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by kat 11y ago
I've usually worked with people who encourage and support resourcefulness. Especially on smaller teams when developers have a wide range of responsibilities, you're frequently working in areas you have little experience in. Every
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by kat 11y ago
I don't think they came back 'disappointing' and I don't think they are worried about PR. I think the cost of extracting is not worth it with the current price and current political risk (a moratorium? higher fees? etc)
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by kat 11y ago
Travel to northern Canada (North West Territories, Nunavut) before the planet warms up too much. See the northern lights, go kayaking, go on wildlife tours (polar bears!, narwhales!), etc. I know someone who lucked out on a tour and ended u
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Dealing with Stress by P. Watson(facebook.com)
1 points by kat 11y ago|0 comments
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by kat 11y ago
Software Engineers are covered by TN visas though, under the 'Engineers' category. That might be easier for you instead of 'Computer Analyst'. You need a degree and a job offer (where the title is Software Engineer). I t
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by kat 11y ago
I agree, or at least that is my perception. As a female dev I'm always more worried about a false positive, being hired for a job I'm not suitable for because of the diversity factor. I have found women sometimes get further in t
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by kat 11y ago
I strongly agree with the work-life balance. When the add explicitly states where the office is, the expected the work hours, the number of holiday days, the career development support, etc I'm much more excited to apply. There is noth
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by kat 11y ago
If you want a good alternative to the GoF book try Head First Design Patterns. I findit much more approachable and much more enjoyable to read. http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Design-Patterns-Freeman-ebo...
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by kat 11y ago
The best interviews have been interviews where I have been warned ahead of time what to expect. Ie in the phone screening interview I was given an informal hint that I should add unit tests to my programming task (the next step of the inter
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by kat 11y ago
I need somewhere between 7-8 hours of sleep. I don't drink coffee and I exercise 3 times a week. I find sleep matters more in the long run. I can function on 6 hours, but after a few months I'm burned out and I end up catching wh
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by kat 11y ago
Watch Delta Dawn, its a great video on paddle boarding the Colorado. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot3059iwiWo
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by kat 12y ago
Finished: Where I Belong, Alan Doyle. Light Christmas reading written by the lead singer of Great Big Sea. I recommend it to anyone who grew up in a small town! Reading: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Martin Fowler So far
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by kat 12y ago
I think some times it can be your co-workers. Write a script for the service team to automate some manual task, talk to QA about something they always have to manually setup - skunk work projects are a great way of delighting your co-worker
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by kat 13y ago
I totally agree with the idea of having a style guide. How do you educate non-technical people (customers) on style guides? Style guides seem technical in nature so I'm not too sure how to succinctly explain to a customer that UI/
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by kat 13y ago
I took a job where I was the 4th employee at a start-up. The biggest selling point was they were willing to hire me despite my lack of web-dev experience. Coming from a .NET background, I had never used PHP until my interview. The interview
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by kat 13y ago
"A glance" is a good way to express it. I don't really care what I see, I would just like a quick gauge of how well-kept their code is. I think looking at the small things like frequency of comments, variable naming, paramete
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Ask HN: View Company's source code in a job interview?
8 points by kat 13y ago|9 comments
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by kat 13y ago
How do you stop patient's from deleting health information they deem 'not important' or 'too embarrassing'? I think it is important that health professionals keep their own records of patient health. Although, I do
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Programming Jokes(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by kat 13y ago|0 comments
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by kat 14y ago
I think SCM tracks history a lot better than an inbox. Even when I am coding by myself, I like using source control so I can easily remember what I did two days ago. Also having a history makes it easier to remove buggy features or re-add f
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Free Best-Of Ebook from Smashing Magazine(smashingmagazine.com)
1 points by kat 14y ago|0 comments
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by kat 14y ago
Why is 50% unbelievable? I have sent out newsletters for a non-profit for the last two years and their open rate is 40-60%. I assume its harder to "sell" corporate newsletters but 50% doesn't sound outrageous to me.
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by kat 14y ago
Off the top of my head, Canadian startups HootSuite(Vancouver) and Freshbooks(Toronto) are doing very well. Rypple was also Canadian, but was recently bought by SalesForce.
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by kat 14y ago
Just to add to this, I work on an enterprise sized project and we use UML all the time! Its not Boeing, but its a large code base and things get complicated fast. We make class diagrams for all of our large features. If there is complex wor
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by kat 14y ago
Original Author's Bio Robert L. Read lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and two children.
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by kat 15y ago
Official docs are great, also check out the django book http://www.djangobook.com/
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by kat 15y ago
Does your school have a co-op program? Even though its not a co-op job, I'd still go visit a co-op adviser. Mine was really great at making my summer jobs look important. Or maybe your school has a career center? They aren't as targeted as
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by kat 15y ago
Simon Fraser University (Canada) charges more for engineering and cs courses. http://students.sfu.ca/calendar/for_students/undergrad_tuiti...
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by kat 15y ago
I went through the same thing last year.My startup went with python/django over php/codeIgniter. I think the top two selling points of the python/django solution were the quick-to-prototype (tones of apps) and the cool factor. My boss was w
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by kat 15y ago
Wow, I didn't realize what a pain target="_blank" was. I'm definitely guilty of using it. Have you considered changing your browser settings so a new tab opens instead of a new window? On Firefox its edit-preferences-tabs-'open new window i

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