Overheard in Chingu Pt. 6
Random lines taken out of context from the Chingu coding cohorts!
Has anyone ‘casually’ breathed pure O2? Like, while conscious and/or not hospitalized? Can humans even breath pure O2? Or do we need the N2 and other components?
#Idea 101: There is high chance someone might have made something you want to make, use as advantage, find the people, see their reviews, in your app don’t repeat their mistake
One day, when I have nothing to do and a will to build something, I’ll make a Slack-to-IRC bridge. All slack subdomains’ll be channels in IRC. And I’ll use some external service to convert fancy stuff in slack to hyperlinks in irc. Smileys can go away. Threads’ll be tricky. Now that I think of it, it doesn’t sounds that complicated.
where should I direct someone that hasn’t been in the cohorts before to look for information since the july applications aren’t public yet (and most of the results I find on google for chingu are for older cohorts)
70% of air is N2. 20+ % O2 + other nonsense and water vapor.
Any Three.js ninjas? I just want to ask: is it as fun as it looks like?
Yeah, I saw that. I thought that meant “Yo, tslint needs typescript and you don’t have it!”
I just watched zootopia. pretty good
I love markdown, I use excel and work all day but would much prefer to use markdown for my notes
Quantum mechanics is so rad. Digging for a good Young’s double-slit experiment video since @oxyrus posted the BBC link above… This one explains it pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9tKncAdlHQ 5:49 “Each atom, by itself, is somehow contributing it’s small part to the overall wave-like behavior we see in the interference pattern.” :boom: Bonus cred points for the bowtie
Q: I wonder what the key ingredient to a group like that. Is it just a willingness to learn. Or do you think the group just clicked as people?
A: In my original Meerkats, I got into a Momentum clone build to learn team with 5 other people. I was super anxious about my skill level, not wanting to be a drag on the team. But what struck me almost immediately was that work ethic, determination and soft skills were going to be equally as important as dev skill. The cool thing about Chingu is that, if you have to think about and declare how determined you are on the application — makes you think about it. And signing up for a build to learn project is another expression of determination. So Chingu probably self-selects determined learners automatically. I feel like a team of highly-determined people can overcome most anything. Getting highly determined people who also have positive work ethic and work well together (the soft skills stuff) — the trifecta. Expect that team to _produce_.
Reply: I think you are right. I really regret not signing on to build to learn sooner. I was in the same position as you with my first group, I felt that I knew too little and I didn’t want to bring the team down. But in my case that fear was too strong and I didn’t get involved. I realise now though how silly that was. I signed up for the build to learn in the current cohort and it’s been great
Pro tip regarding the build-to-learn projects: There is, quite literally, zero chance that you “know too little”. The only way you can bring your team down is by signing up then not participating. That’s why they’re called “build to learn” projects not “build to show off a bunch of shit I already know” projects.
If something needs to be done and you don’t know how to do it, someone will show or help you, if no one knows how to do it, you work together to learn.
The only way a build to learn project fails is if every single person on the team quits. If you are the only person left trying to build, ask chance to help you find a new teammate. Some of the absolute best build-to-learn projects I’ve seen coming out of the cohorts got finished because one person refused to quit.
Be that one person who refuses to quit.
you build great software trion
Make a time machine. THEN we have infinite time
I wonder at how boring infinite life would become.
Last night, I presented Whobot at the local Philly Node.js meetup. After an informal discussion about AlphaGo deciding to do away with all humans vis a vis Terminator, I started my 15 minute presentation with a description of Chingu Cohorts and the motivation behind creating Whobot. The guts of the presentation included 1) a live demo on a ChinguCentral Slack channel, and 2) a walkthrough of how a skill gets normalized (e.g. “anguler” -> “AngularJS”). It sparked a pretty good discussion afterwards about the new features of ECMAScript 6, since the head of the group noticed a few `var`s sprinkled among the `let`s and `const`s. Besides confirming that `var` shouldn’t be used without good reason (like backwards compatibility), we also discussed the use of the “fat arrow” functions ( `() => {}` ). People there were unaware of the purpose beyond simplifying code, so I got to explain how it doesn’t instantiate a new `this` context, which allows people to dump `var self = this` constructs. And, they liked /whobot
Major kudos for getting up in front of a group of strangers and presenting. Definitely going to look great on your resume.
folks at chingu never stop amazing me. you rock
@trion is chingu genius 101
I had an on-site interview today, and it was AWESOME. Very technical, but all questions were relevant to web dev and JavaScript. I wasn’t asked any questions that I felt were way above my scope.
The tech challenge was basically like, “Here’s what we want you to make. You have the room, and you can use anything you want. You have 30 minutes to finish, good luck”
Chingu is crazy. Think of how much brainpower we have here, and how many are looking for jobs
…you’ve given me something to look into/try out for hours now thnx haha
I had one company that wanted to do an 8 hour interview.
Just picked out laptop, monitor and phone for first job starting in 2 weeks. Feels like christmas :christmas_tree:
