mrstefan's comments

On: Ask HN: How to be alone?

[mrstefan]

Find an MMORPG that suits you and start playing. Preferably an older one with a mature community. There you can find real friends whom you can meet without leaving your home.

On: Ask HN: I'm a programmer and I hate my teammate. Should I change my job?

[mrstefan]

It sounds extremely uncomfortable to me, but I know it is good advice. I don't know if I can get the courage to have this conversation. Anyway, thank you very much.

On: Ask HN: A master's thesis topic that will help me get a job at Google?

[mrstefan]

Why do you think it's overrated? Have you worked there?

[coldsnap427 → mrstefan]

I've never worked there nor want to. I know plenty of people who've worked in and around the company, and they've painted a good portrait of company that isn't worth working for in 2019.

On: Ask HN: What stack is your personal blog built on?

[mrstefan]

I created my blog few years ago and it is written in Spring on backend and AngularJS on frontend. Relational DB is MySQL. If I created it again, all I would change is newer version of Angular.

Also I used Docker for containerizing and Jenkins for Continous Integration but it was only in order to practice DevOps skills.

[profstasiak → mrstefan]

Is your blog that dynamic that you have to use JS framework?

On: Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

[mrstefan]

Really cool! I will definitely use it when making new website.

On: Ask HN: What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?

[mrstefan]

I recommend Sam Altman's blog. Especially his post about productivity: http://blog.samaltman.com/productivity

Everytime I want to do something meaningful, I think about Sam Altman and I feel inspired.

On: Ask HN: Should I focus on building apps or practicing coding tasks to get a job?

[mrstefan]

I'm sorry, I wasn't clear.

I mean: Which is more valuable for interviewers: having couple of working and deployed projects or be good at doing coding tasks? (I have 3 year programming experience)

[sh87 → mrstefan]

At top companies, there's very little chance you are getting through without being convincingly good at CS heavy topics (DataStructures, efficient algorithms, etc.)

Case in point: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en

On: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen as developers?

[mrstefan]

Thank you!

On: Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen as developers?

[mrstefan]

I heard very good opinions about this podcast.