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by ccdev 9y ago
Very difficult to move with only a few hundred dollars in the bank. Also it's generally not recommended to move to a place where you know very few people or no people, without first having a job lined up.
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by ccdev 9y ago
Also, I'd like to know if it's possible to change your behavior while still feeling like "yourself". And not feeling fake. I do not like the statement of "faking it till you make it". It makes it sound like you
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by ccdev 9y ago
If it helps expedite the process of getting an offer, I would go for it. I will not consider it if coaching starts to feel more like a detour than a straight line to getting a job, especially when I am "overdue" for a new job. How
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Ask HN: How do shut-ins get their motivation back to find a job?
4 points by ccdev 9y ago|7 comments
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by ccdev 9y ago
>When you submit your resume to a large tech company on their job site the chances of it getting to a hiring manager are exceptionally slim. If you actually know the hiring manager - or know somebody who knows the hiring manager - your c
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by ccdev 9y ago
Opportunity cost of time is a big one. I personally think it's very dumb that 99% of the time, you must be currently enrolled in college in order to get an internship. On the other hand, I feel like some people do need it despite their
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Ask HN: What fast emerging US companies are using PHP in their stack?
4 points by ccdev 9y ago|0 comments
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by ccdev 9y ago
Great post. This is a good breakdown of different niches that I can at least follow as templates for finding related work. I occasionally run into developers at meetup events who are involved in graphics or data viz and discuss our work. Th
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by ccdev 9y ago
That's a good reminder to distinguish AR from VR in that Computer Vision is greatly involved in the former. >Are you looking for books that teaches advanced graphics? That would be helpful (I have a few already on a wish list), but
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Ask HN: Sources for VR, AR or non-gaming 3D graphics work?
10 points by ccdev 9y ago|6 comments
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by ccdev 9y ago
I should have started looking for jobs when my hours were cut from full time to part time at a startup I was at. I guess I was expecting a rebound to happen. A few months later, I messaged the founder asking if he had an ETA for when the wo
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Ask HN: Why do most 3rd party recruiters scale with worsening quality?
2 points by ccdev 9y ago|2 comments
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by ccdev 9y ago
I am weak in closing the deal with job interviews, mainly. However I don't know what is the average ratio of offers to interviews for developers applying to mid-level jobs. So I guess you're saying I should be studying people skil
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by ccdev 9y ago
As someone who had some amateur experience with C++ roughly 10 years ago I felt it was sort of deja vu with JavaScript. Transpilers, aggressive optimization, automation scripts it's nothing that was too unfamiliar with me. Webpack is r
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by ccdev 9y ago
Seems like it's a decent way to verify spurious claims that are not well confirmed in a spoken portion of the job interview. It feels like a FizzBuzz version of environment knowledge and tools skills. The kind of coding tests I don&#x2
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by ccdev 9y ago
Well I'm not certain what that age limit is, but their requirements sound strict. FWIW I am 34 years old.
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by ccdev 9y ago
Why do some people (which includes me, I guess) have poorer foundational skills while being better at certain specialized field-specific skills, such as programming?
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by ccdev 9y ago
> their peers know that communications skills are lacking and then don't even raise the issue to avoid the possibility of a (quite common) poor reception of the feedback. That's an interesting thought. It never occurred to me t
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by ccdev 9y ago
Every friend, colleague and former manager that I talk to has either lead to an interview (so I still don't skip interviewing) which I don't pass, but most of the time they just give me the same basic reply of: "I don't
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by ccdev 9y ago
My soft skills are good enough on the job. I hardly get complaints about communication issues with co-workers and also have taken part in client meetings at some companies, discussing their goals and requirements. I keep on track with every
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by ccdev 9y ago
It seems like you had enough luck to find yourself in relatively long, stable positions for work. I have job-hopped through various startups and other small companies, never staying in one place longer than 2 years. I'm introverted as
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by ccdev 9y ago
Yeah, I agree on this use of the word. "Nepotism" implies getting the job through a connection regardless of anything else, but networking implies getting a job through a connection that is a source of trust of their qualificati
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by ccdev 9y ago
Wrong question - the right question is "which companies don't have the typical whiteboard interview". Wrong assumption - the majority of my on-site interviews don't even use whiteboards. They involve discussing real wo
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Ask HN: What are good tech jobs that don't require being good at interviewing?
92 points by ccdev 9y ago|84 comments
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Ask HN: To employees of a startup that later got acquired/IPO'd
1 points by ccdev 9y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: How would you solve the liability-interview feedback problem?
2 points by ccdev 9y ago|1 comments
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by ccdev 9y ago
I agree. JavaScript as a language may have its quirks, but still mostly enjoyable for me to work with. The problem is with its ecosystem. It has "growing pains" of sorts. I read someone comparing it to the fashion industry and it
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Ask HN: Websites focused mainly on solutions to complex career problems?
3 points by ccdev 9y ago|0 comments
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by ccdev 9y ago
Looks like Blood Boy is now more real.
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Ask HN: What fast-growing startups are using a tech stack considered “uncool”?
2 points by ccdev 9y ago|0 comments

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