digita88

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by digita88 12y ago
I know what it's like to move out of a 'vortex', sometimes you just have to do it. Don't listen to the naysayers! Good luck and do whatever it takes to get the SF FOMO out of the system.
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by digita88 12y ago
I did have a side project that I was close to selling. Luckily I didn't and one year later the potential buyer shut down and I still have my side project
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by digita88 13y ago
My problem in my old job was due to boredom. But it was more than that - I was bored and management didn't really take heed of what was wrong despite the feedback that I have been giving at my annual performance review (where I did ex
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by digita88 13y ago
It is never too late to switch!! Believe me. 1. Start building up an online/offline social and professional network of developers, dev/tech evangelists 2. Start researching and looking into languages that you are interested in per
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by digita88 13y ago
Thanks for taking the initiative to create this, really into IC!
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by digita88 13y ago
I am commenting based on my past experience. This sort of behaviour is more of a red flag against the developer rather than against the company. I knew someone who displayed duplicate behaviour in the past before I learned my lesson. Happy
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by digita88 13y ago
>> I'd be really worried that you're losing quality candidates due to them being offended by having instructions pasted into a text file without any chance for a conversation. If a developer gets offended over something as s
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by digita88 13y ago
I know a lead developer who would complain to me about his team's problems. Basically "I don't care about your problem, just do your work - I don't care if you have an addiction, if you have family problems...". H
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by digita88 13y ago
This is a really important issue to talk about, not so much because of the sexism/female engineers angle, but because it deals with how start-ups are managed. TL;DR 1. Have legacy documents, guidelines and policies in place 2. GitHub n
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by digita88 13y ago
I almost did a double take because this post could have easily been me right down to the health care / arts / programming bit.
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by digita88 13y ago
Thanks for sharing and a really good overview of what you did during the hackathon.
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by digita88 13y ago
It states that a group of Facebook engineers started the project but it may not be an official Facebook project that is actively maintained or even associated with that company.
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by digita88 13y ago
I have read through their Masters thesis and compared it to others in their department. The quality of the writing is low which surprises me considering that the person graduated in a top tier level university. As for the PhD, I don't
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by digita88 13y ago
To gms7777 and tim333: Purchasing a domain name conferring to a 'Dr' title when one has not even obtained such title in the first place is sending out the wrong signal. I'm not convinced.
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by digita88 13y ago
Thanks for sharing. I have done something similar as well - getting out of a role that demanded more management from me and into a role that is more hands-on.
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by digita88 13y ago
>> The downsides: you will likely need to take a year off for self study and to build up a body of work to land you a job I am doing this myself. It's a risk but I think the rewards are worth it!
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by digita88 13y ago
I think that the GitHub comment should be extended beyond that and into non-academia projects. It should be emphasized that those hiring PhDs (and especially those that have been burnt - see this comment which exemplifies by experience ht
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by digita88 13y ago
Cultural fit is not that important for short term hires (ie 6 month contract) because you basically need someone that has the ability to do short term wins. It's only when you look beyond ie 2 or so years when cultural fit (or lack of
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by digita88 13y ago
I also agree in doing a black mark against the school however it helps to have a look at (in terms of Masters, PhD) the quality of work within that department / within the graduating year. It's a way to go beyond the marketing fl
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by digita88 13y ago
I did exactly this - did my research after work, when my employer didn't budge in terms of putting on new technologies, or even improving it, I changed. The other move is to do a start-up and work on one's own R&D (how you do
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by digita88 13y ago
About the 3rd point, was there a common factor with those programmers/engineers in their CVs that prompted them a coding interview (which obviously they failed)?
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by digita88 13y ago
In regards to a newly minted PhD, it invokes training someone who has spent 10+ years (or even their whole lives) in academia. Other items to look out for: - If the only projects they produced have been for academia or they have had a hist
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by digita88 13y ago
Signed up yesterday because of Twitter activity
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by digita88 13y ago
You will be surprised to know that this is more common than you may think so don't take it personally. I have been on the giving and receiving ends. --- GIVING END --- Armed with research "how to kick out a co-founder" you ap
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by digita88 13y ago
Scalpels, as in surgery? If you like that area, stick with medical and health care.
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by digita88 13y ago
I went through something similar. First of all, assess what could have been the 'trigger' for this. You mentioned earlier that "Recently something's happened" so try and pinpoint the events surrounding that moment.
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by digita88 13y ago
Stockholm seems to be startup friendly.
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by digita88 13y ago
I was in a similar situation but I was not living in a houseboat slum but was technically squatting for a short while. The reasons people do this is varied - they could be saving up to be able to pay down a deposit to live (and trying to f
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by digita88 13y ago
I had RSI even after 2-3 months of quitting full-time work, plus I would wake up with CTS, but eventually it has gone away but after spending significant amounts of time away from typing heavy work.
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by digita88 13y ago
The key thing here is - if you are friends with and working with a developer that you know is depressed, what do you do? Do you give them space? Do you give them articles to help them?

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