I'm surprised Amazon was selling those in the first place. You can just buy them from the company's websites. If I was Amazon, I would sell them either.
This is bad advice unless you are writing brilliant native code by age 15. Someone who just completed their first full-scale website has a ways to go before he's viable in the job market for a competitive job. Plus you'll miss out on all the parties, girls (or boys I guess), and networking opportunities that school can provide.
My background experience was very similar to yours going into college, and while my major ended up being neurobiology, I made money throughout college developing websites freelance for local businesses and school-related organizations. The way I found clients was to tell everyone that I knew that I was available for website contracting jobs and people would just come to me. I made enough to send myself to Europe AND still have money for beer.
Like you, I found front-end development interesting, but I really loved the back-end work. But if you want to be a full-stack developer one day, you should continue to hone your design skills so that you can complete a full professional-looking website all by yourself without anyone else's help. Also, don't write off front-end work as not being 'programmy' enough. With modern tools like Bootstrap to take care of a lot of the boring work (like forms) and the modern javascript libraries like Angular or Ember or ExtJS, you can do a ton of cool front-end work while still feeling like you're doing more legitimate coding.
I was at PetSmart and a girl was restocking the cat food can shelf and bent over to get the next box. The previous one fell (a 24-can package! not exactly light) and she snagged the thing backhanded as it fell off the shelf. Apparently, ninja's work at PetSmart.
A $5-10 dollar utility will probably not get widely pirated to be worth the headache for paying customers. That being said, a one-time online activation seems reasonable to me. That's what I've used at my company, but our software costs a lot more than $10
Banning porn would undermine everything that democracy has provided. I hate to conjure up bad metaphors, but how much more fascist can you get than banning porn?
the 80/20 rule originated from sales, not individual productivity. An individual should be able to be productive most of the day, particularly with programming. Even if they aren't writing code, you can spend it thinking and organizing. Claiming 80/20 is a cop-out
It sounds like you're working from home doing contracting/consulting programming. If you find yourself unable to police yourself, admit that this type of job isn't for you and find a full-time job. I am the same kind of person. I have my work computer, with minimal distractions, and my home computer which is full of distractions. If you have both long-term and short-term goals in an office environment, it's much easier to focus on what you're supposed to be doing. Being in an office environment discourages you from straying off-task because you feel pressure to not do so. I've spent many hours doing independent contracting, but I realized early on that I couldn't be as productive as I could be when I was away from the distractions of home.
But javascript is ubiquitous. If a novice has ever used any programming language, it almost certainly is javascript. There is something to be said for accessibility.
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I'm surprised Amazon was selling those in the first place. You can just buy them from the company's websites. If I was Amazon, I would sell them either.
This is bad advice unless you are writing brilliant native code by age 15. Someone who just completed their first full-scale website has a ways to go before he's viable in the job market for a competitive job. Plus you'll miss out on all the parties, girls (or boys I guess), and networking opportunities that school can provide.
My background experience was very similar to yours going into college, and while my major ended up being neurobiology, I made money throughout college developing websites freelance for local businesses and school-related organizations. The way I found clients was to tell everyone that I knew that I was available for website contracting jobs and people would just come to me. I made enough to send myself to Europe AND still have money for beer.
Like you, I found front-end development interesting, but I really loved the back-end work. But if you want to be a full-stack developer one day, you should continue to hone your design skills so that you can complete a full professional-looking website all by yourself without anyone else's help. Also, don't write off front-end work as not being 'programmy' enough. With modern tools like Bootstrap to take care of a lot of the boring work (like forms) and the modern javascript libraries like Angular or Ember or ExtJS, you can do a ton of cool front-end work while still feeling like you're doing more legitimate coding.
I was at PetSmart and a girl was restocking the cat food can shelf and bent over to get the next box. The previous one fell (a 24-can package! not exactly light) and she snagged the thing backhanded as it fell off the shelf. Apparently, ninja's work at PetSmart.
Try asking a 14 year old kid for directions and you'd have an answer to your research study.
This is ridiculous. How is an artist supposed to make a living without protections?
You know its bad when they consider references to BSOD better than their current OS offering.
Any article posting containing references to Archer gives it legendary status in my book
Instead of dealing with all kinds of stupid proprietary bullshit as paying customers, it might be nice to try something different.
A $5-10 dollar utility will probably not get widely pirated to be worth the headache for paying customers. That being said, a one-time online activation seems reasonable to me. That's what I've used at my company, but our software costs a lot more than $10
Banning porn would undermine everything that democracy has provided. I hate to conjure up bad metaphors, but how much more fascist can you get than banning porn?
at least you got the joke
Maybe if Card is able to communicate effectively with gay people using philotic links or virus DNA, he wouldn't feel compelled to destroy them.
If he's programming, 20 minutes isn't nearly enough time to absorb an idea long enough to be effective.
Part of being an adult is the realization that work is more important than youtube videos.
haha, best idea ever. better yet, go to Windows ME
the 80/20 rule originated from sales, not individual productivity. An individual should be able to be productive most of the day, particularly with programming. Even if they aren't writing code, you can spend it thinking and organizing. Claiming 80/20 is a cop-out
It sounds like you're working from home doing contracting/consulting programming. If you find yourself unable to police yourself, admit that this type of job isn't for you and find a full-time job. I am the same kind of person. I have my work computer, with minimal distractions, and my home computer which is full of distractions. If you have both long-term and short-term goals in an office environment, it's much easier to focus on what you're supposed to be doing. Being in an office environment discourages you from straying off-task because you feel pressure to not do so. I've spent many hours doing independent contracting, but I realized early on that I couldn't be as productive as I could be when I was away from the distractions of home.
agreed. having no experience with beehives on my resume, I find this comment interesting.
What better way to use NASA technology than to detect honey counterfeits. I can't think of a better way. Seriously.
But javascript is ubiquitous. If a novice has ever used any programming language, it almost certainly is javascript. There is something to be said for accessibility.
I respect your idealistic view, but unfortunately we live in the real world where deadlines exist.
Javascript is a deceptively elegant and flexible language. You should try it sometime.
The most interesting part of this story is that no one cares
this is actually a good idea from a developer point of view. I'm going to use that philosophy for the next progress bar I write