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But a bigger question than that is what market are you talking about? Are you talking about the valley? Boston? Have you considered that IT shortage is not a local problem, and a broader search could turn up unexpected opportunity?
None of those sorts of music work for me... should I still wear headphones to fix the open office?
Sounds interesting, but I seemed to have both missed that and am not noticing anything like it. Got a link?
Buying a brand new fancy car is a terrible investment for the enjoyment, but that doesn't need stop you from having one. The article makes the point that there are plenty of ways to have "nice" things without breaking the bank, even if you don't have $$Texas.
Agism is a real thing. Maybe he couldn't.
Having been a grad student (EDIT: Hey, it turns out my research group has published at ICRA! But not while this has gone on.), I get why these events are interesting/important. However it seems like AMZ could do a little more than <1/8th of an engineer in prize money (not counting the cost of running the conference).
Ehh, Yahoo bought Astrid a while ago and closed it. The price wasn't announced, but I imagine they did well. My heart still pangs for the long-dead Astrid app, and I'm just that much less likely to use any Yahoo service because of that murder.
I got an X1 a few years back while in grad school in another state. My experience with the company started out poor when their fraud prevention made it nearly impossible to buy the machine. Making sure several forms of identification referenced my location and where the product was shipping (why does shipping have ANYTHING to do with purchasing!?), I ended up being unable to ship it to my desk at school, but did get the product to my apartment at least. All of this made the order several weeks later than I had anticipated, not that I had things to get done or anything. I know this doesn't have to do with product support, but it's foreshadowing.
Half a year ago, I spilled some water on my laptop. Disaster. In fact, my wife had done the same thing a week earlier to her Lenovo as well. Both keyboards were dead; we had to use externals until we could get the issue resolved. Funny, because the X1 has little holes through the keyboard to drain as though it is at least somewhat resistant to such things. It isn't.
I called the support line and actually felt like I had gotten pretty far until the guy on the other end quoted me something like $400 to repair the machines. What? I just need keyboards, that's not going to happen. Turns out full service repair out of warranty is crazy from them, I should call the "parts department" at one of three numbers he gave me and order the specific parts for manual repair. Okay, now I'm getting somewhere. I wanted just the parts to begin with (and thought I had asked for that). Of course, figuring out which of the random phone numbers was correct was another labor of pain.
We called the parts department for two months. They're open for exactly eight hours a day and the wait is no less than an hour in our experience. Pain. Eventually, we got through and received the keyboards for around $50/ea. I'm not new to repairing laptops, I just wanted the exact parts that belong in the computers at a reasonable price.
My X1 is several years old now and still chugging along. Someday its battery won't be sufficient and I don't know if the X1 Carbon will tempt me or not. As a Linux user, Lenovo is the safest bet I know of for laptops so I'm fully expecting that I'll deal with all of this again someday.
"javascript and all its major libraries": bullshit. You may have good experience with JS, but anybody that claims they know everything is going to have a bad time. And on that subject, which technologies you've used is a little bit less interesting than how many large scale projects you've done. 100 websites? How many of those were of any substance? This is an important question because what you think is a big project may be different than what an employer thinks.
Senior level is going to be reserved for people with degrees (at LEAST a bachelor's) and is very unlikely to fall into a young person's hands. You could probably find a place that just needs a web developer but does not have a large IT shop that will take a chance, but in my experience, it's not the kind of job that will take you anywhere. Go to college. It'll do you good, and you can freelance while you're there to get the leg up/not be as poor. What you find with what you have now will likely amount to an internship. This isn't just because you lack experience in a workplace (freelancing is different), but also just because you are a great risk at your age. Beginning employees are risky because the employer has to sink a lot of money in training and adjustment, and the employee can then flutter off to a job that the employer was not prepared to match in terms of pay and benefits.
There are a few other services as well, but it's certainly a thing folks do.
It'd be really nice if some hacker would put together a comprehensive map/list of non-compete status per state (or if they have) since there are a few states outside of California too. Wikipedia seems to do OK in this regard, but it seems like there should be a lot more info out there.
https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/2387#issuecomme...
I've found even that I can install vim-plug with only a few lines of vimscript so that I don't even need to store a .vim directory in my dotfiles repository. Everything can just be installed and run the first time I start vim on a machine, and I can easly :PlugUpdate to get updates to any of my installed plugins.