whichdan

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   by whichdan 9y ago

   I was in a similar position, and even skipped college in lieu of coding. It was the right choice for me at the time, but in retrospect I'm not significantly farther ahead of my peers - our coding ability has leveled out, and they have
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   by whichdan 9y ago

   I wouldn't go that far - companies partner with The Red Cross left and right after every major disaster, and the mainstream media downplays the problems with the organization. For the average person, there's no reason to suspect t
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   by whichdan 9y ago

   They are! They're just only that good one fifth of the time.
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   by whichdan 9y ago

   https://modelviewculture.com/ Model View Culture has some great articles if you'd like to start educating yourself on why this is a particularly challenging problem.
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   by whichdan 9y ago

   "I have never had a sour personal experience involving any coworkers in tech." Isn't that the same as saying "not all men" etc?
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   by whichdan 9y ago

   Small suggestion: your docs could use a little work. The language switching is broken, and the history state is broken, so when you click around the docs, you quickly end up with 20+ entries in your history. Also, the site could definitely
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   by whichdan 9y ago

   I'd recommend changing your tagline from "Meet the men and women..." to "Meet the people..." so that you don't exclude folks who are non-binary or gender-nonconforming.
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   by whichdan 10y ago

   https://github.com/glimmerjs/glimmer-vm/tree/master/packages...
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   by whichdan 10y ago

   http://easyendorse.com/ - Allows websites to collect & display testimonials; great for companies who have had challenges with Yelp/etc. No traffic/users; I basically built it and learned that I had no interest
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    People of Color in Tech[0] is really great; lots of very insightful interviews. [0] http://peopleofcolorintech.com/
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    If you check out the donation form, people are opted-out of that by default now. (Not sure how it was previously.)
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    Check out the joxa-otp* source[0]. If you aren't familiar with Erlang, they map up to its OTP concepts[1]. [0] https://github.com/joxa/joxa/tree/master/src [1] http://learnyousomeerlang.c
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    Same! Homestead and Geocities were just enough to introduce me to Frontpage and Dreamweaver, and a year or two later I ended up becoming a web standards nerd. Fast forward fifteen years and I'm managing other engineers now.
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    As an extension of that, make sure you figure out your pitch! - What have you learned on your own? - What excites / interests you? - What do you hope to learn? - Why is [company] the right fit for you? - What does success look like at
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    Rue La La | Boston, MA | Full-Time | Onsite | https://www.ruelala.com/ Rue burst onto the scene in 2008, disrupting retail with our high-end, flash-sale model. Today, we’re an established company, but we still have that sta
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    We have a bevi at my current company (Rue La La) and had one at my last company, too. They're pretty cool machines and a great offset for going through hundreds of cans of seltzer each week. It's worth checking them out - just wan
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    It's a very dehumanizing concept, and drives us back to the same ideas of meritocracy where everyone is gauged based on their work output compared to the "smartest" person in the room. There's a lot more to building succ
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    Have you tried using a completely different keyboard layout like Dvorak? The change might force your muscle memory to reset. That, and like jsz0 recommended, a different keyboard might help.
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    Speaking of salary negotiation, Patrick's article[0] on it is one of the single most valuable things I've read in my career. I can probably attribute about 25% of my salary to it. [0] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012&
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    For any curious former-PHP developers like myself: http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.new-features.php
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    For someone trying to define how harassment should be dealt with, you're certainly keen on dismissively calling women "girls".
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    Rue La La | Boston, MA | Full-Time | Onsite | https://www.ruelala.com/ Rue burst onto the scene in 2008, disrupting retail with our high-end, flash-sale model. Today, we’re an established company, but we still have that sta
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    http://easyendorse.com - A SaaS app that lets you collect & display testimonials on any website. Originally built with the intention of helping out small businesses that don't want to solely rely on Yelp for their revie
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    I'm not even bored, but disappointed. The iOS 9 upgrade made me unable to access music on my device, photo backups are sorted into hundreds of subdirectories, re-authenticating iCloud automatically re-enables iCloud Backup and iMessage
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    Society of Grownups | Boston, MA | ONSITE (WFH options) https://www.societyofgrownups.com/careers#posting_4 Sr. SWE, Web Developer, and SQA Analyst We're trying to democratize financial literacy and change the way peop
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    Society of Grownups | Boston, MA | ONSITE (WFH options) https://www.societyofgrownups.com/careers#posting_4 Sr. SWE, Web Developer, and SQA Analyst We're trying to democratize financial literacy and change the way peop
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    by whichdan 10y ago

    Part of me was really hoping that some startup had written an MVP in Scratch and was seeing how far it could scale.
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    by whichdan 11y ago

    Society of Grownups | Boston, MA | ONSITE (WFH options) https://www.societyofgrownups.com/careers#senior-software-en... We're trying to democratize financial literacy and change the way people talk about money. We need
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    by whichdan 11y ago

    Okay, that's a fair point. I do think you bring up something important: we're all aware that a perfectly green graph means that it's either been gamed, or that the person spends an inordinate amount of time coding, but someon
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    by whichdan 11y ago

    I'm surprised at how dismissive all of the comments have been so far. There are a lot of cultural habits around programming that are exclusionary, and if we're trying to pull more people into the field, discouraging people who can