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katpas

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About katpas

@katalexpas Writes about getting into tech here - https://medium.com/@KatAlexPas

Founder at personably.co we built a tool to fix employee onboarding

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    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. Goo…

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    Top of the lake, broadchurch, sharp objects. Those are all tv series.

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    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 compani…

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    LinkedIn was so screwed up I don't know what they could have done to make it worse.

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    > 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…

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    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 h…

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    I immediately checked the date on the article after reading the headline. Thought it was a relic from the third party client days.

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    Oh interesting. OK, so the comparable is London black cabs and new york yellow cabs.

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    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 …

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    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 …

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    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 …

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    Having not read the book before, shall I read it before I see the film? Or could the film adaptation be better than book?

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    That's a really interesting way to think about that, I haven't heard that before.

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    At the course I did the model was the education is completely free, if you then get a job afterwards you're expected to let the bootcamp try to get a recruiter fee from the company…

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    I'm a 'millenial'. I also have a law degree and our lecturers were pretty hot on the importance of the right to a fair process and a fair trial above all else.

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    Agreed, I tend to take the number of times I'm asked a question in person by someone new as a signal that a topic is worth writing up. It's also easier to sit down and come up with…

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    Sometimes gluing together libraries in a certain way can produce an error or behaviour that's not documented (as it's outside the scope of each individual project) as either nobody…

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    I've deleted fb messenger now but this was on my app menu for a while. Very unhelpful. > https://twitter.com/KatAlexPas/status/822434870223896576

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