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by f2000 7y ago
Was employed by a large bank in their web division. We fixed many Y2K bugs that would have been triggered. Was on duty New Year's eve and there were a few Y2K bugs that surfaced but nothing show stopping. My anecdotal opinion is tha
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by f2000 7y ago
I'm in my late 50s and after 10+ years at same company I found myself on the job market. 1998 was the last time I had any real interviews - after that point it was all networking with no real tech interviews. After much cursing at the
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by f2000 7y ago
My experience is that even if you find a business owner with a problem there's a steep climb to build a product and sell it. I'm a developer & my brother is a mortgage broker - I even worked for a few months in his office dur
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by f2000 7y ago
"Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" by Dr. David Burns. If you've got even a hint of depression or anxiety this is a great resource. Reading/understanding the "10 cognitive distortions" in this book is worth
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by f2000 7y ago
It turns out that being a good programmer isn't simple or easy. I've seen many teams where everyone on paper looks like they should be a good programmer, yet only a few team members are doing the heavy lifting and the majority ar
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by f2000 7y ago
IMHO, the best stack is the one you are most familiar with. Start with what you are most comfortable with and build from there. The hardest part is coming up with a product that someone else would pay money for and then making that first sa
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by f2000 7y ago
tldr; Everything.
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by f2000 7y ago
On some occasions I've found ways to significantly automate large parts of my coding job - usually with DSLs plus code generation, an interpreter, or eval() ( evil() ? ) In most of these cases, rest of team was none too happy. Upstream
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by f2000 7y ago
A few potential issues I see: 1) Adjustments for cost of living geographic distribution of a college's graduates when earnings is measured. This distribution would not be the same for all colleges. E.g. Texas vs California - 100K&#x2
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by f2000 7y ago
Very true. My brother lost his job at Blockbuster when they closed down. Since then he hasn't been able to find a job. When I mentioned to him that unemployment is at a 50 year low and maybe now would be a good time to try again to f
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by f2000 7y ago
Working on anxiety can be life changing. I highly recommend the book "When Panic Attacks" by Dr. David Burns. In fact just the other day Dr. Burns had as a guest on his "Feel Good" podcast a tech guy who was rebuilding
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by f2000 7y ago
I've been coding for almost 30 years for startups to fortune 50 companies and they all have code bases with some level of messiness, f *'d up-ness. What an intro the real world when during a college internship for the bluest of
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by f2000 7y ago
Have you looked into possibility of going on short or long term disability? Where I live (CA), I've never worked for a company that didn't provide disability insurance. A few year's ago I severely broke my arm requiring surg
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by f2000 7y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone