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I know someone in my family who is mostly unhappy with how his life is going. He's been listening and reading to a lot of self-help material. But I think it's to do with his proces…

It is actually sometimes healthy to compare yourself to others, in order to have a broader perspective and prevent tunnel vision.

Of course, the approach to sell your skills at the right value is the ideal approach, but I am not experienced enough to know exactly where my value is skills-wise. So between erri…

Especially when said power trip comes from a boss or other higher up role at work. Bullying behavior to display power often comes from feelings of inadequacy. Usually feeling that …

How do you make that decision if you're unemployed and your network isn't very strong? Especially if you're in a technically focused career like software development and a lot of e…

I'd like to know if an org or collective exists that helps new developers with providing the less concrete, less tangible assets that helps people from falling into career traps, t…

Currently, the common method in cold applications is to use online job platforms that hosts thousands of job listings and collect millions of applications. Most of the time, applic…

>I agree. Also, it's not that stable diffusion spontaneously generates art: someone has thought of a prompt, written it down, iterated, and finally decided that a given image was g…

There are still a few message boards that I frequently go to, not as many as before, but they have their active community. Having their own Discord channel also helps boost activit…

Or were they already dying out on their own? I remember Westwood being especially controversial. It's now been closed for years. So has ITT Tech, another big one. Yes, I know bootc…

The Expert Beginner was in part popularized by this Erik Deitrich article: https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-the-expert-beginner/ It feels like it could be …

I've been thinking about the phrase "time in the market beats timing the market." Not just with investing, but also in career management. After all, that also involves trying to ge…

And these tech firms don't really ask tricky interviewing questions? I'm aware that FAANG companies ask Leetcode style questions which I'm not willing to drill myself over. That wo…

I consider "no major uses beyond web" to be a strength. Whereas other languages were adapted into use for HTTP servers, PHP was a tool for HTML rendering from the ground up, and th…

Cloud-based hosting services personally give me too much analysis paralysis. Sometimes I just want old school shared hosting that already has an Apache config that is sensible for …

My parents are very blue collar and not from higher education (they haven't even completed their equivalent of high school) but what I share from them is that my outlook on work. I…

With students, it's recommended to take an internship before going into their first full-time job for a career. But such a path is less probable for a non-student. Ironically, the …

As a hypothetical, imagine that you are 40, and you are strapped for cash. No retirement funds or other accounts other than a checking account, and you are collecting unemployment.…

Job markets can be soul-crushing for inexperienced people and people on the bottom, but it doesn't have to be. What are the job markets and industries that have been on the up-and-…

People who say they don't do programming outside of work hours, I'm kind of surprised at them. I was thinking that I needed to in order to stay on top with marketable skills. But i…