Thanks for this. Any idea how to build a simple p2p network though (over the internet not local host) and make it decentralized? That’s the hardest part :p
+1 on the MacBook Air. I've got a 2014 model and use it daily for Swift iOS dev. Fantastic size machine. Battery is great. Keyboard to die for. And it has USB ports not USB C.
MacBook Air. Beautiful keyboard. Fantastic battery life. Screen isn't retina but meh, good enough. I've got a 2014 model. I do iOS Swift dev. Still running like a champ. If your doing web or backend work you'll be laughing.
NEO has the biggest hype of all. Westerners call it the "Chinese Ethereum". Yet nearly all the trading volume comes from the West. It's a joke comparing it to Ethereum. The white paper is incredibly ambitious, 90% of it is unimplemented. The GitHub activity looks comparable to a hobby project at best. The CEO is conveniently an advisor to all the ICO's that will use NEO. It's a pump and dump scheme. The best one there is. It has no intrinsic value because it doesn't solve any problems. Nothing is implemented other than a token distribution system hosted on a few servers. If you're interested in a coin like this you get in before the hype blows up, take your profit and park it somewhere safer like Bitcoin or Ethereum. Going in now would be a horrible decision.
Ethereum or Bitcoin for investing. They have real intrinsic value. Most the other currencies are just spin offs of the original deal or overly ambitious white papers with nothing implemented. Stay away from NEO.
Totally agree on the personality and grooming points you made. You need to be good at making people know exactly what you have achieved. Shout about it on slack, fire up google docs and write some brief documentation on a new feature you implemented. Others within the company won't be actively looking at your contributions. They will notice who stands out, who is taking initiative and touching base regularly. Unfortunately this trumps true programming talent in startups - EVEN if you are one of the gods.
The ad model is broken. I see the future of web monetisation as tiny fractions of a bit coin (or another crypto currency) being automatically deducted from a your wallet, charged per second/minute.