ccajas

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by ccajas 4y ago
I'd rather see the increase of job security for developers that are lagging behind, and an increased quantity of accelerator and returnship programs for developers across all sorts of backgrounds and experiences, to get them out of sta
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by ccajas 4y ago
Location: Chicago, IL Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Depends on the opportunity Technologies: PHP, Ruby on Rails, MVC frameworks, JavaScript, Node.js, C#/.NET, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB Résumé/CV: Available upon
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Ask HN: Decade-long plan to FIRE starting just under age 40?
27 points by ccajas 6y ago|35 comments
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by ccajas 6y ago
It sounds like a sad story. PHP's specialization is in rendering dynamic web pages. It was its ONLY purpose (ignoring niche projects like GTK bindings, etc). And yet even against general purpose languages/VM's (where using it
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by ccajas 6y ago
Re: getting your foot in with interviews. Mileage really varies here. I agree with you that getting an interview is very luck-based. I have no contacts in FAANG that would be strong referrals. But from my own experience, I garner more inter
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by ccajas 6y ago
There's a different "knowledge" problem that must be tackled here. Someone can form a cognitive bias from only being exposed to a few ways to solve a problem. Maybe it's because they haven’t seen it to larger scale, or t
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Ask HN: Do you keep a document of important work things for yourself?
2 points by ccajas 6y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Why were GUI tools more popular with web devs in the 2000's?
5 points by ccajas 6y ago|2 comments
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by ccajas 6y ago
They must be willing to eat their own dog food or else the question won't make any sense for the interview. The department should run the interviews through their own employees first. If some questions cause an "interview anti-loo
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by ccajas 6y ago
>"Take home" questions are heavily biased in favor of the employer because they're not required to put anything on the line. Not to mention it doesn't test the collaboration aspects of real work. Imagine doing your jo
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by ccajas 6y ago
> People easily identify that white-boarding interviews suck for more than just the interviewee. And yet any time a solution is proposed that involves doing something other than putting the candidate in a room in front of a whiteboard fo
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Ask HN: How to learn cloud tools coming from old GUI-based web management?
3 points by ccajas 6y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Digital agencies- are they or are they not tech companies?
1 points by ccajas 6y ago|0 comments
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by ccajas 6y ago
It's kind of a blessing in disguise that we live in the heaviest terrestrial planet in the solar system. It's like learning how to climb by starting with the most difficult mountain. You don't need as much energy to escape th
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Ask HN: What are some recent greenfield projects made in PHP?
2 points by ccajas 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What's the baseline for cloud tech knowledge in modern web dev jobs?
4 points by ccajas 6y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Cracking the resume” type of books aimed at top companies?
1 points by ccajas 6y ago|1 comments
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by ccajas 6y ago
Side question: How is relocation going to work (for the larger companies) when shelter-in-place is in effect?
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by ccajas 6y ago
A situation like this one may actually speed up the need for many business to digitize their business models.
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by ccajas 7y ago
I try to use referrals whenever I can. A few years ago got one which lead to two on-site interviews. Lately though people have been giving me the cold shoulder on LinkedIn or email, understandably they are tired of being pestered about jobs
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by ccajas 7y ago
I'm not concluding that it's simply ageism, because this is feedback I'm getting from mock interviews, not real ones. Professionals tend to be more honest and open about how you interview if it's just for practice. Howev
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by ccajas 7y ago
I live in Chicago, and will email you soon.
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by ccajas 7y ago
If I consistently fail interviews then it's reasonable for me to conclude that I really could be an imposter. But I have gotten interviews from many places small and big, including some FAANGs and Bay Area companies. If it's just
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by ccajas 7y ago
I have "hobby" experience in React, Vue and Node if that counts. My resume contains a Github link plus one open source contribution on a React-based project. I just don't put them in my LinkedIn profile because it would be co
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by ccajas 7y ago
> it seems to me that the real reason you are having a hard time finding a "job" is because you have a history of leaving jobs after a short tenure. Brevity is to be expected in contract jobs. But I don't know if you are p
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by ccajas 7y ago
A remark about the unrelated tip: A good chunk of companies, if not the majority, out there are looking for "just a programmer", noted by how much they advertise and place emphasis that you must know specific languages and softwar
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by ccajas 7y ago
I have been laid off just before 2015 and I haven't found any stable work since then. I have been under-employed for a long while before the outbreak, and I don't even know what new change-ups in job hunting I should be doing now.
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by ccajas 7y ago
Location: Chicago, IL USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Depends on location Technologies: (professional) JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, PHP, C#, MonoGame, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, WebGL, Three.js, CSS, SASS, HTML (amateur) C, C++, Ethereu
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Ask HN: Career Coaches from an Unemployed Perspective?
3 points by ccajas 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why is the demoscene more alive in Europe than N. America?
9 points by ccajas 7y ago|5 comments

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