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@bcnzer shares their most commonly referenced search in What do you have to Google? Every. Single. Time.:
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@cristinaruth adds some extremely helpful feed back directly to the DEV Team in the Hello again. It's time to do some work! thread:
- Please show me first the articles per my followed authors and tags.
- Please allow me to “hide” an article from the home page if I don’t want to see it again.
- Please indicate a “read” indicator for an article on the home page. (somehow grayed out or somewhat?)
- The side bars are good on desktop but they’re very hidden on mobile and I realize that’s on purpose but the listings are not visible on mobile. Maybe scatter the listings on mobile throughout the feed like reddit does? I haven’t thought this through so there are likely holes in that idea.
- Maybe even start showing me articles on my “to read” list if nothing else to show me? They pile up and I actually forget about them but I do visit the home page a lot.
@ivannmg offers a hilarious and somewhat tragic anecdote in response to Tell me something funny about your first DEV job:
Someone came to visit offices, as CEO wasn't there I made the visit
Turned out he was an FBI agent investigating on the company :/
@ghostcat provides a great list in reply to What are your favorite portfolio sites for devs?:
These are pretty cool...
Finally, @craigmc08 expands with an enlightening comment and some helpful visuals in Improve Your Algorithms with this Simple Equation:
I also like the more visual geometric proof of this formula. Say you want the sum of 1-4, you can make this shape:
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The area of this triangle is then equivalent to our original problem, the sum of the first 4 natural numbers. But, it's hard to find the area of this "triangle", but easy if you make a rectangle (#s are a second, rotated copy of the triangle)
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This is a 5x4 rectangle, so its area is 20. The rectangle is made of two of the triangles we want to know the area of, so the sum is 20/2 = 10.
If you generalize this to the first n natural numbers, you do indeed get the formula n (n + 1) / 2
See you next week for more great comments ✌
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Congrats to @bcnzer , @cristinaruth , @ivannmg , @ghostcat , and @craigmc08 for making the list this week!
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