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by skylark 9y ago
I used to love teaching people things, but as I've gotten older I've gotten more jaded. We all want to work with people in the bottom right square - those with potential and tenacity seeking to accelerate their progress. But the r
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by skylark 9y ago
When links and text are available together, many of the top level comments will be direct responses to the original poster's text rather than discussion about the link itself. By forcing the original poster to follow the same commentin
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by skylark 9y ago
Salary * 0.6 is a fairly close guesstimate for take home pay in San Francisco if you're making low six figures.
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by skylark 9y ago
I don't have strong feelings about the original memo, but the media coverage has been an absolute circus. Google's hand was forced because of the negative PR storm that happened, not because it systematically suppresses the voices
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by skylark 9y ago
If it's a one-off thing, probably $200 per hour. I don't suspect 200 lines of front end code would take a full hour to review unless you're doing something far out of the ordinary.
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by skylark 9y ago
If it didn't have to make any money and was guaranteed to have visitors, I'd make Reddit with autogenerated subreddits. At the start there's one community everyone is a part of. Every week, the community is split into childre
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by skylark 9y ago
First, make it fun. Teach through examples and explain stuff later. As interest grows, the desire to figure out the "why" also increases. For most people, "fun" is building something you can play with. Web development fa
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by skylark 9y ago
People use Medium because they want to be heard. Marketing is hard (although this author doesn't seem to have problems with that.)
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by skylark 9y ago
I think I'd go nuts in my open office without noise cancelling headphones. I'd recommend the Bose QC line. Sennheiser wins in audio quality, but the noise cancelling on Bose can't be beat. Both the headphones and earbuds work
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by skylark 9y ago
I think you worded it a bit strongly, but I tend to agree with you. Science: Aspartame consumption is correlated with weight gain. Journalists: Does aspartame cause weight gain? Readers: Aspartame causes weight gain. I know it's up to
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by skylark 9y ago
If you can't get in despite your best attempts, then maybe it wasn't meant to be. But let them be the ones to say no. Never disqualify yourself before you've even tried.
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by skylark 9y ago
Completely agree. If your social life can take the hit, waking up as early as possible is probably the way to go. I've never been more productive than the period of my life where I woke up at 4am everyday to hit the gym and work on my
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by skylark 9y ago
I've worked at a variety of companies, large, small, tech, and non tech. On a professional level, I've never seen my older coworkers be treated any differently from the younger ones. I'm sure age discrimination does exist on
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by skylark 9y ago
225k total comp (salary + bonus + equity) for Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Apple sounds about right. I've personally gotten offers from those companies only slightly less than that with only 2 years of experience under my belt. If y
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by skylark 9y ago
I find bootcamps to be an interesting industry. The general perception is that they're learning institutions, but that couldn't be further from the truth. In reality, bootcamps are technical recruitment agencies. Companies are rea
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by skylark 9y ago
> A high-tech garbage service may sound ridiculous to the uninitiated. But it’s no joke to customers like WeWork, Whole Foods and SoulCycle that have signed multi-year contracts in exchange for RTS’s flexible pricing options, along with
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by skylark 9y ago
This is a perfect example of how strong software engineering from competitors can result in you getting completely left in the dust. YouTube and Spotify have great algorithms for suggesting new songs - I feel like when my current song is do
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by skylark 9y ago
I'm not part of the recruitment process, so I can't speak at all about how resumes are screened and what might give you an advantage. My personal resume consisted almost entirely of my work accomplishments with a few lines for my
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by skylark 9y ago
I used JavaScript because I'm most comfortable with it - I believe you can use any language you want, but you're better off if it's one the interviewer knows (Java/C for back end, JavaScript for front end.) I personally
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by skylark 9y ago
I'm honestly not sure what to tell you - the recruiting side of things is so opaque that I'm not sure what you can do to get past the initial screen. I personally had a strong referral at Google, but everywhere else I applied thro
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by skylark 9y ago
Yep! That's the exact one I have.
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by skylark 9y ago
slither.io is a great one that's probably as popular as agar.io, but since you didn't mention it I thought I'd throw it out there.
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by skylark 9y ago
Usually the only people who want work samples are freelance clients. I've never had a company recruiter ask me to show them a live demo of the work I've done. Just tell them what you did.
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by skylark 9y ago
Nothing too exciting. Perhaps counter-intuitively, tech giants are the most straightforward to get into because their interview focuses so much on whiteboarding ability. I personally know people who have gotten into Google/Amazon/
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by skylark 9y ago
Took me about 2.5 years, but I wasn't actively trying to get into a tech giant the entire time. I personally know people who went straight from a bootcamp into Google/Amazon/Facebook because their ability to solve algorithms
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by skylark 9y ago
I don't have a CS degree and currently work at Google. I used a bootcamp to get my foot in the door. I studied college textbooks in my spare time for a few years to fill some of the gaps in my knowledge, and then hardcore interview pre
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by skylark 9y ago
I can't help but feel like all of these posts are a bit overly dramatized. As much as people complain about Angular, I think it's completely fine for the majority of use cases at large scale. So is React. So is Vue. Even Angular 1
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by skylark 9y ago
Strike a better balance between studying and socializing. In the real world nobody cares that I was a nearly straight A student, and my grades haven't helped me move forward in my career in the slightest. I should have taken more time
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by skylark 9y ago
I'd avoid going out entirely with the goal to network - it puts you into the wrong mindset, and people will pick up on it. The majority of people don't enjoy networking for the sake of networking. Go somewhere people gather. Bars,
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by skylark 9y ago
It doesn't have to be so black and white - you don't need to invest small or go all in. I setup an automatic transfer which happens the day after I get my paycheck. Over time it's added up to be quite a lot of money.

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