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10y ago
It's fantastic how the author was able to get this up and running, but not the hello world example.
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10y ago
How Great Science Fiction Works: The Great Courses. I'd say while not quite scifi itself, it's one of best audiobooks/lectures about scifi that teaches the history and techniques of science fiction.
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10y ago
The author is saying more that it's not just about how critical your responsibilities are to the company and how much you're given, it's about how much you enjoy said responsibilities as well. As an example, if you were to sp
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10y ago
Have you considered looking for "architect" positions? Cloud Academy has a pretty in-depth blog post about it: http://cloudacademy.com/blog/how-to-become-an-aws-cloud-arch...
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10y ago
As an even more concrete example, all you have to do is click on the "issues" page of a project you like on github and start fixing things. Slowly work your way up the chain from adding documentation, to fixing low priority issues
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10y ago
Did you read the full article? This is explicitly mentioned: "Anyhow, this is an opportunity for startups here: since college-educated women are tremendously underused by the formal labor market, startups can attract them preferentiall
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10y ago
Depends on the age group. Anyway most could get a secured credit card if needed.
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10y ago
I would just set up a new account for each student, have them use their own billing info, have them use the free tier, teach them how to set up billing alerts, and let them go to town. They're going to need to learn to take cost into a
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10y ago
Great! Since programming is so boring all that's left is to start understanding system administration concepts as well and making things easier for your ops team. Right? Right????????
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10y ago
No, but I have had some fantastic companies reach out to me, just not the right position for one reason or another. http://angel.co ended up having the right fit though which I discovered through some other comment on HN.
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10y ago
I am sure people who do not turn the volume down in time while in the office on sites that have shitty auto-playing videos at full volume, or pause them, have a higher probability of making the list.
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10y ago
Vipassana Meditation is the one I initially looked at and believe it's what I'm currently practicing, check out this meddit recommendation thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/2ixjq7&
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10y ago
Take 15-30 minutes before starting your day to meditate. I don't work remotely, but really any series of tasks that involves effort I've found tends to be easier to transition into and focus on if I've meditated beforehand.
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10y ago
"Unrelated to tech."
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10y ago
90K is the average according to glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-front-end-d... You really can't afford to make less than 100K out here though unless you can stand roommates.
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10y ago
As one young technology professional to another, get a hobby unrelated to tech and you too can start being interesting to people outside of tech.
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10y ago
Yes but different people have different tastes, and some may prefer a greater and steady base pay over a potential payout at the end that you have to have enough money to pay the tax on beforehand, or when cashed out. Anyway financial prosp
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10y ago
400K per employee at a 32.7 billion dollar company is a vastly different ratio compared to spending ~250K per employee at a start-up with limited funds.
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10y ago
Can't believe after scrolling through that there's no link to the course in the article: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
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10y ago
DevOps and SRE will still challenge you with bullshit algorithm questions at most companies, and the ones that ask for practical questions based on what you'll actually be doing on the job rather than standard algorithm or trivia quest
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10y ago
Ask your manager to have a couple days out of the week where you can "go dark" and focus on projects.
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10y ago
It's not arrogant at all, as being able to do some basic research is a big part of any IT field you get into. If you can't be arsed to google for the reputation and qualifications of a "degree" from a for-profit "sc
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10y ago
The whole appeal about reddit is it's not just one "community," it's multiple subreddits with different rules and different types of comments. If a subreddit becomes too negative, just hit the unsubscribe button and find
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10y ago
Container based architectures like Mesos are definitely being considered for production use, at least in the startup scene (look up jobs on AngelList for examples). Plenty of companies still sticking with the virtual server route though and
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10y ago
> and how to prevent them. I've found going by the motto "don't be a dick" tends to be a decent deterrent against doing something stupid like maliciously wiping company data and getting sued and/or going to jail
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>An additional limitation to keep in mind is that this data mainly appeared to be from observational studies. These cannot prove cause and effect. The individual studies will likely have varied considerably in the additional health and l
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10y ago
5. "I'm a hooker and want you to come to my hotel" Getting you to come to their hotel and either rob you, be a sting operation, or get an STD, or at the very least be out hundreds of dollars, which to their credit has a great
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10y ago
I agree that risk is certainly required if you want to make a return on your investments, however, all I'm saying is that for every Facebook, there are hundreds more that don't make it where money gets wasted. If I were an investo
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How many startups fail every year again? Well let's find out: https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-startups-fail?srid=... Technology solves problems, but it doesn't mean every "problem" is actually a
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10y ago
"Top engineers" are probably not using job sites at all, but using their reputations in the tech community to find jobs. Also, I'd say AngelList is by far the best job site out there for the startup scene. Best thing Hired ha
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