Published in JavaScript in Plain English·PinnedMember-onlyPopular Lies Mediocre Developers Fall For That Destroy Their CareerToxic Programming Tips You Should Ignore — No developer wants to be called mediocre. Everyone likes to be called an expert. But in programming, there are some popular lies that often promote mediocrity. Here are four popular lies developers fall for that destroy their careers. If you believe any of the following lies. …Programming6 min readProgramming6 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·PinnedMember-onlyTwo Programmers Turned 7 Lines of Code Solution into $95,000,000,000 EmpireA journey I desperately want all young programmers to read about. — The Collison brothers build a 7-line code solution that developers can put on their website to get paid. This 7-line code solution resulted in a company called Stripe. Stripe empowered every developer in the world. Pre-Stripe companies had to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars to establish their own payment…Technology11 min readTechnology11 min read
PinnedMember-onlyA 19-Year-Old Programmer Built a $2,300,000,000 Company in 2 YearsNo One Could Have Predicted His Success — Facebook acquired Oculus VR for $2.3 billion in 2014. Palmer Luckey founded Oculus when he was 19 years old. He had dropped out of college where he was studying journalism. His parents were concerned about his decision to drop out of college. In less than 2 years his company Oculus…Technology10 min readTechnology10 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·2 days agoMember-onlyMeet Two Programmers Who Rejected a $1,000,000,000 Acquisition Offer From GoogleThe Insane Story to Inspire Young Programmers — Emmett Shear and Justin Kan had built several products in their lives. Most of those products failed to gain users and generated $0 in revenue. Only two of those various products stood out. The first product was sold for $265,000 on eBay. But the second product brought a $1 billion…Programming29 min readProgramming29 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Dec 28, 2022Member-onlyA Programmer Turned Billionaire 5 Rules To Build a Startup. Some May Surprise YouWorking Harder Is Stupid. Steal This Billionaire’s Blueprint. — Marc Benioff is one of the co-founders of Salesforce.com. He took salesforce.com from $0 to $127 billion. But when he started with Salesforce, he faced a lot of criticism. Most people thought his idea would fail because it competed with traditional commercial software. By relentless execution and with a clear…Technology5 min readTechnology5 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Dec 26, 2022Member-only4 Straightforward Advice from a Programmer Turned Billionaire Who Interned At AppleBrutal Truths From the Life of This Billionaire — Salesforce co-founder Mark Benioff began his career like most programmers — as an intern. At the age of 19, Marc Benioff spent the summer of 1984 at Apple. Later in the year 1999, Marc started Salesforce.com. The company is now worth $127 billion. When Marc made the transition from programmer…Technology4 min readTechnology4 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Dec 23, 2022Member-onlyA Programmer Turned Ruby Code Into a Product Worth $48,000,000,000 Admired By Elon MuskNo One Could Have Imagined Such a Wild Success — Tobias Lutke is the CEO and one of the co-founders of Shopify. The Shopify company is now valued at $48 billion. Tobi is considered one of the top entrepreneurs in the world. But when Tobi started his first online business selling snowboards, he never imagined it would lead to a…Technology15 min readTechnology15 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Dec 20, 2022Member-only4 Stupidly Simple Ideas That Allowed This Programmer At Oracle Start A $127B EmpireGet To Know the Mindset of a Programmer Who Was About to Be a Billionaire — Marc R. Benioff joined Oracle as a programmer and worked there for years. Eventually, Marc was able to build his own $127 billion Salesforce empire. Today Marc is considered one of the top entrepreneurs in the world. But when he started Salesforce.com in 1999, he didn’t have any knowledge of…Technology6 min readTechnology6 min read
Dec 7, 2022Member-onlyHow to Make a Block Comment in Python | Python TutorialMulti-line comments in Python with examples — Programming languages like C++, Java, and C have built-in to support block comments. When you use those programming languages, you can use multi-line comments if you want. With the python programming language, there is no built-in mechanism to block comments. You have to use different conventions to block comments in…Python4 min readPython4 min read
Nov 30, 2022Member-onlyHow to Calculate Exponents in Python | Python TutorialPython Exponent Operator With Examples — As Python programmers, we often need to calculate the exponent of a number. Calculating the exponent of the number is not difficult in python. There are different methods to calculate the exponent in python. Let’s look at some of these methods through which you can calculate the exponent of the…Python3 min readPython3 min read
