throwawaycash

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   by throwawaycash 9y ago

   I recommend API development and not front end development. I recommend companies that don't have on-call requirements for engineers. I recommend against directly working with a company that has agile processes, if you can manage it.
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   by throwawaycash 9y ago

   (2 cont) your PM may only be paying attention to the user interface and not what lies beneath it; changing plans all the time isn't agile, it's just chaos; you have to keep an eye on whether you're doing TDD or just archite
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   by throwawaycash 9y ago

   1. I found my first few clients literally through happenstance -- people were describing problems they were having with enough clarity that my 20 years of dev experience made it fairly clear that the problems were recoverable. Now, I most
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   by throwawaycash 9y ago

   I make about 0-300k/year fixing apps that others either weren't able to finish or where they architected themselves into scaling issues. Aside from that, I am a part time programming consultant who makes about 80k a year (I have