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by skylark 11y ago
The idea of commitment contracts is not new. If you prefer donating to a charity (or anti-charity) on slip-ups: stickk.com I personally like beeminder.com for its graphs.
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by skylark 11y ago
If you're a nail biter, I can't recommend N-Acetyl Cysteine enough. I was a nail biter for my entire life - I don't think I'd used a clipper in over a few decades. On a recommendation I tried NAC and haven't bitten
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by skylark 11y ago
I feel like if you use a lightweight node/express setup, you feel really productive because you're spending a lot of time coding, but you're actually far less productive than someone who uses an actual full fledged server sid
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by skylark 11y ago
I'm working at a startup that processes millions of dollars per month in payments. If you don't offer PayPal, you're shooting yourself in the foot. In many countries, PayPal is the defacto way people conduct online transactio
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by skylark 11y ago
A lot of people are going to suggest either going back to school to get a CS degree, or slowly building a portfolio while you teach yourself how to code. I'm going to suggest a third option. If you have the money, you should attend a h
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by skylark 11y ago
If you're about to apply for jobs and this isn't your first job, the most important thing you can do is grind interview problems. I haven't had any GitHub activity for the last year, don't have a personal site, and have
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by skylark 11y ago
Bose QC20i noise cancelling earbuds. Easily my favorite purchase of 2015 so far. It's incredible how much noise they suck out of the room - I typically use Sennheisers for music, but Bose really nailed the noise cancelling technology.
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by skylark 11y ago
From sitting on both sides of the table, here's the gist of what I'm expecting to hear: "Most recently I've been working at <company> on <short summary of project>. When I was there, I <two to three things
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by skylark 11y ago
If you have a tactful manager, bring it up in your next one on one. Your manager is in a unique position to handle these sorts of issues because they can gently probe for information and give more unbiased feedback than your coworkers. That
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by skylark 11y ago
The scroll lag is primarily caused by the top navigation bar's fade-on-scroll effect and the large background image. Remove both of those and the scroll lag disappears.
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by skylark 11y ago
I disagree that HN doesn't like humor. Compare the comments of this article posted yesterday on HN vs. Reddit (the one where the guy teaches his daughter CSS and has to vertically align something). https://news.ycombinator.c
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by skylark 11y ago
If you're not getting to phone screens, your resume needs work. It really is that simple. Most developers I know don't maintain an active Github. They're not "rockstars" or "ninjas" - they work 8 hours&#x2
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by skylark 11y ago
Your approach to resume writing is a bit off. Imagine a site with one button. The recruiter clicks on that button and gets a random fact about you. They'll click the button 6-10 times and then make a "pass" or "continue&
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by skylark 11y ago
I would actually extend this advice to the exit interview as well. The tech community is smaller than you might expect - I run into people I thought I'd never see again all the time. Even if you hate every last person at your current c
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by skylark 11y ago
I don't think the way the poster worded it was particularly fair, but affirmative action is definitely a thing.
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by skylark 11y ago
It is what it is. We're all making decisions which are in our own best interest. Tech people want to live close to work and can afford it. Is it wrong to make a high salary and spend your money at your own discretion? Landlords can cha
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by skylark 11y ago
I make 117k in San Francisco My take home: 3300 / 2 weeks My rent: 2600 / month (on the high side, but not ludicrous)
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by skylark 11y ago
If you've played a lot of DDR or Guitar Hero, it's not too hard. Some tips: 1. Don't look at the top of the screen - your mind needs some time register what it's seeing and react accordingly. Look a bit ahead - probably
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by skylark 11y ago
If you work at a large corporation, your manager might not be able to swing a large raise for you, even if it's totally justified. At my current place, our manager gets a pool of roughly 2% per developer to allocate for raises. An 80k
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by skylark 11y ago
We're doing Agile, but I hesitate to call it Agile because I have nothing against the original concept and don't want to cast it in a negative light. The way we're doing it is probably the most dysfunctional system for softwa
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by skylark 11y ago
I'm surprised nobody has brought this up yet: Do you actually enjoy your current job? I find that if you don't really enjoy what you're doing, you end up living in this perpetual state of stress. And while that stress might b
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by skylark 11y ago
It's a tough situation. It's hard to identify people who have no background in computer science, but still have tons of potential if given the opportunity. Coding bootcamps exist to bridge that gap - in a sense, you can think of t
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by skylark 11y ago
I guarantee to you it was an informed, calculated decision, not laziness or incompetence on anybody's part. I'm working for a Fortune 25 company, and one of the main drivers behind our website redesign is that we're losing a
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by skylark 11y ago
You prove that you're capable of doing the job by simply doing the job without having the job title. Then when a position opens up (someone leaves or is promoted) you're sucked into the position because you're essentially alr
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by skylark 12y ago
I work at an extremely large non-tech company following a semi-agile process. Officially, we're expected to do 6 hours of coding per day. However with meetings and lunch, we only really have 4.5 - 5 hours of time that isn't blocke
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by skylark 12y ago
I keep a daily journal which I save in a Word document. I don't particularly mind if it goes up in a ball of fire one day - I find that I never really go back to look through what I've written in the past. For me, the journal&#x27
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by skylark 12y ago
You'll probably have decent results with non-tech companies. I work for a large bank in SF and the work life balance is excellent, straight 9-5 job.
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by skylark 12y ago
Don't let it bother you. If you're performing at a high level, be confident in that instead of trying to tear others down. Plenty of people code into the night because they just enjoy coding. Actively promoting a culture that puts
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by skylark 12y ago
I feel like one contributing factor might be your company's culture or process. I try my best to review every pull request at work, but ultimately any time I spend reviewing code is essentially time I'm spending on Hacker News as
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by skylark 12y ago
The problem with internet discussions is that the raw number of people who have informed opinions are low compared to the number of people who want to participate in a given discussion. Because of this, many people end up parroting the idea

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