jamesbrewer

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by jamesbrewer 11y ago
I would LOVE to chat about this for hours. In fact, I applied at Treasure Data just a few days ago for that very reason. My email is in my profile if you'd like to chat. :) Hope to hear from you!
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
smt88 hit the nail on the head. Startups do not have much money. Even the ones that do should aim to keep their burn rates low. That generally means paying for a few experienced, battle-hardened engineers that produce results instead of pic
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
You mean Instacart?
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
It's good that you want to improve your skills, but this is not the way to do it. You should work on an open source project. There are plenty of large projects that would be thrilled to have a developer who wants to tackle something mo
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An Offer to Sony from 2600(2600.com)
354 points by jamesbrewer 12y ago|190 comments
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Show HN: Django and AngularJS tutorial -- screencasts 25% off for 48 hours(thinkster.io)
1 points by jamesbrewer 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
Location: San Francisco Remote: Possibly Willing to relocate: Unlikely, but maybe for the right company Technologies: Python, Django, JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML5 Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesbrewer3
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Show HN: Building Web Applications with Django and AngularJS(thinkster.io)
8 points by jamesbrewer 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
Is that a good or bad thing? :) If you can believe it, I ripped out a lot of the original content to reduce the size of the tutorial!
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
Being logicians by necessity, I'd argue that most developers could debate the socio-economic implications of bitcoin or any other currency better than you would expect. In fact, it is my experience that most good engineers can accurate
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
I'm interested in hearing more about your work! Would you mind trading a few emails? My email is in my profile if you're interested. :)
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
This isn't what you've asked for, but I'd like to offer some unsolicited advice, if I may. When you are selling high-priced products to consumers you have to sell an idea first and your product second. Let me offer an example
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
I agree, but I stand by my statement. Asking "What framework should I use?" is not a good sign. Using the process I outlined could easily answer this question.
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
Use the search box at the bottom of the page. This question has been asked way too many times.
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
It depends. I've worked at a company where the compressed and gzipped JavaScript file was over 1MB because there were multiple libraries being included for the use of one function. That's obviously an extreme example. Ultimately i
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
This is not the right question to ask. Instead of trying to find one tool that solves all of your problems, try understanding what your problems are. Once you have a list of problems, ask how you can solve each of those problems. When you h
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
Great example! Github needs to give their code some TLC though. It seems like new comments on a pull request don't show up until after I push a new commit.
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
The solution you offer is exactly what server rendering is meant to stop. You should load content as fast as possible and that means rendering it on the server. Please stop putting loading icons and spinners where your content should be.
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
A lot of it has to do with the price of living here. I'm about to move out of a 1 bedroom apartment that I pay $1,800/month for, and that's a pretty decent deal compared to some of the places I looked. It's hard to say t
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
This is actually not abnormal in the Valley, to be honest. It takes skill certainly, but I know a number of people who have accomplished similar feats.
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
You should focus on contributing to open source projects. A good open source project is almost identical to what you will be doing as a software engineer and is the best experience a non-professional software developer can get. That means t
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by jamesbrewer 12y ago
Note: I am self-taught. Here is what you need to know: It doesn't matter. Most people are biased in one way or another. Stop trying to make other people happy. The most important thing is that you have the skills to do the job required
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by jamesbrewer 14y ago
I went to university in Canada as an international student. I've moved back to the states because I couldn't afford to live in Canada anymore. I just got out of school a month or so ago. I could work and study if I wanted to. My biggest iss
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by jamesbrewer 14y ago
Yes, taking a year off is an option, but it would mean paying the interest on my student loans. Not a huge problem as I will have to pay them off eventually anyways. If I do end up taking time off it would only be temporary at first. I woul
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by jamesbrewer 14y ago
Sorry :) Typed it up for r/cscareerquestions first and forget that was there. Edited!
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Ask HN: What to consider when deciding whether to go back to school?
6 points by jamesbrewer 14y ago|8 comments
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Ask HN: Who wants to learn to program with me?
1 points by jamesbrewer 14y ago|1 comments
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by jamesbrewer 15y ago
You know, it's stories like this that inspire me but are, at the same time, somewhat depressing. They make me think of all the things I WISH I had done. I've always considered myself to be capable of doing whatever I want to do, but I've al
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by jamesbrewer 15y ago
I think I might want to do a grad degree at some point, but I think that is mostly coming from the part of me that wants to impress everybody else.
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Ask HN: Software Engineering with no post-secondary degree?
6 points by jamesbrewer 15y ago|11 comments

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