katpas
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Comment · 8 years ago
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.
Comment · 8 years ago
Top of the lake, broadchurch, sharp objects. Those are all tv series.
Comment · 8 years ago
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.
Comment · 8 years ago
LinkedIn was so screwed up I don't know what they could have done to make it worse.
Comment · 8 years ago
> 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.
Comment · 8 years ago
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
Comment · 9 years ago
I immediately checked the date on the article after reading the headline.
Thought it was a relic from the third party client days.
Comment · 9 years ago
Oh interesting. OK, so the comparable is London black cabs and new york yellow cabs.
Comment · 9 years ago
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...
Comment · 9 years ago
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...
Comment · 9 years ago
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?
Comment · 9 years ago
Having not read the book before, shall I read it before I see the film? Or could the film adaptation be better than book?
Comment · 9 years ago
That's a really interesting way to think about that, I haven't heard that before.
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