jonathankwok

(I've amended it to use Amazon.ca)

Things to Read:
  Refactoring
    Martin Fowler: Refactoring, Improving the Design of Existing Code
      https://www.amazon.ca/Refactoring-Improving-Existing-Addison-Wesley-Technology-ebook/dp/B007WTFWJ6

    Jay Fields: Refactoring, Ruby Edition
      https://www.amazon.ca/Refactoring-Ruby-Addison-Wesley-Professional-ebook/dp/B002TIOYWG/

yossorion

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

rondy

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

yask123

var img_dom = document.getElementsByClassName('image-thumb-body');
var links = [];

for (var i = 0; i< img_dom.length;i++){
 links.push(img_dom[i].src);
}


function downloadAll(urls) {
  var link = document.createElement('a');

mdang

Ruby on Rails Cheatsheet

Architecture

Create a new application

Install the Rails gem if you haven't done so before

paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

yask123

function dispatch(target, eventType, char) {
   var evt = document.createEvent("TextEvent");    
   evt.initTextEvent (eventType, true, true, window, char, 0, "en-US");
   target.focus();
   target.dispatchEvent(evt);
}


dispatch(document.querySelector("#compose-input div"), "textInput", "hello!");

mycodeschool

/* C++ program to find Inorder successor in a BST */
#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
struct Node {
	int data;
	struct Node *left;
	struct Node *right;
};

//Function to find some data in the tree

tsiege

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!






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preshing

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <assert.h>

typedef unsigned int u32;
typedef unsigned long long u64;

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
// WorkArea
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------