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by acconrad 11y ago
Look at LinkedIn to see if long-time employees have gotten promotions. See what their turnover is like (if people are dropping like flies, particularly in a certain division/team, you can bet it's not a very safe place). Also see
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by acconrad 11y ago
I worked with people at Microsoft who then joined Talko - I'm confident this is just an acquihire if Ray isn't coming along. It's funny because those people basically left Microsoft only to come back to Microsoft, so it'
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by acconrad 11y ago
This is a pretty click-baity article that actually is more like 3 questions: 1. Is it a fair/just company? (Will I get promotions and raises for working hard?) 2. Is it safe? (Will I get fired for trying and failing at a task?) 3. Is i
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by acconrad 11y ago
TL,DR: stop settling and start doing, don't wait for it to happen.
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by acconrad 11y ago
so are you a valley coder at netflix? seems suspect you already have a 250k salary as a 26 yr old
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by acconrad 11y ago
all services are back online
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by acconrad 11y ago
I built a side project in Phoenix ( http://www.peergym.com ) and was impressed how fast the community has adopted to creating solutions - everything from authentication to geolocation is covered. If you're curious to try Phoe
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by acconrad 11y ago
These tips are neat but are not going to make you a pro. What will make you a pro is understanding the box model, colors / gradients, and selector preference/scope.
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How to be a great software developer(peternixey.com)
1 points by acconrad 11y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 11y ago
How did this make Hacker News? And more importantly, how did this make the Washington Post ? This is at best bad advice and at worse horribly irresponsible. She seems like she's on a fast track to eating cat food in her retirement age
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The Short, Glorious Life of a Successful Tech Company(aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com)
1 points by acconrad 11y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 11y ago
This UX is super confusing - so an X means that it has bad terms or doesn't have that clause? A green check means it does have that clause so it's a bad company? But the check is green...I would think it should be YES and NO, with
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by acconrad 11y ago
The problem I see is that these jobs already exist (e.g. paralegals, nurse practitioners, dental hygienists), but are baked into the total practice. My primary care physician costs the same whether I see him or the nurse practitioner, and t
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by acconrad 11y ago
I can appreciate the difficulty - I'm a full stack web developer by trade, and I've built multiple full stack web app side projects (everything from setting up and deploying S3 on CloudFlare, issuing IAM Amazon permissions, to wri
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by acconrad 11y ago
Hard programming is harder than you think. Coding schools are mostly teaching CRUD web development and a watered-down version of data science aimed at business analysts, which isn't that hard. You're not going to get folks linin
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by acconrad 11y ago
> I usually easily wake up with first/second alarm at 6:00/6:01 and feel fresh. I thought the signal for good sleep was that you didn't need an alarm to wake up? Can you point to those academic articles you've men
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Seriously, don't use icon fonts(blog.cloudfour.com)
7 points by acconrad 11y ago|1 comments
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by acconrad 11y ago
Honestly, this article is a bit hyperbolic. He didn't blow the interview - I was expecting an article on being totally unprepared, not able to answer a single question. What happened was he aced the technical portion, and went too th
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by acconrad 11y ago
I investigate my own stocks and I was recently reading about a refundable / deferred income tax on a balance sheet [1]. Oftentimes when headlines like this come out, I wonder if we're seeing the whole story - that perhaps this yea
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by acconrad 11y ago
What you're missing is called momentum investing. People are riding on the momentum of Facebook based on trailing properties from the last 3/6/12/x months [1]. If you were a value investor, like Buffett, and your valuati
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by acconrad 11y ago
From what I'm gathering as a developer moving into 30, you have two options: 1. Market yourself so that when you hit the pay ceiling, you can move into consulting/freelancing with enough of a name for yourself that you can justify
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by acconrad 11y ago
Perhaps Github isn't on Rails 4.2, but they've already created a method for sanitizing SQL like statements in ActiveRecord::Sanitization[1], so they shouldn't need a custom function to remove SQL injection. Also, you could al
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by acconrad 11y ago
Really click-baity title from the Post, which ironically enough, seems to be the point the article is trying to argue. It's mostly about the morality of free markets and it's strengths/weaknesses.
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by acconrad 11y ago
So are they actually leveraging Klout[1]? [1] https://klout.com/home
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by acconrad 11y ago
This article breaks down the Grant Study at Harvard Medical School, which is one of the longest-running longitudinal studies ever (at over 75 years)[1]. The primary researcher has written several books[2][3] on the topic, and it's a fa
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by acconrad 11y ago
I make a point to do this in all of our company's interviews. Even if they don't end up working for us, if they speak highly about us to other developers, it can have a positive network effect. And even then, outside of corporate
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by acconrad 11y ago
The real question they want answered is "are you interested in things?" People who are interested in things are curious about the world, and curiosity is an arguably critical characteristic of a good software developer. Curiosity
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by acconrad 11y ago
Not really a definitive guide, but more like a neat introduction. Can someone approaching 30 switch to this with a CS background and a professional background in web development? How much self study would one need before being taken serious
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by acconrad 11y ago
It's hard to find a good front-end developer. Easy to learn (hence all of the code camps focusing on HTML/CSS/JS), but difficult to master.
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by acconrad 11y ago
Indeed that may be true for the most rudimentary programming jobs (HTML/CSS/JS developers come to mind), but not for all. Data science/Stats, AI, ML, HCI...these are highly-specialized disciplines of computer science that req

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