devKnight

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by devKnight 5y ago
In my so far short career this has been my experience as well. Though communication is something that we really don't think about very often.
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by devKnight 5y ago
this is actually an interesting idea
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by devKnight 5y ago
you could part time for a startup, that's what i do. My day job is at a consulting type of firm, and in the evenings i work for a small startup part time. Like Onion2k mentioned its a lot of simple stuff, crud work, deployments, implem
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by devKnight 5y ago
i've been running a ryzen 5 2500u laptop for the last 2 or so years. no issues at all getting things running with the various distros i've used
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by devKnight 5y ago
I'd say just find a new job. At a certain point, leaving is the best option
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by devKnight 5y ago
awesome, you should make a demo site, so that people can test it out.
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by devKnight 5y ago
what worked for me was: Eating less take out, cook at home more Going for walks No soda, only water
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by devKnight 5y ago
Shadowing is rather simple but highly effective. The way i did it at least, involved ripping the audio from tv shows in French. And listening to them on my phone as i would music, while trying to say the characters lines with the same tona
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by devKnight 5y ago
I would recommend the book Fluent Forever for getting started with a language. 1) I think you can reach a really high level, IMO true fluency comes from being able to understand the cultural references and for a lack of a better word memes
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by devKnight 5y ago
This can be remedied with immediate feed back loops. There was an experiment where native Japanese speakers were taught to hear the difference between the English language R and L, which native Japanese speakers interpret as a sound that is
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by devKnight 5y ago
if you are US based, and know the MERN stack, email me(profile). A startup i work with is searching for a CTO, its an early stage. in case you are interested
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by devKnight 5y ago
lol, im a bit similar. I can code pretty well, but i like being able to jump around and do different things, talk to stake holders etc. I think you might be able to easily get a job at an early stage startup, and have a pretty deep impact w
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by devKnight 5y ago
have you considered joining an early stage startup?
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by devKnight 5y ago
DataCamp is on sale for 99 for the year
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by devKnight 5y ago
can you effectively learn COBOL without having access to mainframes/the hardware it usually runs on? I know that there are COBOL envs that can run on all major operating systems for practice. But has anyone been able to learn it at hom
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by devKnight 5y ago
well, it doesn't work out that way all the time. I'm a near shore dev, and I've been on teams where someone doesn't speak English and i'd do the interpretation live or help explain a ticket. Though these people usua
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by devKnight 5y ago
Yes, People use these services. You can check out Goldmediatech, Bairesdev, Wildom, among many others who do this at a large scale in Latin America. Its doable
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by devKnight 5y ago
awesome, feature!
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by devKnight 5y ago
you could ship them to Louis Rossman, so that he can use them for spare parts for other macbooks. Help them get a new lease on life. Maybe ask him to cover the cost of shipping
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by devKnight 5y ago
I had a similar experience at a previous job, they hired tons of random developers and started paying per story point. Quit shorty after. Also work remotely for companies in the states, nearshore.
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by devKnight 5y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Latin America (GMT-4) Remote: Only Languages: Native English/Spanish, some French Willing to relocate: Not at the moment Technologies: Vue, React, Typescript, Express, Laravel, AWS Rate: 30usd/Hour I am an e
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by devKnight 5y ago
a rick roll would have been better. currently routes to a Shelby Lynn playlist on youtube
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by devKnight 5y ago
Adonis.js is a sort of Laravel clone for the node eco-system. Its been around for years, but i don't see it used very much
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by devKnight 5y ago
learn how to use memory palaces, its how i passed all of my non-math or non-programming classes in college. its absolutely amazing for memorizing lists of things that seem random, or really any subject you understand but forget the specific
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by devKnight 5y ago
i would recommend that you put your info into the monthly hackernews posts Freelancer and who wants to be hired. I live outside the states, but got contacted for some freelancing opportunities. The way i see it there is an absolutely large
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by devKnight 5y ago
Look into courses by cantrill. Bought the Solutions Architect Associate course, it only cost 40 usd and its updated on the regular. His AWS Developer course is also pretty new, same price
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Southwest flights cancelled after pilots union sues over vaccine(independent.co.uk)
18 points by devKnight 5y ago|2 comments
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by devKnight 5y ago
Instagram(and maybe some other FB services) seem to be having issues again today. According to the verge
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by devKnight 5y ago
archive link? paywall
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by devKnight 5y ago
I've kind of been thinking of having a backup system for our dev team to be able to communicate if something like this hits slack et al. A self hosted instance of mastodon or something might do the trick. Or maybe establishing some kin

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