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by he11ow 4y ago
That's a good summary! There's a skill to pulling the essence into tight sentences, I like that.
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Philip K. Dick, NLP and the next Google(medium.com)
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by he11ow 4y ago
How do you feel about support though? Paying users tend to want that... Because you mention slaving away. Are you right now? Doesn't sound like. Will you if you have to support a product? Hmmm. Feel free to call this spiritual nonsense
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by he11ow 4y ago
Marketing. Think how often you read developers who scoff at marketing, right up to the point they try and launch a product and it struggles to gain traction. Marketing seems sleazy, cheap or simple, when in fact it's none of those thin
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by he11ow 4y ago
I had amazing teachers. Some in primary and middle school, then most of the high-school ones, and then a really outstanding amount at University. I owe so much of who I am today to all these people, it's really humbling. I should say,
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by he11ow 4y ago
Exactly that.
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Joel on Software - practically everything he's written while properly blogging has stood the test of time.
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by he11ow 5y ago
Look for a doula. Birth-support aside, it's not too far off from what they do.
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by he11ow 5y ago
Assuming you're talking about Compass Letters: Right now, it's a B2C business. So you're plucking customers one by one. That's ineffective. What you'd like is to turn it into a B2B2C problem: Take a step back and l
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by he11ow 5y ago
There aren't really shortcuts, the long way is the short way. Consider signing up at a local academic institution, many will accept payment by modules rather than for an entire degree.
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by he11ow 5y ago
Since you're asking about building a career, I'd give the answer you weren't asking for: build domain expertise. The intersection of software and domain expertise is highly prized. So it takes chips off the table on whichever
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by he11ow 5y ago
A slightly different answer, because I'm sure there were others like me: I learned to code in BASIC when I was 11. It must have been from a manual, because there wasn't anything else. I built a bunch of things, the last of which -
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by he11ow 5y ago
To see clearly through this, first ask yourself: "why is ageism rife in software?" Because, once this very simple question is asked, you pause to consider the reality of software development as a profession, whereby an awful lot o
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The real question is the triggers for the meltdowns. Specifically, if there's a big sensory component here, that's the place to start, well before the psychotherapy, SSRIs or talk. If what's getting you to explode is some ki
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Excel
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I like this comment a lot.
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My two cents: 1. Don't go to grad school for a reason other than really wanting to go to grad school. It's just that pretty much every other reason has a totally random probability of manifesting. Which is what you can get without
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by he11ow 5y ago
Building your own business. Generally, applying for jobs is a young person's game. As one gets older, a lot of the opportunities come through the network you've built, so investing in building a network is an absolute must. But at
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The Rubik's cube is even simpler than the sudoku, if you're willing to memorize a bunch of steps. It becomes a matter of looking at the state of the cube, and applying the same set movements.
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by he11ow 5y ago
Have been using it for well over a year (2 years maybe?). It's not great, but Google's also bad. When I don't get the results with DDG and try Google, 50% of the time the entire first page of results is ads, so on to the seco
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by he11ow 5y ago
New Yorker and Brain Pickings. Quanta is great for math-y stuff. Also, I try not to read too much online. Like you say, so much is junk. And I limit news. There's a real negative cognitive and emotional impact from reading so much dep
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by he11ow 5y ago
It seems to me that you're in a place for which you've worked hard in your early adulthood, a place you no longer want. Where you're struggling (based off your post and your replies) is that in any direction you look - it&#x2
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by he11ow 5y ago
Look up Zen Pencils: there're two books based off the website. It's illustrated inspirational sayings, really great stuff to talk with kids.
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This is amazing, thank you
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by he11ow 5y ago
You're looking at it the wrong way. What you have is not a liability, but an advantage. You're building your manufacturing domain expertise. Were you to go and become a data scientist today, odds are you'll find yourself in s
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Ask HN: '20s programmers, what do you expect the future of tech to look like?
2 points by he11ow 5y ago|1 comments
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Most commercial value lies in processing small/medium data.
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There's a fabulous book called: "BEING WRONG Adventures in the Margin of Error" It's an entire book about the cognitive experience in the moment of being wrong. It's dotted with examples of how humans hate to be wro
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At my company we put together a series of case studies on the use of Natural Language Processing within financial services. Each case study started with explaining the business goal, then explained how they implemented it. Along the way, ea
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"Orchid Fever" - Susan Orlean, New Yorker, 1995 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/01/23/orchid-fever "Fantastic Beasts and How To Rank Them", Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 2017

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