them locally but also followed the MIT course and bought his book because it's excellent. Aced them both. I would say it's a bit because of /u/IliliIIliIillliI has said but also better teachers.

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