compacct27

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by compacct27 6y ago
I made a post on the C++ subreddit (r/cpp) asking for a mentor. Talked about the project and said I was willing to pay. Some people pointed me towards others (those people were too busy), but one guy reached out and had an online prese
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by compacct27 6y ago
That's totally fair, this guy is on the higher end and this is the only project I'd be willing to pay that for. You can find one for less, though, if you ever find yourself wanting one. Mentor.io is a good place for it.
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by compacct27 6y ago
Anyone who's professionally coding right now has one super-effective option that's rarely talked about: Hire someone knowledgeable to walk you through what you're learning. I've been doing a heavy C++ project, and as a w
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by compacct27 6y ago
I believe it, but I mostly hear about how user retention drops off if the website takes more than 1s to load. And while I believe other types of slowness make users unhappy without seeing the literature, the people driving our priorities do
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by compacct27 6y ago
These are great, but increasingly none of our web app's performance issues relate to any of these metrics. Memory leaks, slow typing, UI interactions like opening a modal that shouldn't be taking 8s+, where's the literature o
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by compacct27 7y ago
I've seen fairly few companies in the Bay Area (sorry if that's not you, assuming from FANG) that actually care that I've only stuck around most places for a year. I've only been in this field for 5 years myself, but I&#