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by 49531 9y ago
I'd like to echo this. Not only is mentoring a fantastic way to increase your confidence, but the skills that come with practiced mentoring are highly sought after in a lot of fields. Being sought after helps you feel like less of an i
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Having prior experience will definitely help you find a remote position. Personally I don't think being a junior remote employee is a bad thing, but a lot of the time hiring manages are afraid of hiring remotely. I have worked remotely
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Yea, my wife uses a physical token generator now, and I use the app which is bound to my phone. Someone would have to physically have my phone (and unlock it) in order to access my bank now.
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A few months ago I took 3 of my 4 kids to a birthday party at a minigolf course. I played some holes with my youngest I had taken with me, and then left the two older ones at the birthday party with the understanding that their mother would
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React Blessed is a really fun library too! Makes terminal tools a bit easier to write
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I wonder if maybe DHH is saying he prefers declarative code over imperative code. I think it is often the case where one can argue that imperative programming is explicit, but in reality declarative syntax patterns are often easier to appro
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I've used ngrok for a while now, and I love it. I used it just last night to test out some webrtc stuff I was doing. Was able to get friends from around the world on video chat served from localhost within seconds. It's also super
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The problem is that ISPs already operate like monopolies. They don't operate in the same areas as their competition. It is not the free market serving consumers. Also, leaving regular people to take massive corporations is not really a
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Sort of a side note, but I've noticed that there are some activities I can do while listening to audiobooks and others I can't. For instance, during my day job as a software engineer, when I am doing any kind of visual work, audio
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Listening to audio while driving is pretty ubiquitous. Audiobooks are no different than talk radio.
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The biggest issue I've had is with engineers with strong opinions strongly held. A lot of time they're unwilling to compromise and do things their way 100% of the time. Recently I had an engineer on my team who would never pattern
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messenger.com is 25% Reason
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I'm in the same boat, and have been for a few years. Being able to deal with interruptions is definitely a learned skill.
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I echo this sentiment. I was never able to truly get productive with vin until I started with a vanilla configuration and added features as I needed them. Once I did that it fit like a glove.
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The biggest thing for me was when I started working remotely. I found the reason I was tired after work wasn't my work, but my hour long commute. Once I stopped that I gained time and energy. Now I can stop working when the kids get ho
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When I started out making software for freelance projects I would build everything "important" first (user auth, database requirements, basic UI), and then add the pretty UI at the end. I noticed when showing off a project sans pr
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I had a friend I met doing open source who was still in high school. He was similarly looking for work, and eventually found a summer gig between his Jr and Sr year of high school. The thing that got him in the door was attending meetups. W
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Anecdotally I was born in 1990, I spent the first 10 years of my life in Tacoma WA, USA where during summers I would leave in the morning and be gone all day, all of the neighborhood kids would do the same. When I was 10 we moved to San Die
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"We're Eventbrite for janitors." As a former janitor, the market for this is massive... :D
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I noticed that too, not sure how they're figuring it.
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We have apprenticeships where they work under a senior engineer for 6 months, during that time they're moved around the engineering team in different capacities to help them soak it all in. It's a really fantastic program.
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> There are also a lot of developer bootcamps: within 8–12 weeks you can become a developer. I think this is great if you want to become a developer within a small agency or working in house. Those „fast tracks“ mainly teach you how to c
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I've worked remote for the last 3 years with two different companies and found both on HN who is hiring posts.
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My current job is from a "who's hiring" post. The post was in the last July edition and I was hired this last August. It's also the best job I've ever had. So there's that.
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A couple years ago when I was first learning to code all I could afford was a cheap chromebook and nitrous enabled me to learn and grow as an engineer with very little barrier of entry. I am sad they're shutting down, but more for sent
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I wonder why; it seems weird to insist your users either use TypeScript or mentally translate it to es6. I would think allowing community members to write es6 docs would be a good way to get more involvement. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Hi Jacob, the interview wasn't weird. Just that aspect of it :). I get it that implementing a big build process in an existing project can be crazy and not worth the effort, especially since GitLab's frontend lives inside of its r
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Oh I am the same way in a lot of things, maybe that's why I assumed it was what he was doing :P Maybe it's just harder to choose a popular option without being seen as jumping on the bandwagon.
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I actually interviewed with Jacob Schatz when he was trying to figure out which frontend framework to use for GitLab. I had been working in React for the last year or so which was apparent on my resume. He prefaced our interview with someth
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As a former instructor at a code school I always told students that learning to code would put them on a successful trajectory more than make them instantly valuable. It's not an on/off situation. A good engineer is always learnin

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