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by itamarst 8y ago
I've worked 28 hours and 32-35 hours. It's great. Basic process as employee is either: A) Switch from full-time to part-time at current job. This is easiest. B) Apply to full time jobs, negotiate after you get an offer. Some res
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by itamarst 8y ago
Albert Hirschman's "Voice, Exit, and Loyalty" is worth reading. I talk about how it applies to software here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/02/10/voice-exit-user-rete...
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The reason we solve problems(codewithoutrules.com)
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by itamarst 8y ago
Lots of companies don't do stupid programming puzzles. Here's a list: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards Don't listen to people telling you that you shouldn't be a programmer. Doin
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by itamarst 8y ago
Microservices are mostly an organizational tool: how do you get 500 programmers to work on one website? Solution: one service per team, aka microservices. (Occasionally there are technical reasons to have multiple services, e.g. one for loa
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by itamarst 8y ago
Your best bet is to negotiate at your current job. You have specific knowledge that is very expensive to replace, usually: technologies, internal code, who knows what, business logic, etc.. Your manager knows you. You have lots of value com
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Getting your boss to stop valuing you by time spent in the office(codewithoutrules.com)
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by itamarst 8y ago
Maybe also add a robots.txt? http://www.robotstxt.org/
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by itamarst 8y ago
You can imagine a skill gradation of: 1. Follow implementation instructions from someone else. I.e. new programmer straight out of school. 2. Solve problems presented by someone else. They figure out the task, you figure out how to implemen
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How to be judged by your output, not your time in the office(codewithoutrules.com)
2 points by itamarst 8y ago|0 comments
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by itamarst 8y ago
Does your resume reflect your experience working? If you do it right, you can apply to entry-level job as "I am just like someone graduating from school this year, except I have evidence of <time management/ability to communica
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Five ways to work 35 hours (or less) a week as a programmer(codewithoutrules.com)
2 points by itamarst 8y ago|1 comments
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by itamarst 8y ago
How Learning Works: https://www.amazon.com/How-Learning-Works-Research-Based-Pri... I also enjoyed https://www.amazon.com/Start-Story-Teaching-Journals-Collect... (Caveat: not a professor, but that's t
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Does your job contradict your beliefs?(codewithoutrules.com)
2 points by itamarst 8y ago|0 comments
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Avoiding hour creep: get all your work done and still go home at 5PM(codewithoutrules.com)
3 points by itamarst 8y ago|0 comments
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by itamarst 8y ago
It's an extremely hard problem. Much harder than you'd think. Just spotting a known "thing" in an image is often a research problem; doing any generic image is much harder.
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by itamarst 8y ago
Validation is backwards: https://stackingthebricks.com/validation-is-backwards/
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The true meaning of unit testing(codewithoutrules.com)
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by itamarst 8y ago
I talk about this a bit in my book ( https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/ ). Basically, you want to demonstrate: 1. You can work independently. 2. Good communication skills. Easiest way is, as dyeje says, get that
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by itamarst 8y ago
If you're dealing with a team that is mostly very experienced, they may not be used to people who can solve a problem--once they're pointed at it. They might just assume you can identify problems on your own, like they can. Try ta
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by itamarst 8y ago
No, politics is in part about what is right, in part about what is possible, in part about what you convince people to do. AI is useless for all of that.
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by itamarst 8y ago
Is there a specific problem or set of problems that make you feel you need a mentor?
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Get productive faster at your new job–without working overtime(codewithoutrules.com)
2 points by itamarst 8y ago|0 comments
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by itamarst 8y ago
Caring and wanting to learn are not the same as wanting to spend one's free time learning.
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by itamarst 8y ago
With Paddle if I know URL of product in store I know URL of product download. It's trivial to get free download. With FastSpring they make at least some effort to make URL unguessable. It's not that what FastSpring is a real imp
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by itamarst 8y ago
According to that article this will decrease your risk by... 25%. Which is nice, but not massive on an individual level.
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by itamarst 8y ago
" I.e. they take time to learn or practice their skills outside of work projects" translated means "I don't want to invest in people's time or training, I want them to do on their own time." Seems like you&#x27
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by itamarst 8y ago
Paddle has hilariously bad security for downloadable products, so I wouldn't trust them very far. FastSpring seems decent, and what I finally went with for "I don't want to think about taxes please".
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by itamarst 8y ago
As with a shorter workweek, it's possible to negotiate that, with basically same techniques.
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by itamarst 8y ago
Yep. Again and again, I hear this from people who work less hours: they get more productive.

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