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by jefflombardjr 9y ago
> These bootcamps are too basic for starters. They never take you beyond the basics. Secondly, the industry has changed. You need to know more things than you did previously. Even computer science grads aren't necessarily "read
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by jefflombardjr 9y ago
As someone who went to a boot camp, this doesn't surprise me at all. I don't think it's worth it for most people. BUT, I don't see them going away entirely. I'm thrilled with the boot camp I went to, and would do it
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by jefflombardjr 9y ago
Currently reading an Abraham Lincoln Biography and apparently he used to drive one of the persons he boarded with crazy because he would read aloud. When asked why he said something to the effect of "Seeing and hearing is easier to rem
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by jefflombardjr 9y ago
NYSE. Seriously. If you want to buy and be a completely passive owner, buy stocks. You'll at least be able to minimize risk. Buying and growing a business can be just as hard as starting one. If you want to own a business, you have to
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by jefflombardjr 9y ago
Inspired by other similar meetups: - https://www.meetup.com/HackerNewsSeattleMeetup/ - https://www.meetup.com/hackernewsdc/ If anyone's in town, I hope to see you there!
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Unofficial Hacker News Meetup Portland, OR(meetup.com)
1 points by jefflombardjr 9y ago|1 comments
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by jefflombardjr 9y ago
I don't know if I speak for other users, but rather than focusing on invoicing, why not tie into Quickbooks? Or similar services. i.e. There's already invoicing software. If the integration between the timesheets is the only diffe
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by jefflombardjr 10y ago
1. Friends 2. Local Agencies The tough part about paying for a productized service and not hourly services is they will try to get this done as soon as possible and not do any more work than initially scoped. I would ask for 2 or 3 concepts
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by jefflombardjr 10y ago
To me, diving into full stack development with a beginner audience is kind of pointless. They have no context as to what full stack means. So that's one approach, you could talk about the different mechanics of a website and the If it
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by jefflombardjr 10y ago
I totally disagree. (respectfully) If you're applying to 100 jobs a day, you have no idea what you want to do. There may be 100 'developer' jobs to apply to, but a JavaScript Developer and Java Developer Position are drastica
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by jefflombardjr 10y ago
Question: Is there still a reason to buy SSL Certs with services like https://letsencrypt.org/ ? Like a security reason?
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by jefflombardjr 10y ago
I'm all for exploring new approaches, however: a) Salt water is highly corrosive. Wouldn't maintenance costs be high? b) Isn't marine biology highly sensitive to heat pollution? For high latency services like Amazon Glacier,
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by jefflombardjr 10y ago
Here's one I wrote for facebook to block political posts: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hide-political-fac... Only works on facebook, but better than nothing! Cheers!
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by jefflombardjr 10y ago
Simple and Functional: http://andrew.hedges.name/ A horrible website for horrible people (in the style of CAH): http://jefflombard.com/ (full disclaimer last one is my own site, anyone is welcome to clone i
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by jefflombardjr 10y ago
Definitely rudimentary but it works!
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Show HN: I Built a Chrome Extension to Filter Political Posts from Facebook(chrome.google.com)
3 points by jefflombardjr 10y ago|1 comments
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by jefflombardjr 10y ago
As a freelancer/contractor 'getting paid faster' definitely appeals to me, but this doesn't really tell me how Billme does that. It's cool that you can send SMS invoices, but how is this much different than say Quic
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by jefflombardjr 10y ago
https://www.hackerrank.com/ Has an algorithm section, might be worth a look!
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by jefflombardjr 10y ago
Very cool! It'd be fun to link this up to a translator api. I think they already have an app that does that. But it would still be fun to build.