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Bootcamp grad with 250k starting salary shares negotiation tips(medium.com)
3 points by quincyla 10y ago|2 comments
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Atom's best plugins, demo'd with gifs(medium.freecodecamp.com)
5 points by quincyla 10y ago|0 comments
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A data driven guide to writing on Medium(medium.freecodecamp.com)
1 points by quincyla 10y ago|0 comments
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Most developers are underpaid. Here's what you can do about it(medium.freecodecamp.com)
11 points by quincyla 10y ago|0 comments
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The 6-second developer resume(medium.freecodecamp.com)
2 points by quincyla 10y ago|0 comments
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by quincyla 10y ago
Recruiters aren't all bad, but the vast majority you're likely to encounter in the wild are.
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Why so many developers hate recruiters(medium.com)
4 points by quincyla 10y ago|6 comments
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by quincyla 10y ago
Free Code Camp's forums exist specifically for discussing programming-related questions - literally anything related to programming, open source, or getting a developer job: http://forum.freecodecamp.com
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by quincyla 10y ago
I wrote this article to explore why anyone would ever think that learning to program is easy, their incentives behind doing so, and the effect on people new to the field.
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One does not simply learn to code(medium.freecodecamp.com)
7 points by quincyla 10y ago|2 comments
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by quincyla 10y ago
Our "business model" is to keep costs as low as possible and sell merchandise. We will never charge for our curriculum. We have turned down all offers of funding specifically to avoid a situation where an investor could try and fo
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by quincyla 10y ago
If institutional partners treated MOOCs as a marketing exercise for their university's brand, instead of trying to monetize courses and certificates, people could continue to have this content for free. Unfortunately, universities don&
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by quincyla 10y ago
I did my best to boil a lot of conventional wisdom about negotiating, securing multiple offers, and eschewing equity compensation for cash. Did I leave anything big out?
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Salary Negotiation – how not to set a bunch of money on fire(medium.freecodecamp.com)
3 points by quincyla 10y ago|1 comments
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by quincyla 10y ago
There is wisdom behind these bullet points. This wisdom could be better communicated through a series of fleshed-out articles with real life examples. Otherwise, these points are difficult to contextualize, retain, and apply.
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by quincyla 10y ago
In light of all the recent data breaches, and waking days of my life spent reseting passwords, I think there is only one solution to this mess. Let's destroy all passwords. It starts with developers.
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360M reasons to destroy all passwords(medium.freecodecamp.com)
2 points by quincyla 10y ago|1 comments
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Our 1,000+ study groups are now 100% autonomous(medium.freecodecamp.com)
1 points by quincyla 10y ago|0 comments
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Don’t break the chain: why we’ll miss GitHub’s streaks(medium.freecodecamp.com)
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Exploring the universe of programming resources together(medium.freecodecamp.com)
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Please do learn to code(medium.freecodecamp.com)
2 points by quincyla 10y ago|1 comments
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by quincyla 10y ago
These are all things you can filter for in the data. 13% of respondents, for example, were computer science grads, so filter just for them and you still have what will be statistically significant dataset for most questions.
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by quincyla 10y ago
The survey was accessible behind the great firewall. We had 88 responses from Chinese nationals. 137 respondents were native Chinese speakers. We're still working on building a sandbox for the dataset, so I can't answer your quest
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by quincyla 10y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. I wrote this late at night and forgot about regional differences in degree duration. I've corrected this.
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by quincyla 10y ago
The full open dataset here: https://github.com/FreeCodeCamp/2016-new-coder-survey
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We asked 15,000 people how they're learning to program(medium.freecodecamp.com)
123 points by quincyla 10y ago|91 comments
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by quincyla 10y ago
This is a reaction to my friend's article on his recent frustrations with getting hired, which is discussed here: https://medium.com/@evnowandforever/f-you-i-quit-hiring-is-b...
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Why is hiring broken? It starts at the whiteboard(medium.freecodecamp.com)
4 points by quincyla 10y ago|7 comments
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by quincyla 10y ago
The site looks quite clean and intuitive. I'm impressed that you already have 36 properties. That must have taken a while to set up. How long have you been working on this?
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by quincyla 10y ago
Most people who are blogging are doing so to reach an audience. Though there have been several attempts to create open source implementations of tools like Medium and Twitter. They haven't attracted a significant audience. Rather than

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