toexitthedonut

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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
I go in and out of work. The only time I've applied for jobs is when I currently don't have one. And I do also feel like it has gotten more difficult. First job out of college took about three months of applying. Second job, six m
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
What kind of job(s) did you hold while you were going to school in your late 30s? I'm single so I pretty much can't rely on someone else's income like I could when I took college in my 20's.
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
>The best, most difficult, most time-consuming way is, of course, to meet lots of people. It really is true that networking is a high cost (in time) but high payoff approach. That is also why, when time is of the essence, networking is n
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
Could be useful for a headless computer system, to relay the information to someone working on it via terminal.
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Ask HN: People involved in hiring: are hires via referrals more frequent?
1 points by toexitthedonut 9y ago|6 comments
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
Location: Chicago, IL Remote: yes (have 18 months prior experience) Willing to relocate: open to discussion Technologies: * Back-end: LAMP stack, MySQL and MongoDB, CodeIgniter MVC, Node.js * Front-end: vanilla JS, jQuery, React, Vue, D3.js
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
I do like how these landings are becoming more routine. They're making it seem like a piece of cake now. I don't think I'll get as excited again until the Falcon Heavy maiden launch.
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Chicago, IL | remote or local | I'm a web developer with several years of experience. Mostly back-end web development, but have gotten more front-end experience more recently. I've worked on and off since 2007, and
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Ask HN: How do jobs get created/expanded in fast growing companies?
1 points by toexitthedonut 9y ago|0 comments
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
Yeah, I've been using those sites for a while already. Meetups is very helpful in finding other programmers. 1871 and Angel.co I haven had much luck with getting interviews.
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
That's the way I see it. Programmers have been automating themselves out of menial tasks since the first compiler, or possibly even before. What is considered "menial" depends on the context of the problem needing to be solve
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
Sounds interesting. How do I PM you for details?
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
I'm the same age as you, 34 (single and have no kids though), and like tostitos1979, I don't yet see a way out of the rat race. I live in a medium CoL city (Chicago) and still trying to make ends meet. To answer the first question
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
There are two sides to this coin. You can be good as in, you know fundamentals very well and can make connections with familiar concepts, or good as in, readily employable because your skill sets check the right boxes of keywords and names
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
>I am somewhat confused by what do you mean by "feeling connected", however. What do you expect to give or receive from that connection? I guess I'm expecting more momentum to be built from my professional experience. Bein
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
>This leaves out agencies where software is seen as just an operational department and developers just have to endless do 'transform Photoshop in css+html' stuff. I worked at a web agency before so I know how that is. If softwa
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
I actually have about seven years of work experience in the field right now. But I don't stay in touch with my co-workers much. I don't really make many friends at work, and instead keep to a small circle of friends I know since h
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
The problem is that there is no self-regulation mechanism in place to keep people from going too much into the deep end of un-employability. A feedback loop that exacerbates a bad situation sounds like a quality of bad design to me.
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Ask HN: Anyone else not feel very connected with the local tech scene?
14 points by toexitthedonut 9y ago|13 comments
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
An interesting phenomena I heard is Cunningham's law. It states, "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer." It probably is stated because people are ve
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
I'm on mobile so not much time to type, but I do have a few JS projects. Some of them novel. I made a software renderer in JS that rasterizes triangles and takes JS shaders, emulating a programmable pipeline. I hope that I would at lea
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
It is interesting to note that company and employee loyalty is becoming more scarce, as well as on the job training being uncommon. It does not bode well for the state of the industry, if more and more companies are having a revolving door
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
Sounds good. Email sent.
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
To all those questions I can answer 'no' to all of them, besides no. 4 because I do use Git. Damn. Now if only I can get offers from companies that have the other qualities.
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
>One challenge I face with applicants is that they actually have 1 year of experience 7 times and not 7 years of experience. You should consider if that's what they are seeing. I think this is very real. So how do you correct this p
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
Coincidentally, I'm age 34 right now. So at that point where you were at a crossroads you turned things around. Did you work at large companies to correct that? Do you think development team size make an impact on your career growth?
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
Two instances where side projects caught an employers interest just fell through with an offer in the last minute. In both cases, they over-estimated their need and funds to hire a new employee. So I'm just chalking that up to bad timi
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
I'm aware that job titles tend to be loosey-goosey in many programming jobs, aside from the largest of companies that have a big enough sample size. For instance, my title for a web marketing agency was 'associate software enginee
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
For a while I was building only websites, but eventually took on web app projects that leveraged MVC frameworks and had to build upon in-house REST APIs that to integrate with the products. No algorithmic problems, though, you're right
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by toexitthedonut 9y ago
Thanks, I'll be in touch with you soon.

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