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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.

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 during the day, I make sure student's work experience covers all of industry trends (currently: GraphQL, React, Apollo Client)

> That's kind of like saying "anyone can run a marathon" and then qualifying it to "if they enter an organized event and complete the appropriate training for it".

Yes. That was what I was trying to figure out is, if there was an organized event could anybody (who are motivated to complete the training) get a coding job?

I would like to think so, but I work with many people in the industry who will say, 'nah they need the brains for it'.

I try my best to motivate those who lose motivation but ultimately I don't have the bandwidth to inspire everyone who loses motivation.

2-3 months is really aggressive and the ones who do well are usually incredibly motivated and smart. Bootcamps that are 3 months long usually will involve an interview to make sure the student is motivated enough.

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 stay through the entire program. 17 of them stayed.

As of today, 14 of them have gotten full time jobs (which was a high win for them, going from minimum wage to 130k+ per year). The remaining 3 of them are starting interview prep right now. I'm going for a 100% success rate.

Everybody learns at a different pace. The slowest student took 2 years and the fastest around 6 months (I actively made them stay around to help out the slower students for as long as I could).

I'm putting together a curriculum of all the pain points people face when learning how to code and come up with a comprehensive book. It will be free to all. The current rough draft is here: https://www.notion.so/garagescript/Table-of-Contents-a83980f...

To test the effectiveness of the book, I've just recruited a new student (my dad), who spent the last 30 years doing manual labor and barely knows any English. So far, so good.

The cat is a Flerken

If you are open to the possibility to go against society's norms:

1. A brief history of humankind: This opens your mind to the possibility that maybe our society is not as good as you think. What if the foundation that our society is built on is wrong?

2. A guide to the good life: Perhaps your pursuit of success, comforts, and convenience is grounded on the wrong foundation. And as a result, a false sense of happiness.

Then you might realize that core of your happiness starts with the people you love most (parents, kids, childhood friends, etc). From there, you can treasure friends (or coworkers or whatever) who support and appreciate your priorities and keep these people close to heart.

> How anyone can experience it and keep acting like nothing's happening beats me.

I look around my workplace, nobody seems to be compelled to change their lifestyle. Nobody seems to mind using a disposable cup every day, buying latest gadgets they don't need, talking about traveling to new places, etc.

I bought people on my team reusable coffee mugs to reduce the amount of disposable waste, but inevitably they get too lazy to clean it and they are back on disposable cups.

> what if the example were about a highly accurate system for detecting kidnappers or people traffickers or something?

That is always the argument for total surveillance state. In Singapore, crime rates are close to 0, but to be effective it means no privacy and everybody is monitored. I'm not okay with this.

I feel that someone who really respects their privacy should not hang out with friends who don't respect their own privacy. Because inevitably, their friends will post enough material to compromise the privacy of everyone in the circle.

A year after I stopped using Facebook actively, all of my friends have stopped hanging out with me. It's just me, my family, and my coworkers.

what about someone making $50 / day? Lets imagine you are making just enough to get by and now government wants to roll out an automatic way to take money from your account for minor infractions. How unhappy would you be?

Also on a side note: "...the fine could be small enough (e.g. $2) to be insignificant for most of us..." -> I once said something like that to someone and he pointed out that statements like that was very hurtful to hear, especially coming from someone who does not understand his financial struggles.

> Would such a system (and automated enforcement) be OK?

Yes. But as you pointed out, `automated enforcement via a fine, without knowing the identity of the perpetrator` is hard.

And as others have pointed out, Point 1 and Point 3 are also difficult to accomplish.

Question for you is, are you okay for the government to roll out a mechanism to detect and prosecute people changing lanes without giving you any guarantee of respecting the 3 points you mentioned above?

If your answer is no, you are not okay with it, then we are all on the same side.

If your answer is yes, then you should read the article above by moxie (very interesting article)

Build a LED that lights up on the spot and does not use any batteries.

During the demo, just take a wire, wind it around your hand a few dozen times, connect the ends to the LED, and put it close to a wireless Qi charger. It should light up. Its pretty cool to produce light just with wires.

Now if you reverse the concept and create a board full of Led rights and wound up wires, could you wave your hand (with the Qi charger) and get the lights light up based on your hand movement?

Kids love superpowers. If you use technology to simulate superpowers and make it seem easy, you will inspire them to become more curious.

This Ted talk gave me hope to reverse climate change and seems plausible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI&t=163s

Does anyone know / have experience whether this actually works?

sorry for being dense, but I can't seem to save files or do anything seemingly practical. Is there any practical use cases for this library, or is this purely along the lines of "Hey checkout this cool hack!"

Thank you

I have a separate credit card that I use for all business expenses and I write everything off from the credit card statement during tax season. Is there still value for me to use KeeperTax?

I've spent alot of time thinking about this, and I've concluded with this:

Hire local people minimum wage to learn and teach each other coding structured around your company's codebase. Once they get to know the basics, have them work on your company's open source projects. Identify the ones who actively help others and convert them as a full time software engineer.

It takes an average person about 1 year to learn enough basics to contribute to a codebase, and paying someone minimum wage only costs about 30k / year so it works out financially on both sides.

its so interesting that you have this opinion. wow!

If anybody empathizes with the post, what helped me was volunteering. Helping others and working with a group to help others gives me a lot of appreciation for all the little things that I have. Also, going out of my way to make someone else smile helps me stay happy. Compliments are a great way to start, I was inspired by a cool article about giving the perfect compliment - https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a6271/how-to-complimen...

Being nice to others in a genuine way builds trust. And building this trust in people around you can help dissipate some of the emotional pain.

I know I'm nitpicking here, but I find it annoying when people say things like: "If you’ve yet to read these x books, do yourself a favor and buy them today".

Did myself a "favor" a few times in the past and every single time I only read the first couple of pages and ended up giving them away. Or worse, I get FOMO so I keep those books around and it becomes clutter around my small apartment.

Its hard to focus and read the rest of what the author has to say if he makes blanket statements like that.

Advice: Don't shy away from doing something you want to do because you think you're not good enough / not qualified.

They have donated, yes. Most of the donations came from friends made at previous companies I've worked at (Google and Apple). Apple is the most generous when it came to company matching.

I haven't had time to look for sponsorship yet, our numbers are pretty low and I've been focusing on each student, one by one.

Sort of. We didn't have an official way to screen it was more of seeing the same people showing up to learn every weekend at the library and then offering them an opportunity to learn full time.

When it comes to nonprofits, donations and goodwill are not the same as investments.

Its not financially stable. I have a hard time telling my mom where all my money is going to and I feel guilty every time I go home for family dinner.

I remembered one of our students has a brother who has severe ADHD (to the point where he had to be heavily medicated). He comes in and tries to learn but couldn't seem to hold his attention for more than a few minutes before disappearing into reddit and gaming sites. I wasn't able to help him. Remembering that, I realize my response above is (unempathetic? I can't find the right word to describe the feels) and I apologize for that.

shoot me an email song at garagescript.org

Thank you! Aside from the name calling in the comment, it does have some merits so I took out the paragraph about donation and my contributions. Love your positivity, thank you for your encouragement.

If teachers makes 100k / year and good ones make 200k / year, there would be alot of people going into teaching. Personally, I don't think that teachers should be making less than an entry level software engineer.

I'm also not advocating everyone learn to become a software engineer. I think its unfair for people to become stuck in their low income jobs because of financial responsibilities. The goal of my nonprofit is really to help unstuck as many of them as I can.