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by itamarst 9y ago
Common mistakes: 1. Over-focusing on technologies, rather than skills. ( https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/18/worst-resume/ ) 2. Leaving out organizational context, project context. Why did you do tha
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The Internet was very clearly useful in many ways, from very early on. Blockchain has no real use cases so far except libertarian fantasies and get-rich-quick schemes.
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The worst kind of resume is a list of technologies(codewithoutrules.com)
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Net worth is assets minus liabilities. Starting point: You: Assets=$100, liabilities=$0 Bank: Assets=$0, liabilities=$0 You now deposit the money: You: Assets=$100 (money they owe you), liabilities=$0 Bank: Assets=$100 (cash in vault), liab
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Another shameless plug: I write a series of emails about mistakes I've made during my career as a software engineer, and what readers can learn from them. So rather than being a "here's a series of news links", it's
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Working with a real software project. A real job is usually: "here's a pile of code someone else wrote! Have fun!". School homework almost never matches that experience.
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For bookkeeping, some people I know started https://pilot.com/ , and it sounds like they'll recommend a CPA if you don't have one.
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Work/life balance issues are something I care a lot about it (in fact, I wrote a book about it: https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/ ). So I've walked away from jobs where it was clear I wouldn't ha
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I don't really understand what that means. Tesla is losing lots of money, not clear if they have a viable business model, whereas Google & Facebook are massively profitable behemoths.
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I'm assuming you're trying to find problems to solve so as to start a business. This seems like a fine thing to do. Your approach could be a bit better, though. 1. You're asking about "unsexy industries." The people
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I've learned a lot from: * Reading lots of books on writing. Probably this ( https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Web-Creating-Compelling-Pictu... ), definitely this ( https://www.amazon.com/Style-Lessons-Clarit
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"Everyone is doing it" doesn't make something moral or legal.
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That is an option, yes, but it's the immoral (and perhaps criminal) option.
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My personal feeling is that you should only work for people you actually trust ( https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/01/29/job-contradict-belie... ). Thus: Option #1: Just quit, and keep your mouth shut. Do you r
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I don't think that word ("invest") means what you think it means.
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If your goal is early retirement, you will likely benefit from reading http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ .
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Personally work/life balance is very important to me, so I tend to ask about that. This is trickier for people at the beginning of their career though, but can be done. From a broader perspective it's not just about the interview
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Agloe, New York: a fictional town that became real(en.wikipedia.org)
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Could be useful in catching copy/paste phishing attacks. Perhaps relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
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It might be enforceable, depending. How broad is it? Sometimes it's like "not competing with any vendors' business" and then if your company uses GMail you can't do anything Google does. Sometimes it's not a
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How to become a part-time programmer: an interview with an expert(codewithoutrules.com)
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You have a good starting set of questions. Every time you have a question—dive in and find an answer. E.g. "what is the role of hashing in python?" Googling finds some unrelated stuff, but then on first page there's http:&#x
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Some of them have wings: The San Francisco Bay is the largest estuary on the Pacific Coast, making it an ideal refuge for a variety of winged creatures including shorebirds, raptors, and songbirds. Every fall more than 250 species of
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The top developer resources from 2017(hackernoon.com)
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Different ways at different times in my and different jobs: 1. Just work 40-hour weeks. 2. Part-time consulting, while my wife worked full time. 3. Negotiated less than full-time job (e.g. 28 hours/week, 35/hours week). This is en
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https://www.amazon.com/Revising-Prose-5th-Richard-Lanham/dp/...
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Everyone building a UI uses state machines. It's just that some of them are implicit, badly structured, and have broken edge cases.
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If you love your job then work sane hours . You'll do better at your job. Really. There is almost always another way. By starting with assumption there isn't you're dramatically reducing the changes of finding it.
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If this is how you deal with having lots of work, you might want to instead quit your job, or better yet re-negotiate your terms of employment Sleep deprivation destroys your productivity. It's equivalent to being drunk. E.g. "Chr
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There's nothing wrong with being happy where you are... but it's true that since learning is always a little painful, you need to make sure that being happy isn't due to not learning. One thing I do: every time I make a mista

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