I feel similar as you do. I haven't taken the steps to go freelance route yet. My biggest issues as an employee are lack of autonomy to work on my own hours, projects, technology, teammates etc. As freelancer, you may…
In my experience, a lot of shops with Java in their tech stack usually get devs from Infosys or other consulting companies. So you are competing with super cheap labor.
I do similar thing, but I just call it just "Keywords". Then I have separate section, Recent Skills, where I list buzzwords which I have decent experience with.
I agree. I used to believe in absolute freedom of speech on the web. But then people start sending goatsx or whatever as joke in emails. I learned to avoid opening any links form certain friends. MySpace, Facebook, and…
Yes but they understand that in free market, they have to spend money on quality employees to make money. Hence, people still invest in companies where employees are treated better than their competitors. Unhappy…
You are lucky that you can ignore politics. As a minority, who has repeatedly faced discrimination; at various jobs, airports, in restaurants, and at social events, I cannot ignore it. Also I believe it is a moral…
I have been considering freelancing route for a while. And the reasons you gave above are same for me. In addition, I work in a big corp where I spend a lot of time red tapes formalities but contractors in my team only…
You can learn sales and marketing when you have a product. In mean time, read books on these topics.
Completely unacceptable. All of my managers were available during vacation if something truly blows up. But they never planned to dedicate a few hours for work on their vacations. What your company needs is better…
>> My inbox is my to-do list. I email myself things that I need to do too. > I was vaguely aware that people do that. Why does that work for you, though? Surely one could take up the habit of maintaining a todo list…
Between my work and gmail email accounts, I don't get much spam in my inbox. I also use filters, so newsletters, emails from various systems such as build tools, github, social media, etc, go to appropriate folders. My…
Personally, it seems I touch wrong buttons quite a bit on my phone. I also click wrong buttons when using mouse but that is rarer than pressing wrong button on my phone. The most annoying part is using touch screen in…
Touch screen is still very inaccurate and you don't develop muscle memory. You are more likely to touch wrong button on touchscreen than on physical ui.
Drone racing sounds amazing especially if it is autonomous racing. How does one get started in this? I saw this https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/events/ai-innovati... but still don't know how I can start at…
Unfortunately, too hard it is too monetize a game on a web. I see people downloading games on their phones without thinking but don't know anyone who paid for a web-only game.
In another life, I worked for small webdev/marketing consultancy. Their clients were multilayer marketing firms, subscription services startup and other startups. The company was run by car salesperson types. And their…
This is seems like a good advice to increase competition by using nationalist sentiments. The problem is that many of these nationalist countries would outright ban competition. So people who demanded local alternative…
It depends on if you are a builder or a tuner. If you enjoy building stuff stay away from DevOps. It feels like endless config changes and fine tuning. If you enjoy tinkering with stuff, DevOps is awesome because there…
You can use Netlify for this: https://docs.netlify.com/visitor-access/password-protection/...
Seems like a good idea but a bit too complex, first you need to find an OS project that is close to your company's projects. It may work for PHP or JavaScript but not sure if it would work in less popular languages.…
They are asking what you did, not what they should do.
I feel similar as you do. I haven't taken the steps to go freelance route yet. My biggest issues as an employee are lack of autonomy to work on my own hours, projects, technology, teammates etc. As freelancer, you may…
In my experience, a lot of shops with Java in their tech stack usually get devs from Infosys or other consulting companies. So you are competing with super cheap labor.
I do similar thing, but I just call it just "Keywords". Then I have separate section, Recent Skills, where I list buzzwords which I have decent experience with.
I agree. I used to believe in absolute freedom of speech on the web. But then people start sending goatsx or whatever as joke in emails. I learned to avoid opening any links form certain friends. MySpace, Facebook, and…
Yes but they understand that in free market, they have to spend money on quality employees to make money. Hence, people still invest in companies where employees are treated better than their competitors. Unhappy…
You are lucky that you can ignore politics. As a minority, who has repeatedly faced discrimination; at various jobs, airports, in restaurants, and at social events, I cannot ignore it. Also I believe it is a moral…
I have been considering freelancing route for a while. And the reasons you gave above are same for me. In addition, I work in a big corp where I spend a lot of time red tapes formalities but contractors in my team only…
You can learn sales and marketing when you have a product. In mean time, read books on these topics.
Completely unacceptable. All of my managers were available during vacation if something truly blows up. But they never planned to dedicate a few hours for work on their vacations. What your company needs is better…
>> My inbox is my to-do list. I email myself things that I need to do too. > I was vaguely aware that people do that. Why does that work for you, though? Surely one could take up the habit of maintaining a todo list…
Between my work and gmail email accounts, I don't get much spam in my inbox. I also use filters, so newsletters, emails from various systems such as build tools, github, social media, etc, go to appropriate folders. My…
Personally, it seems I touch wrong buttons quite a bit on my phone. I also click wrong buttons when using mouse but that is rarer than pressing wrong button on my phone. The most annoying part is using touch screen in…
Touch screen is still very inaccurate and you don't develop muscle memory. You are more likely to touch wrong button on touchscreen than on physical ui.
Drone racing sounds amazing especially if it is autonomous racing. How does one get started in this? I saw this https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/events/ai-innovati... but still don't know how I can start at…
Unfortunately, too hard it is too monetize a game on a web. I see people downloading games on their phones without thinking but don't know anyone who paid for a web-only game.
In another life, I worked for small webdev/marketing consultancy. Their clients were multilayer marketing firms, subscription services startup and other startups. The company was run by car salesperson types. And their…
This is seems like a good advice to increase competition by using nationalist sentiments. The problem is that many of these nationalist countries would outright ban competition. So people who demanded local alternative…
It depends on if you are a builder or a tuner. If you enjoy building stuff stay away from DevOps. It feels like endless config changes and fine tuning. If you enjoy tinkering with stuff, DevOps is awesome because there…
You can use Netlify for this: https://docs.netlify.com/visitor-access/password-protection/...
Seems like a good idea but a bit too complex, first you need to find an OS project that is close to your company's projects. It may work for PHP or JavaScript but not sure if it would work in less popular languages.…
They are asking what you did, not what they should do.