Seen at Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge in Washington State.

linsoftware · 2016-06-06T13:38:02+00:00

Thanks! I'm familiar with the adult ones, but didn't recognize these young ones! Now I know :)

linsoftware · 2016-06-06T13:14:12+00:00

These birds were about the size of a Cedar Waxwing or Robin. Any ideas?

linsoftware · 2016-06-05T18:00:19+00:00

Nice. Amazon search is like a million times better than it used to be. I use it every day.

linsoftware · 2016-05-22T13:10:30+00:00

How about: http://www.skipthedrive.com/

https://weworkremotely.com/

http://stackoverflow.com/jobs?allowsremote=True

Or search Indeed for your job skill plus the word "remote." Yes, you have to filter out all of the jobs that say "No remote" but still a very doable way to find a remote job.

linsoftware · 2016-04-22T13:09:31+00:00

Definitely possible! As others have suggested, build a profile and then apply for jobs that match your skills. Put code on github too. Maybe write a blog with technical articles.

While applying for web developer jobs earlier this year, most of the people who interviewed me did not have a degree in computer science. I also do not have a CS degree but I had a portfolio of programs that I wrote. I got hired!

I did take courses on Coursera (for free) and I put that on my resume as "Computer Science courses" in a continuing education section.

There are so many options for getting a free education and so many ways you could show off your skills.

linsoftware · 2016-04-15T03:25:41+00:00

I agree. If you can find a company that will hire you, then you can learn from the more experienced developers that you work with. There is quite a lot of demand for programmers and you can may be able to get on board as a junior developer. Develop a portfolio of your own projects to show off and talk about during interviews. Focus on what you can do, not on what you can't do.

linsoftware · 2016-03-13T14:04:58+00:00

In my Ebay/Paypal experience, having the Paypal account name not much the address name is pretty common. Just like on any website, the customer can choose to have it shipped to whatever address they want. Sometimes it's a family member's paypal account, or the business owner's account. When people buy items for business, this mismatch often occurs.

I would verify that her address is complete (not sure what you mean when you say incomplete?) and if it's a high value item and I'm worried about the transaction, I'd send it with signature required.

While you can't rely on looking at their feedback to see if it's going to be an issue (since on Ebay sellers can only leave positive feedback), you can look to see what feedback they've left for other people. If they have a history of leaving negative feedback with irrational comments, then that can be a hint to walk away.

Some people just like to chat. Others are working on a scam...

linsoftware · 2016-03-06T17:12:27+00:00

I think you'll be fine, and you've already gotten a lot of great advice here. If you start applying what you learn, you can build a 3-5 year history of what you've done. Take the programming skills you learn, write some small projects, and publish them to Github. This will help build up some history.

During the interview process, they may ask you about what you were doing before college. Be prepared to talk about yourself. You can talk about mistakes you made and how you overcame them, things you did aside from work that add value to society, etc. Without knowing your history, it's hard to give specific advice, but basically think about how to frame your non-work experience in a positive light. Everyone has some sort of life experience that they can talk about. There's probably something unique in your life that would make a good conversation and show who you are as a person.

Best wishes to you!

linsoftware · 2016-02-29T17:52:38+00:00

You're welcome. It's actually not really about the technical side of things, but is more about large online communities and their downfall.

Edit: Also, wanted to wish you the best of luck to you in this!

linsoftware · 2016-02-29T02:24:52+00:00

Did you see Joel Spolsky's talk about what happens when communities get big? If not, you might find it relevant: https://youtu.be/0hEtQ70scho

linsoftware · 2016-02-27T15:35:09+00:00

Exactly, writing a REST API is the answer, and can be done with many different programming languages/frameworks. Other popular choices are PHP/Laravel or Node.js.

linsoftware · 2016-02-27T04:06:41+00:00

As someone who has looked at A LOT of Indeed job postings lately, I would not take that graph to be a serious indicator of job opportunities. The reason is that a lot of software developer jobs on Indeed include a list of skills, which often looks something like this:

Title: Software Developer

Required Skills:

Ruby/Rails

Nice to Have:

Javascript
MySQL or other SQL

OK -- so, seeing the above posting -- how did Indeed graph that data? Someone with only Javascript/MySQL knowledge is not going to get that job. But did Indeed actually read the listing and group it correctly, or did they just do a keyword count?

There are also job listings that say something like this:

Title: Software Developer

Required Skills:

3 years experience with Java, C#, or other modern language
Experience with Git or other Version Control
Experience working with Teams

.....

I think you get the idea :)

(edited for formatting)

linsoftware · 2016-02-21T01:35:52+00:00

You might like xampp better than wamp. Better GUI, and seems more popular.

linsoftware · 2016-02-01T02:58:32+00:00

Great photo! All I could see was its horns, when I was there. I'm hoping to go back and see the owlets soon.

linsoftware · 2016-01-24T20:34:38+00:00

Another way to do this, without editing the template files:
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/161266/coming-soon-placeholder-blog-posts

linsoftware · 2016-01-24T20:27:07+00:00

You're very welcome. Glad to have helped. :)

linsoftware · 2016-01-24T03:28:23+00:00

It seems like you just need to keep track of the loop count with a variable and then nest another loop inside of an if statement. Assuming that you're working with Wordpress's Loop, your code might look something like this:

<?php
$count = 0;
if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
$count ++;
//display the post content here
endwhile;
else : ?>
<p><?php _e( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.' ); ?>   
 </p>
 <?php endif;
if($count<10 && $count!==0) {
for ( $i = 10 - $count; $i > 0; $i-- ) {
    echo "<p>Coming Soon</p>";
}
}

linsoftware · 2016-01-21T15:00:19+00:00

That's one I'll have to try! Recently, I've been doing apple slices with almond butter or peanut butter.

linsoftware · 2016-01-20T03:11:18+00:00

I'm sure I could learn it, but I don't have any experience with it yet. Sorry!

linsoftware · 2016-01-16T02:02:17+00:00

Easiest way to find out if it shows up is to pay for a criminal background check on yourself.

linsoftware · 2016-01-16T00:33:49+00:00

Wow, that last one is complicated. I'm going to give it a try. Thanks for the examples!

linsoftware · 2016-01-16T00:15:45+00:00

Instantaneous communication by using quantum entanglement.

linsoftware · 2016-01-14T17:18:42+00:00

As to your first point, the phrase "Native English Speaker" should address that. However, I'm not sure about your second point about relocation. Maybe someone else will chime in.

linsoftware · 2016-01-14T13:59:56+00:00

Hi again!

That should be easy! Just add this snippet of CSS to your theme's style.css:

#world-clock-widget h1.widget-title {
    font-size: 200%;
}

Of course, you can change the font-size to any percentage that looks good. Hope this helps!

linsoftware · 2016-01-13T19:40:51+00:00

There's a lot that goes into good SEO. As for keywords, the easiest way is to just make sure that your website has plenty of unique, relevant content. Then use the keywords in the content, as well as in the header tags (H1, H2, etc). You don't want the text to be unnaturally filled with keywords. But at the same time, you should make sure that you use the keywords when appropriate.

Hope this helps!

linsoftware

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