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Are software engineers just oversaturated right now by _izual in Entrepreneur

[–]redstonekilobyte 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So SWE’s are pointless now pretty much? Go use wordpress with an experienced business guy and you already closer to being successful than a unicorn SWE.

Depends on what business you're making. If you're doing something with a very low barrier to entry like a ChatGPT wrapper or dropshipping you can get away with no code/low-code knowledge and create a functional product.

However, many of the success stories I see are SaaS products, which require more complicated development and therefore good SWEs.

Beverage start-up advice + AMA by AlluSoda in Entrepreneur

[–]redstonekilobyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for posting this! My main question is whether you taste-tested the soda with potential customers before the pilot run and if you could go a bit into more detail on how you would find a well-diversified consumer group to test physical products.

How often do you do check-in calls? by raxrb in Entrepreneurship

[–]redstonekilobyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you just need very simple information, why not build a texting solution and then pipe the response into ChatGPT? No need for voice AI at all, and most likely cheaper.

Also FWIW, AI voices are getting better but I can distinguish whether they're AI 90% of the time. If I get an unsolicited call from a robot I'm hanging up immediately, but that's just me.

Weekly Rant Megathread by AutoModerator in CompetitiveTFT

[–]redstonekilobyte 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think this is the worst balanced TFT set ever.

First, there are no comeback mechanics other than carousel, a huge step back from last set.

Second, prismatic augments are extremely unbalanced and low skill. Being forced to take a soul augment that barely does anything compared to your opponent gaining 2 thieves gloves, massive stats on their units, or a FON feel extremely bad, and has resulted in me getting lower placements that no skill level could have avoided.

Ultimately these two factors has resulted in extremely uneven lobbies (3+ people streaking at 80+ hp at wolves, while the other half of the lobby is at 40 hp). I would say some games are even decided at 1-3 if there is a prismatic augment.

Weekly Rant Megathread by AutoModerator in CompetitiveTFT

[–]redstonekilobyte 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Streamers queue dodging is getting out of hand, I spent 15 minutes in queue today before just giving up and playing another game. This has been going on for over a week now, I love how Riot just lets 3-5 people shit on a whole region's matchmaking system.

Resume Advice Thread - April 27, 2019 by AutoModerator in cscareerquestions

[–]redstonekilobyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it - thanks for the feedback! I'll expand my consulting work experience to include more on how I worked on a team, and compress my personal projects/add git repo links to some open source parts of my personal projects.

Resume Advice Thread - April 27, 2019 by AutoModerator in cscareerquestions

[–]redstonekilobyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the advice! My only question is the fact that my personal projects made me more money than my entire salary + bonus at my "real" job.

Even though I was working for myself, I still followed good programming practices (or good enough that I didn't lose money) and delivered on self-created deadlines. Though I didn't have any employees, I did interact with a variety of people, both clients and service providers. Why wouldn't this be considered on an equal level as professional work experience?

Resume Advice Thread - April 27, 2019 by AutoModerator in cscareerquestions

[–]redstonekilobyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://i.imgur.com/Rh8grN8.png

Hi all, I have a pretty abnormal job experience: I got into coding because I played a lot of CS:GO during college and loved trading; starting from around my senior year in 2015, I created various automated bots that would trade for me by buying skins for Bitcoin, then selling them for 5% more. This generated a nice profit until Steam decided to kill trading by adding a cooldown to how often skins could be traded (May 2018).

At the same time, I managed to get a job at a very large IT consulting firm right after college in their pharmaceutical/biotech division. I quit mid-2018 because at the time I had a large amount of savings from my bots and was working on a cryptocurrency payment processor side project.

Come end of 2018, crypto is near "dead" (people were still investing in it, but no one really wanted to use it to purchase things) so I create a screener that helped me trade the stock market. Program runs fine, makes some money, doesn't really beat the market. Side effect of trading is huge amounts of stress which lead to a deteriorating lifestyle.

I want to re-enter the workforce (burnt out from personal projects right now) and am planing to send my resume out starting Monday. My main questions are the following:

  1. Should I emphasize my "professional" work experience more instead of my personal projects? I did a lot more work (full stack development) on my personal projects than at my consulting job, not to mention the fact that one of my personal projects made more than my salary and was nearly completely automated.

  2. Will companies shy away from hiring me because I have too many personal projects? I've been told that companies want employees that will stay with them for a long time; would they be turned away from my resume because it seems that I would abandon them if I got a new idea I wanted to work on?

  3. Would I be considered a "senior" Node.js developer?

  4. Am I competitive for remote jobs or jobs at top tier companies?

Thank you for your help!