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Ask HN: How to promote yourself on job websites for jobs outside your area?
3 points by ccajas 7y ago|1 comments
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by ccajas 7y ago
I look at FizzBuzz as a "assert" test before the thorough evaluation. It should be logically impossible for an experienced developer to not pass a simple test like that. Those tests are not for metrics- they're just for prema
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by ccajas 7y ago
A general job match-making service (not a jobs board, but a service that directly pairs people with a guaranteed job) sounds like it would be a big logistics nightmare in any big city, even on a municipal level. It's the only way I can
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by ccajas 7y ago
This isn't something I hear too much, but maybe content restrictions are actually starting to become a disadvantage to broadcast TV. You could once tell a thrilling serial (whether it's crime drama, or sci-fi) within TV-14 guideli
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by ccajas 7y ago
What's been the biggest factor do you think is the decline of broadcast TV? Writer's strike made a dent to be sure but that should affect all of TV. Television shows in general had underwent a big boom recently, but it's just
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Ask HN: Do you see a tech business “diaspora” increasing? How would it happen?
4 points by ccajas 7y ago|1 comments
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by ccajas 7y ago
Hi, I work for a small-medium business and while the whole business isn't remote first, but the particular project I'm on is. Should I plan my Skype meetings more carefully, and rehearse some important things to say? Right now I&#
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Ask HN: How do you move up in professional status as a remote worker?
54 points by ccajas 7y ago|24 comments
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by ccajas 7y ago
Lower visibility. Out of sight, out of mind. Even in small companies (ranging from 5 to approx. 20 people) I still felt like a number most of the time, like I didn't have much say in the company. It also does a number on your soft skil
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Ask HN: Are there examples of web/digital agencies going IPO?
1 points by ccajas 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How endangered is the programmer for desktop applications?
13 points by ccajas 7y ago|9 comments
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by ccajas 7y ago
Usually I'm let go because they don't need the additional help, or that they reverted to a different tech stack and prefer hiring someone already familiar with it instead of giving me time to learn it. Plus it's easier for a
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by ccajas 8y ago
Location: Chicago, IL Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: - Languages: HTML/CSS, JavaScript, PHP, C#, Ruby, GLSL - Tools: MySQL, MongoDB, React, Vue, Ruby on Rails, WebGL, MonoGame, Unity - Domains: full-stack web dev, g
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Ask HN: What about Python makes it popular for ML?
9 points by ccajas 8y ago|5 comments
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by ccajas 8y ago
Oh I see, so they switch fields but not improve in the field they were mediocre at. You haven't seen any programmers improve themselves without leaving the field behind?
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Ask HN: Have you seen a mediocre, stagnant developer become a “rockstar”?
5 points by ccajas 8y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Are web/marketing agencies inherently difficult to scale?
3 points by ccajas 8y ago|2 comments
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by ccajas 8y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Based in Chicago Web development, graphics, data viz, game development I help develop web apps for startups, including the addition of completely new features and replacing legacy code. In addition, I've also ha
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Ask HN: How do you “try before you buy” jobs when internships aren't possible?
2 points by ccajas 8y ago|2 comments
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by ccajas 8y ago
Learn theory at a job then?
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by ccajas 8y ago
Is GlowScript an abstraction layer above VPython? I don't program with Python but it's nice that you can just write in JavaScript to work with it. On a lower level, I am not sure you can change it directly, but the drawing of sphe
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Ask HN: Many people will spend thousands on bootcamps. Why not so much tutors?
5 points by ccajas 8y ago|6 comments
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by ccajas 8y ago
I have a related question but from a different situation. In throes my job hunting, I described my job search and overall work experience, and someone pared down to conclusion to, I am fetishizing having a job too much. If I am truly doing
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by ccajas 8y ago
How much is it autodidact friendly compared to Full Stack engineering? What would a "hello world" or "first learning project" of distributed systems even look like? I can only think in terms of learning via building a co
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by ccajas 8y ago
How would you live on, say, $1200 a month without leaving the US and without roommates/a partner? Currently I pay $400 a month to share an apartment with one of my family. And it's been hard in putting aside money to save. I'
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Ask HN: Which industries are the most varied in total comp? Most homogeneous?
6 points by ccajas 8y ago|5 comments
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by ccajas 8y ago
SEEKING WORK | Chicago, IL | Central time | remote Technologies: JavaScript (React, Vue, NodeJS), Ruby (Rails), PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS (Sass), MongoDB, C# (.NET, MonoGame, Unity) Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/chriscajas Github: g
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by ccajas 8y ago
Typically it seems to come from the encouragement to offload more of the website logic to the client side. A WordPress install takes usually 15MB of disk space. a lot of that is PHP code that runs on your server. That will never be seen by
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Ask HN: Which major cities are the easiest to move to with a new job?
6 points by ccajas 8y ago|5 comments
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by ccajas 8y ago
I'm in a similar spot at you. I have no CS degree but I was fairly active in creating game projects with C++ many years ago. Although I used SDL instead of Allegro :) I taught myself C++ when I was still in college for a digital media

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