imauld

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by imauld 10y ago
I had a great experience at the program I attended and would do it again in a heartbeat if given the opportunity. > What were some of the positives or negatives? I didn't have any negative experiences that were big enough to remembe
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I went to a boot camp after being self taught and it was a huge help. Going to a boot camp put a good amount of polish on what I already knew as well as introduced me to some of the soft skills associated with working as a dev (doing/g
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by imauld 10y ago
What are you more interested in learning, front end or back end development? Only asking since you mentioned Python and Bootstrap can be used/learned with server side rendered pages. My extremely general advice would be to avoid framew
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by imauld 10y ago
You would almost definitely be better off getting a slow cooker and doing meal prep on the weekends for the whole week. Barring that since you are in Seattle, you can buy fairly healthy frozen stuff at Eat Local. There is one in Capitol Hil
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by imauld 10y ago
To play Devils's advocate here: "My experience is great and perfect and in demand and they just can't see it" Have you considered that you may not be presenting your experience the best way? You said you grew a team from
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Sorry about that, haven't updated that page in a pretty long time. Shoot me an email at my username @ gmail dot com
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We are in the Seattle area. You can send me an email if you're interested from my personal site listed in my profile.
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> If you want it enough for yourself and for its own sake, schedule one evening (or weekend afternoon) a week for it - just as you would schedule one evening a week for date night or for volunteer work or for anything else you care enoug
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by imauld 10y ago
I came here to make this exact same non-answer.
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>> I mean apart from the fact that Kinesis is a hosted service and Kafka would most likely require you setting up a cluster. AFAIK that's the only we use Kinesis over something like Kafka or Spark (much to the chagrin of of our
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by imauld 10y ago
Odds are the biggest bottlenecks in any webapp are going to be the DB and the network itself. So unless you're doing some really complex computations your actual business logic likely won't be taking up most of the time between a
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by imauld 10y ago
For personal projects I pick between Python and Go. I ask myself some questions before I pick, in no particular order: - How complex is the thing I wanna do? If it's very complex I'll go with Python since I'm much stronger wi
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by imauld 10y ago
It's not terribly difficult to get something like Django/uWSGI/nginx running on a server and it's such a common configuration there are tons of resources for doing exactly that. What sort of problems were you running int
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It would help if we knew what area you are in. But yes, that's a role companies hire for all the time. I believe we are currently hiring for those roles as well.
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Would you also be doing code reviews/pull requests in an email client? Being completely honest, that sounds terrible. How would rebases work? Cherry-picking? Reverts? Email clients were build to send emails not to be VCS repos. It seem
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by imauld 10y ago
> 1. DDDD (do not disturb developer days) twice a week. The general rule is that no one outside the team is supposed to interrupt unless production is on fire. A good idea in principle but it does not seem to be working too well. It is a
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So you want to expose Go on the Internet(blog.gopheracademy.com)
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Work: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Various AWS services Home: Go, gRPC
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Depends on what the project is. Use the best language for the job and make sure you're aware of the languages strengths and weaknesses. Utilize the strengths and develop tools/procedures to mitigate the weaknesses.
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Leave it blank if you can. It shouldn't be required as it's really none of their business.
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Are you the author of the linked post? If so I have a couple of questions: - Why not throw out the best and worst cases for each and then find the mean of run times? Seems like a more "fair" way to compare them. - Did you compare
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by imauld 10y ago
Learning takes a good amount of your attention. While driving your attention should be on the road and what's going on around you. Please don't try to do in depth learning while you are driving. - Pedestrian who doesn't wanna
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Considering that there are ~2 million apps* in both the Play and App stores I would say yes. Also considering for many people in the US their phone is their primary means of accessing the internet it's extremely likely that hundreds of
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Aren't most games made with C/C++ as well?
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You: I've been offered a spot @ FB/Apple/Google etc. Our Recruiter: Neat, half of engineers have worked @ one of those places. So our tech screen process is...
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by imauld 10y ago
How long have the tough times been going on and how much longer do they look to continue? If this is a rough patch, getting a second job, selling some belongings or renting out an extra room/space could be feasible (even renting out yo
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Finally, a good use for smartphones.
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Writing libraries/API's that when used by other devs makes them say "This is really easy to use."
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by imauld 10y ago
You might want to check to see if you have a local Whiteboarding Meetup. We have one here in Seattle where people can practice interviewing. If you don't have one you could probably set one up.
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Some things I ask for when interviewing (I'm also a Python Dev that uses Django at work): - Given an arbitrary task what framework would you use and why? I like hearing peoples answers to this as you get to see what they think is impor

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