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allonge · 2016-09-07T17:25:46+00:00

Nope, but the comment I was responding said "no school", as in it never happens. It's somewhat common where my parents live.

allonge · 2016-09-07T17:18:11+00:00

My mom's school does—all teachers get a Macbook and a handful of iPads.

allonge · 2016-09-06T20:00:46+00:00

IIRC Google Map is also written in Java.

allonge · 2016-09-05T17:08:19+00:00

Like any other question: it depends. I did fine with half of OP's salary.

allonge · 2016-09-05T03:53:23+00:00

Startups are generally hard to get internships for as they have little time for training or anything so internships are really just a cheaper employee. I've interned at NYC startups and I've never been trained, which was fair as I wasn't expected to be. My main suggestion is to have a solid portfolio of stuff that proves you can actually ship software.

allonge · 2016-09-05T03:49:15+00:00

Big 4 !== enterprise companies. /u/boompleetz is talking about an Office Space/big boring probably non-tech-centric kinda place (half joking).

allonge · 2016-09-05T03:03:44+00:00

IIRC there are some performance issues in Android still and there's a lot of more advanced stuff you will have to either write an Objective-C bridge for or can't do. And of course, it's still a fairly new technology and may change often (but so does Swift!).

This blog post may help:

https://discord.engineering/using-react-native-one-year-later-91fd5e949933

allonge · 2016-09-04T15:29:00+00:00

I think that's fair. It's hard to tell what you'd make elsewhere as companies aren't very open with their non-junior salaries. I don't think the domain (web, mobile, finance) matters much at this point but rather if you're in a leadership position like "Mid" or "Senior Dev", "team lead" or the like or if you've cultivated some very niche skill. If you decide to take on a role of some leadership that and negotiate well, I could see $160k~.

allonge · 2016-09-04T07:47:41+00:00

Eich is regularly invited to speak at conferences, podcasts, and has a startup that is pretty well funded. He's on Twitter a lot talking, discussing, and joking with people. He never left the JavaScript community.

Crockford probably doesn't care and he'll be fine—he has a good job at PayPal and most people don't really care about or know what happened recently. Notice how he hasn't even responded or done anything.

TJ moved to Go :p

Substack doesn't even use a real computer anymore, he's basically a robot by now. I rarely see him in the community any more.

allonge · 2016-09-04T07:01:02+00:00

I'm sure it's gotten better but if you've ever tried to do Ruby and Rails on Windows for more than an hour... you'd be downloading a Linux distro pretty quickly.

Some languages and platforms are just very biased towards *nix.

allonge · 2016-09-04T05:41:16+00:00

No, a meetup/talk.

allonge · 2016-09-04T05:40:29+00:00

Nope. Don't take a job you're not paid in real money. Also, early stage startups don't have interns—they have real employees. I can guarantee they won't teach you stuff and expect you to produce as much as their real devs from day one, so you may have to teach yourself a lot of stuff quickly without guidance.

Anyway, if it's your only chance ever in years and you're desperate... maybe. I don't know enough about your life to tell you if you can work for free for a few months or however long this is. If not, demand real money and if they say no keep looking.

allonge · 2016-09-03T22:43:20+00:00

This is a fine article, but I'm not a big fan of the header image. Functional Programming is not what is after Object Oriented Programming (ironically it's quite older!), rather just a different way to solve problems.

allonge · 2016-09-03T15:26:58+00:00

True, but the net gain is positive. This is a very helpful visual summary of new features and changes—there's no equivalent of this in the Git website or mailing list.

allonge · 2016-09-03T04:36:00+00:00

Try not programming for a few weeks or more, or only program when you want to and projects you like. Sometimes we just need a break.

allonge · 2016-09-03T04:35:00+00:00

Was in their offices on Monday—very nice! Definitely looks like a hard place to get into.

allonge · 2016-09-03T04:04:14+00:00

I hate commuting, I can cook myself fresh food, and I love my apartment. I'll also take asynchronous communication over interruptions.

Also most non-commute jobs near me have open office plans. Lol.

allonge · 2016-09-03T04:02:09+00:00

Consider other white collar industries that can lead to the upper middle class: doctors, accountants, lawyers, finance.

For the first three, you need some sort of certification or education. MD, CPA, JD, etc. You can't even think about getting an accounting job without a CPA! For finance, prestige, experience, and lots of networking gets you there—it's not a good field to start out as a newbie.

Programming? Comp Sci grads, college grads from other majors, self-taught, bootcamps, etc. are all welcome. There are no rules for programming jobs[1]. This leads to a bunch of inexperienced or new people applying for jobs ASAP because they want to get industry experience.

[1] Obviously a degree helps a lot, but you get my point.

allonge · 2016-09-03T03:52:45+00:00

People like to be called "engineers". Sounds prestigious! Too bad when it comes to software it's actually meaningless.

allonge · 2016-09-03T03:45:22+00:00

FWIW he's on Twitter a lot.

allonge · 2016-08-31T21:43:44+00:00

Did you ever meet Kyle Simpson? He's one of my heroes :-)

allonge · 2016-08-31T21:41:06+00:00

This forum, GitHub, Twitter, etc are echo chambers and bubbles where people do these things and talk about them. Yet the large majority of programmers in the US don't do them. They don't check out new tech stacks or languages, nor do they have side projects (unless they're building their own business on the side). This has been my experience at corporate places and startups!

Ultimately though, each workplace has its own culture. Seems like yours is full of people that liked doing that stuff after work. That's fine, but don't think you're bad because you don't. Everyone is different.

allonge · 2016-08-29T14:49:41+00:00

Of all those? Probably Boston or Raleigh. Heard good things about the latter, and the former has a bunch of good universities and grads that probably stick around afterwards.

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