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by kat 9y ago
White girl here - I totally agree with this approach. Look for the egos! Ask what happens if a developer disagrees with PM requirements, ask if they do code reviews/how they run code reviews, ask how they interact with QA (some times u
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Do I Have What It Takes to Be a Senior Engineer?(codementor.io)
1 points by kat 9y ago|0 comments
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by kat 10y ago
Very much YES! Being able to read the code is a required skill for working on enterprise applications. Fixing bugs and adding features will have to play nicely with the old code. If you don't understand the old code, your new code will
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by kat 10y ago
Bootstrap! http://bootstrapdocs.com/ Their documentation is great. They have useful code examples that are simple enough to copy+paste into your own code, but are complex enough to show off the entire feature.
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by kat 10y ago
That's actually one of the neat things I discovered when I moved to the States. Its not uncommon to meet a fellow developer that started after servering in the military. I've also met a lot of developers who started out in QA and
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by kat 10y ago
The .codes amuses me. I like the idea of having my resume on http://kat.codes (although sadly I don't own that url)
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by kat 10y ago
If you're living in Canada on a savings account that is in USD, then yes, you're ahead by 30%. Otherwise you're making cdn dollars and spending cdn dollars, so you don't see the 30% difference in cost of living. And as f
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by kat 10y ago
As someone with Canadian and American work experience, I think US wages are higher because there is more capital in the States. Both Canada and the States struggle to find qualified software devs. The companies that can afford to pay more,
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Hackers say the Canadian government doesn't want their help(cbc.ca)
1 points by kat 10y ago|0 comments
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American schools are teaching our kids how to code all wrong(qz.com)
1 points by kat 10y ago|0 comments
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by kat 11y ago
I worked at a company that started having code reviews. We started off by just "presenting" code to the team. The team would point out any thing that looked like a bug or areas that required extra QA effort. Just knowing you would
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by kat 11y ago
I found a job before I moved. I simply searched for jobs in Bend and was lucky enough to find an advertised job on indeed.com that matched my skills. The benefit of finding a job beforehand is you may receive a relocation package to help w
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by kat 11y ago
I have to agree. The work/life balance here is amazing. There are start-ups and bigger enterprise-sized tech companies (Sony!) There is also a decent amount of tech jobs available right now.
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Sketchbook of a GPS Artist(gpsdoodles.com)
2 points by kat 11y ago|0 comments
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Women are being stingy, and it’s killing our professional networks(medium.com)
3 points by kat 11y ago|0 comments
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by kat 11y ago
Resharper (plugin for Visual Studio), I barely know how to use it, but it already makes me miles more productive with VS
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Cyber attack snarls Los Angeles hospital's patient database(reuters.com)
1 points by kat 11y ago|0 comments
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Shunning Israeli goods to become criminal offence in UK(independent.co.uk)
17 points by kat 11y ago|3 comments
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by kat 11y ago
I have a few text files at work that I keep track of things. I treat it more as a reference file/personal FAQ file, some notes are verbose and some are terse. When I am learning on a side project I keep my notes in Google docs. I take
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by kat 11y ago
Have you discussed your workload issues with your boss? Is it possible to ask for more a bigger team or push back on the amount of work expected? That might easier and faster than finding a new job, especially since you like everything els
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Word Usage Across the US and Canadian Border(geotwit.mcmaster.ca)
2 points by kat 11y ago|0 comments
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by kat 11y ago
I've had surprisingly good luck on craigslist, I find both small and large companies post on craigslist. Networking, as everyone else has mentioned, is definitely the easiest approach and usually produces good quality leads.
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Starters and Maintainers(jlongster.com)
3 points by kat 11y ago|0 comments
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by kat 11y ago
Knitting? It can be cheap (as opposed to stained glass which I didn't know was expensive?!) and knitting groups are very friendly, social, helpful, and encouraging. I think you will always find people doing activities better than you,
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by kat 11y ago
In general, it depends on what type of testing and what technologies you are using. For performance testing and other testing that requires large data sets, I prefer to have a "golden" copy of a database that is simply restored to
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by kat 11y ago
I agreee your first rule about fear is the biggest for me. I find it much easier to learn when I'm not worried about 'its taking me too long', 'I'm not learning the right stuff', 'I need to study more&#x27
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by kat 11y ago
There are HIPAA certified cloud servers out there. I think the bigger problem is having tight security when integrating. It is considered safer to integrate behind a firewall (on an intranet) than worry about how to pass data between cloud-
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by kat 11y ago
I learned Javascript from a desktop app background. I started by just reading the Javascript docs. Memorizing the available functions, and then I focused on learning how to write things javascripty. Personally I find learning more rewarding
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by kat 11y ago
What about Grails? Its the Groovy(ie Java) version of Rails. I think its gaining traction in enterprise software shops. https://grails.org/
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by kat 11y ago
Yup, I understand when someone just suffers with the problem instead of fixing it, its a bit frustrating to watch them work inefficiently. I always find someone else's reasoning interesting. Sometimes it is no desire to learn but othe

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