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by Mc91 4y ago
Discussing all of this here is fine. However when you interview all you should talk about is "I graduated in December 2017 in CS program...I had work on some small freelance projects for friends in React and Android and currently work
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by Mc91 4y ago
About half the US lives in the eastern time zone - so if the product manager wants to talk to an Indian programmer at 430PM India time, he has to start the meeting at 730AM Eastern time. This is the most convenient time to have the meeting
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by Mc91 4y ago
> I'd much, much, much rather have one proficient, in my timezone developer at 200k than 4 offshored developers at 50k. This idea meshes with the lessons Fred Brooks learned as a PM of the System 360 project in the early 1960s.
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by Mc91 5y ago
I have written some programs... An old IRC channel I was on migrated to Slack, so I wrote a Python script that logs it in an IRC log-like format, like I use to do on the IRC channel. I wrote an Android app that tracks my movements if I am m
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by Mc91 5y ago
I used to play chess more but am too busy going through Blind 75 to go through chess problems. I don't even want to play a game of chess because I might feel the urge to play and study chess instead of grind Blind 75. I watch the Bot
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by Mc91 5y ago
> never in my experience (I am over 40) have I ever even seen a resume with potential ever get turned away due to age. No one has ever told me they turned someone down due to age, but probably because it is against the law. We interviewe
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by Mc91 5y ago
Usually I go back to my hometown and work during the day, and visit friends at night. I go out during the day on the weekend. I go out during lunchtime during the week (or message on Teams that I will be out for a little while), but usuall
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by Mc91 5y ago
The same thing for me. I go to another city and pay a visit for a week, but say I need to be available on Teams from 9 to 5 and attend some meetings, and get some work done. Usually it slows me down a little, so I do some extra prep work
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by Mc91 5y ago
> They would have to change the way they file taxes to accomodate (sic) this payment outside the regular flow of salary? This affects my end as well - I was monetizing their product, and could probably justify an unsolicited bug bounty a
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by Mc91 5y ago
This is a take I have seen and don't hear often. I depended on a FOSS project once that was mostly done by one maintainer, and would sometimes send feature or fix patches upstream. Once I sent an e-mail that I could give him hundreds
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by Mc91 5y ago
It has shown this. > Even more recently, researchers discovered two "critical" security flaws actively being exploited in Mozilla's open-source Firefox browser. Additionally, the open-source Linux operating system was just
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by Mc91 5y ago
In job applications, and in interviews, I have been asked if I have a Github profile. I also know of people who have a project on Github that company's might like - if they are a React programmer, it might be a React project with mode
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by Mc91 5y ago
> partner with a recruiter they like Years ago, recruiters seems to have a line on positions I had never heard of. Nowadays when recruiters contact me, they are already about positions I know of on Linkedin etc. Maybe with more people
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by Mc91 5y ago
I live in the USA. I do not live in one of the 20 largest metropolitan areas in the US. The closest top 20 metro area is 250 miles away (I suppose this meant more before Covid and WFH). I do not have a college degree. In terms of programmi
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by Mc91 5y ago
If I post there with an e-mail address, I sometimes get incoming, usually (not always) relevant interest, sometimes not. I set up a one-off account for yesterday's and got three relevant incoming messages, although I only want to talk
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by Mc91 5y ago
> Subscribe to some mailing list (because free software is stone age) Doing free software via e-mail is also fairly decentralized. In fact Linux was done via e-mail until (at least) 1998 - patches were mailed to Linus and it was patch a
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by Mc91 5y ago
> Everyone seems to boil down to...simply trust the process In older days business would say what they wanted, engineering would give a time estimate, and then we get to work with a deadline both commit to - the waterfall method. With sc
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by Mc91 5y ago
I know a programmer who moved to Colorado, mainly because he likes to be able to go out on hikes and that sort of thing.
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by Mc91 5y ago
I work for a F100 company. We have some consulting companies working for us, who themselves sometimes subcontract contracts, to subcontracting companies who sometimes themselves subcontract contracts. One consultant (US citizen) checked th
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by Mc91 5y ago
My last job was at a a startup, now I work in a big company. At the startup I set up Linux server instances on Google Cloud and Digital Ocean. I set up Apache web servers etc. I wrote Python REST APIs on the servers. I did Javascript web
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by Mc91 5y ago
> HN (whoishiring), angel.co I have communicated with companies via both of these methods. The other suggestions make sense too.
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by Mc91 5y ago
I worked in office before Covid struck, WFH from the same office since. Even though we are all WFH, I am more out of the loop now. Things that happen that I surely would have known about if I was in the office,I don't find out until m
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by Mc91 5y ago
> I'm a self-taught programmer who recently decided to finish my bachelor's degree in Computer Science. I'll be finishing in a month or so, and I'm trying to do some planning in advance. If I was you I would apply to
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by Mc91 5y ago
I have been programming on the same team for 2 1/2 years and have a very hazy idea what salary I could be making. So one reason for going out and getting offers will be to get an idea of that. If they offer the same or near what I ma
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by Mc91 5y ago
I am a programmer and indirectly got my current job via Linkedin. In 2019, a big four accounting firm contacted me on Linkedin to do consulting work for them. I would not have thought of applying to them but since they reached out I talked
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by Mc91 5y ago
The main thing is the difference between the standard deviation person over the other five. If I ask six people questions about lambdas, or concurrency, or generics, or language questions, or framework questions, generally a person will re
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by Mc91 5y ago
Two things. First: > If you were the one doing the interview, would you be strict and request more things so as to filter out candidates? It’s understandable because somehow you need to find the best ones for a given position, but there
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by Mc91 5y ago
I normally don't talk to people much about real estate, house prices, mortgages etc., but the local real estate market has heated up a little so I have been talking about these things with people more. One thing I did not expect is how
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by Mc91 5y ago
I started dealing with independent IT headhunters back in 1997. Back then they were more valuable, and seemed to somehow know about open positions that I did not know of. Nowadays most independent recruiters I know of are rehashing the job

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