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balquhidderon How to Onboard Software Engineers

Is AirBnB "at scale"? Why does it need to be?

balquhidderon How does a relational database work?

Is there a good way of actually inserting data using it?

balquhidderon Ask HN: How to train my students to be Unicorns

I can only look forward to the time when all recruiters are looking for "Full-stack ninja unicorns" to crush code.

balquhidderon Sylph: the programming language I want

>No, lines following a line ending in a colon must be indented.

Except if you have, for example, an if statement. if x: y() is valid.

balquhidderon “Titan Is Staying”

How is OrientDB compared to Titan? Whenever I have looked, I've only seen people saying how it underperforms in comparison.

balquhidderon Why do we need modules at all? (2011)

Is Urbit a real thing, or an elaborate hoax?

balquhidderon Ask HN: What's up with junior developer salaries? (UK)

I started a graduate-level role in London less than a year ago at £25k. The only things I saw or were shown by recruiters that would give me a higher salary (at my level) were positions in places that would be a horrible commute.