ldoughty

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by ldoughty 7y ago
Completely agree! It is certainly hard motivating to do the work 1-2 hours at a time, but that's how I've been trying to approach it. Unfortunately some things like Unity are not great tools to learn at this pace. I'm hoping
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by ldoughty 7y ago
Totally agree. I have great ideas of things to work on, but I'm essentially a single income household (my wife is in grad school, and her part time pay barely covers her education and school). I can't quit my job and work on a dre
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by ldoughty 7y ago
I'm on the other coast, not even in a major tech hub, and we do a take home assignment now to screen applicants. They choose from 2 languages,and an experienced coder is done in 5-15 minutes. A fresh grad maybe 45 minutes. The tasks ha
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by ldoughty 7y ago
I don't know much about RF, but essentially any device can act as a software defined radio.. loops, obviously, operate many times per second; if you use that loop to send power down a wire, you get software defined transmission. If you
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by ldoughty 8y ago
Design the product for serverless and save the cost of 2-3 systems engineers. My team started with 5 developers, 1 system admin, and 1 "cloud guy". Now the developers are all comfortable in the cloud so we don't need redundan
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by ldoughty 8y ago
I would love an engine that knows my blacklist. Stop showing me results from xyz.com! If they want to go the extra step and identify sister corps, that works too!
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by ldoughty 8y ago
True this. I don't want to teach a high school graduate (or college grad) what interfaces and abstract classes are.. or basic good design of code. My job depends on making progress, not training. That said, my org supports up to 4 conc
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by ldoughty 8y ago
AWS, at least, didn't make any promises for updates for serverless Lambda that I can see in their docs.
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by ldoughty 8y ago
Microsoft also isn't your average developer that imports libraries from strangers. Ever time I run an audit (which is monthly) I see at least a dozen conversations in NPM packages we use. Sure, some of them don't apply to our usag
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by ldoughty 8y ago
Look at their advertised claims closely. They say they cover 98% (ish) of Americans. You can cover that amount of Americans while only covering 60% of the land mass. This means rural areas are typically lower priority ... But they always so
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by ldoughty 8y ago
I've seen a good number that do once the org makes it a priority and allowed money to be spent on learning and experimenting. From there, some people still want to stick to their old knowledge, but chances are you still will need that.
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by ldoughty 8y ago
I recommend fine tuning resumes for the job requirements, and a cover letter that emphasizes a passion for the language they are looking for (or a desire to learn something you can't claim experience in that is requested). Publicly ava
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by ldoughty 8y ago
Or they fire the people that know this stuff now that they are in the cloud :-)
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by ldoughty 8y ago
Cert + personal project, that's my recommendation. Associate's cert is mostly memorization and high level, but doesn't qualify you for being a trusted individual to do the job. It's good to make you aware of the right wa
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by ldoughty 8y ago
Your response is exactly the right kind for an interview. "I don't use those AWS services, but let me tell you what I have used". I agree, most people won't know one of: Sumarian or Sagemaker, but chances are you can eas
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by ldoughty 8y ago
Good info. You are right, AWS can cost more, but I disagree with "always". I run my personal website for $15/year, and most of that is the domain. I would say: if you're trying to list and shift to AWS, you're doing
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by ldoughty 8y ago
I wish they included a picture of the keyboard layout in the article... Sure, it's a Google away, but I think a visual was really appropriate here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_US-Colemak.svg
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by ldoughty 8y ago
Most developers I know don't understand containers well... Or they understand containers but not the underlying implications. "What does yum/apt upgrade have to do with node? Why should I run that?".. hell developers typ
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by ldoughty 8y ago
Completely agree. Server admins are still super important. Not everything fits in a nice server-less box. Developers also tend to have issues with containers, and firewalls, and monitoring/troubleshooting (depending on their skills and
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by ldoughty 8y ago
I tend to hire a lot more people that personally tinker without certifications, than those with certifications that don't have a pet project. Certification proves memorization. Tinkering proves interest. I don't want a candidate t
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by ldoughty 8y ago
Completely agree.. to many applicants I see think having a cert alone makes them gold, but they can't answer a thing about the topic that's not in the certification exam. APPLY the certification in some way that YOU own and you&#x
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by ldoughty 8y ago
Let me also state: If you have a certification and are having troubles landing a job, do a personal project to highlight your capability. It doesn't have to be hard.. or expensive! It barely needs to even look good -- if you're a
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by ldoughty 8y ago
I have a certification, and I hire people after asking for AWS certifications on the job description. My best hires have been people with IT experience, with or without certs. Honestly, AWS solutions architect cert is to easy to memorize an
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by ldoughty 8y ago
good to hear! But what about more suburban and rural costumers? The chief advantage of telework is reducing living expenses. However, it's very difficult to reduce living expenses is you still need to live in cities or suburbs of large
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by ldoughty 8y ago
An interesting article, I've subconsciously agreed with this in my life, but I've also seen (and encouraged in my companies) change here. My policy is to fight for lower-salary employees to get closer to 10% raises if they are doi
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by ldoughty 8y ago
Want high tech remote workers? Build or support a state wide fiber network that includes rural areas... I'd love to move to Vermont for a deal like this, but I can't work remotely on a 5mbps connection, and this "zip code&quo
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by ldoughty 8y ago
Can't speak for your country, but when I look at entry level job candidates, I look for people that have a personal project and passion. Portfolios are good, but I like adding people that can show they dabbled at home, even if it'