WomanCanCode

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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
When I was younger (unmarried and no kids), I could work 11 hours in the office as a software developer. And that translate to 55 hours a week minimum. But now I just work 9.5 hours a day. I would love to work 8 hours, but based on my exper
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
Getting a university degree has been the single most rewarding experience in my life. It gave me opportunity in life. I was born to very poor parents who didn't have high school diploma or degree. We had almost nothing growing up. Gett
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
I think Texas market seems to offer the best of both world for software developers. Higher salary, slightly cheaper housing and cost of living. Also no state tax.
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
I'm a middle age female software developer and also found similar experience when I was in the job market recently. The software development positions generally are below 2 years, under 5 years and the senior position at 6-8 years. Wha
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
I've been in the technology field for 20 years. I'm also a female coder. I was a Java Expert. Then start again with entry level with other technology. Then start again with entry level web development in my third job. Whenever you
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
There's no such thing as growth in the technology field. Most of the organizations just want a specific and narrow expertise in a particular technology. If you think your 7+ years of experience in certain technology is something then y
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
QA doesn't seem like a specialty occupation. We had over 100 QAs in our department with a degree from community college and others for-profit. Some with work experience and no degree.
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
I'm noticing that my child doesn't even like or watch anything on Netflix kids. Youtube actually has a more appealing kid contents. I think what Netflix is missing is the daytime talk show/news reporting/ sports. They d
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
I absolutely hate this feature. Can I not even browse quietly in the middle of the night while everyone asleep.
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
Our origin is actually not that simple and straight forward. They now believe we may have bred with non homo sapiens https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06004-0
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
Orang utan is a Malay/Indonesian word translated to 'Jungle human'. Orangutan are very calm, gentle and human like. It's a mystery how similar they are to us human in a sense that they are very predictable and very intel
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
Very impressive write-up. I didn't realize that the brain could get this wrong.
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Recommendation for Java Textbook for Teaching Programming?
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
This fight in Hong Kong is larger than just fighting over democracy. It's about preserving traditional Chinese culture and the Cantonese language. Who wants to be forcefully extradite and sent to camps to be re-educated about what the
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
We are doing more with software now than ever before so I think we need to move away from the word 'compute'
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
You don't actually save a whole lot of money by outsourcing. "Engineers in India made around $5 an hour; it’s now $9 or $10, compared with $35 to $40 for those in the U.S. on an H1B visa, he said. But he’d tell clients the cheaper
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
A brilliant mind. His thoughts and ideas are extremely relevant to this day. In his letter 1304, Dijkstra said: “I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it", has not
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
How do you measure that? How do you know that someone will be capable of working in any 300 different frameworks?
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
The government (federal/state) and our legislators (senate and house of representative) don't always work for us or in our favor. Our political system is not strong enough to overcome the strong lobby/interest of few. We can
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
How did you learn. Where should someone start? I think now is the perfect time to learn shorthand since we have abandon hand writing completely due to overusing computer, mobile etc
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
There should be an alternative way of getting the insulin bypassing the big pharma... Any organizations trying to make that happen?
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by WomanCanCode 7y ago
I think the problem is the high cost of education. There should be an alternative way of getting the education you need without being seriously in debt.