mkwenhua

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by mkwenhua 11y ago
That's awesome, I had a mentor that guided me when I decided I wanted a career change and I am extremely grateful for that. I actually started doing classes at a local outreach program and I was quite upset when I learned that the peop
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by mkwenhua 11y ago
What city do you live in? Have you ever considered mentoring or teaching someone who really wants to start coding? Currently there is a lot of charities and NGO's that do classes for people to get tech skills. But I personally believe
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by mkwenhua 11y ago
Yeah I went to a Javascript meetup and it was amazing. Unlike the ruby meetups that were mostly just bootcamp people, it was all industry professionals and people there because they love JS, and it worked out great. Also you're right I
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by mkwenhua 11y ago
Well I am going to a hack-a-thon competition tomorrow which is similar to a meetup in my opinion.
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by mkwenhua 11y ago
Thanks rnovak, I really appreciate the reply. I would definitely say a downside of my CV website is it focuses on those silly D3 things I made, but actually 98% of the site is a social network I made that is centered around finding top musi
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by mkwenhua 11y ago
Well I guess what I am saying is not that they don't exist it's just not many. For example I went to 4 Ruby meetups and Chicago and while fun, they're essentially Dev Bootcamp events where people learn things like writing blo
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by mkwenhua 11y ago
Also you're 100% correct about the D3 data structures thing. The reason I did it was I fear as a self taught guy people will have certain assumptions about me. And about the working for free, I agree that it opens me up for exploitatio
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by mkwenhua 11y ago
oh the only copy and pasted code is $('#video1')[0].contentWindow.postMessage('{"event":"command","func":"' + 'stopVideo' + '","args":""}',
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by mkwenhua 11y ago
Well I am in Chicago, and I just can't seem to find any good networking events. But I going to go to a Hack-a-thon this weekend. Thanks for the reply, I really appreciate it!
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3 points by mkwenhua 11y ago|16 comments