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I'm trying to get some idea at how old is usually the target for financial independence and how much does it actually depend on your current age if you haven't started your investments yet. Currently I'm 38yo, out of…

And is it unusual or bad if I don't? I've been advised by some people that I should keep at least a Google document to list accomplishments and to update on a regular basis, as I work. I guess it's more so because I…

In the decade of 2000's we saw a plethora of graphical interfaces being used for web site and server management. We had Plesk, cPanel and WHM come into widespread use. To spin up a complete web stack all you had to do…

I have no experience with modern cloud services, professional or otherwise. I come from simple webdev for small scale apps work, involving small business clients. My experience managing things on remote servers…

I haven't gotten many answers to this question, but most tend to lean that they are not tech companies. The prevailing attitude towards them is that they don't treat their developers as "first class" and that generally…

I think modern PHP has improved in strides, and now isn't much worse than JavaScript. While it's not my first language of choice to go to anymore, I liked working with it. I didn't hate the language so much as the messy…

In most of my career, I've taught myself many programming concepts and different languages based on what I started out with. I'm comfortable with design patterns, many algorithms, certain monolithic applications, and…

I frequently hear about interview books that are aimed at various kinds of tech companies and top startups. But if your resume isn't up to par, you won't get the chance to interview and use what you learned in those…

Need ideas on what I need to be coached on, as a developer who's been ~80% unemployed of the time in the last couple of years. I can divide my career into two parts- For the first 5 years I had jobs more consistently.…

I find demoscene code very interesting even if I can't fully understand most of it. I like the code golfing that goes into it to create some impressive artistic demos. Now what I've noticed is most of the demosceners…

If you live in one place but want to apply to companies that are far away, how do you best promote yourself so you are given equal priority as their local market? The advice I've heard before is that on LinkedIn, you…

With the increasing connectivity of people across their country with the internet being near-ubiquitous, and all over the world, we can foresee more traditional in-house work replaced with remote jobs, and the rapid…

How do you move into senior positions, and then lead positions as a remote developer? Is it even possible? As a remote software engineer I have low visibility and do not work with a team of on-site developers so I feel…

I want to know if there are some digital agencies that are "true startup", that is, they have the intention to expand business to go IPO sometime in the future, or at least become acquired by a larger company. All the…

Developing applications that run on the desktop seem to be under-appreciated more at least in comparison to web development and development for mobile device applications. Consumer-use applications are not as popular on…

I don't have experience with Python, but from my only superficial point of view I don't see it much more powerful or flexible as a VHLL than, say, Ruby or Perl. What made Python the high level language of choice for…

If it's a programmer that started out okay but then stagnated for a long while, and then through some visible changes has recovered from stagnation and built a good reputation whose experience meet the expectations.…

I've worked for two agencies but have much more experience with one than the other (4 years vs a couple of months). I want to know if this is the typical life cycle of a web marketing agency that is largely B2B to…

Internships may not be an option if you are not going to school, but you may want to think about choosing between several places to work in a way where you want more time to judge each company, and also without the…

I'd like to see more of these kinds of learning resources being offered and promoted, that are off the beaten path of learn the basics of popular tech stacks. Bootcamps are still growing in popularity and in a local…

I'm trying to get some guidance as to where to start looking for variance in total compensation, which usually correlated with work-life balance and career growth, among different industries. My first guess is that the…

I'd like to hear what your experiences moving to other cities for a new job are like. I'm in Chicago and have applied to several places and never got any emails or call backs from companies in Denver. I get call backs…

I'm going to lead with a particular example. Everyone probably understand the value of code testing, though I haven't seen it in my personal experience, to see fellow developers at work writing their own tests. I've…

From a software developer's perspective, as I'm a software developer seeking a full-time job. I have a part-time freelance job now, but it's very few weekly hours and I have a whole lot of trouble passing interviews and…

Whereas some people want to jump right into a big company like Intel or Google right off the bat, with no room for "stepping stone" companies in between, I took the other route. Since I graduated in something other than…