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by bowlich 11y ago
I wish there was more part-time employment gigs out there for programmers. I know I would jump on something like that, but I've never seen anyone advertise a position as part-time. That leaves the contracting route. The issue there is
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by bowlich 11y ago
No kids. I telecomute from Wyoming so my cost of living is quite low but I'm paid comparible to developers in the research triangle area (NC). I do not own a house, so no mortgage but I do have some large student loans. Most of my leis
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by bowlich 11y ago
I took over a job at a marketing firm once who had lost their senior developer about a year before. They had been running on luck and a whatever quick fixes their front-end developers could hack together when anything went down. Needless to
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by bowlich 11y ago
My bad, but we'd still run into the issue for new repositories.
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by bowlich 11y ago
Github's payment plans don't work out well for a team that's doing lots of small repositories. My team is pretty small (5 devs) and we easily have 150+ repositories for different packages that all get wrapped into our main pr
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by bowlich 11y ago
More than when I worked retail. If I looked at when I used to do customer-facing work. I could get by on four hours a night. Show up with blood shot eyes and bumble through the day without any fear of messing up. Since my development career
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by bowlich 11y ago
I did uberman for a month when I was first starting out and just doing freelance. I could set whatever schedule I wanted so, I decided to give it a shot. The big thing for me is, I really like the kind of concentration that the nigth brings
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by bowlich 11y ago
On top of what everyone else has said: If you are looking at smaller companies, there is definitely a tiered system in terms of the complexity and challenges that a company can offer it's development staff. One company's "jun
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by bowlich 11y ago
The focus on kids drives me nuts. I worked in a web dev shop that billed itself as "family friendly." Flexible hours, work from home, etc. The reality was that the childless developers never got to use the flexible benefits. Your
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by bowlich 12y ago
As someone whose gone through the hiring process for the USDA and Dept. of Interior, how is it that the USDS is bypassing the normal usajobs hiring process?
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by bowlich 12y ago
I work with PHP. My suspicion is that it's the the Java of the day. I remember a lot of crap being heaped onto Java 15 years ago and now it's PHP's turn to sit on the seat of scorn. I feel like PHP is just a very dull work ho
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by bowlich 12y ago
Thanks for the correction. I will note it for my future use.
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by bowlich 12y ago
I only skimmed the article after the first couple of paragraphs. The whole $42,000 price tag for a private college is quite a misnomer. My sister went to Michigan Tech, I went to a private liberal arts college. After four years, she has mor
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by bowlich 12y ago
I guess as a anecdotal counterpoint, I didn't go to the Ivy leagues but I did get my first job because a sales guy recognized my college and had a friend who happened to live next door to me in the dorms and whose computer I had helped
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by bowlich 12y ago
Thanks! I realize there's a slew of technologies out there for alleviating this problem and there's plenty of virtual teams that do a great job at it. That said, I've come to the conclusion that for a virtual team to really w
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by bowlich 12y ago
I have been working remote for two years now. The office is 800 miles away and I stop in four times a year to say hello. My experience has been that a good number of smaller companies in smaller cities (U.S. Midwest, cities with populations
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by bowlich 12y ago
Context switching can be the worst. Particularly when it's caused by "hurry up and wait" brought on by clients. PM: Client wants feature X and they need it now! Developer: Great, I can get started today, but first I'll n
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by bowlich 12y ago
It's ever so slowly getting better. I remember when it first launched I couldn't even do waypoints. Planning a cross-country trip for Thanksgiving right now. In classic I can type "Town A to Town B to Town C to Town D" a
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by bowlich 12y ago
The advise that more experienced coders gave me at the time that I didn't listen to, and would probably not listen to even if my older self told me: You're better at this then you think you are, stop selling yourself short. I thin
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by bowlich 12y ago
My employer does this. The answer is yes. It is after-tax dollars. But the employee can get it back on their tax-return at the end of the year.
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by bowlich 12y ago
I started my career in the public sector where salary is published and set in stone before you even apply for a position. Everyone knows everyone's pay grade. I never once saw any kind of jealousy about someone making more than someone
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by bowlich 12y ago
Triple-A does a lousy job of planning out road trips. My girlfriend insisted for years on how great Triple-A was and wouldn't take any of my suggested routes (I live for road trips, I've driven all over North America). Triple-A ro
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by bowlich 12y ago
I guess I am not alone with my collection of half-implemented D&D character generators in half a dozen different languages. When I'm learning a new language and don't feel any kind of "itch to scratch," grabbing the
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by bowlich 12y ago
PM would be a demotion at the companies I've worked at -- or at least a significant decrease in pay.
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by bowlich 12y ago
Well, Apple's lack of choice sure helped me pick out my last laptop. I had three companies on my list of laptops: Asus, Lenovo, and Apple. Go checkout Asus and Lenovo's websites. You'll find dozens of different laptops in var
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by bowlich 12y ago
A better analogy would be sushi. I've definitely cut out sushi restaurants from list if the presentation or construction of the sushi roll is done poorly.
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by bowlich 12y ago
On top of hiking, walking the dogs, bicycling and other after-hours hobbies, I keep a home made stepping box next to my desk. When I need to really think through something, instead of sitting or pacing, I do steps. Seems to help get the cre
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by bowlich 12y ago
Depends on what you are doing as a web developer. I work off Linux while the rest of my team is on OSX, but I'm also primarily a back-end developer and if I'm dealing with HTML or CSS at all it's because someone else did mark
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by bowlich 12y ago
I think my motivation for day-to-day work is different from the motivation that goes into choosing a job. In no particular order: Money: There's a certain threshold of that I need to achieve to maintain the lifestyle that I want. I&#x2
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by bowlich 12y ago
About a half-day of work. Fixing our systems went pretty quick, but had to go track down a lot of clients' accounts and systems to rekey their certs.

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