ninjaranter

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Comment · 6 months ago
A comment complaining this was obviously written by an AI, and the standard template is a tell. A philosophical observation about what that says about the state on online discourse. Link to the Dead Internet Wikipedia page.
Comment · 1 year ago
Agree with the premise, but I built a theme with a different interpretation: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=narenran...

The primary difference is that my theme has an underlying assumption that colors have semantic meaning that we all implicitly understand(red = bad, yellows/oranges are action-oriented etc). So instead of color = syntax, my theme semantically maps color = intent.

• Warm colors (orange/red) for actions — throw, return, await.

• Cool colors (blue/green) for definitions and values — function names, constants, variables.

• Muted neutrals for structure and noise — punctuation, keywords like var or const

This means comments are muted, contrary to the author's proposal - imo while they are important and helpful, they're secondary to the actual code

My primary design goal was that if you open a large file and squint at it, the flow should be immediately obvious (the flow colors stand out, if you see a bunch of blues it's calling a bunch of other functions etc)

(You can see screenshots in the link)

Comment · 1 year ago
I spent a week building and then a month over-engineering https://roastedreads.com - a site where you get roasted you based on what you read by literary characters (Gollum, Murderbot, Ms.Marple etc).
Comment · 2 years ago
Alpha, Beta etc :)
Comment · 4 years ago
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=narenran...

I wanted a color scheme where colors _meant_ something, rather than just be pretty - where you can just squint at your code and be able to visualize a heatmap of the key control flows. Among other things Chandrian uses Warm Colors for action keywords, Cold colors for Function names, variable values etc, and muted colors for punctuation / parenthesis etc. which just get in your way of reading code.

Disclaimer: I made it

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Course Hero | Redwood City, CA, USA & Vancouver, BC, CAN & Toronto, ON, CAN | Various Engineering, Machine Learning, Analytics roles | Full-time | https://grnh.se/2ywlpf

Course Hero is an online learning platform where students can access over 40 million course-specific study resources contributed by a community of educators and other students. We envision a world where every student graduates, confident and prepared.

Course Hero has been recognized as Top 100 Best Places to Work and Top 50 Companies with the Best Benefits in the Bay Area. In the past 18 months, we've acquired four companies and have been recently valued at $3.6B. We are in hyper-growth mode, and are actively hiring across the board!

We are hiring for the following roles:

- Senior Engineering Manager

- Senior Data Scientists & Senior Data Analysts (3+ YOE)

- Front End & Full Stack (5+ YOE)

- Software Engineer II, Android (2+ years)

Our tech stack: React, Typescript, Sass, Go, Python

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I'm the hiring manager for the EM/front-end roles so feel free to reach out to chat (contact details in profile)

Comment · 4 years ago
Course Hero | Redwood City, CA, USA & Vancouver, BC, CAN & Toronto, ON, CAN | Various Engineering, Product, Machine Learning, Analytics roles | Full-time | https://grnh.se/2ywlpf

Course Hero is an online learning platform where students can access over 40 million course-specific study resources contributed by a community of educators and other students. We envision a world where every student graduates, confident and prepared.

Course Hero has been recognized as Top 100 Best Places to Work and Top 50 Companies with the Best Benefits in the Bay Area. In the past 18 months, we've acquired four companies and have been recently valued at $3.6B. We are in hyper-growth mode, and are actively hiring across the board!

We are hiring for the following roles: - Senior Engineering Manager - Senior Data Scientists & Senior Data Analysts (3+ YOE) - Senior/Staff/Lead Software Engineers - Front End, Platform, & Full Stack (5+ YOE) - Software Engineer II, Android (2+ years)

Our tech stack: React, Typescript, Sass, Go, Python

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I'm the hiring manager for the EM/front-end roles so feel free to reach out to chat (contact details in profile)

Comment · 4 years ago
https://feelings.earth/

Visualization of what the people of Twitter are feeling right now across the globe (or at least the ones who have geolocation enabled :)). It's fun to have it up on a monitor in the background to periodically gaze at.

I'm an Engineering Director and can rarely justify finding time to code anything significant during my day job these days, so this was my cut-loose-and-have-fun project over ~a weekend. Had a blast doing it, and then rewriting it half a dozen "cool" frameworks ranging from NextJS to RemixRun.

(It works on mobile, but much nicer on desktop)

Comment · 4 years ago
Course Hero | Redwood City, CA | Senior Engineering Manager/ Senior Front-end engineer | Full-time, Remote (but within the Bay Area/ Vancouver) | https://grnh.se/2ywlpf or email me directly

About the Company: Course Hero is an online learning platform where students can access over 60 million course-specific study resources contributed by a community of educators and other students. We envision a world where every student graduates, confident and prepared. We have been recognized as one of the Top Workplaces in the Bay Area in 2020, as well as in the Top 50 Most Transformational Growth Companies in EdTech. We recently received a Series B round of funding and are now valued at $1.1B.

About the Front-end team: We have a very collaborative, learning-focused culture with an active front-end "Technical working group" where we learn from each other, meet weekly, and work on company-wide engineering initiatives. We recently sponsored and conducted workshops at Reactathon. We're big on Typescript and experimenting (with products in production) with React-Native & GraphQL. Our engineers have complete autonomy and independence to innovate.

I'm a hiring manager / front-end engineer myself, so feel free to reach out (contact info in profile) if you have any questions / want to know more!

Comment · 5 years ago
Course Hero | Redwood City, CA | Senior Engineering Manager/ Senior Front-end engineer | Full-time, Remote (but within the Bay Area/ Vancouver) | https://grnh.se/2ywlpf or email me directly

About the Company: Course Hero is an online learning platform where students can access over 60 million course-specific study resources contributed by a community of educators and other students. We envision a world where every student graduates, confident and prepared. We have been recognized as one of the Top Workplaces in the Bay Area in 2020, as well as in the Top 50 Most Transformational Growth Companies in EdTech. We recently received a Series B round of funding and are now valued at $1.1B.

About the Front-end team: We have a very collaborative, learning-focused culture with an active front-end "Technical working group" where we learn from each other, meet weekly, and work on company-wide engineering initiatives. We recently sponsored and conducted workshops at Reactathon. We're big on Typescript and experimenting (with products in production) with React-Native & GraphQL. Our engineers have complete autonomy and independence to innovate.

I'm a hiring manager / front-end engineer myself, so feel free to reach out (contact info in profile) if you have any questions / want to know more!

Comment · 5 years ago
Within a 2 hour driving distance from our offices, to be able to attend team-events / quarterly brainstorming sessions etc
Comment · 5 years ago
Course Hero | Redwood City, CA | Senior Engineering Manager/ Senior Front-end engineer | Full-time, Remote (but within the Bay Area/ Vancouver) | https://grnh.se/2ywlpf or email me directly

About the Company: Course Hero is an online learning platform where students can access over 60 million course-specific study resources contributed by a community of educators and other students. We envision a world where every student graduates, confident and prepared. We have been recognized as one of the Top Workplaces in the Bay Area in 2020, as well as in the Top 50 Most Transformational Growth Companies in EdTech. We recently received a Series B round of funding and are now valued at $1.1B.

About the Front-end team: We have a very collaborative, learning-focused culture with an active front-end "Technical working group" where we learn from each other, meet weekly, and work on company-wide engineering initiatives. We recently sponsored and conducted workshops at Reactathon. We're big on Typescript and experimenting (with products in production) with React-Native & GraphQL. Our engineers have complete autonomy and independence to innovate.

I'm a hiring manager / front-end engineer myself, so feel free to reach out (contact info in profile) if you have any questions / want to know more!

Comment · 5 years ago
Highly recommend this Matt Levine article on how ludicrous that is

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-09-09/money-...

> Imagine writing the investment memo for “20% of a picture of a dog” and being like “the most we should pay is probably about $2 million because the whole picture of the dog sold for $4 million three months ago and it can’t realistically have appreciated more than 150% since then; even if the whole picture of the dog is worth, aggressively, $10 million, this share would be worth $2 milllion.”

> One model here is that everyone on earth wants to pay $4 million for a unique picture of a dog, so if you make one unique picture of a dog and sell it for $4 million you’ll get $4 million but if you cut it into 17 billion slices each one will sell for $4 million?

Comment · 5 years ago
Course Hero | Redwood City, CA | Front-end engineers | Full-time, Remote (but within the Bay Area) | https://grnh.se/2ywlpf

About the Company: Course Hero is an online learning platform where students can access over 40 million course-specific study resources contributed by a community of educators and other students. We envision a world where every student graduates, confident and prepared. We have been recognized as one of the Top Workplaces in the Bay Area in 2020, as well as in the Top 50 Most Transformational Growth Companies in EdTech. We recently received a Series B round of funding and are now valued at $1.1B.

About the Front-end team: We have a very collaborative, learning-focused culture with an active front-end "Technical working group" where we learn from each other, meet weekly, and work on company-wide engineering initiatives. We also recently sponsored and conducted workshops at Reactathon. We're big on Typescript and experimenting (with products in production) with React-Native & GraphQL. Our engineers have complete autonomy and independence to innovate.

We are currently hiring for Staff/Senior/ and SWE II front-end engineers. I'm a hiring manager / front-end engineer myself, so feel free to reach out (contact info in profile) if you have any questions / want to know more!

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