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There's a number of you (engineer + doctor), though quite rare. I have a few friends who are engineers as well as doctors. You're like unicorns in your field. The Neo and Morpheus …

Oh yes it is. I have worked on projects where highly trained specialized doctors have helped train the models (or trained them themselves) to catch random very difficult to notice …

I was never mentored by any super great engineers. Worked with some brights ones, but never got formally taught by them. The way I excelled from beginner to a higher level engineer…

A fitness community. This could be either a BJJ (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) place or even a CrossFit gym. I've done both and while I'm not here to promote CrossFit, I am here to say that…

Well said.

This.

If one employee is remote, the entire company must act as if all employees are remote. Otherwise, this will happen. It's happened to me as well.

I highly recommend it. I use it at a client extensively and have grown to rely on it heavily for its ability to provide a hermetic testing environment with mobile apps (android).

Buf! Good to see you're still around. :fist-bump:

Go buy a copy of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers. Start there. That book changed my career. Just look at the chapter names here: https://amzn.to/2wnPHfi …

This.

> Leaving a support system/family behind if you have a child (and considering another child) is not trivial. So much this. Soooo much.

Moving to SF/SV sounds fun, until you look at the quality of life. If you're hellbent on going this route, IMO you should possibly consider the NYC route and live in NJ. Your price…

You can either ping existing authors or hit up the publishers. Squeaky wheel gets the grease. They're always looking for folks.

Thank you for mentioning me. I really appreciate it. I'm always here to help. Please reach out if there is anything I can do to help you in any way. :)

"You become an entrepreneur when you build something that people are willing to pay for." This.

If you're worried about this, you can always use the other status page site that many other startups and large corps use: http://www.status.io

Been using Realm in all of my Android projects for the last 8+ months. It has now become my defacto mobile database for all my mobile projects. It's that easy to use. Gets out of t…

I'm happy that FB is releasing these tools. I really am, but you know what I want? I want to use the FB app with out it DESTROYING my phone's usability. Anytime FB is installed on …

Personally I prefer a service like http://status.io - it's one less thing I need to maintain/etc. Not to mention GitHub has had more than its fair share of outages.

Rework. This version is much better: https://37signals.com/rework/

I've run into similar issues and one such always seems to stick in my head - A few years back some Samsung and HTC devices shipped with a very buggy version of GSON causing deseria…