arandr0x

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by arandr0x 8y ago
There is an interesting tangent in this thread where we can wonder what it would reveal if "coding interview" type CS tests were administered along with standard IQ tests (or the application included SAT scores). Do coding tests p
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They don't need to be currently unemployed. There are certainly enough women currently employed as programmers in the US to fill all the currently open Amazon positions, it's just it would be positively insane for Amazon to offer
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The idea that Amazon is trying to enforce diversity by using an algorithm that is made to detect, and match, patterns boggles the mind. Why, yes, if your recruiting cost function is "is that person just like all the others we hired&quo
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Based on your being in the Bay Area, I feel your problem may actually be competition, and you should apply to employers that don't look as trendy, don't offer as many perks, or are earlier stage startups and that are more likely t
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I know that (I learned it at 25 though) but I don't regret being 19 and unbalanced. I had fun in the end. Suffering is a universal human experience and not something to be avoided at all costs or anything. I mean, sometimes we give you
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Aren't young people allowed to, well, be young though? When you don't go to nightclubs, don't have friends to call at 1am and can't play guitar in your 400sqft apartment with neighbors on all sides of the world's th
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What's going to happen to your life is you're going to learn what other people's natural speeds are, what yours is, and what is needed for your specific job, and you're going to have a much better barometer for that. Tha
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This is true, although in slight compensation, there is a true culture of dissent. It is common in the US to have to be an all-in cheerleader for whatever the current project is, until it fails, then everyone dusts themself off and hops bac
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I'm the person who made the suggestion, just wanted to say that's a great page. It's really helping to figure out what are the desired contributions. Only mildly related but I was actually looking for a synthesizer the past f
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The workflow goes as such: you get an entry level sales position of the retail or cold calling variety. You become the best person on the floor. There you go, now you can sell anything, get hired at a high commission position selling softwa
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In France I'd buy online at Carrefour and cdiscount. (I'd do that a lot, because businesses in France tend to close on Sundays.) Online marketplaces do exist and in addition to those two they have smaller, niche marketplaces for s
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Which competency in calculus do you find hard to maintain, exactly? My job does require math, but only occasionally calculus (and even then we don't integrate anything by hand, there's Wolfram Alpha for this stuff). If you can&#x2
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* Figure out what is necessary, vs merely convenient * Evaluate the money/time tradeoffs in your immediate environment * Know when someone is trying to help you, is just living their life, or is actively trying to harm you * Say no to
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Toronto has more startups (in the sense of VC funded young companies) but the culture is not like SF. There are a lot more jack of all trades and learning/growing opportunities in smaller orgs even if the culture is conservative, thoug
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I've lived in France and the US. Until your friends have taken the bus in a major US city (or a suburb thereof) in a non-tourist area they have no idea how good their quality of life is. And I was in Paris where, yes, most side alleys
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Yes, I think all three issues won't be issues in 20 or 30 years. I fully expect my children to grow up being able to "spot" digital titles the way I do with spines, and looking at the physical books roughly the way I looked a
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It's not the method (my method is pick a shelf and look at titles, and yes, it's doable online), it's that: 1) online there's just too much stuff. Libraries culling a ton of inventory serves the purpose of the really bad
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I understand the argument and I agree that digital books are the future, however, they are so inferior in discoverability that if my library ever moves all-digital I will replace it with one of my 10 local used bookstores. I need to browse
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My degree isn't in CS and I did this (at the time I didn't even have that non-CS degree). Leave the bootcamp off your resume, consider working for free (academia in STEM fields tends to have volunteer C++ opportunities for undergr
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Work for the government. Work for a school or school system or for the local assembly of elected representatives if you really want the summers off. There are plenty of clock punchers but typically they don't job hop. If you're no
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by arandr0x 8y ago
You seemed to have a very specific domain so I looked it up -- I think you're right, there's an inherently higher barrier to entry in your case. If you eventually do do a hack day, post it to HN, I'd give it a try! (I'm
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I'd consider myself a "senior" developer and I have volunteered before (not as a dev)... In most other large-ish structures there are volunteer coordinators that introduce themselves & the project to new people, give out
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It's somewhat more important to me (because I'm experienced) to find the right project vs a random issue in one of many projects... I don't have trouble thinking of open source projects to contribute to, but I work in a big c
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There should be a way for mid-career devs to do job trades -- like I do your job and you mine (with help from the other person to ramp up kind of like a buddy) for a month or two. It would give companies access to senior talent they could e
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This is not a strategy I would ever choose, but considering you probably live in the US, this is a very smart optimization of your local conditions and it must not have been easy to go against some of the default assumptions about school an
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France, which is one of the countries in Europe where the birthrate is least endangered, also makes this easy by having widely available childcare and childcare subsidies, full-day school starting age 3 and reduced work hours for everyone,
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"Laid off" means your position is no longer available, so your husband leaves, dies, no longer has the resources to support you, or decides his money is better employed buying a sports car and you have to work for your own food. E
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It's not. It's hard to find a second job in that career once you get laid off, for once. There's no labor law restricting your work hours. And you never get a vacation.
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It's likely you're mistaken about not having a network. Are you married? Does your spouse occasionally leave the house? I've known people who got jobs because they went to their partner's company party and brought up wha
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I agree with this, and I'm somebody who's actually relocated for jobs before. Also, I am European, and the HN culture is very different from engineering culture in Europe (not always a bad thing). So the candidates that are in you

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