DanLuchi

Code

Product

https://firstround.com/review/This-Product-Prioritization-System-Nabbed-Pandora-More-Than-70-Million-Active-Monthly-Users-with-Just-40-Engineers/

https://firstround.com/review/from-zero-to-ipo-how-growth-needs-to-evolve-at-every-startup-stage/

https://martinfowler.com/articles/products-over-projects.html

Interviewing

DanLuchi

What are the issues

Jest tests with lots of things unmocked are really slow
Examples: (run `npm test`):
 PASS  app/assets/javascripts/shared/view_controllers/__tests__/book_story_comments_view_controller-test.coffee (47.683s)
 PASS  app/assets/javascripts/shared/components/__tests__/book_card-test.coffee (48.103s)
 PASS  app/assets/javascripts/shared/stores/__tests__/profile_signup_form_store-test.coffee (24.089s)
 PASS  app/assets/javascripts/shared/stores/__tests__/book_story_form_store-test.coffee (24.394s)
 PASS  app/assets/javascripts/shared/view_controllers/__tests__/create_book_story_button_view_controller-test.coffee (15.639s)
 PASS  app/assets/javascripts/features/profile/stores/__tests__/edit_profile_form_store-test.coffee (21.567s)

DanLuchi

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DanLuchi

If you're like me, you like Peanut M&Ms. If you're like me you also enjoy eating them two at a time and prefer if the two are the same color

DanLuchi

If you're like me, you like Peanut M&Ms. If you're like me you also enjoy eating them two at a time and prefer if the two are the same color

DanLuchi

http://www.vinaysahni.com/best-practices-for-a-pragmatic-restful-api
http://jsonapi.org/

DanLuchi

Step 1: Board
2D array 5x5
value of each entry is a letter

Step 2: create game
initially randomize each letter
this will probably need to get more complicated later (like redo unless vowels > 3 or something)
game board is immutable

Step 3: Game State

DanLuchi

We didn't lie to you, but we weren't completely honest either. Its just a lot easier to pick one way to do things and stick to it than it is to explain all of the possible approaches with their tradeoffs.

You're starting your second job now and its going to be one of the most interesting times in your career. Its when you discover that there truly are an infinite number of ways to accomplish the same task. You'll probably find out that you have a pretty good handle on what to do, but not necessarily why you ought to do it that way.

Don't be too dogmatic. This is a tremendous opportunity to learn, both about new ways of doing things and also about the strengths and weaknesses of the approaches that you've been using. When you find yourself thinking "OMG, what the hell is this?", pause for a moment and try to figure out what the tradeoffs are: what could be some advantages to doing it this way? And ask a lot questions: "I see that you're using [tool A] instead of [tool B], why is that?" Maybe they'll have a g

DanLuchi

/*
 * robotMaze.js
 *
 * The blue key is inside a labyrinth, and extracting
 * it will not be easy.
 *
 * It's a good thing that you're a AI expert, or
 * we would have to leave empty-handed.
 */

DanLuchi

Today marks a major change in the direction of our project. We're switching from jQuery to Tinder for all date picking across our platform, effective immediately.

Making such a large change wasn't an easy descision. It means learning all new APIs and rewriting dozens of lines of code and possibly even some tests. We are almost certainly the largest standalone application to make this decision but this kind of bold decision making is exactly what got us to the top and its exactly what we need to keep us there.

We started using the jQuery Datepicker back in 2005. It was a different time, we were a small upstart company doing whatever it took to make a name for ourselves no matter how many friends we'd lose or companies we're leave dead and bloodied along the way, just so long as we could make a name for ourselves in the industry. jQuery Datepicker was the hot new technology on the block and it was exactly the kind of bleeding edge technology that we needed to disrupt our entrenched competition. The first few