Going on 4 years at a company I found through HN Who Is Hiring.

Five years myself. I submitted about twenty five applications, got to the final stages in six and got two offers, one of which I got my current job from.

Usual recs apply, job spec tailored resume, cover letter, etc.. No network use until I had to submit recommendations.

But doesn't typescript provide all that?

Typescript provided none of those besides sum types.

and sum types bolted on, it something else from sum types that are idiomatic and used throughout all of the std lib.

that's my main gripe with TS: it's bolted on nature.

that's why I prefer a clean slate (like Elm, Rust, F#/Fable, ReasonML/ReScript, PureScript, or this "Grain" project)

I wonder if anyone has ever looked for a correlation between the average lifespan of a species and some distance factor from humans and the effect we have on the environment.

I used to run Gallium on my touchscreen chromebook. Really enjoyed that combo until the chromebook died.

Completely agree, threads confuse me and feel unnecessary. One colleague uses them, but no one else and I always miss them.

I can't say for sure that the company I work for didn't, but it certainly didn't make it's way to me and there are only 8 of us.

> I'm looking for recommendations for a maths book for a bright, self-motivated child in their late teens who is into maths (mainly analysis) at upper high-school / early undergrad level.

> It would be a birthday gift, so ideally something that is more than a plain textbook, but which also has depth, and maybe broadens their view of maths beyond analysis. I'm thinking something along the lines of The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Spivak's Calculus, or Moor & Mertens The Nature of Computation.

> What would you have appreciated having been given at that age?

Common Sense Mathematics by Ethan D. Bolker and Maura B. Mast

My friend was assigned this book for a quantitative reasoning class in college and I was so impressed by how approachable it was. It's got sections on things like climate change and Red Sox ticket prices.

Excerpt from preface:

""" One of the most important questions we ask ourselves as teachers is "what do we want our students to remember about this course ten years from now?"

Our answer is sobering. From a ten year perspective most thoughts about the syllabus -- "what should be covered" -- seem irrelevant. What matters more is our wish to change the way we approach the world. """

As someone who nearly died before age 2 from Kawasaki disease, this all sounds so familiar to what I grew up learning about.

There have been surges in diagnoses of Kawasaki disease in children since this pandemic began, which has been said to cause long term endothelial damage. There certainly seems to be some link between the two.

I've spent the past hour reading through just some of the unbelievable stories in this thread, the whole time thinking, or maybe hoping, that someday this community would somehow benefit me in such a meaningful way as well.

It just finally struck me, however, that one of the most significant changes in my recent life and one that has made me feel the most fulfilled can be traced back to reading a post on HN. In 2016 I read an something on here about a new conpletely free software university in San Francisco called 42. A few months later I was in SF learning/teaching myself to code in C alongside some of the most brilliant people I've ever met.

If you'd have asked two weeks ago, HN, I'd have told you I was developing a mobile app in React Native for a quirky company in Prague. If you ask today, I'm unemployed and working on a website to showcase my skills. Either way, I'm miles from where I started and never would have been here had it not been for that post.

Thank you HackerNews.