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I would LOVE to chat about this for hours. In fact, I applied at Treasure Data just a few days ago for that very reason. My email is in my profile if you'd like to chat. :) Hope to…

smt88 hit the nail on the head. Startups do not have much money. Even the ones that do should aim to keep their burn rates low. That generally means paying for a few experienced, b…

You mean Instacart?

It's good that you want to improve your skills, but this is not the way to do it. You should work on an open source project. There are plenty of large projects that would be thrill…

Location: San Francisco Remote: Possibly Willing to relocate: Unlikely, but maybe for the right company Technologies: Python, Django, JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML5 Résumé/CV: https:…

Is that a good or bad thing? :) If you can believe it, I ripped out a lot of the original content to reduce the size of the tutorial!

Being logicians by necessity, I'd argue that most developers could debate the socio-economic implications of bitcoin or any other currency better than you would expect. In fact, it…

I'm interested in hearing more about your work! Would you mind trading a few emails? My email is in my profile if you're interested. :)

This isn't what you've asked for, but I'd like to offer some unsolicited advice, if I may. When you are selling high-priced products to consumers you have to sell an idea first and…

I agree, but I stand by my statement. Asking "What framework should I use?" is not a good sign. Using the process I outlined could easily answer this question.

Use the search box at the bottom of the page. This question has been asked way too many times.

It depends. I've worked at a company where the compressed and gzipped JavaScript file was over 1MB because there were multiple libraries being included for the use of one function.…

This is not the right question to ask. Instead of trying to find one tool that solves all of your problems, try understanding what your problems are. Once you have a list of proble…

Great example! Github needs to give their code some TLC though. It seems like new comments on a pull request don't show up until after I push a new commit.

The solution you offer is exactly what server rendering is meant to stop. You should load content as fast as possible and that means rendering it on the server. Please stop putting…

A lot of it has to do with the price of living here. I'm about to move out of a 1 bedroom apartment that I pay $1,800/month for, and that's a pretty decent deal compared to some of…

This is actually not abnormal in the Valley, to be honest. It takes skill certainly, but I know a number of people who have accomplished similar feats.

You should focus on contributing to open source projects. A good open source project is almost identical to what you will be doing as a software engineer and is the best experience…

Note: I am self-taught. Here is what you need to know: It doesn't matter. Most people are biased in one way or another. Stop trying to make other people happy. The most important t…

I went to university in Canada as an international student. I've moved back to the states because I couldn't afford to live in Canada anymore. I just got out of school a month or s…

Yes, taking a year off is an option, but it would mean paying the interest on my student loans. Not a huge problem as I will have to pay them off eventually anyways. If I do end up…

Sorry :) Typed it up for r/cscareerquestions first and forget that was there. Edited!