Dustin King articles - 23 total
How do you answer questions about your salary expectation/requirements in a job application or interview?
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What's a useful programming language feature or concept that a lot of languages don't have?
One thing that comes to mind is Ruby's macro-style methods: class BankAccount < Account ...
Why don't I see all posts from people I follow in my notification feed?
When I check dev.to I usually go straight to https://dev.to/notifications . However, I've noticed tha...
How many hours do you work?
How many hours do you work?
An Explanation of Recursion Like You're Five
A response to "Explain Recursion Like I'm Five"
Erase Distinctions Between Desktop and Mobile, Web and Native
For the user-- even for the developer-- there should be no distinction between platforms.
A field without fundamentals?
Everything you know is wrong / Just forget the words and sing along
please ignore this test post
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Are old unit tests useful?
Are pre-existing tests actually useful, or do they just double the amount of legacy code per unit of functionality?
I used to work with vessel tracking data. Ask Me Anything!
Ships send out automated messages to let each other know where they are. I used to work on shore-side systems for streaming and archiving this data. AMA!
Have you had to make your Python code run fast?
Have you ever had to make snakes fly?
Competition with Coworkers
How often do you feel you're competing with your coworkers? What can you do, or what can an employer do, to make things more cooperative and supportive?
How do you negotiate salary for remote jobs?
Particularly when where you live, where the company is, and [tech hub] are three different places, wi...
How will GitHub change, now that it's owned by Microsoft?
Whether this makes you happy or sad, what's your best guess on what it will actually mean for GitHub users?
How would you rewrite this Python code?
Every way I can think of is either too messy, too verbose, or overkill. Can you think of a better way?
How many hours do you normally work per week?
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How do I find out the salary range for an international remote job?
I'm considering applying for a remote job at a company based in Toronto (I live in West Virginia, USA...
Should you reply to recruiters?
What have people's experiences with recruiters been like? What should I watch out for?
Trying out Transcrypt
One thing that doesn't make sense to me is that you can't just use any language anywhere. In particular, why can't you use Python for client-side web development?
How do you decide what order to put code in?
What order do you put classes and functions in within a file, when it doesn't affect syntactic or sem...
How do you decide what jobs to apply for?
At 10+ years into my career, should I pretty much only apply for things that have Senior in the title, or is there some X-factor I should have before considering myself "Senior"?
What is Each Language For?
Does each language's community have a central question it tries to answer?
When is it a good idea to use stored procedures?
From my experience, it seems DBAs want to use stored procs and application developers want to avoid t...