Interviewing at Microsoft— JavaScript Assessment Questions
Below are 3 questions from Microsoft’s Online Assessment 2019 for developers
What Happened When I Recorded Myself Speaking Every Single Day
Give yourself a 30-day challenge. As you watch your recordings, look for areas where your body language, facial gestures, and tone can improve. Find spots in your responses where you can slow down or pause in order to drive a point home. The difference between the first take and your 20th will astound you.
5 Tips to Speed Up Your MacBook Productivity - Level Up Coding
Reset the NVRAM & PRAM
- Shut down your Mac.
- Turn it on and immediately press and hold these four keys together: Option, Command, P, and R.
- You can release the keys after about 20 seconds, during which your Mac might appear to restart.
Reset the SMC
- Shut down your Mac.
- Turn it on and immediately press and hold these four keys together: Shift, Control and Option, then press the power button at the same time.
- Hold these keys and the power button for 10 seconds and then release them. In case you have a MacBook Pro with Touch ID, the Touch ID button is also the power button.
- Restart your MacBook pressing the power button.
Clean the system cache
- Remove files from ~/Library/Caches folder
Abs Workouts at Home | 4 Core Workouts You Can Do At Home
How to do each workout: See the exercises and circuits below. Repeat each exercise for 30 seconds, followed by a 15-second rest between moves, for a 5-minute circuit. You can add one circuit to the end of your run as a finisher or use it as a part of your cross-training workouts.
- X-Mountain Climber
- Squat Thrust
- Plank March
- Windshield Wiper
- Crab Kick
JavaScript Design Patterns - Better Programming - Medium
The underlying concept of design patterns has been around in the software engineering industry since the very beginning, but they weren’t really so formalised. Design Patterns: Elements Of Reusable Object-Oriented Software written by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides — the famous Gang of Four (GoF)—was instrumental in pushing the formalised concept of design patterns in software engineering. Now, design patterns are an essential part of software development and have been so for a long time.
Build Body Awareness Upside Down | Breaking Muscle
The biggest limiting factor to handstands is a lack of body awareness upside down. People kick up but then they freak out because they have no idea which way is up and which way is down.
Thus, gaining body awareness is the first step in being comfortable upside down.
Below are five progressive exercises to focus on to build that body awareness.
The Britches Method: A Simple Template for Outside Skirt Returns - Fine Homebuilding
Ever wondered how to lay out an outside skirt board when building stairs? This was one of those processes that was a trade secret when I started. I’ve had a few variations on this over the years, but this is my favorite way to go! This method is the Britches Method.
The Best Way to Roast a Chicken - How to Cook Poultry
Step 1: Buy a smaller chicken.
Make a Simple Bench Hook from Wood Scraps — The Family Handyman
A bench hook minimizes the need for vises or clamps, allows you to make quick cuts and the more sophisticated hooks make quick miters easy. We modified our simple bench so that hooks stop fence is shorter than the platform to help prevent tear-out on your work piece.
The Secret to Coping Crown Molding - Fine Homebuilding
My favorite way to establish a guideline is to use a 2-ft.-long piece that’s coped accurately and a 2-ft.-long square-cut piece. Fitted in the corner, the coped piece locates the square piece at the correct projections, and you can mark the top and/or bottom. The longer pieces take into account more of the wall and ceiling conditions than small gauge blocks.
This 4-Week Workout Plan Uses 7 Ab Exercises to Build a Six-Pack
The Workout
Do this as a circuit. In weeks 1 and 2, do each move for 30 seconds, then rest 15; do 3 rounds. In weeks 3 and 4, work for45 seconds, then rest 15; do 4 rounds.
- Two-Step Getup
- Ab Runner
- Weighted Hollow Hold
- Side Plank Leg Lift
- Inverse Crunch
Conditioning Finisher
- Renegade Row
- Dumbbell Swing
No-Equipment Needed Upper Body Pulls | Breaking Muscle
No-Equipment Hinge to Y, T, W, A, and Back
It's easy to add mild resistance if you'd like.
How to Make a Crosscut Sled for Your Tablesaw - Fine Homebuilding
Note: the project in this video is a down-and-dirty job-site project for when you need a crosscut sled in a pinch; if you have the time, tools, and materials to build something more refined, read the article “Build a Tablesaw Crosscut Sled” from Fine Homebuilding issue #180.
This Outdoor Park Bench Bodyweight Workout Crushes Your Legs
Perform the exercises in order.
Step Up
20 total; 10 per leg
Plyo Jump
15 jumps
Toe Taps
30 total; 15 per leg
Lateral Step Down
30 total; 15 per leg
RFE Split Squat
30 total; 15 per leg
Knee Tucks
20 reps
Hip Thrusters
15 reps
Depending on how much you want to seat, take on this park bench bodyweight leg blast for between 3 to 5 total rounds.
The Language Agnostic, All-Purpose, Incredible, Makefile | Mindlessness
How to develop a Makefile
They key to successfully writing a Makefile is to just write down the commands you need at the moment. Ran a new command? Put it in the Makefile. Over time, the Makefile will grow to include even those rare commands you rarely run and can’t remember what they were. Patters with emerge, and these will help guide the prerequisites that may otherwise not be obvious.