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by elliotec 11y ago
Nothing is happening in relation to this. People still use cash and they're not going to get arrested for it. And a microwave is a ridiculous place to store anything.
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by elliotec 11y ago
It worked really well for me. It's not a scam, and it may be laughable but its reality. The fact is there are a lot of job openings for developers and these guys are taking advantage of it. A 12 week program is certainly enough to prep
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by elliotec 11y ago
I gotta say, that seems pretty ridiculous. Has that ever been done before?
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by elliotec 11y ago
Not yet an entrepreneur (I guess I started my freelance business..), but I feel there are certainly lessons to learn from working at a large company. I mean, my CEO is an entrepreneur, so it seems that even just by watching some of that per
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by elliotec 11y ago
I was in Copenhagen last month for vacation. On a Saturday night, perfect weather and everyone in the city out looking for a good time - the banking system was down. No joke, zero ATMs worked, zero CC machines worked, the entire country&#x
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Teach Yourself by Teaching(elliotec.com)
3 points by elliotec 11y ago|0 comments
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by elliotec 11y ago
Sure, but it's impressive nonetheless. A 14 year old kid is building an operating system. What was I doing at 14? I was not building operating systems, thats for sure.
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by elliotec 11y ago
Also see Functional JavaScript [1] by Michael Fogus. [1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028857.do
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by elliotec 11y ago
I think creative writing can also be a good analogy, for the reasons you state and also it seems closer to me since we are authors of the code we write. Stories can evolve, plots get interwoven and some cut, its never finished until publish
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by elliotec 11y ago
A lot of the sentiment here is why I chose to go into software development rather than psychiatry, apart from the whole money vs med school argument. Great post.
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by elliotec 11y ago
Scary. I was hoping they'd remain the oasis in the harsh desert of online payment systems.
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by elliotec 11y ago
This is all small in comparison to the enormous benefits it has as a career-building tool. I have gotten numerous interviews and 2 full time jobs in no small part because of LinkedIn. If there was a viable alternative I'd jump on it, b
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Music, Art, and Web Apps in Clojure(elliotec.com)
1 points by elliotec 11y ago|0 comments
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by elliotec 11y ago
I have not been educated in presentation making. My experience comes entirely from watching others. I had my first presentation today, used slides.com. What makes a presentation good, or more importantly, not bad? I had no notes and tried t
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by elliotec 11y ago
Fair enough, I like what you're saying here.
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by elliotec 11y ago
I personally know many "bootcampers" that are better engineers than many CS grads, and many "front-end" engineers that are better, more knowledgable, more up to date, and in higher demand, than the some of the crusty jav
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by elliotec 12y ago
Why is there ageism in tech? Why don't companies want people that were part of the movement of personal computing? Many of the pioneers of the movement are still around, what is it about the industry that looks down upon their wisdom?
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by elliotec 12y ago
I admire this. What were the biggest hurdles? Hiring?
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by elliotec 12y ago
Completely separate. Pete Ashdown of Xmission (Utopia) has expressed annoyance[1] that SLC approved Google but not Xmission, which has been providing services to the city since its birth. I tend to agree with him, but any news like this is
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by elliotec 12y ago
Do you use hiccup as well as Reagent? Or must you commit to one or the other? Which do you prefer?
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by elliotec 12y ago
Here in Salt Lake City, Lyft already won by a long shot. Its crazy, they got here like a week or two before Uber, but their arrival seemed to just not leave any room for a competitor. Uber can rarely be found here, and if it can its always
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by elliotec 12y ago
Thanks for your well thought reply to my regrettably snarky comment. I agree with you on many points, particularly how companies need to be smarter about qualification. But yes, this post does seem to directly correlate, in timing and in co
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by elliotec 12y ago
>Unfortunately, the technology industry is fundamentally unserious as to how it presently identifies and employs engineers. Ok, so lets replace whiteboarding ancient algorithms and useless trick questions with a capture the flag game!! T
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by elliotec 12y ago
None of those alternatives are anything like LinkedIn, and this page doesn't tell me what they did that was so evil anyway.
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by elliotec 12y ago
Thanks! Here's a secret, they don't actually care if you have a CS degree or 5 years experience. You can ignore that on any job description. If you can prove that you are able to do the job, that's what they are looking for.
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by elliotec 12y ago
That could definitely have been a factor as well. Thanks for the compliments!
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by elliotec 12y ago
Honestly I was a bit taken aback by the offer as well. I think that a big part was how I built my reputation and supply and demand of developers in Salt Lake. They did a pretty heavy technical interview with me, (but no actual code writing,
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by elliotec 12y ago
Thanks! I'm sure it's more difficult for the people in the Bay Area because of the saturation. I saw that even in Seattle to a lesser extent.
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How I Got a Job in Web Development(elliotec.com)
109 points by elliotec 12y ago|26 comments
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by elliotec 12y ago
I've used Faker and like it. For mocking big datasets I prefer http://www.mockaroo.com/ served by https://github.com/typicode/json-server

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