katpas

I can't fit my one plus 6 in most of my jacket pockets let alone jeans. It means I'm walking around with my phone in my hand when I go out mid work day which is super annoying. Good to see some data on how far off pocket size actually is.

Top of the lake, broadchurch, sharp objects. Those are all tv series.

I think this is great. It's much easier for candidates to evaluate companies and not waste their time if they know the salary range and interview process up front.

It stops companies shifting these things during the process to favour some applicants over others.

LinkedIn was so screwed up I don't know what they could have done to make it worse.

> But aren't most technical folks in this arena working on their own idea(s)?

I wrote a blog post* about this a while back. If you're technical and have the risk profile to start a start-up it just seems so unlikely you would do this with someone you saw online. Compared to working on your own idea or on something with a colleague/friend.

* https://medium.com/@aca10e5bf264/514381d9ad09

Also using it full-time, moved over my direct debits and it's been great. Ironically we went with TSB over a challenger business bank thinking they might be more reliable... Will have to find a branch this afternoon so we can pay our team as online is down

I immediately checked the date on the article after reading the headline.

Thought it was a relic from the third party client days.

Oh interesting. OK, so the comparable is London black cabs and new york yellow cabs.

You have cabs in NYC though - is it similar? In London the city controls the number of people that can operate black cabs, sets a standard tariff for fares and runs background and license checks. They can be hailed off the street (though also through some apps). And the drivers have to take "The knowledge"[1] a test which takes a few years to pass and means you can give the average cab driver any street name and they can get you there without a GPS.

[1]https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/licensing...

If you're still interested in tech but want to move away from programming there are definitely options. A few I've seen before: - moving to a product/project management role (more talking to people and a lot less coding) - a hybrid sales/engineer role on a technical product (helping the sales team and customer figure out how the product can be most useful to them) - Developer support for a technical product (v.useful to have engineers who like communicating externally in these roles)

Otherwise people career change entirely. E.g. I studied law at university, realised I didn't want to be a corporate lawyer, then did sales/vc work at an equity crowdfunding start-up, left there to learn to code, spent just over a year building prototypes & on contract in some bigger tech co's, then started my own co which I'm now a year into (I'm 25).

So try and work out what interests you and see if you can move within the company you're at to start with to test it out.

I also wrote up the transferable skills from law > programming. It definitely goes the other way too - https://hackernoon.com/how-studying-law-helped-me-with-progr...

I'm a Web developer and I could manage my own blog site but I choose not to as it would be one more site I have to maintain. I'd rather put that time into building the product for my company or sleeping/doing something else.

To suggest that any half way decent programmer should do that is the same as suggesting you write all your css from scratch instead of using a front end library to help. Doable but ultimately is it the best use of your time?

Having not read the book before, shall I read it before I see the film? Or could the film adaptation be better than book?

That's a really interesting way to think about that, I haven't heard that before.

At the course I did the model was the education is completely free, if you then get a job afterwards you're expected to let the bootcamp try to get a recruiter fee from the company that hires you.

Or you stick around, freelance out the space on the projects they help you find and then give them a 10% contribution of those earnings and also teach the next cohort how to code.

Seemed to work pretty well.

I'm a 'millenial'. I also have a law degree and our lecturers were pretty hot on the importance of the right to a fair process and a fair trial above all else.

Agreed, I tend to take the number of times I'm asked a question in person by someone new as a signal that a topic is worth writing up.

It's also easier to sit down and come up with a well thought through answer that you can link out when asked again. Opposed to paraphrasing each time and potentially missing key points/clarity.

For example, I wrote this up after meeting lots of clients when I was freelance who were regularly questioning why they couldn't find technical co-founders > https://hackernoon.com/developer-risk-profiles-why-you-wont-...

Sometimes gluing together libraries in a certain way can produce an error or behaviour that's not documented (as it's outside the scope of each individual project) as either nobody has tried to do that before or they've not written about it.

Multiple times now it's been an obscure blog post found on google that's given the answer to those issues.

I've deleted fb messenger now but this was on my app menu for a while. Very unhelpful. > https://twitter.com/KatAlexPas/status/822434870223896576

I've been using the Github Project board functionality which looks a lot like Trello. I doubt there's an integration where you'd be able to port one to the other though.

Quite a few of the entrepreneurs I worked with at a UK based equity crowdfunding platform had been on Dragon's Den and the deal had since fallen through. Normally due to the terms being unreasonable compared to the other investment options they had through other angel investors.

It normally worked well for the start-up though as they used to get a lot of publicity/sales directly from appearing on the show and had found investment through other means.

So not exactly what you're after but I studied Law at university and was surprised to find the way I could use those skills in a programming context. I wrote it up as I thought other people might be interested to see there are transferable skills from non-tech degree disciplines - https://hackernoon.com/how-studying-law-helped-me-with-progr...

Agreed, given the amount of damage the Hosts seem to receive each day it doesn't feel plausible that they could collect them all and do what seems to be a manual operation on each to return them to perfect condition overnight.

This reminds me of the concepts written about here* basically trying to develop robust definitions for legal terms and objects so a question like 'what are my rights in X situation' could be answered accurately by a computer.

*http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2016/10/computational-law-sym...

LinkedIn only offer an agree and a not now option. It's really irritating. I'm literally never going to enable that.

Speculation, but it would probably depend who was leading the government then and also whether all existing European law had been re-implemented into UK law as part of the process to leave.

I'd also recommend giving Code Academy a try in the first instance. It's free, there's no set up on your computer needed (it's all done through their website) and it guides you through.

It's how I started learning when I was trying to do it around my job, I eventually left to work on learning to code full time.

Trello is down too. I wonder if there's a service they're both using that's the root of it.

I'd also recommend reading the power of habit (I posted my own comment but then deleted when I saw this).

It talks through studies where people have broken bad habits through creating new ones.

I definitely agree that it's a skill to be learnt and it's something I enjoy.

Is it really useful to do it all the time though? Like there must sometimes be edge cases where people will achieve more alone, e.g. if it's something simple/repetitive, isn't it more productive to just hammer through?

This approach assumes people don't know how they work best so imposes a structure on them that limits the hours worked, makes sure people are fed etc.

I would have thought developers are more likely to have put a lot of thought into how they're most productive. It's a bit patronising imposing something different on people who feel they've figured it out.