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Interview with {{ Kyle Simpson }}

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Aug 16, 2017
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OpenSource interviews series: {{ Kyle Simpson }} Blog describing this video: https://medium.com/p/23da0e1e244b/edit Our first interview in this series is with Kyle Simpson, better known to some as getify, the OpenSource creator of the fantastic "You Don’t Know JS" series, among others. A Javascript enthusiast, a teacher, a mentor, a lifelong advocate of the OpenSource philosophy who is now working on DevGo, “[…] an interactive platform for skills-transfer mentoring education services”. List of questions we asked: Holographic universe or flat earth on a turtle ? What should kids learn first, coding or cooking ? MacOS, Linux or Windows ? Yarn or npm ? Bash or zsh ? Vim or Emacs ? Single Page Application or Serverside rendered HTML ? WebStorm, VSCode, Sublime or Atom ? React, Angular or Vue.js ? TypeScript or Flow ? Vanilla JS or frameworks for SPA’s ? What open source code did you write that you are very happy with or proud of ? Do you plan on extending “You don’t know JS” now the first edition is complete ? Did you ever get the question “How can you make money with OpenSource ? Do you think OpenSource philosophy ought to be applied to other human endeavours (not limited to science and tech) ? What OpenSource project do you think is underappreciated and should get more fame and attention ? How did you earn your first salary ever ? Would you ever go to a recruiter to hire someone or find a job yourself ? Would you move in with a venture capitalist ? So much talk about coding bootcamps on Linkedin: what’s your take on it ? What non-Software Job would you do if a solar eruption ended the digital age ?

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