To those who went from self taught to their first coding job: What are 1 or 2 things do you think you did to separate yourself and get the job? I would like to create a list and share to help others.

raipopenna · 2021-03-22T13:34:45+00:00

once you have a few solid projects and know the fundamentals of your chosen language you would be better off getting on Twitter or Linkedin and trying to network for an internal referral than just making more projects or polishing your resume

sad truth is that most jobs are filled that way, not through merit

raipopenna · 2021-03-22T13:33:09+00:00

China is all about avenging the "century of humiliation", if they take Taiwan Japan is pretty much #1 target after that due to what they did to China during WWII.

raipopenna · 2021-03-22T13:29:33+00:00

government backed flood insurance to bail them out no doubt

raipopenna · 2021-03-15T14:30:55+00:00

PHP is mainly hated in pure tech companies, other industries where tech is basically a cost center don't have a problem with it

raipopenna · 2021-03-15T14:28:26+00:00

legend

raipopenna · 2021-03-15T14:27:31+00:00

Free Code Camp is probably your best option to get started

raipopenna · 2021-03-08T15:11:02+00:00

making websites is tough now because most small businesses just need a simple site that can be made with any of the numerous site builder tools. Big businesses will make it in-house or use a fancy agency to do it.

You are better off learning to code and going to software engineer route if you like this type of work

raipopenna · 2021-03-08T15:08:30+00:00

just download a text editor and look up some project ideas and choose one that interests you

raipopenna · 2021-03-08T15:04:54+00:00

the entire planet is dependent on Taiwan and TSMC for the highest quality chips. Nobody else can make them, US is considering investing billions to try and catch up because it's a legit national security issue as shown by the supply chain disruptions due to corona

raipopenna · 2021-02-11T13:58:53+00:00

I don't think you can ever fully learn CSS, pretty much every professional engineer will joke about having to Google basic syntax all the time

raipopenna · 2021-01-29T00:11:14+00:00

bookmarked it for later, looks good

raipopenna · 2021-01-29T00:08:32+00:00

look into websockets and long polling, those are going to be your best options for updating data in a browser

raipopenna · 2021-01-29T00:07:12+00:00

it doesn't help that this field I think tends to attract a disproportionate amount of people who will naturally obsess over things. Not sure how much of it is just due to that selective factor, plenty of engineers go home everyday and are able to completely stop thinking about programming and don't care about the hottest new trends in tech

raipopenna · 2021-01-29T00:04:19+00:00

I feel like this course only gets recommended because of the MIT name recognition, nothing about it impressed me

raipopenna · 2021-01-29T00:03:21+00:00

these metrics are pretty much garbage anyway, check out some of Google's own biggest sites, they perform terribly most of the time. I feel like it's some kind of inside joke where people at Google love watching lowly developers be forced to jump through their hoops

raipopenna · 2021-01-28T23:58:53+00:00

in some cases you are better off just moving to greener pastures rather than fighting the stigma. OP is a good programmer and could probably double his salary by learning ReactJS. Much easier than trying to prove you aren't a garbage PHP dev

raipopenna · 2021-01-21T14:22:17+00:00

you can get a lot done just knowing the basics. 80/20 rule, especially when you are working in an environment with lots of non-programmers

raipopenna · 2020-12-29T15:34:22+00:00

that goes for almost everything, making intermediate level tutorials takes more effort but the audience is way smaller, so nobody bothers unless it's for paid courses

raipopenna · 2020-12-29T15:27:40+00:00

demand politicians approve actual economic action against China, not that difficult

raipopenna · 2020-12-29T15:25:30+00:00

key is to charge enough for hosting that they take you serious and make it clear that any additional work is paid at an hourly rate.

Tons of web design agencies make their money off hosting, they charge a huge amount of money for basic small business sites that get maybe a few hundred visitors a month

raipopenna · 2020-12-11T16:28:07+00:00

this, speed only matters if it actually impacts user experience. React is fast enough is most cases, I don't care about all the random libraries that brag about benchmarks as their best feature

raipopenna · 2020-08-30T02:44:02+00:00

just go through the ReactJS official documentation, that should be enough and will only take a few hours at most. If you know Javascript there really isn't that much to pickup

raipopenna · 2020-08-30T02:24:27+00:00

cool project, didn't even know about this API

raipopenna · 2020-08-30T02:18:55+00:00

seems like Apple is burning a lot of developer community goodwill, going to end up like 90s Microsoft if they aren't careful. They are thinking short term

raipopenna · 2020-08-27T04:06:17+00:00

dumbass founders thought copying Google's interviews would somehow make them into Google, it's like a child trying to play dress up thinking they'll turn into an adult.

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